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- - README.DOC - THIS FILE IS FOR PROGRAM INSTRUCTION AND INFORMATION -
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- NOTICE: This is NOT a crippled program. All letterhead creation and printing
- functions on the menu are fully functional.
-
- Thank you for trying The Laser Letterhead Kit. When you register this product,
- you will receive the multifunctional Commercial Edition of Laser Letterhead
- plus with TextWriter, BatchMailer, Address Data Base, Envelope printing and
- much more. The price of the Registered Commercial Edition is $25 plus $4.95
- shipping (US and Canada).
-
- HOW TO USE THE LASER LETTERHEAD KIT: The Laser Letterhead Kit contains only
- the kernel letterhead creation feature of the 3 disk shareware version of
- Laser Letterhead plus. If you are interested only in printing letterhead
- stationery, this is the program for you. Follow the A, B, C directions below:
-
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- A. Printer Port
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- The Laser Letterhead Kit comes set up with LPT1 as the default laser printer
- port. If your computer is using LPT2, you will have an opportunity to change
- this setting when the program starts. (Pressing Function key F6 within the
- program will also allow you to switch ports.) The port in current use is
- always displayed in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
-
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- B. How to Print Letterheads
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- 1. Starting The Laser Letterhead Kit: Log onto the directory containing the
- Kit's program files and type LP ...
-
- Do not log onto the directory where you placed the soft font files if they
- are not kept with the program files. The file LP.BAT must be in the directory
- that starts The Kit. Do NOT start the program by typing LLHK. This will not
- set the program up to locate soft fonts and other necessary files.
-
- 2. The Shareware Information screen will come up. It contains no plea for
- registering The Laser Letterhead Kit, but informs you how to obtain the
- larger Laser Letterhead plus. As shareware, it is implicit that The Kit
- is only for trial use and registration will be necessary to continue using
- the product. Press ENTER to continue.
-
- 3. The Laser Letterhead Kit title and copyright screen appears. If ENTER is
- not pressed within a few seconds, the program will continue automatically.
-
- 4. If your laser printer is not on, is disconnected, or is on another port,
- the message "TURN ON OR CONNECT LASER PRINT TO COMPUTER ON LPT1" will be shown
- on screen. This indicates that The Kit has no active connection with your
- laser printer, and that some action will have to be taken to solve the
- problem. This is most often remedied by turning your laser printer on or
- placing your printer on line. Press ENTER to continue.
-
- 5. As a possible solution to #4, The Kit will search your computer's config-
- uration and attempt to find another port that connects to your laser. If
- successful, the message appears "YOU HAVE 2 PORTS ON THE COMPUTER. DO YOU
- WANT TO CHANGE PORTS?" If this is the case, indicate "YES" by pressing Y ...
- A window will appear "CHANGE PRINTING PORT: CHANGE LPT1 TO LPT_ ...
- Place the port number in the entry field. This is usually to port LPT2. You
- will be asked to confirm the port entry. If you accidentally indicated a wrong
- answer to previous entries, this is the time to undo it. Pressing F6 later
- when at the Main Menu, will provide an opportunity to change ports again.
- This will change the port in the SetUp program and show the new port on the
- upper right-hand corner of your current screen.
-
- 6. The next pop-up window will appear, "DO YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD SOFT FONTS
- TO LPT1 PRINTER? Y>ES N>O ... The INSTALL program, loaded the font files and
- information into The Kit's SetUp program. Downloading is automatic, but it
- must be done before you may print letterheads. Press Y ...
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- NOTE: Downloading is only done once during a session if you do not turn your
- laser printer off. If you change the font entries in SetUp, it must be repeat-
- ed, but The Kit will prompt you to do it automatically at that time. When
- exiting from The Kit, the downloaded fonts are NOT removed from your laser
- printer. If you re-enter the program without turning your laser printer off,
- you do NOT need to repeat the downloading process. If you ran another program
- that erased the fonts from the laser printer, you WILL have to repeat the
- download. While in the program, Function key F9 will also automatically
- download soft fonts to the printer. YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PROGRAM TO
- DOWNLOAD FONTS. The Laser Letterhead Kit does it all.
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- 7. Again if, for some reason, your laser printer does NOT now have a direct
- connection to The Kit, a message will come on the screen and notify you of
- this. Press ENTER, and you will go directly to the Main Menu. Correct the
- problem and press Function key F9 to start the download process.
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- 8. The download process will list each font downloaded, and tell you if all
- five fonts have been down loaded successfully. Do not attempt to stop the
- download sequence by pressing keys.
