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* Print-A-Card *
* Documentation *
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* by *
* Frank Wilkinson *
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This disk is
PUBLIC DOMAIN
and may be used in anyway. Please keep the
Documents with the disk as someone further down the line may need this
information, and there is nothing worse than getting a disk and then not
Knowing what to do with it.
CONTENTS
1.
This File
2.
SetAmiga with 3 Preference setup Icons
Default Preferences
EpsonX Preferences (
Black &
White)
Okimate Preferences (
C
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l
o
r)
3.
Various Picture Files
4.
C/ppshow. Which shows and prints your cards for you.
THIS FILE
This file contains all the information on how to use this disk
to make Cards for all occassions, both in Color, if you have a
color printer, and in shades of grey, if you only have a normal
printer.
It also tells you how to make your own Pictures and set them up
so that you can make cards of your own design and wording.
It is laid out as follows:-
Preferences
How to set them and how to design your own for your
particular printer.
The Picture Files
How to make them and use them.
Ppshow
What it does and how to use it.
PREFERENCES
The Preferences are controlled by the
SetAmiga
program which is
located in the `C' Directory.
Supplied on the disk are 3 Icons labeled setup
1.
Default.
Returns all the preference settings to the
Standard WorkBench Settings.
2.
EpsonXPrefs
Changes the Preference Settings to use an
Epson Compatible Printer in Shades of Grey.
It also sets the Graphics 1 settings to
VERTICAL.
And Graphics 2 is set to give an offset of
0.2 inches. A picture width of 3.6 inches.
And makes the settings BOUNDED.
(More about this later.)
3.
OkiPrefs
This does every thing the same as No.2, but
changes the printer to an Okimate 20 Color
Printer.
To use the Preference Icons for your own Preferences:
Make an
Icon
by copying any of the
Preference.info
files
and rename it say
"MyPrefs1.info".
Then open
"Prefererences"
or if you use it
"Pprefs".
Set up your Preferences the way you want them. Your Printer,
Print density,Offset,Print width ect. (see the examples on
this disk to get the idea.
When you have set your
Preferences
the way you want them
Click on the save gadget and this will save them to the
System-Configuration
file
Using a
Disk Utility program
. Copy the
System-Configuration
file to the
Print-A-Card
Disk and rename it
MyPrefs1
.
Now whenever you click on the
MyPrefs1 Icon
the
SetAmiga
Program will reset your
Preferences
the way you want them.
You can make as many of these
Preference
files as you wish.
Just remember to use short names that discribe what the file
sets.
Examples
1.
LHPrefs
Set up to print small picture on the left
side of the paper.
2.
RHPrefs
Set up to print small picture on the right
side of the paper.
3.
CSPrefs
Set up to print small picture centered on
the page.
4.
CBPrefs
Set up to print big picture centered on the
page.
THE PICTURE FILES
These Picture file are for you to use to make your cards
They will not suit everyone or be suitable for all
occassions.
I have made all the Pictures with
DPAINT
but they could
have been made with any paint program which can handle Fonts
The pictures which are not text
(i.e Xmas1)
are pictures
obtained from various slideshow disks and are, as far as I
am aware, in the Public Domain.
All the pictures which are text
(i.e Xmas1.txt)
I have made
using
DPAINT
and a variety of fonts.
They all have
DPAINT
Icons which have been altered to
use
ppshow
. Which is in the
"C"
Directory.
How to Print a Card
1. Take a sheet of A4 paper and either fold it in half or
make a mark half way down the sheet.
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2. Place the sheet of paper in your printer and wind it
through until the half way mark is about 3/8"(1mm) past
the ribbon guide.
3. Double Click on your
Preference Icon
. Try a black
and white one first to get the Idea.
This will set the
Preferences
to print a vertical
picture 3.6 inches wide by about 4.25 inches high on the
bottom left hand side of the paper.
4. Double Click on a Picture file
(i.e Xmas1)
.
The picture will be loaded by
ppshow
.
5. To Print the picture just press
"p"
.
6. Remove the sheet of paper from your Printer. With the
Picture to the back and bottom put the paper back in the
printer.
7. Wind the Paper through just past the halfway mark again.
8. Clear the picture by clicking the
Right Mouse Button
and select the text picture you want to print.
9. Repeat steps 5 - 7.
12. When you take the paper out of the printer this time.
Fold it lengthways in half with the pictures outside.
Then fold it in half again to form your card.
The inside left is blank for you to write you personal
message whilst the inside right has a verse printed on
it.
ppshow
The
ppshow
is a Public Domain graphic utility by
Nico Francoise
and can be found in the `C' directory
If you wish to use the program on your own disks just copy
it to your `C' directory. And change the Icon info file of
the picture you wish to show or print to `:c/ppshow'.
Palette
Palette is not the same program as found in the Utilities
Drawer on Workbench.
That program will only allow you to change the colors
temporarily and doesn't allow you to save the changes.
This
Palette
does allow you to save all 8 colors.
If you have a
16 color Workbench
it will allow you
to change and save all 16 colors.
If you would like to use it on your own 8 or 16 color
Workbench just copy the file and it Icon to your own disk.
Special Thanks
Special thanks go
Nic Wilson & Andy Clay
whose
wbench8
makes the 8 color workbench a reality.
Thanks also to
J. Martin Hippele
who made the SetPrefs a
a real possibility with his program
SetAmiga
.
To
Nico Francoise
for the
ppshow
program, and also
ppmore
which displays this file.
`If you are interested in adding sounds to your pictures when
you display then on the screen I can supply you with another
PD program by
Nico Francoise
for a very nominal charge.
Contact me at the address below.'
To
MEGADISC
for all their help and support in my endeavours.
To
Garry and Mark
at Beyond Computers in St Vincent St.
Port Adelaide and all their Staff for the help, encouragement
and for all those tricky questions they con me into
explaining for them.
Frank Wilkinson
16 Melbourne Place
Alberton SA 5014.
Phone (08) 47 1871.