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JETCOL Shareware Version 3.4d A Compressed Print Utility Copyright 1990-1993 by ARCaine Technology 960 Neilson St Albany, CA 94706 (510) 527-9859 All Rights Reserved DISCLAIMER This software and manual are sold "as is" and without warranties as to performance or merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the various hardware and software environments into which this program may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. We will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data, inability to use this program, or any other reason, even if we or our agent have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Be warned that not all data may print correctly when using this program with unconverted wordprocessor files. The user must assume the entire risk of using and evaluating this program. Any liability of Tony Caine or ARCaine Technology will be limited exclusively to product replacement or refund of purchase price. If you find these terms unacceptable, do not use this product. On every matter relating to this program the user consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts residing respectively in Alameda and San Francisco Counties in the state of California. Introduction JETCOL prints two columns, each up to ninety characters wide, on laser printers in portrait mode. It is intended to greatly reduce the huge volume of paper that results from printing reference material (such as shareware manuals), word processing drafts and text files. Regular use of this program should cut your paper bill by 60 or 70 percent. It can also save you money when faxing or mailing documents. Jetcol will now optionally print from 1 to 6 columns across the page can print columns up to 160 characters wide. Registered users can now print in landscape mode on most lasers with JETCOL. JETCOL will not work with an inkjet (unless it is DJ compatible) or a bubblejet. Use 2COL for these printers. JETCOL will work with a Deskjet. See section below on Deskjet printing. JETCOL has been designed to be very easy to use. Its default settings should cover most printing needs. To print a document you simply type:JETCOL filename <enter>. For example, to print the manual type:JETCOL JETCOL.DOC <enter>. It provides better readability than other compressed print programs because it normally ignores page breaks and eliminates consecutive blank lines (at your option).By eliminating more unnecessary white space on the page JETCOL can use a larger,more readable, type face while printing the same number of average pages/sheet as other compressed print programs. It is designed to take maximum advantage of laserjet features to further enhance readability. JETCOL will print anywhere from two to ten pages of source material on one side of a sheet of paper. By using its even/odd alternate side print feature four to twenty pages of text can be printed using both sides of a page. By reducing the volume of paper, JETCOL also reduces storage requirements and the bulk one has to carry around when traveling. As a side benefit, many JETCOL users actually find it easier and faster to read the compressed versions than the originals because they can take in more words at one time without having to scan across the page. JETCOL has been tested on many brands and models of laser printers. If you run into difficulty with your model, please let me know and I will let you know if it is possible provide a version that is compatible with your printer. Eight different font sizes have been specially designed for JETCOL. These fonts are automatically selected and downloaded according to the degree of compression requested when you specify the number of lines each column should contain with the -Lxx option (anywhere from 50 to 240).Also at the user's option JETCOL will override its automatic font selection and pick either a larger or smaller font for a given line spacing to provide either more or less white space between lines. The font is nominally pitched at 21.5 characters/inch to allow adequate space for a left margin and two 80 character columns. When either a smaller margin is specified (-Mx) or the number of characters/column is reduced (-Wx) the character spacing is automatically expanded for further readability. The default margin is seven spaces and the default column width is 80 characters. Some users have said that they would prefer a thinner font for JETCOL. I have provided a new thin font in the two most often used sizes: Fonts 6 and 7. European accented fonts (128-159) are provided in 7FONT.2CL. A complete set of european fonts in all sizes and thin fonts in all sizes are available as options. A demo mode (-K) is now available to help you explore the registered features. The demo mode will activate all registered features but will only print one page. By running the file DEMOJET.BAT you will see examples of some of the many possible printing modes of JETCOL. JETCOL may be executed via a path statement but all font files must be located in the same sub-directory as JETCOL.EXE if they are to be found by the program when it comes time to download them. JETCOL can now print rough drafts of some wordprocessor formats including .WRI, Word, and Wordstar. See details and, particularly, limitations under the Wordwrap option. Malcolm Drury's VIEW will let you view and print ASCII, WP, WFW, AMI-PRO and WFD files