-
- 9. The program will stop at the Main Menu. The selections are: L>etterhead,
- S>etUp, and Q>uit. Striking the first letter of any menu item will start
- that selection. Press L for letterhead.
-
- 10. The Paper Size Menu is next. Select the paper size that you have in your
- laser printer. S>tandard US is a common default for most American printers.
- Many other countries use the A<4 Standard.
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- NOTE: On every screen there is a R>eturn selection. If you make an error,
- press R for RETURN at the very next screen, and your selections will be
- cancelled and you will be returned to the Main Menu. You may then start over.
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- 11. The next selection will ask if you want to place a "Date on Letterhead,
- Use the Logo, Print the Slogan, and Create a Watermark." Answer Y for YES to
- all selections.
-
- 12. The type of letterhead is requested on the next screen, along with the
- date you want printed and the number of copies. Accept the current default
- date and copies, by striking the ENTER key for these selections. Then select
- B for business letterhead. Finally enter O for the Only Logo selection. Later,
- repeat this process, and select P for Personal and also try the Center, Left
- Justified, and Special Logo letterheads.
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- 13. The Only Logo selection will pop up a screen informing you that there are
- two Business Logos. Select 2 to print both #1 and #2.
-
- 14. The following screen will ask if you wish to include the Personal Name
- and Business Title on the letterhead. Select Y for YES. However, make sure
- that you have downloaded fonts before making this selection. If not, the
- printing results may be unpredictable for the Personal Name and Business Title.
-
- 15. The program will then load your laser printer with the selections you have
- made. Every process will be shown on screen. Do not attempt to cancel the load
- process by striking any keys. If you made an input error, leave the process
- continue and then correct it by doing it over when the printing is completed.
-
- NOTE: Depending upon the processor speed of your computer, the amount of time
- it takes to print a letterhead will vary. The watermark takes longer to load
- because of its greater area. If you are printing multiple copies of the
- letterhead, the printing will proceed after loading, at the rated page per
- minute of your laser printer.
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- 16. When The Kit has loaded your entire letterhead with options into your
- printer, the laser engine will be started and the letterhead printing begins.
- At this point, your letterhead is in the print spooler and the computer is free
- for you to go to another task. You may even QUIT The Laser Letterhead Kit and
- go to another program. However, do not turn off your computer until the
- printing is completed.
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- 17. In this demonstration, you created only one type of letterhead. The Kit
- is capable of much more. Repeat the above, but select different letterhead
- types. Try the Personal and Business versions of the Center, Left Justify,
- Special Logo, and Only Logo types. Save all the printed letterheads, so
- that when you go into the SetUp menus, you will understand what each screen
- or individual entries will do.
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- NOTE: The Center and Left Justify types are referred to as the Regular letter-
- head in the SetUp program. They are made up of basically downloaded fonts. The
- Special Logo type uses a PCX image and downloaded fonts. The Only Logo type
- uses a PCX image for the letterhead, and downloaded fonts for optional
- selections: date and personal name with business title.
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- C. SetUp on the Main Menu: Customizing The Laser Letterhead Kit to Your Needs
-
- Because of the space limitations of a single 360K disk, detailed SetUp
- instructions could not be included. Instead, the program has been setup for
- your immediate use by the INSTALL program. These instructions will provide
- you will information to customize The Kit and add your own data. The SetUp
- screens may appear complicated, but they were designed to be intuitive. They
- have been simplified for The Kit, and should not prove to be an obstacle.
- Make a "Print Screen" of any of the SetUP Screens BEFORE you change them. If
- you make an error, you may then go back to the original settings.
-
- The SetUp Screens: Measuring HOR and VER Positions:
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- All measurements are in inches and the exact coordinates are made by the "HOR"
- (Horizontally from the left margin) and "VER" (Vertically down from the top
- margin) to the intersection of both. For PCX images, this is the top-left
- corner of the image, and for text, it is the left-bottom of the first letter
- of text. The standard margin for all LaserJet or compatibles is 1/4 inch all
- around: top, bottom, left, and right. If measuring from the edge of the
- printed page, add 1/4 inch (or 0.25 decimal) to the your measurements, but
- do not enter this 0.25 inches into the HOR and VER measurement. The Kit is
- measuring from the margins, not from the edge of the paper.
-
- All fractions must be converted to decimals:
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- 1/16" = 0.0625, 1/8" = 0.125, 1/4" = 0.250, 1/2" = 0.500, 3/4" = 0.750
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- Adding decimals is very easy, so anything between the above may be found by
- adding combinations: ie, 1/16" + 1/4" = 0.0625 + 0.250 = 0.3125 (an amount
- over 3 decimal figures in the total may be dropped or rounded up) . Thus,
- 7/8" = 7 x 0.125 = 0.875. 15/16" = 15 x 0.0625 = 0.9375. Decimals must
- be used to place HOR and VER measurements exactly. One of the easiest ways
- is to guess at the measurement, print the letterhead, and then do adjustments.
