A free Chess position editor tool

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Welcome to DiagTransfer

News: DiagTransfer 3.0.1 (01/29/2007):
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News: (12/27/2006):
A new html help file,a PGN import feature, a new toolbar in24 bits full colour

New release: DiagTransfer 2.0.11 (10/09/2006):
Better display quality
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New release: DiagTransfer 2.0.10 (10/02/2006):
Draw circles and crosses and Fairy chess mode
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DiagTransfer 2.0.8 (08/21/2005):
Send diagram pictures in Chess Forums posts with two mouse clicks
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DiagTransfer 2.0.7 (03/10/2005):
DiagTransfer is now compatible with 17 other free diagram fonts
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• The simplest way to copy chess diagrams from one program or web page to another quickly and easily.
  
  

  Copying chess diagrams with a classic position-editor is hard work : you must have both your position-editor and your document/web page application open, and must constantly go back and forth between the two. It becomes a tennis match of sorts: Looking at the diagram you wish to copy in application ‘A’, switching over to application ‘B’ to place the piece, and going back to application ‘A’ to verify the accuracy of the layout,...etc. With DiagTransfer you “ transfer ” the diagram – by setting the DiagTransfer window in semi-transparent mode and resizing a board on the diagram to be copied. At this point, you have only to « trace » the pieces - no need to remember piece locations !

  DiagTransfer in semi-transparent window mode with an empty board of the same size as the board to be copied put on the web page

  Even better, you don’t need to change pieces, with the pieces-bar, with a new program capability you change pieces with a little mouse drag. Note : a piece-bar is still displayed if you prefer this method. DiagTransfer is the best tool to quickly capture a position when you watch a live chess game on a web page and want capture a position and paste it in a chess program.

  The eight directions of the "drag"to change pieces and draw circles and crosses

• Print high quality diagrams

DiagTransfer utilizes a very high quality True Type Font for its characters, enabling the user to print very high-quality diagrams. The picture above is only in-screen resolution of 72DPI (72 dots per inch) and gives you a poor preview of the results you will get a printed page using only a “ normal ” quality mode (300DPI).With a fine quality paper and a 720DPI resolution you will get perfect quality ! Even better than diagrams printed in high quality chess books. Print some diagrams and compare them with prints made from your chess database or chess program !

Cut of a print preview screen with 9 diagrams on a page
This screen is useful to have a look at all pages of the file

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• Create PNG images of light weight for a web page or for send as mail attachment

With DiagTransfer you can save a position as a PNG file with a 16 palette colours and 4 bits depth, so files weight are very small (between 2 and 12 kbp). PNG format is free and works well in Web Browsers and most of paint programs

This picture generated by DiagTransfer has less of 3kb size!

You can save images with a transparent background so the background colour or the texture web page will show through .To see how nice is a page with transparent diagrams take a look at this page.

And this one has less of 2kb size!

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DiagTransfer Features: Diagram Editor Copy, create, add, insert, remove, correct, diagrams. Save in FEN, EPD or DTR (DiagTransfer format). Import games or positions from PGN files. Send mail with a FEN position as mail attachment. Send pictures in Chess Forums Save diagram as image (PNG and BMP or JPG formats) . Reader Print (multi or unique diagrams) with differents options. Add comments. Diagrams checking (chess rules). Edit positions data's(castling possibilities, active colour etc.).. FEN Copy to paste it to a chess program or a ASCII editor. RTF-(Rich Text Format) Copy (to paste to a word processor). BMP (bitmap) Copy (to paste in a word processor or paint program). Add coloured squares and arrows. Add crosses and circles. Fairy chess diagrams. A larger than 100kb help file.

DiagTransfer with coloured squares and arrows

 

Download DiagTransfer 3.0.1 (English version size 788 kb)

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INSTALL:
Run "engdiagtsetup.exe" install program.
UNINSTALL:
Run Uninstall DiagTransfer program from the "Start "-> "Programs" ->"DiagTransfer" folder

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DiagTransfer is freeware, however the true type font used by the program "diagtrnsfer.ttf" (PCFTDR Diagram) may not be used commercially (e.g. in books)