with JETCOL. See "Registration" section below to obtain a copy. A macro for using JETCOL with David Hamel's BOXER text editor is now provided. A MS-Windows menu/edit interface is available. See PRODUCTS.DOC Suitability Compressed print programs are not for everyone. You should carefully explore how much compression you are comfortable with before eyestrain becomes a problem. The greater degrees of compresssion are intended more for archival use than for documents which will be frequently read. This program should run on any PC compatible computer with at least 256K of memory. Registration This is not freeware or public domain. Shareware is simply a distribution method for commercial software. You are required to register if you to use this program after a 30 day trial period. I will keep improving the program if I know enough people are finding it useful. My registration policy is flexible. The nominal fee is $32.95 US. If you don't feel you will get $32.95 worth of use out of the program, you can send a partial registration of $20. A partial registration will remove the registration screens but will NOT enable the bonus registered features. See REGISTER.DOC for information on commercial use and quantity pricing. The upgrade fee for current registered JETCOL users is $15. If you want an update disk mailed and an extended registration code for future upgrades add $3 for S/H/U(pgrade). Foreign checks and credit cards OK. See REGISTER.DOC for details. Those who register for the full amount ($32.95+$3 S/H/U) will receive the latest JETCOL plus a set of related shareware programs including 2COL for dotmatrix and DeskJet. Also included is VIEW, which will let you view and print (with JETCOL) ASCII, Ami Pro, WP, WFW,and WFD files. A Windows menu/editor interface is also available. See PRODUCTS.DOC for details Finally, sending $35.95 also gets you a registration code which is guaranteed to work on all new versions of JETCOL which are released over the next 15 months. A lesser payment provides a code only good for the most current version. If you are a Wordperfect user, for an additional $3 I can supply a macro which will print your current document with JETCOL without leaving WP. A similar macro for WFW is also available. The registered version of JETCOL permits multiple document names and wildcards to be used on the command line and eliminates the registration screen. It allows output to be directed to a file instead of the printer. It also allows the automatic font selection to be overridden to customize the document appearance to your taste as well as selection of thinner fonts. The standard registered version comes with 2 thin fonts and 8 regular fonts. The registered version also allows customizing of default settings. Please tell me the version number you have when registering and where you obtained your copy of JETCOL. Please use REGISTER.DOC as your registration form. Site fees for commercial users can be negotiated. JETCOL comes with a full money-back guarantee. Optional Extras: Complete set of thin fonts (1-8) $10 Complete set of foreign langauge chars (ASCII 128-159) $10 Deskjet soft fonts (only for DJ users with enough RAM) $ 5 A professional version of JETCOL is now available for $65, which numbers each line and produces an index of words in the document. Registered version features (Most of these features are activated by the (-K) demo mode option.) *Custom default settings JETCOL's default settings can be modified by the user. This eliminates the need for the user to enter a string of options whenever they run the program. They need only enter the filename. * Automargin The automargin option significantly improves the readability and appearance of your document. It scans the entire document before printing, determines how much blank space there is and expands the lines to utilize this wasted space. The result is a less crowded, easier to read document. Automargin also automatically activates the wordwrap (-&) feature if any line in the document is greater than the specified columnwidth (-W). To get an idea of what the automargin does, first type: JETCOL JETCOL.DOC -K <enter>. This prints with the default settings which are designed to accommodate any documents up to 80 characters wide. Next type: JETCOL JETCOL.DOC -K -U9 <enter>. Compare the two printouts for readability and appearance. *Fixpage Prints an exact number of pages/column. Original pagebreaks and formatting retained. *Biasfont Modify font selection process to give you either more or less white space between lines. *Thinfont Selects a thinner (less bold) font. * Multiple document names Multiple document names and wildcards can be entered on the command line. * Append When specifying multiple documents to print, registered users have the choice of starting each file at the beginning of a page or treating all documents as one continuous file without breaks. * Redirection of output Registered users can choose to send the output to a disk file for later printing in background (while running other programs) or send to LPT2, COM1, COM2, etc. * Pagelength adjustment for different paper sizes: A4, legal, etc. * Document reformatting Expand or contract the line width of your document for better readablity or more efficient use of page space. * User specified printer initialization string. * The registration screen is eliminated, of course. Terminology Since several pages from the