• Please make sure to replace all Auxiliary Files, along with the DesignStudio 1.01 application. This includes the LPD Folder, Dictionary Folder, Filter Folder and Annex Folder. It is also recommended that you install the LaserWriter 6.0.1 Printing Resources.
RUNNING UNDER MULTIFINDER
• If you are running under MultiFinder, it is strongly recommended that you allocate 2 megabytes (or more) of memory for DesignStudio. To do this, select the DesignStudio icon, choose Get Info from the File menu or type Command-I, and enter a value of 2048K for the application memory size.
TUTORIAL INFORMATION
• When following the instructions given on page 72 of the Tutorial, if you are using a Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE or other Macintosh model with no more than 1 megabyte of RAM, use the ~Baskets.RIFF file on the Tutorial Disk in place of the Baskets file.
• On page 56 of the Tutorial, “If You’d Like to Print the First Page,” turn to the bottom of page 118 to “Prepare Design Studio to Work With Your Printer,” rather than page 122, “Print the Bulletin.”
• Views have been changed in DesignStudio 1.01. This should be kept in mind where instructions are given regarding changing views in the Tutorial and User's Guide. Please read the section on Views provided in the current Release Notes for an explanation of how Views operate.
• The term “Print PICT2 as Grays” has been changed to “Fast Print PICT2.” This differs from what is printed in the Tutorial and User's Guide, although the option operates as described.
UPGRADING FROM DESIGNSTUDIO 1.01
• DesignStudio 1.01 can open files created with DesignStudio 1.0, however, files created with 1.01 cannot be opened with the earlier version. Files created using version 1.01 will not be recognized in the Open dialog box, of version 1.0. The file type designator has been changed to DSTD. Stationery files have a file type of DSTS.E
• It is recommended that you install version 6.0.1 of Apple's LaserWriter Printer Driver, supplied as part of the 1.01 upgrade, on the Auxiliary Files disk.
• DesignStudio 1.01 enhancements include:
- The ability to override previously applied styles
- Easier location of high resolution graphics
- Improved control over views
- Improved Print to Disk capabilities
- A Fast Print Graphics option for TIFF, RIFF and PICT graphics
- Faster Search and Replace of text
- OPI support
- Improved support for QuickDraw-only printers
- Compatibility enhancements for use with the Macintosh IIci and IIfx
- Inclusion of new Letraset Printer Description files (LPD's) to support a variety of additional printers
- Support for DesignScript, the DesignStudio command language annex, which can be purchased separately from Letraset
PRINTING TIPS
• It is strongly recommended that you use version 6.0.1 of Apple’s LaserWriter printer driver. Please make sure to install the appropriate files from your Printing Resources Disk, as described in Chapter 2 of the DesignStudio User’s Guide. After you have installed the printing resources, go to the Chooser, select the LaserWriter icon and then click on the name of the printer you wish to select. If you are running under MultiFinder, confirm the option you would like for Background Printing. If you are not running MultiFinder, Background printing will be dimmed. You may encounter problems using previous versions of Apple’s LaserWriter printer driver.
• Before you print to a PostScript device, make sure that (1) the correct printer is chosen in the Chooser, and (2) the appropriate Letraset Printer Description (LPD) file is installed and the proper Printer and Paper types are selected in the Printer Specifications dialog box. If the wrong LPD file is selected, you may get unexpected results.
• When printing documents containing color images, it is recommended that you select Black and White rather than Color/Grayscale in the Apple Print dialog, and that you check Fast Print PICT2 in Picture Specifications sheets for PICT images. EPSF, TIFF and RIFF images are unaffected by the Fast Print PICT2 setting. In general, it is best to use TIFF, RIFF or EPSF images rather than PICT images for printing from DesignStudio, when running the application on any Macintosh model, configured with only one megabyte of RAM.
• In the PostScript Options dialog box, you can select Fast Print Graphics. Using this option causes TIFF, RIFF and PICT graphics to print significantly faster, by sending Binary rather than Hex data to the printer. Fast Print Graphics may not, however, be supported by some spoolers, under certain circumstances, in which case the option should remain unselected.
• If you have an LPD selected for a color PostScript printer, printing a document containing color images to a black and white device will cause a PostScript error, regardless of whether Color/Grayscale or Black and White is selected in the Printer Setup dialog.
• If an LPD for a color PostScript device is selected and you are printing to a color PostScript printer, you will get the following results, depending on the options you have selected in the Print dialog:
(1) If Black and White is selected in the Print dialog, text, graphic objects created in DesignStudio, and color EPSF, TIFF and RIFF images will print in color. PICT2 images with Fast Print PICT2 checked in the Picture Specifications sheet will print in color. PICT2 images with Fast Print PICT2 unchecked in the Picture Specifications sheet will print in black and white. In general, it is strongly recommended that when printing to a color or black and white printer, you select Black and White in the Print dialog, and choose Fast Print PICT2 in the Picture Specifications sheet for PICT2 images. This combination of settings assures best results when printing, in almost all situations.
(2) If, for some reason, you select Color/Grayscale in the Print dialog, text, objects and color images will print in color. However, if Fast Print PICT2 is unchecked in the Picture Specifications sheet, printing of color PICT2 images may take significantly longer. It is therefore, strongly recommended that if you are printing PICT2 images with Color/Grayscale selected in the Print dialog, you always check Fast Print PICT2.
• If no LPD is present and you are printing to a color PostScript output device you will get the following results, depending on the options you have selected in the Print dialog:
(1) If Black and White is selected in the Print dialog, text, graphic objects created in DesignStudio and color EPSF graphics will print in color. Color TIFF, RIFF and PICT2 will print in black and white (regardless of whether Fast Print PICT2 is checked or unchecked in the Picture Specifications sheet).
