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PrintIt! 2 for Windows .INI file
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PrintIt! 2 maintains its settings from session to session in a
Windows .INI file called PRINTIT2.INI. This file is located in
your WINDOWS directory, or if you are running PrintIt! 2 from a
network, it may be located in your HOME directory.
The PRINTIT2.INI file has many settings that you MUST NOT edit.
However, there are three settings detailed below that you may
find useful to change. All three settings are located in the
[general defaults] section of the file.
standard_open_file=yes/no (default setting is "no")
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The Open command in the File menu of PrintIt! 2 displays the
Open an Existing File tab of the Startup Options dialog. This tab
displays the last 20 PrintIt! documents on which you have
worked. If the document you want to open is not listed, you can
display the standard Open Document dialog by clicking on the
Browse button.
The Open command in previous versions of PrintIt! took you
straight to the standard Open Document dialog. If you want the
PrintIt! 2 Open command to bypass the Startup Options dialog
and go straight to the Open Document dialog, change the
standard_open_file setting to "yes".
booklet_clipping=no/yes (default setting is "yes")
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When you print a booklet, any frames overlapping the page
boundaries are clipped. You can stop this from happening by
changing the booklet_clipping setting to "no".
This is useful if you want to have a frame running across the
centre spread of your booklet, eg. containing an eye-catching
PowerText headline. (The on screen display will still be
clipped, but when you print your booklet the frame will run
across the centre pages.)
NOTE: Because of the page ordering, it is only useful to change
this setting to "no" for the centre spread (the centre has two
consecutive pages on the same sheet of paper).
newspaper_breaks=no/yes (default setting is "yes")
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When you flow text around complex shapes, eg. a detailed piece of
clipart, the text frame can become so narrow that words cannot be
hyphenated correctly, leaving large vertical spaces in the frame.
This is because PrintIt! 2 will only split a word at the
correct hyphenation point.
In newspapers it is common to split words at non-hyphen points to
make the document more visually appealing. If you want
Pressworks 2 to split words at non-hyphen points when used in a
narrow frame, change the newspaper_breaks setting to "no".
NOTE: Splitting words at non-hyphen points makes the text harder
to read.
`Newspaper breaks' can also be enabled on a paragraph style or
paragraph basis for non-justified text by setting the Hyphenation
Hot Zone (on the Spacing dialog) to zero.
remap_zero_width_chars=no/yes (default setting is "yes")
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Many older 'caps only' fonts have zero width characters in place
of their lower case characters. By default, Pressworks 2
attempts to remap these zero width characters to upper case.
However, some special fonts (eg. Sanskritpc) contain characters
of zero width which display on top of the previous character. To
make PrintIt! 2 display or print these special fonts correctly,
change the remap_zero_width_chars setting to "no".
Editing the PRINTIT2.INI file
==============================
If you DO edit the PRINTIT2.INI file, follow the steps below to
edit the file safely:
1. Using DOS or Windows File Manager, make a copy of
PRINTIT2.INI before you amend it. This ensures that if you
make a mistake when editing the file, you can use the
original file again.
2. Open PRINTIT2.INI in a Windows text editor such as Notepad.
3. Scroll to the entries that you need to edit and make the
edits you require.
4. Save PRINTIT2.INI
Now run PrintIt! again. If PrintIt! was already running,
close and restart it. The new information that you have added to
PRINTIT2.INI will be used. If you experience any difficulties
when using the amended PRINTIT2.INI file, use the original
PRINTIT2.INI file again and contact Softline for advise.
NOTE: If all else fails, delete the PRESSWK2.INI file. When you
next run PrintIt! a new .INI file will be created with the
default settings.