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- THE POSTER PROGRAM.
-
- Version 1.2. 11/20/94.
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- INTRODUCTION.
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- This program has been designed to let you easily and quickly create large
- posters and signs, printing them at up to 10 times the size of a single sheet.
-
- The program was originally created to allow my daughter to generate large
- posters for use in presentations for her 4-H club. The posters are text and
- graphics. After creating a poster, she prints in double size (4 sheets of paper)
- and pastes it onto a poster board. For a typical presentation, she will use six to
- ten posters.
-
- This program is "Freely Distributed". The author has given permission for the file
- to be distributed without restriction, but does not permit alterations to the file.
-
- ADVANTAGES OF POSTER.
-
- This program is very easy to use, and it is very simple to create large posters. It
- is especially useful when you have a number of fonts installed, as the font
- selection menu displays renditions of all the true-type fonts. The final poster size
- is fully configurable.
-
- VERSION 1.2 IMPROVEMENTS.
-
- The program has been greatly improved in the areas of:
- printer support (now supports almost every windows printer),
- font support (supports more than 48 fonts, and color)
- graphics support (supports metafiles as pictures and borders).
-
- SUPPORT.
-
- If you have any problems or suggestions, please send me a note. My email
- address is rfb@sdc.cs.boeing.com.
- If you find this program useful, I'd also like to hear from you. In lieu of money,
- this is great positive reinforcement.
-
- REGISTRATION.
-
- If you send me a note, I will notify you of new versions as they become available.
- It also helps make my day.
-
-
- INSTALLATION.
-
- If you have unzipped the files, then you have practically installed the program.
- The package consists of the following files:
- 1. This README file.
- 2. POSTER.TXT, which is the documentation for POSTER. All of this
- documentation is also in the on-line help file.
- 3. POSTER.EXE, which is the poster program itself.
- 4. POSTER.HLP, which is the on-line help file.
-
- To install the program, do the following after unzipping the poster download file:
- 1. Create a directory called POSTER.
- 2. Copy the files POSTER.TXT, POSTER.EXE, and POSTER.HLP into that
- directory.
- 3. Create a program manager icon for POSTER by doing the following:
- a. Select the program manager group where you want the icon.
- b. Select NEW.
- c. Select Program Item.
- d. In the dialog box, fill in Description ("Poster"),
- The command line: C:\poster\poster.exe
- The working directory: C:\poster
- If you have unzipped into a different directory, use it instead of
- c:\poster.
- 4. You may view and print the documentation file, POSTER.TXT, with notepad.
- However, this entire document is included in the online help file.
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- USING POSTER.
-
- To start using poster, simply double click on the poster icon. POSTER will start
- and present an empty page to you. Just start typing to begin making your
- poster.
-
- You can also associate "POS" file types with poster (do this with File Manager).
- Then, double clicking on a POS file will automatically start poster with that file.
-
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- PRINTERS.
-
- This program has been successfully tested on the following printers:
- HP Laserjet II and compatibles
- HP Laserjet III - see special setup instructions below.
- HP LaserJet 4 - See special setup instructions below
- HP DeskJet PLUS
- HP DeskJet 500
- Epson dot matrix and compatibles
- Postscript printer - See special setup instructions below
- If you cannot get POSTER to work properly on your printer, try checking the box
- marked "Method A" in the PRINT dialog box. This should work ALL printers (but
- not plotters). If this still doesn't work, try "Method B" and "Method C". Also, see
- the special setup instructions below.
-
- Note: Color text does not print properly on Tektronic Phaser printers.
-
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- LASERJET III USERS.
- If the posters you print are missing characters at page edges, then do the
- following:
- 1. Select "Method A" in the Poster Print Dialog box. Also, be sure your printer is
- set to 300 dpi.
-
- LASERJET 4 USERS.
- To successfully print posters, you must configure your printer as follows:
- 1. Select "Printer Setup":
- 2. Set resolution to 300 dpi. (At 600dpi, printing takes a very long time, and may
- hang the printer.)
- 3. Select "options".
- 4. Select "Graphics Mode" = "raster", "Graphics Quality"="high", and
- check "print true-type as graphics".
- If posters still do not print properly, then in the PRINT dialog box, check the
- boxed marked "Method A". This should always work.
-
- POSTSCRIPT PRINTER USERS.
- If you get postscript errors, or you are loosing characters at page boundaries:
- 1. From the control panel, select Printers, then select 'Setup.
- 2. Select "options", then select "advanced".
- 3. Select "print true type fonts as" "Bitmap (type 3)".
- 4. Close the control panel.
- 5. Start POSTER.
- If posters still do not print properly, or print too slow, then in the PRINT dialog
- box, check the boxed marked "Method A". This should always work.
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-
- Bob Bedoll
- 11/20/94.
- rfb@sdc.cs.boeing.com.
- (206) 865-6414 or (206) 848-0467.
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