PrintIt! 2 for Windows CD Version README - December 1997 ======================================================== Network Printing: If you have problems printing to Networked printers, change your print settings in Control Panel,Printers, (Select Your Printer), Properties, Graphics. Try selecting, Vector or Raster. You also may want to enable 'Page Protect'. Installation: To install and run PrintIt! 2 your computer setup must meet certain requirements. Refer to Page 2 of the PrintIt! 2 Guide for further details. When you are sure that your computer setup meets these requirements, you can install PrintIt! by following the steps below: 1. Run Windows and maximize the Program Manager. 2. Insert the PrintIt! CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. Select Run from the File menu of Program Manager. The Run dialog is displayed. 4. Enter D:\INSTALL in the Command Line box and click on OK. If your CD-ROM drive is represented by a letter other than D:, substitute it accordingly in the command above. 5. Follow the instructions on screen to complete the installation. The different CD installation options are explained in the section below. A dialog will be displayed for you to choose the options that you want to install. An option is selected when the adjacent box is checked. At the end of the installation, you are asked to select or create a program group where you would like to place the Pressworks program icons. CD Installation Options ======================= The CD version of PrintIt! 2 can be installed in several ways. If available hard disk space is limited, you can choose to run some or all components from the CD instead. Read the descriptions below to find the option that suits you: 1. Standalone This is the recommended option, and will copy all the components you choose to your hard disk. Components not selected will not be available, and the CD will not be required after installation. This option has the highest performance, but requires most free hard disk space if all options are installed. 2. Partial Allows you to install selected components to your hard disk, and access other components from the CD. For example you could install the Reading from a CD-ROM drive is considerably slower than reading from a hard disk drive, so components not chosen will not run as quickly. It is very strongly recommended that at least the PrintIt! program is installed. 3. CD This option runs the entire program from the CD, and therefore uses the least hard disk space. Some hard disk space is required for system files used by PrintIt!. This option has the slowest performance and should only be used if hard disk space is very limited. It is necessary to leave the CD in the CD-ROM drive at all times while running this version. Are you upgrading? ================== Read this section if you are upgrading from an earlier version of Pressworks. When you install PrintIt! 2 it will not overwrite your existing copy of PrintIt!. If you decide to delete your old copy of Pressworks, make sure that you don't delete any documents and templates that you want to keep. (These files may be located in your old PrintIt! directory. If you delete this directory without first moving your files to another location, you will lose your files.) We suggest that you move these files from your old \PrintIt! directory to the \Galaxy\PrintIt! directory that is created when you install PrintIt! 2. To move the files, follow the steps below: 1. Start the Windows File Manager by double-clicking the File Manager program icon in the Windows Main program group. 2. Open your old \PrintIt! directory and select the files you want to move. 3. Drag the files to your new \Galaxy\PrintIt! directory and drop them over the subdirectory into which you want to store them. You can then go ahead and delete your old \PrintIt! directory; your documents and templates are safely stored for future use with your new version of PrintIt!. NOTE: For full details of moving files using the Windows File Manager, refer to your Microsoft Windows User's guide. Where to begin ============== For an introduction to Pressworks we suggest that you work through the tutorials provided in the Pressworks 2 Guide. The online Help provides detailed information on every feature in Pressworks - it is there to help you get the most out of Pressworks - simply press F1. Loading Pressworks 1, 1st Press or Timeworks Publisher files ============================================================ DTP files created by all versions of Pressworks, 1st Press and Timeworks Publisher can be loaded into Pressworks 2, however files saved by Pressworks 2 cannot be loaded into these older programs. When you load an old document into Pressworks 2 it should appear much the same as it did before, however there are a few points of difference you should note: - Loading large files created by versions earlier than Pressworks 1.1 may take a lot longer than it did before, because the program has to do a lot of work converting the file. Once you have saved the file in Pressworks 2 it should be quicker to load. - Tabs are treated differently in Pressworks 2 from the way they were in earlier versions. Previously you could only use tabs in a paragraph with the 'table' alignment option, with the single exception that you could also use a tab to align the first line of a left aligned paragraph with the left indent rather than the first line indent. In Pressworks 2 the 'table' alignment option has been removed and tabs can be used in any left aligned paragraph. A tab now always aligns text with the next tab stop to the right, and does not treat the left indent as a tab stop. The upshot of all this is that if you have used tabs in your old documents you may find that the text does not line up in quite the same way as it did before. This