original source file are combined onto a single page of printer output, there may be some confusion about the word "page." We will always refer to the original document pages as "source pages." What is actually printed will simply be called "pages." Usage: JETCOL [options] path\filename [options] [path\filename]... Options may be specified in any order before and/or after the file name(s). Options must be separated from each other by spaces and preceded by a "-". Upper and lower case are interchangeable. Each option, no matter where it is located, will affect the printing of all files equally. Options are defined as follows: -Lxx = Each column will be xx lines long -Cxx = No more than xx consecutive blank lines will be printed -Sxx = Skip xx pages before starting to print -O = Print only odd # pages -E = Print only even # pages. -Wxx = column width (number of characters in each column) -P = Pause before printing each page. -N = Prints filename and page # at lower left corner -Dxx = Delimit each (source) page with a line and page # -T = Truncate long lines instead of wrap. -Fx = Put a margin of x blank lines at the top of each page. -Mx = Set left margin x spaces from the edge. -Rx = Create a right margin of x spaces. -K = Activates registered options for a one page demo. -? = JETCOL will ask for filenames to print -V = Report # pages to print.Modify spacing to fill last page -&xx = Wordwrap long lines. (useful for .WRI and similar files) ? = (no dash) Displays help screen. Must be the only option. -@x = Print All, Even, or Odd in reversed order. -G = Enable graphics when printing with wordwrap. -$x = Print x number of columns (1-6). ***Options below are bonus features in the registered version*** -A = Append multiple files. -Z = Route output to disk or another port. -Bx = Biases font selection toward larger or smaller fonts. -Ux = Automatic margin and column width adjustment. -Xx = Print an exact number of pages/column keeping page breaks. -H = Select a thin (light) font -Yx = Customize default settings -!xx = Modify line spacing to adjust for pagefill or pagelength. -&Rxx= Reformat document width -# = User specified printer setup -[xx = Left justify text by xx characters -J = Use Deskjet soft fonts.(see Deskjet section below ) -J-2 = Do not send printer commands or fonts. Defaults: 80 characters/column;96 lines/page;1 consecutive blank line; no pause before printing page; do not number pages; wrap (not truncate) long lines;4 blank lines at top of page. Description of options ? JETCOL ? <enter> or JETCOL <enter> will display a help screen. -K Putting -K on the command line activates any registered feature (except multiple files printing) for a one page demo. -Lxxx Each column will contain xxx lines of data. Line spacing will be automatically adjusted to fill the page. As more lines per page are requested smaller fonts are automatically selected. -Cxx Pages of text frequently contain many blank lines of data. Experience has shown that most of these can be discarded without sacrificing readability. This option specifies that when there are more than xx consecutive blank lines, the excess will be discarded. The default value is 1. -Sxx This feature is useful if you have a paper jam or decide to print part now and part later. Using this option will cause xx pages to be skipped before printing begins. For example, specifying "-S2" will cause printing to begin with page 3. When using -S with the -O or -E options, remember to count all pages - odd and even. -O This and the -E option allow you to print on both sides of each sheet of paper. By specifying "-O", only the odd numbered pages will be printed. Alternatively,JETCOL will ask you whether you want to print the even pages after it has finished printing the odd. Respond "Y" after the paper has been reloaded or type "N" to terminate. -E Prints only even numbered pages. When using this option after the -O option be sure to use a left margin setting of 0 to allow space for hole punching or other binding requirements on the right side of the sheet (this adjustment is made automatically when using the automargin option). You should be able to completely eliminate paper shuffling with the correct combination of the -E or -O and the -@x options. See documentation about the -@x option below. -Wxx This option specifies how many characters will print across each column. Wrapping or truncating will begin at this position. It also determines the print pitch. The more characters/column you specify the smaller the space between characters. -P Program will pause before printing each page. Hit any key to print a page. This option is useful if you are feeding single sheets to the printer. -Nx This will cause the filename,page and/or date to be printed in the lower left-hand corner of each sheet. To avoid confusion when using the -S, -O and -E options the page numbering is not reset for each document when multiple documents are specified on the command line(registered version only). If x=blank the filename and page number will print If x=1 the page number will print. If x=2 the current date will print. If x=64 the filename will print. These x values may be added together to achieve any combination of the above. For example if x=67 all three options (page number, filename, and date) will print. -Dxx If you need to keep track of each source page, this option will print a dashed line with a page number in the middle