CSE Tool

Download

Download here: csetool.tk.

For TCL/TK (already available on most UNIX platforms), go to www.scriptics.com.

Introduction

CSE Tool is a tcl/tk script for display and manipulating the sheets. It uses the cse format (available on the main page) of the sheet and supports the following operations: converting to postscript, scaling, removing color, and removing text.

Use

Basic Syntax: csetool.tk options file

Window and Mac users can use it like this:

1. Run the Wish program.
2. Type the command: set argv "options file""
3. Type the command: source csetool.tk. Replace csetool.tk with the path to csetool.tk.

Alternately wish csetool.tk options file at the DOS or in the "Run..." dialog should also work.

Options:

  -scale factor                - Scale the image by factor.  I.e. .25 is 1/4 size.
  -notext                      - Remove all text from the image.
  -nocolor                     - Remove all non-black and white colors from the image.
  -noscroll                    - Don't have scrollbars.
  -print file                  - Generate postscript version of image in file.

Caveats

1. Fonts are scaled with the -scale option, but font scaling is not quite in sync with graphics scaling. This usually shows up when scaling to a small size (.25 or lower), and generally it looks better if the -notext option is also used.
2. If csetool.tk doesn't seem to work, try running it with the command: wish csetool.tk options file.
3. If the -print option is present no image is displayed. On some architectures a window might appear and then immediately disappear.