Enhanced Version of EmtoolW

For MS-DOS systems, Release 8 includes a new version of EmtoolW, the Microsoft Windows version of the EMTOOL graphical interface. Compared to the initial version of EmtoolW, significant enhancements have been included:

• The performance of EmtoolW under Windows 95 has been greatly improved. In particular, the problem with the sluggish echo of the characters typed at the keyboard has been resolved.
• In the initial version of EmtoolW, the backing store for graphics was always a memory bitmap. As the backing store is not only used to recreate hidden parts of the windows that become exposed, but is also used for printing the current graphic and exporting parts of the graphic to the clipboard, this implied that the quality of printed and exported graphics was limited to the resolution of the EmtoolW window. The new version of EmtoolW now also supports metafiles to be used as graphic backing store. Since the metafile conserves all graphic commands without rounding them to the current window coordinates, printouts and graphics exported to the clipboard retain the original resolution in which they were generated in EMME/2, regardless of the size of the EmtoolW window. Thus, using a metafile backing store, the Print command can now be used to produce high quality output, similar to the quality obtained with the GPR and GPL utilities.
• The internal resolution used in EmtoolW has been increased from the initial limit of 1024x780 to 4096x3120 or even 16384x12480, depending on the number of ``extra-bytes'' generated by the terminal device used in EMME/2. This improves the display quality for EmtoolW windows larger than 1024x780 by eliminating the stripe pattern that sometimes occurred in solid fills. Also, the increased resolution improves the quality for printing plots and for exporting them to the clipboard when using a metafile backing store.
• The resident size of the E2FIFO TSR driver program has been reduced from 24 to 14 kilobytes.
• The EmtoolW configuration profile is no longer stored in the universal WIN.INI file, but is now kept in a private initialization file named EMTOOLW.INI. Any existing EmtoolW configuration in WIN.INI is automatically transferred to the new file when saving the current options as defaults.