whenever a form feed is encountered or after xx lines of data. If xx is not specified, 66 is assumed. Thus -D is equivalent to -D66. Experience has shown that this option will be rarely used because most documents either number their own pages or it is just not important to keep track of original page breaks. -T Normally when lines longer than the specified column width are encountered,JETCOL will wrap the data to the next line. If you prefer to truncate or discard excess characters on a line, you should invoke this option. -Fx JETCOL will insert x blank lines at the top of each page before printing. The default is 4. -Mx This command sets the left margin x spaces from the edge of the page. Default is 9. This option also affects print pitch. The wider the margin you request the more crowded the characters will be on the page. A negative left margin is also now supported -M-x. This can be used to remove leading spaces from a document. No printing characters will be eliminated. If the x value is set high enough this function can be used to left justify the document. This feature is not active when using the -& wrap modes. -Rx Specifies how far to move the right margin in tenths of an inch. The default (x=0) is at the edge of the printable area 1/3" from the right of the page. A positive x value moves the margin to the left. A negative value moves the margin to the right. For example, to move the margin 1.5" to the left you should specify -R15. When printing landscape mode, you will probably want to shift the margin about 2.5" to the left -R-25 -? Instructs JETCOL to ask for files to print once it is running. You can specify files both on the command line and when 2COL asks for filenames. Separate the file names with spaces. This option is useful when JETCOL is run from a menu or a Windows icon. -V This option prescans the document and tells you how many pages (odd+even) will print. If you are printing only odd or even, you must divide by two. If the last page is only partially filled you will be given the option to compress the line spacing to eliminate the partial page or increase the spacing to fill it. "C" compresses the lines. "E" expands the lines. "N" preserves the original spacing. If you are printing multiple documents without the Append (-A) option or using the fiXpage (-X) option, you will not be able to modify the line spacing. You can also enter a percentage value with the -V option. For example, entering -V35 will cause final pages which are more than 35% filled to be Expanded to fill the page and final page less than 35% filled to be Compressed to eliminate the page. You can specify from -V1 to -V99. All prompts are bypassed in this mode. Note: It is impossible to always adjust the spacing to exactly fill the page. JETCOL will come as close as possible. -&xx Wordwrap lines to a maximum of xx characters. When this option is off (default), JETCOL will wrap in mid word. This wordwrap feature is intended for printing some word processor documents (such as .WRI,and WP Generic) where carriage return/ linefeeds occur only at the end of paragraphs. The current implementation is not intended to reformat a document to increase the length of lines which have CR/LFs at the end. When in filter mode (see below), wordwrap will also print Wordstar documents. Some wordprocessor programs imbed non-ASCII graphics and other control information in their files. The wordwrap feature normally eliminates ASCII characters outside of the range 32-126. This will greatly reduce but not eliminate "garbage" when printing these files. WRI files, for example, have graphics at the end and you will almost always see at least a few lines of garbage when printing unconverted .WRI files. If the -G (graphics) option is invoked on the command line ALL FILTERING WILL BE DISABLED and all characters ASCII 1-255 will be printed (if you have the extended JETCOL fontset).Filter mode also deletes any line beginning with a period ".". This is for printing Wordstar documents. Automargin will automatically activate wordwrap when it sees long lines. Since Wordwrap filters out IBM graphics characters it is not advisable to leave it enabled all the time as a command line option. Invoke it when you need it or let automargin handle it. You can prevent Automargin from enabling wordwrap by including -&- on the command line. IMPORTANT: Information which has been encoded in non-ASCII graphics format will not print in any readable form and will be lost. If an EOF (Control-Z) is embedded in the data, printing will stop at this point. Further data past an EOF will not print. Wordwrap is intended mainly as a convenience to provide an approximation of word processor documents. If you require perfect reproduction of the original document, you MUST first convert the document to ASCII before printing with JETCOL. -@x This option causes pages to print in reverse order. "-@A" causes all pages to print in reverse. "-@E" causes even pages only to print in reverse. "-@O" causes only odd pages to be reversed. The purpose of this option is to eliminate paper shuffling. Each printer model has its own paperfeed characteristics and you will need to experiment for the correct combination of -O, -E and -@ options that works best for you. When you get it right you should be able to completely eliminate paper shuffling when doing either one sided or two sided printing. When you are printing even pages in