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About this tutorial.
The best way to learn about PEP and its capabilities is simply to use it.
This tutorial is provided as a help in getting started. It takes you
through three simple exercises in using PEP:
1. Printing the PEP registration form.
2. Creating a new configuration file.
3. Drawing a simple picture.
These exercises can be done in any order. In each case, the entire project
is described keystroke by keystroke. The keys you use are listed in the left
hand column. On the right, is an explanation of what is being accomplished
at each step. Here is the notation we will be using:
The symbol: Means:
F(ile) Press the letter F (to execute the FILE command). In PEP,
you execute a command in a command menu by typing its first
letter. (You can also click on the command with the mouse.)
[Enter] Press the ENTER key
[F9] Press the function key F9
[Alt-Z] While holding down the Alt key, press the letter Z.
These exercises cover only a small fraction of PEP's capabilities.
They just provide a representative sample of how PEP operates so that you
can continue to learn about PEP by experimenting and consulting the manual.
Proceed slowly through each exercise to be sure you understand the
explanation at each step.
Before using this tutorial, you must install PEP on your computer according
to the hardware configuration that you have: the type of display, type of
printer, etc. The utility INSTALL.EXE will guide you through this. If you
need more information about installation, see the file CHAPT17.TXT.
Also, be sure to read the file README.DOC.
Probably, your best course is the play with PEP a little before starting
the exercises below; for example: use the INSERT menu to draw lines and
add text, then QUIT back to the top menu to use MODIFY and DELETE; use
FILE/LOAD to look at some of the picture files supplied with PEP, and so
forth. Having a little familiarity with PEP will help you absorb the
information given in the exercises.
In order to give predictable results, each exercise assumes that you start
in your PEP directory and begin by loading PEP from the DOS prompt. Also,
the mouse is ignored; each step is preformed from the keyboard. In fact,
however, PEP supports both methods of input equally.
Exercise 1: Printing the PEP Registration Form.
Go to your PEP directory, and begin by typing "PEP" at the DOS prompt. When
PEP is loaded, the first menu that you see is called the top menu.
F(ile) Go to the FILE menu (used to access pictures on disk).
L(oad) Display an alphabetized menu of picture files.
REGISTER The file we want is REGISTER.PDL. As you type, the menu high-
[Enter] light moves to the first menu item matching what has been
typed so far. When the required file is reached, you can
press the ENTER key to load it. Actually, in this case, only
the first letter and ENTER are required. A PDL file holds
1 or more pictures or OBJECTS. This file has a MAIN object
which is automatically opened (i.e. displayed for editing).
You are now displaying (part of) the registration form.
At this point, you might want to experiment with the keys
[Alt-C], [Alt-E], [Alt-T], [Alt-W] and the combinations of
Shift + the arrow keys, to see how these can be used to
display more or less of a picture and navigate around it.
(There are also buttons in the button window for accessing
each of these functions if you have a mouse.) Using these
keys will not affect the steps that follow.
Q(uit) Return from the FILE menu to the top menu.
P(rint) Go to the PRINT menu.
C(enter) Enable horizontal centering. We will print the form at the
top of the page but centered left and right. Note that the
menu item contains current status information; it has changed
from "Center NO" to "Center X".
Now make sure your printer is turned on, warmed up, on-line
and ready to print.
G(o) Start printing. Here again, the menu item shows status
information; in this case the number of print jobs
scheduled. Printing takes place in the background.
Q(uit) Return from the PRINT menu to the top menu.
Wait here until printing is completed. (You cannot exit
from PEP while print jobs are active.)
Q(uit) Go to the QUIT menu.
E(xit) Exit from PEP back to DOS.
Notes:
You may now want to use the method given above to print out the files
PEPMENU.PDL (which contains charts of the principal PEP menus - these charts
were created by Trionum's org chart maker, ORCHIS) and PEPKEY.PDL (which
provides a keyboard template for the function keys, control keys, and
alt-letter keys available in PEP). For printing PEPKEY, we recommend using:
P(rint)
R(otation)
2(70 degrees) to print in landscape orientation.
Also, if these pictures do not naturally fit on one printer page (which will
depend on the resolution of your printer), you will see the menu:
Shrink (Shrink to fit on one page)
Multi-page (Print on as many pages as required)
Truncate (Truncate after the first page)
Cancel (Cancel the print request)
If this happens, choose either S(hrink) or M(ulti-page) as you prefer.
Exercise #2: creating a configuration file.
You can create custom configurations for PEP if you want to use a different
screen layout, different graphic default values, a different pattern file,
and so forth. Configurations are kept in files with the extension FIG.
These ASCII files simply contain the captured keystrokes that you would type
into PEP to produce the desired effects.
In this simple exercise, we will create a new configuration that displays
rulers and grid lines (at 1/4 printer inch spacing) in the main edit window.
In your PEP directory, type "PEP" at the DOS prompt, then:
Q(uit) Go into the Quit menu.
