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ENVELOGO COPYRIGHT 1991 JOHN PEDERSEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
John Pedersen CompuServe 76547,357
RR #2,
Orangeville, Ontario
Canada
L9W 2Y9
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NOTE!!!
ENVELOGO is a descendant of a program called Laser 'Loper. It
has a number of enhancements and uses the Windows Help engine. At
the present time, I am not asking for payment for ENVELOGO.
Instead, I need feedback on:
1. ANY problems.
2. Installation on your system: easy/hard
3. Your system: printer, Word Processor, etc.
4. Your understanding how it works: easy/hard
5. Degree of usefulness to you: very/not very
6. Any other suggestions?
If you get in touch with me, and give me info on ANY or ALL of
the 6 questions above, it will be much appreciated, AND I will
be able to update you on any bugs that turn up, and enhancements
added, or new products that are developed.
Send message to John Pedersen, CompuServe 76547,357.
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Files contained in the ZIP file:
1. ENVLGO.EXE
Executable file (needs VBRUN100.DLL in Windows directory).
2. ENVLGO.HLP
Windows-style help file.
3. ENVDEMO.BIN
Example envelope template file for LaserJet II printer.
4. DEMOLETR.DOT
WinWord Example Document Template File with fixed AUTONEW MACRO.
5. README.TXT
Documentation
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENVELOGO
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Introduction:
With much loading and clicking, Pagemaker (or equivalent) teamed with
your Laser printer, can produce an excellent addressed envelope with
a fancy-logo return address. But when you just need to kick out an
envelope and put a stamp on it, this envelope printer starts printing
in seconds. Using template files, it lets you select any of your fancy-
artwork/logo envelope types (personal, business, spouse...), and can
paste in the address from the Windows clipboard, or from your word
processor. Runs under Windows 3, and needs VBRUN100.DLL.
On my system it inhales the envelope within a few seconds after I
click the "PRINT" button. It takes care of switching the printer into
manual mode (so it waits for you if your envelope is not inserted), and
landscape, so you can just shove in an envelope, print it up, and go
right back to writing your next letter. The program will automatically
convert itself to an icon at the bottom of the screen when printing is
finished.
The program relies on having a template file on disk that it can
quickly dump out to the printer, only inserting the desired address.
The user can select from a number of templates, so there can be
specific envelopes for yourself personally, and for your dog-washing
business, your spouse, and so on. A test template called DEMOPRNT.BIN
is included with this program.
The address (destination) to be spliced onto the envelope template
can be automatically set up by your word processing program when you
typed the letter, or transferred via the clipboard from, for instance,
the "Windows Cardfile" program, or, heaven forbid, the address lines
can even be typed in by hand.
The template(s):
This is the factor that makes this method very quick, because no
manipulation of graphics is required--the entire template file is
sitting there, ready to go. However, you do have to get this file
in place to begin with.
These instructions relate to Pagemaker, outputing to an
HP LaserJet II, but it should be possible to handle other
combinations in a similar manner. Even with the same combination
of hardware and software, there are probably many ways to accomplish
the same results, but the following worked well for me.
1. Compose an envelope on Pagemaker (importing a logo created with
Corel, Designer, or whatever), and get it looking the way you want.
On my page setup, I used a custom paper size of 9.5" x 4.125",
with orientation set to "Wide".
2. On the envelope, put an address of 6 lines, each line being
"aaa" (no quotes, just the three lowercase letters). I made sure
that the font was one which was built into the printer (Courier 12).
3. Print it out on the LaserJet, to make sure it is exactly what you
want. Remember, on the Printer Setup, put "Paper Source" to
"Manual", and "Orientation" to "Landscape".
4. After you make sure that it prints out exactly the way you want,
go back to the Control Panel in the Windows Program Manager, and
change the printer connection from LPT1 to FILE.
5. You may have to reset the printer to "Landscape" mode, and to
"Manual Feed" again. Then print the envelope once again, but this
time it will print to a filename that you will specify. Make sure
the file name ends with the extension ".BIN". You will have to
tell the Envelogo program the name of the file, and that's it.
A WinWord Macro:
I refer to a WinWord Macro output file (ie a file created by a macro that
I set up in Word for Windows) but in fact this program will just print
whatever address it finds in a certain file, and doesn't care how it got
there. No doubt there are many ways, and many word-processing programs
that can do this.
I found it very handy to create a macro such that every time I wrote a
letter, using a .DOT document template that put the date and my logo
on the letterhead and such, that the address was automatically written
into a certain file, replacing whatever had been there previously.
This is the address used by the Envelogo program.
You open your template file (.DOT extension, MS provides examples with
WinWord), presumably in the TMPLATES directory. From the menu, select
Macro/Edit, then select Template (not Global), and then select AutoNew
from the choices presented. Assuming you use input boxes to get the
address from the user, just add a few lines of Basic (WordBasic) to
open a file for output, and print the address lines to the file.
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Notes about ENVELOGO:
a) The program expects the envelope template filenames to end with a
.BIN extension.
b) The program expects the macro output filename to end with a .TXT
extension.
b) The program places an ENV.INI file in your Windows directory.
c) The printer is expected to be connected to, and is accessed by
dumping a binary file directly to, LPT1.