reverse with a document which has an odd number of pages JETCOL will eject a blank page to compensate for the blank end page. You must include this blank sheet when feeding pages back into the printer to print the reverse side. The maximum number of reversed pages for one print job is limited to 300 or your free disk space, whichever is smaller. -$x This option selects the number of columns to print across the page. You can specify from 1 to 6. JETCOL will automatically compress the print pitch to fit everything on the page but it will quickly become unreadable unless you adjust the column width with the -Wx command and/or reformat/wrap with the -& or -&R options. With 3 columns, for example, you probably don't want a column width much wider than -W53 This option is useful when printing lists of names or labels. It is also useful for landscape mode printing and wide carriage printers. When combined with the -Z and -J-2 options JETCOL can be used to format single column ASCII files into multi-column lists. ***Options below are active only in the registered version*** (Unregistered users can use the -K option to test these features) -A When multiple files are specified on the command line (registered version only) you have the option of either starting a new page for each file (default) or appending them as though they were one continuous file. The -A option causes them to be appended. -Zfilename Allows output to be routed to a file instead of to the printer. The file can then be printed in background while running other programs. For example, to send output to a file called PRINT.TXT, you should include -ZPRINT.TXT on the command line.If PRINT.TXT does not exist, it will be created. If PRINT.TXT already exists, JETCOL output will be appended to the end of the file. This command is only active in the registered version of JETCOL. This option can also be used to redirect output to LPT2, COM1, COM2, etc. -Bx This option biases the font selection to pick either a larger or smaller font than would ordinarily chosen by JETCOL. Setting x to 1 picks the next larger font. If x is set to -1, it picks the next smaller font. If x is set to 2, it will skip two font sizes larger, and so on. This option is active for registered users only. Examples: -B1,-B2,-B-1,-B-2...etc. (do not insert any spaces). -Ux X is the number of left margin spaces you request. JETCOL scans the entire document to be printed to determine its formatting. Leading blanks in the document are taken into account to give you the exact left margin you requested. Column width is adjusted to accommodate the widest line in the document. The result is that lines are fully spread across the page and character spacing is maximized for best readability. (registered version only) The automargin option automatically puts the margin you requested on the right side of the page (for binding) if you are printing with the -E option (on the reverse side of the page.) Automargin automatically turns on the wordwrap feature (-&) whenver lines longer than the columnwidth (-W) are encountered in a document if the truncate (-T) option is off. You can also prevent wordwrap from being activated by putting -&- on the command line, this is safer than truncating lines. If wordwrap (-&xx) or reformat (-&Rxx) has been specified on the command line (or as a default setting) automargin will assume a document width equal to the wordwrap value if xx is less than the actual document width and will always assume a document width equal to the reformat xx value regardless of the actual document width. Automarign also activates left justify -[ when possible. -H Selects a light (thin) font instead of the standard font. If the thin font in the required size is not available the regular, bolder, font is substituted. The only thin fonts supplied with the standard registered version are sizes 6 and 7.(registered version only) -Xx Prints exactly x pages/column retaining original formatting and page breaks. The value of x may be from 1 to 3. This function assumes a page length of 66 unless modified with the -Dxx function. (registered version only) -Yx The -Y option allows you to modify JETCOL's default settings. This MUST always be the first option on the command line whenever you use it. Typing "JETCOL -Y1 <enter>" will cause JETCOL to display all current default settings. Typing "JETCOL -Y2 [options....] <enter>" will cause JETCOL to permanently remember those options by modifying the JETCOL.EXE program itself. Your personal registration code MUST always be one of the options specified whenever you modify the default settings. Whenever the -Y2 option is used, any options not specified on the command line will be reset to the standard defaults. Therefore, even if you change only one of your custom options, you must reenter them all at the same time. The next time you run JETCOL the options you specified will automatically be used. For example, if you want to set the number of lines/page to 102 and print the page numbers at the bottom, you would type: JETCOL -Y2 -L102 -N registration code# <enter>. The next time you type JETCOL [filename] <enter> It would be as though you had typed: JETCOL -L102 -N [filename]. If there are several different option profiles you wish to use, you can create different copies of JETCOL.EXE with different names, such as JETCOL1.EXE, JETCOL2.EXE, etc. The -Y2 option only modifies the EXE file having the