M(akefig) Start making a new configuration file,
TEST (which we will call TEST.FIG).
[Enter]
AUTO Starting out using the normal default configuration
[Enter] (which is called AUTO.FIG).
Now PEP is started up again using that configuration file
and everything that happens until the [Alt-Z] below
will be captured into the TEST.FIG file we are building.
S(etup) Go to the Setup menu.
W(indow) Go to the Setup/Window sub-menu.
R(ulers) Enable ruler display.
G(rid) Enable grid display.
Q(uit) Go to the
N(umbers) Setup/Numbers menu.
G(rid-space) Change the grid spacing to
X1/4i 1/4 inch horizontally
[Enter]
Y1/4i and 1/4 inch vertically
[Enter]
[F10] Go back to the top menu.
[Alt-Z] End creation of the configuration file, and save it to disk.
Q(uit)
E(xit) Exit from PEP.
Now if you load PEP by typing the following at the DOS prompt:
PEP /F=TEST
PEP will be loaded using this new configuration file. If you wanted,
you could use DOS to give AUTO.FIG a new name, and to rename TEST.FIG
as AUTO.FIG. Then this new configuration would be used automatically
whenever PEP was invoked.
Notes:
There is a section in CHAPT16.TXT (Hints, Tricks and Warnings) on using
the configuration file capability to create slide shows with PEP (like
the VGASLIDE.FIG file that comes with PEP).
You can use the [Alt-G] and [Alt-R] keys (or the G-button and R-button
in the button window) as faster substitutes for the Setup/Window/Grid
and Setup/Window/Rulers commands used above. Many PEP functions have
such single keystroke alternatives. These are described in CHAPT14.TXT
and shown in the keyboard template PEPKEY.PDL.
Exercise #3: Drawing a simple picture.
In this exercise we will draw a "keep away from magnetic fields" icon
(as you might print on an envelope for mailing floppy disks). This is
an easy task, as we need only combine two pictures supplied in the
symbol files that are part of PEP.
In your PEP directory, type "PEP" at the DOS prompt, then:
O(bject) First, we grab two objects from existing files by
I(mport) using the Object/Import menu.
F(ile) From the file SYMBOL1.PDL,
SYMBOL1
[Enter]
O(bject) import the object MAGNET (a picture of a magnet).
MAGNET
[Enter]
F(ile) From the file SYMBOL2.PDL,
SYMBOL2
[Enter]
O(bject) import the object NO (the international don't-do-it
NO symbol).
[Enter]
[F10] Return to the top menu.
I(nsert) Go to the Insert menu.
O(bject) Display a menu of the available objects.
MAGNET Select the magnet object.
[Enter] (A cross-hair cursor is displayed here.)
[F9] Move the cursor to the upper left of the editing area.
[Enter] Insert the magnet object.
O(bject) Display the list of objects again.
NO This time select the NO object,
[Enter]
[Enter] and insert that at the same location.
Now we want the NO object to be perhaps 50% bigger so that
the magnet can be fully visible in the center so:
M(odify) Modify the element just inserted.
S(tretch) Change its stretches:
X3/2 change the horizontal stretch from 1 to 3/2 (or 1.5)
[Enter]
Y3/2 do the same to the vertical stretch
[Enter]
C(olor) Also change its color
1(-red) to red.
[F10] Return to the top menu
Now we need to center the magnet inside the NO object.
This could be done using Modify/Move and the mouse,
but the easiest way is:
C(ollect) Go to the Collect menu.
A(ll) Collect everything in the picture (in this case there are only
two elements).
G(roup) Combine these two into a single group element and display
a menu for modifying groups.
A(lign) Go to the Modify-group/Align menu.
C(enter) Center the group components horizontally,
M(iddle) and vertically.
Q(uit) Back to the Modify-group menu.
E(xplode) Break the group apart into its two elements (and return to
the top menu).
Our picture is now complete, so:
O(bject) Go to the Object menu.
C(lose) Close the object (i.e. stop editing and remove the display)
NO-MAGS and give it the name, NO-MAGS.
[Enter]
Q(uit)
F(ile) Go to the FILE menu so that we can save this picture
S(ave) to a file on disk
TEST which we will call TEST.PDL
[Enter]
Q(uit) Return to the top menu.
O(bject) To print the object: use Object/Open to display it again.
O(pen)
NO-MAGS
[Enter]
Q(uit)
P(rint) Go to the print menu. Make sure your printer is ready.
G(o) Start printing.
Q(uit)
Wait for printing to complete.
Q(uit)
E(xit) Exit from PEP.
Notes:
You will notice that there are two objects, BOX and CIRCLE, always available
in addition to the ones you draw yourself or import from other files. This
is discussed in the section "Default Object Definitions" in CHAPT16.TXT.
Instead of using Object/Import to bring in objects from other files, you
could just as well start with the Insert/Object command, and then select
the "\Import\" option from the menu of available objects.