is quite easy to correct, as Pressworks now has a 'tab bar' which makes tab stops much easier to adjust. - Pressworks 2 handles leading (line spacing) in a slightly different way to earlier versions. You can now specify 'relative leading' which means that the spacing between lines is a fixed percentage of the point size of the text on the lines. This makes adjusting the point size of text easier because the leading changes accordingly. The consequence of this change is that when you load an old file that contains text that is larger or smaller than the point size set in the paragraph style you will find that the leading of the text is not the same as it was before. This often results in the text being slightly more spaced out and can mean that it no longer fits in the frames you have defined. To solve this problem you can either change the leading in the paragraph style (affecting all paragraphs that have that style) or change the leading for a particular paragraph by placing the text cursor in it and selecting 'Spacing' from the 'Text' menu. Pressworks 2 and Designworks 2.02 or earlier ============================================ Read this section if you use both Pressworks 2 and Designworks 2.02 or earlier. (Designworks is a separate drawing and illustration application for Windows developed by GST Technology Ltd. For further information contact GST Software Publishing Ltd on (01480) 496666.) When you install Pressworks 2, the version of PANTONE that is installed is more recent than that supplied with Designworks 2.02 or earlier. If you run Pressworks and Designworks together the different PANTONE versions may conflict. If you install Pressworks 2 after you install Designworks you will not have a problem. However, if you install Designworks after you install Pressworks 2 you must run the Pressworks 2 installation again. NOTE: This is only applicable to Designworks 2.02 or earlier; later versions of Designworks will use the new version of PANTONE. Pressworks 2 and Designworks OLE2 handler ========================================= If you have Designworks 2 or later installed, when you install Pressworks 2 an OLE2 handler will be installed into your Designworks directory. This OLE2 handler will speed up the display of Designworks objects that you link or embed into other OLE applications. If you install Designworks after you install Pressworks 2 you must run the Pressworks 2 installation again to install the OLE2 handler. NOTE: This is only applicable to Designworks 2 and 2.02; later versions of Designworks will install their own OLE2 handler. UMC video drivers ================= Read this section if you are using a UMC video driver. Pressworks 2 and PowerTable (a separate utility supplied with the Pressworks POWERpack) may encounter problems when being used with a UMC video driver. In particular, some UMC video drivers cause PowerTable to GPF (General Protection Fault) when executed. If you encounter any problems, try the following workarounds: - Set your Windows setup to use the standard Windows VGA display. - Set your Windows setup to use UMC display at a different resolution. - Purchase the latest UMC driver. - Purchase a different video driver. Photo CD Browser and SMARTDRV 5.0 ================================= Read this section if you use the Photo CD Browser with SMARTDRV 5.0. If you have SMARTDRV 5.0 installed on your PC, you may receive "Not Ready" errors when you use the Photo CD Browser. (SMARTDRV 5.0 is supplied with MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11; the Photo CD Browser is a utility supplied with Pressworks and Designworks.) You can overcome this problem by editing the SMARTDRV command line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file; simply follow the steps below: 1. Start the Windows File Manager by double-clicking the File Manager program icon in the Windows Main program group. 2. Select Run from the File menu. The Run dialog is displayed. 3. Enter SYSEDIT in the Command Line box, then click on OK to start the System Configuration Editor. 4. Click in the AUTOEXEC.BAT window to make it the active window, then look for the command line containing SMARTDRV. 5. Edit this command line to read: C:\DOS\SMARTDRV /X /E:2048 6. Select Save from the File menu to save your changes to the AUTOEXEC.BAT. 7. Select Exit from the File menu to close the System Configuration Editor, then exit Windows and restart your computer. When you restart your computer and reload the Photo CD Browser, you will no longer receive the "Not Ready" error message. Stop Press! =========== Further information on Pressworks is documented in the Pressworks Help under the heading Stop Press! Please read this information carefully because it is not provided elsewhere in the Pressworks documentation. To read this information, follow the steps below: 1. With Pressworks installed, double-click on the Pressworks program icon in the relevant program group. After a few moments, Pressworks is displayed. 2. Press F1 to display the Help window. 3. Select Stop Press! from the list of Contents to display the latest changes to Pressworks. NOTE: If this is the first time you have used Help, we recommend that you select How to Use Help from the Help window's Help menu. Advanced user options ===================== We have included an number of alternative settings for certain Pressworks 2 features. Details of these settings are provided in the SETTINGS.TXT file. Don't forget to register your copy of Pressworks to qualify for 30 days free technical support, so that if you have any queries or difficulties when using Pressworks, you can get professional advice by telephoning the Softline number (01480) 496600 during office hours. We hope that you enjoy working with Pressworks! Copyright GST Technology Ltd, Cambridge, England, 1995.