same name and path that you type on the command line. All defaults with an 'x' value can be temporarily overridden with a different value on the commmand line. Use an 'x' value of 0 to temporarily deactivate Automargin or Pagefix.Any option without an 'x' value can be activated simply by putting it on the command line. To temporarily deactivate an option set as a permanent default, type a minus after the option. For example, to temporarily deactivate the N option, you would put -N- on the command line: JETCOL -N- [filename] There is also a -Y4 function which works like -Y2 except that it only affects options actually specified on the command line without resetting all others to the standard defaults. THIS FUNCTION WILL NOT WORK ON .EXE FILES THAT HAVE BEEN COMPRESSED WITH PKLITE. You must first decompress, use the -Y2 option and then recompress. -&Rxx Reformats document to a width of xx and eliminates leading blanks. It attempts (but is not always successful) to identify tables and headers and avoids reformating them. This feature is useful if you have a document which is relatively narrow and would like to make more efficient use of page space. It is also useful if you have adocument which is raltively wide and would like to spread out the font for easier reading. A default trigger point of 57 characters is used to determine whether a line should be wrapped or left alone. You can modify the trigger point to any value you wish by entering the optional tt value. For example, if you want to reformat a document to a width of 78 characters and use the default trigger you would use -&R78 on the comand line. If you addtionally want to set the trigger to wrap lines of width 50 or greater use -&R78,50 on the command line. Unregistered users may test the reformat feature with the -K one page demo option. -!xx Modifies line spacing so you can fill non-standard size paper. This would include legal or European paper. This option also allows you to finetune the pagefill amount of standard paper. Entering a positive value expands the spacing between lines. A negative value decreases spacing between lines. Although it depends on the printer, you should find that values in the 25-75 range will usually do the job. This option does not affect the printer's forms length adjustment. If you change paper you must modify the forms length setting before running JETCOL. When using A4 paper, try settings: -!25 and -R3 -#x1,x2,x3,x4....,x29 Allows user to specify a string of up to 29 bytes to be sent to the printer after JETCOL has downloaded the font. This allows the user to select various printer options, such as duplex printing scalable fonts, or landscape mode if supported by your printer. See more info on landscape printing later in this document. The data is specified as decimal numbers separated by commas. For example if your printer supports duplex mode printing (<ESC>&l1S) and you want to switch it on, you would put -#27,38,108,49,83 on the command line. You must not include any spaces within this command! Unpredictable results will occur if you specify commands that conflict with JETCOL's. Also JETCOL does normally send a margin set and font pitch command at the beginning of every page and the user will be unable to override these with this option. As with other registered features the option may be tested in demo mode using the -K command. -[xx Left justify text by xx characters. Up to xx blanks will be removed from the beginning of each line. This will help you to create a margin or print some documents at a more readable character pitch. This feature is automatically activated when using automargin. Since no printing characters are removed, if a large enough xx value is specified all lines of data will be shifted to the left edge of the page. This feature does not operate with the -& and -&R options. -J-2 This command eliminates all printer control charadcters and bypasses font downloading. When combined with the -Z, -$1, and -&, it can be used to reformat a file without printing it. Using JETCOL with a word processor The wordwrap feature (-&) provides a convenient, but not always perfect,way of printing many wordprocessor (such as .WRI) files. In those cases where you cannot get a satisfactory printout directly from a document in its original form, most word processors have what is called an ASCII output or DOS output mode which JETCOL will work with.If you are given a choice, it is usually best to convert without line breaks and use JETCOL's wordwrap feature. I can supply WP and WFW macros which will allow you to print with JETCOL, without leaving WP or WFW. You can print the document you are editing, with a single keystroke. See the registration section. The JETCOL registration disk provides shareware reformatting programs which may help in printing other wordprocessor formats. If you specify your word processor when registering, I may be able to provide you with a conversion program. Using JETCOL with Microsoft Windows A Windows interface is now available which allows selecting files from a menu and editing/excerpting text as well as printing from the clipboard. Files to be printed can be dragged and dropped from File Manager. It also allows printing in background with JETCOL. A large selection of custom printing option profiles can be maintained. See PRODUCTS.DOC for details. Using JETCOL on a LAN If a LAN is not properly set up to run JETCOL many strange and unpredictable results will occur when trying to print. The LAN must be set up to pass data to the printer in a transparent or binary mode. Although I have not tested this myself, I have been told by a user that JETCOL will work on Novell LANs if the "NT" option is specified in the capture statement. If you determine settings for other LANs, please pass them on to me and I will include them in future documentation. Landscape printing with JETCOL Registered users can print in landscape mode with JETCOL by including the following paramaters on the command line: -!