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- NOTE: The PCX and Graphics and Text setup screens are divided into Regular,
- Only Logo, and Special Design sections. Do not become confused and make
- changes to the wrong letterhead. If the print-out shows no difference after
- making a change, check to see if the change was made on the proper letterhead.
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- Basic SetUp:
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- Print a few of the Regular Letterheads and you will see how the text entered
- on this screen is used. It contains all text input: personal name, business
- title, business name (the Kit also places the business name on the top of all
- program screens), and address information. Note the "Directions" for slogan
- graphics at the bottom of the screen. If you want to get from the top to the
- bottom of the screen, press ESC key. Do not press ESC while you are in any
- field that you have just changed or the change will be undone. Use the ENTER
- or ARROW keys when making changes. On this screen and the others to follow,
- when you reach the bottom of the screen, you will be asked "Is this Correct?"
- If you answer Y for YES, the screen will close and go back to the SetUp Menu.
- If you answer N for No, the cursor will return back to the top of the screen.
-
- Font SetUp:
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- The INSTALL program placed the 5 PCL soft fonts properly into this screen.
- The first 4 fonts are DECO-UNIVERSITY typefaces, and the last (slogan) is
- DECO-RITZ. These CPI soft fonts clearly show the point size. The first,
- UNIV024.SFP, may be read as 24 points. The SFP file ending means "soft font
- portrait orientation." The UNIV or RITZ are shortened forms of the typeface
- name. Not all PCL bit map font manufacturers follow this convention. Some
- have added confusing numbers and letters that mean little to the user. If
- you add new fonts to this screen, the actual font file MUST be placed in
- the drive and directory indicated to the INSTALL program for soft font files.
- Also, if a change is made, the font files will need to be downloaded.
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- PCX Images:
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- See the HOR and VER instructions above. INSTALL placed all 5 PCX images
- correctly into this screen down to a 0.001 inch. Make a "Print Screen" of
- this setup screen before making changes. You may then revert back to the
- original position if you get hopelessly lost. You may try inserting some
- of your own PCX images or clip-art. Make approximate measurements, print a
- letterhead, then make the fine adjustments. Only images with PCX endings
- will work. This is a standard used by PC Paint and other paint programs.
- If you add any new PCX images to this screen, you must copy the actual PCX
- file into the PROGRAM directory. The PCX files must always be placed into
- the PROGRAM directory. Do NOT place them with the font files if you elected
- to place the soft fonts into a different directory than the program files.
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- Graphics and Text:
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- See the HOR and VER instructions above. As in the other SetUp screens, make
- a "Print Screen" before making changes. The "Date Horizontal Position" may
- be centered simply by the 99.999 entry. The PNameTitle is the small "Robert
- Hastings" centered over "President". The "Baseline" may be anything from a
- thin line to a fancy patterned bar (Special Design) or a shaded box. The
- baseline may be placed upright at the left or right margin (Special Design),
- if desired. The Special Design letterhead will let you move the letterhead
- horizontally to the left or right, or you may elect to center it. Shading in
- boxes is always in percentages. The closer to 100%, the darker it becomes.
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- - END OF INSTRUCTIONS -
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- CPI SOFTWARE IS A
- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SHAREWARE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS
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- The Laser Letterhead Kit has been produced by a member of the Association of
- Shareware Authors and Distributors, and as such, has met their demands for
- professional programming. Any problems of a shareware nature that cannot
- be resolved by CPI Software, may be brought to the attention of the ASAD
- Ombudsman for possible correction. Please send all information, including
- the name and address of the person or company you received The Laser
- Letterhead Kit from, to: ASAD, ATTN: Ombudsman, 2425 North Limestone Street,
- Springfield, Ohio 45503-1109.
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- REGISTRATION FORM
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- Registration will entitle you to receive the Commercial Edition of Laser
- Letterhead plus, a printed Handbook, and the Basic Customizing PCX Pak. The
- PCX Pak contains forms for obtaining one PCX text based logo, one PCX
- letterhead image, and one PCX watermark image at NO COST TO YOU. You will
- also receive 7 typeface font families encompassing 68 PCL soft font files.
- Do not include instructions for creating your free letterhead, logo, and
- watermark. This is done with the PCX Pak above after it is received.
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