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- The Card Maker V 1.1
- Programmed by Yaron Kidron, Using OSS Personal Pascal.
- This is public domain software, and may not be disributed for any
- price, this program is FREE.
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- What is it?
- The Card Maker, is a special program for creating cards, either
- for business usage, or for your own pleasure.
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- How much?
- Nothing. This is free public domain software, and it is not for
- reselling as well.
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- Who created this program and how?
- The program was written by Yaron Kidron of Palo Alto, Cal 94306.
- It was programmed in OSS Personal Pascal, using the GEM compiler.
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- What would you have on your disk after extracting the archive
- file:
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- *CARD.PRG - Card Maker, V 1.1
- *CARD.PAS - The pascal source code, for pascal programmers.
- *CARD.TXT - This tutorial.
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- Loading & Running the program:
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- *On color monitors, select MEDIUM resolution.
- *To load the program, click on CARD.PRG
- *After program have been loaded into your ST, the screen will be
- cleared, and an alert box will be desplayed.
- *Click the OK button.
- *As soon as the alert box clears, you will see an inverted line on
- the buttom. This is your Command line. You also be prompted by a
- COMMAND> prompt. You are ready to use Card Maker.
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- Using the program:
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- *The command ruler on the buttom, is your device of creating
- cards. Although the program was compiled in GEM, it does not
- support any mouse functions. All commands will be entered in
- text.
- *To create your cards, Card Maker offers commands. Each command
- will be used for different purposes. Though the number of the
- commands is adequate, each command is very powerfull. These are
- the commands that Card Maker responds to:
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- Quit,Bye,Exit - Quit Card Maker, return to the Gem desktop.
- Title - Set your title size, and title's text.
- Colomns - Enter colomns specifications.
- Enter - Enter the text that will be printed on your card.
- Text - Text size.
- Spacing - Setting the spacing between your lines of text.
- Center - Center your title.
- Tstyle - The style of your title.
- Xstyle - The style of your text.
- Frame - Draws a boxed frame around your card.
- RFrame - Draws a round frame around your card.
- Tline - Draws a line under your title.
- Cline - Draws a line between your colomns of text.
- Ginit - Initializes all graphic commands.
- Reformat - Reformats colomns.
- Print - Print card.
- Sline - Scale the line.
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- *Card Maker recognizes all of the commands in upper case ( eg
- TEXT ), lower case ( eg text ) and both ( eg Text ). BUT it will
- not respond to non clear commands as TeXt.
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- Explaining how to use the commands:
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- Title - After entering this command, you will be asked for
- the size of your title in pixels. You will have to
- enter a number from 1-100 ( 1 is the smallest, 100
- is the largest. 100 pixels are one half screen. ).
- Enter your title's text ( eg Happy Birthday ), and
- hit Return. If any title will be entered, it will
- be desplayed in it's current size, and style.
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- Colomns - You also can enter text in colomns. You will be
- asked for the number of colomns you are going to
- use, of a maximum of 5.
- Then you will be asked if you want the colomns to
- be set automaticaly. If you enter yes, then each
- colomn will have the same length.
- If you will negate the question, you will be asked
- to enter your colomn's width in CHARACTERS.
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- Enter - Enter this command if you want to insert the
- card's text. You will be asked on which colomn
- would you like to work on. Enter your colomn number
- (1-5). The line # will be desplayed on the left,
- and you will have cursor at the right, indicating
- your colomn length. If you write past this cursor,
- Card Maker will ask you again to enter the text for
- this line. If you want to erase things, use the
- Backspace key. You can also use the Tab key for
- faster editing. If you have already entered text in
- the colomn, after you reinserted the Enter command,
- you will be asked if you want to start from any row
- (line) number that you have worked on.
- After entering the text, the text will be desplayed
- on the screen with it's style, and size.
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- Text - Enter a number from 1 to 100 to specify your text
- height, in pixels.
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- Spacing - Enter a number from 1 to 200 to specify your text
- spacing in pixels. ( 16 pixels = one line of
- spacing, in font sized 6 ).
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- Center - Centering you title, also will ask for a centering
- factor - which can adjust the spacing. factor
- reasonable values are 1 to 2. ( eg 1.76 )
-
- Tstyle - The style of your title. Enter a letter from A to G
- for specifications:
- A = Normal.
- B = Bold.
- C = Lightened.
- D = Slanted ( italics ).
- E = Underlined.
- F = Outlined.
- G = Shadowed.
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- Xstyle - The style of your text. Enter a letter from A to G.
- for more info, look above at Tstyle.
-
- Ginit - Initializes all graphical commands, as Frame,
- Rframe, Tline, Cline - but not styles, and heights.
-
- Othe commands are one pass without any difficult prompting and
- entering values.
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- Enjoy this program, and if you have any problems, leave a
- message for Yaron, on this BBS.
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