-120 -R-25 -#27,38,108,49,79 -B-1 Other options can be added (or above options adjusted) as required. This has been tested on HP IIP and Panasonic Laser printers. The HP printers used 2COL's soft fonts as expected but one Panasonic insisted on using its own internal font for landscape printing. So your mileage may vary. Unregistered users can test landscape printing by adding the -K option to the command line. By way of explanation, the -!-120 option adjusts the line spacing to fit the landscape orientation. The -R-25 is a negative right margin that causes the printing to fill the landscape size page. The -B-1 specifies a smaller font for the tighter line spacing. The -# option switches on landscape mode. You can adjust these options to your needs. You may wish to print fewer lines/column so that a larger font can be used. Try including -L80 on the command line as well. Programmers can print source listings in two 132 character wide columns in landscape mode with JETCOL. Faxing with JETCOL Documents printed with JETCOL can be faxed at a considerable savings in connect time charges because almost 4 pages can be faxed in the time it takes to fax a standard page. To optimize readability, the characters must be spaced as widely as possible. Since JETCOL automatically adjusts the pitch to fill the page, you should set the left and right margins to 0 (-M0) and (-R0), if possible. Use Automargin (-Ux) or manually adjust the column width (-Wx) to fit the maximum width of your document. The optimum font for normal resolution faxes is FONT8.2CL this means a setting of -L89 or lower. You can get by with a font as small as FONT6.2CL but you will probably want to shift to high resolution faxes with anything smaller. These recommendations depend on the boldness of your particular laser printer and adjustments may be necessary. If you have PCL friendly fax software you might want to send JETCOL output directly to your FAX program instead of printing on a laser first. Using JETCOL with Deskjets The registered version of JETCOL will work with a Deskjet as will the unregistered version of 2COL. An advantage of using JETCOL is its variable font pitch which spreads out the printing for better readability and the ability to print more than 80 characters per column in portrait mode. But the main advantage of JETCOL is available only to Deskjet (or compatible Inkjet) owners who have enough RAM for soft fonts. They will then be able to use the special Deskjet soft fonts which are much more readable than the internal Deskjet fonts. The special soft fonts may be purchased for an additional $5 with JETCOL. Just specify that you want the Deskjet soft fonts. Use the -J option only if you have the Deskjet softfonts. You can test Deskjet printing with JETCOL by typing: JETCOL JETCOL.DOC -#27,40,115,50,48,72 -U1 -L80 -K <enter> Registered users should leave off the -K which activates the one page demo mode. Half height printing can be selected by using: -#27,40,115,50,48,72,27,40,115,54,86 A 24 char/inch half height font can be selected with this string -#27,40,115,50,52,72,27,40,115,54,86 You can program in these strings as permanent defaults in the registered version. Those with a wider selection of fonts might find that they can select a better font than the one selected by the strings above. You should read your printer manual and experiment. Landscape printing can also be done with a deskjet. Combine the command -# string in the landscape section with the ones shown above. Program Abort Hitting Control-C (or Control-Break) will terminate the program immediately. The printer will not stop printing, however, until its buffer is empty. Support I will be glad to answer questions for registered and to a more limited extent for unregistered users. SUPPORT IS ONLY BY TELEPHONE (except for foreign users.) Non-foreign users should send letters only with permission after a telephone discussion or the letters will be ignored. It is much faster to work out problems over the phone. Call 510-527-9859 from 9am to 8pm Pacific Time. Distribution Permission is hereby given to copy and distribute this program as long as no more than $10 is charged. It must be made clear to the buyer that this is only a handling charge and not a registration fee.Please include all files in their original unmodified form when distributing this program. Permission to distribute may be revoked by the author at any time for any reason.Catalog, rack and CD-ROM vendors must either read VENDOR.DOC for additional details or contact the author before distributing JETCOL. YOU MUST NOT DISTRIBUTE ANY COPY WHICH HAS BEEN BRANDED WITH A REGISTRATION CODE. A program can be unbranded by typing JETCOL -Y2 <enter>. All trademarks used in this document are the property of their owners. -Tony Caine- Internet: 72614.1451@compuserve.com Compuserve:72614,1451