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- PMTOOLS QUICK START
- -------------------
-
- This Quick Start information sheet will help you understand PMTools and get
- you started using PMTools. For more detailed information, see the PMTools
- User's Guide.
-
- ABOUT PMTOOLS
- -------------
-
- PMTools is an extension to PC PageMaker 4.0 for Windows that provides a
- "ribbon" of buttons that can be used to execute the most common PageMaker
- commands. PMTools lets you "mouse around" with your feet up. PMTools is
- easy to use, saves lots of time, and it's FUN!
-
- PMTOOLS FEATURES
- ----------------
-
- TEXT AND POINTER RIBBONS
-
- PMTools displays a ribbon of buttons down the left side of the screen. The
- text ribbon is displayed when the PageMaker text tool is selected or when
- in the PageMaker story editor. Otherwise, the pointer ribbon is displayed.
-
- QUOTE CONVERSION
-
- If quote conversion is turned on, PMTools converts single and double
- apostrophes typed at the keyboard into single and double right
- typographical quotes. If the control key is held down, the left single or
- double typographical quote is generated.
-
- SHOWFONT
-
- ShowFont displays the complete Windows character set in any screen font
- that you have installed. Double clicking on a character types that
- character into PageMaker at the insertion point. This is great for dingbats
- and foreign characters!
-
- INSTALLING PMTOOLS
- ------------------
-
- COPYING THE FILES TO YOUR HARD DISK
-
- Copy all of the PMTools files to your WINDOWS directory. Before copying the
- files, check that files with the same name do not already exist in the
- WINDOWS directory. For example:
- COPY A:*.* C:\WINDOWS.
-
- FILES INCLUDED WITH PMTOOLS
-
- PMTOOLS.TXT This file. Brief documentation and installation
- instructions. Read this first!
-
- PMTOOLS.EXE The main PMTools program.
- SHOWFONT.EXE The ShowFont program.
-
- VBRUN100.DLL Required by SHOWFONT.EXE. This is the Visual Basic runtime
- library.
-
- ADDING PMTOOLS TO WINDOWS PROGRAM MANAGER
-
- Create a program item for PMTools in the same program group that contains
- PageMaker. To do this perform the following steps:
-
- * Make sure the Program Manager program group containing PageMaker is
- open.
-
- * Select File/New/New Program Item from Program Manager's menu and hit
- OK.
-
- * Under Description enter PageMaker and under Command Line enter:
- PMTOOLS.EXE.
-
- If the PageMaker program PM4.EXE is not in your PATH, the Command Line
- should be (for example):
- PMTOOLS.EXE C:\PM4\PM4.EXE.
-
- * Hit the OK button and you should see the new PMTools/PageMaker icon.
-
- USING PMTOOLS
- -------------
- STARTING PMTOOLS AND PAGEMAKER
-
- Double click the new PMTools/PageMaker icon to start PMTools and PageMaker.
- Select File/New/OK and notice that the PMTools window disappears.
-
- THE PMTOOLS MENU
-
- Under PageMaker's Window menu is a PMTools... entry that can be used to
- configure PMTools.
-
- LEFT AND RIGHT MOUSE BUTTONS
-
- All PMTools buttons treat the left and right mouse buttons the same with
- the exception of:
-
- * Super/Subscript: Left button is superscript, right button is
- subscript.
- * Larger/Smaller and Much Larger/Smaller: Left button is larger, right
- button is smaller.
- * Fine Kern and Coarse Kern: Left button kerns apart, right button kerns
- together, both buttons removes kerning.
- * Double and Single Quote: Left button is left quote, right button is
- right quote.
-
- BUTTON NAMES
- ------------
-
- Full descriptions of the PMTools buttons are in the User's Guide.
-
- THE TEXT RIBBON
-
- Cut Double Quote
- Copy Single Quote
- Paste Em Dash
- Normal En Dash
- Bold Discretionary Hyphen
- Italic Non-Breaking Hyphen
- Underline Non-Breaking Slash
- Reverse Em Space
- Super/Subscript En Space
- Larger/Smaller Thin Space
- Much Larger/Smaller Fixed Space
- Fine Kern Bullet
- Coarse Kern Registered Trademark
- Align Left Copyright
- Align Center Paragraph
- Align Right Section
- Justify Page Number Marker
- Force Justify All Caps
- ShowFont Small Caps
-
- THE POINTER RIBBON
-
- Cut White Fill
- Copy Fill None
- Paste 10% Fill
- Line None 20% Fill
- Hairline 30% Fill
- Half Point Line 40% Fill
- One Point Line 60% Fill
- Two Point Line 80% Fill
- Four Point Line Solid Black Fill
- Six Point Line Vertical Hatch
- Eight Point Line Fine Vertical hatch
- Twelve Point Line Horizontal Hatch
- Double Line Fine Horizontal Hatch
- Thick-Thin Line Diagonal Hatch
- Thin-Thick Line Fine Diagonal Hatch
- Dotted Line Cross Hatch
- Dashed Line Fine Cross Hatch
- Thick Dashed Line Not used
- Reversed Line Not used
-
-
- IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS
- ------------------------
-
- First check the PMTools User's Guide. If you need further help, you can
- call or write.
-
- Ivan Rezucha
- Shawangunk Graphics
- RD 1 Box 401
- Gardiner, NY 12525
-
- 914-255-5508
-
- CompuServe: 71750,3574