(2) If Color/Grayscale is selected in the Print dialog, text and graphic objects created in DesignStudio, as well as imported EPSF graphics will print in color. Color TIFF and RIFF images will print in grayscale. PICT2 with Fast Print PICT2 checked in the Picture Specifications sheet will print in grayscale. PICT2 images with Fast Print PICT2 unchecked in the Picture Specifications sheet will print in color (note, however, that it is strongly recommended that you do not use Fast Print PICT2 unchecked with Color/Grayscale selected, due to longer printing times).
• In the Printer Specifications dialog box, some page sizes, such as LetterPlus, LegalPlus and TabloidPlus, provide slightly larger print areas than the corresponding standard sizes, to allow support for crop marks and bleeds. For any of the page sizes indicated in the Printer Specifications dialog box, both the Paper Size and Print Area are displayed.
• When printing a page, DesignStudio compares the size of its scaled page (i.e., the page size specified in the Page Setup dialog, scaled by the “reduce or enlarge” percentage specified in the Printer Setup dialog) with the size of the printer’s page (as specified in the Printer Specifications dialog).
• If you are printing to a PostScript printer, such as the LaserWriter NT/X, and the scaled page is smaller than the Print Area shown in the Printer Specifications dialog box for the selected Printer and Paper type, DesignStudio will center the scaled page when printing it. If you are printing to a QuickDraw-only printer, such as the LaserWriter SC, the scaled page will print from the upper left corner.
• If the scaled page is larger than the Paper Size shown in the Printer Specifications dialog box, DesignStudio will display a message, indicating that the scaled page size is too large for the printer’s page. If, after receiving this message, you continue to print, the upper left hand corner of the scaled DesignStudio page will be aligned to the upper left hand corner of the printer’s page. Areas of the DesignStudio page which are outside the print area will not be printed. If you would like to print the entire scaled DesignStudio page, even if it is larger than the printer page, you can select Tiling in the Printer Setup dialog box, print, and then assemble the printed tiles to form a complete page.
• Graphics smoothing is not supported on imagesetters and may cause a PostScript error on some PostScript clones.
• Make sure Use Unlimited Downloadable Fonts in a Document is unchecked in the LaserWriter Options dialog box, before printing to a PostScript printer, such as the LaserWriter NT or NTX, even if your document contains downloadable fonts.
• DesignStudio allows you to determine the size of your page on roll-fed devices such as the Linotronic, Varityper and Compugraphic imagesetters. Please keep in mind that the amount of printer memory needed to image pages is limited. At the highest resolutions you may encounter problems if your pages are too large. If this happens you should lower the resolution or make the page size smaller. Set the tiling to zero, if you want to print unusually long pages.
• If you are printing to a PostScript printer that does not have Helvetica Narrow resident, use Helvetica Condensed.
• If you are using a printer and your pages are being clipped, check to make sure you have the proper printer and paper type chosen in the Printer Specification dialog box. If you are still experiencing difficulties, check the switch settings on your printer to make sure they are set properly.
• In DesignStudio 1.01, a Plate Picker dialog box has been added to the Print dialog, for printing selected plates when printing color separations. This also eliminates the problem present in version 1.0 in which a black plate was printed for each page even if no black items were present on the page.
• DesignStudio 1.01 provides a number of additional printing options. You can print PostScript files to disk, using the “Print to Disk” button in the Print dialog box. Pressing the “PostScript Options...” button in the Print dialog leads to a dialog box which allows you to specify (a) whether the file will be printed to disk or not, (b) whether or not to include downloadable font information in the file printed to disk, (c) the name of the file and directory to which it is saved, (d) whether to include OPI comments (e) whether to include TIFF data, and (f) whether to use Fast Print Graphics. The last option, Fast Print Graphics, works with files sent directly to the printer, as well as files printed to disk. The PostScript Options... button only appears in the Print dialog box if Apple’s PostScript driver is selected with the Chooser.
When printing PostScript to disk, if you get a message indicating that there is not enough room to save the PostScript file to the selected disk, you can find the generated PostScript file, with the name PostScriptn, in the folder from which DesignStudio was launched, if the original file has been saved. If the original files has not been saved and there is not enough memory, the PostScriptn file will appear in the folder from which DesignStudio was launched. The PostScript file will also be saved in the Spool Folder if you do not assign a name to it.
With MultiFinder on and background printing on, printing to disk will generate and place the PostScript file in the Spool Folder, inside the System Folder, with the name PostScriptn. The workaround is to turn background printing off when printing to disk.
• OPI Comments and Include TIFF data checkboxes appear in the PostScript Options dialog box. When the Use OPI comments is checked, the include TIFF data checkbox becomes enabled. When Use OPI Comments is checked, any TIFF graphic in the DesignStudio document will generate OPI comments in the PostScript file. In addition, if the Include TIFF data checkbox is checked, the data for the TIFF image is also included in the PostScript file. Most prepress shops do not need the TIFF image data and unchecking the Include TIFF data checkbox will result in a smaller PostScript file.
• When printing custom page sizes longer than 25 inches on an imagesetter, it is suggested that you use the tiling feature, since some imagesetters do not have sufficient raster memory to image a large page at high resolution. First, divide the page length such that no one section is longer than 20 inches, select tiling and set the overlap to 0 inches. For example, if you wanted to image a page that is 12 inches wide, by 80 inches long, you would set the following parameters: In the Page Setup Dialog, click the Custom option and enter the page dimensions and orientation you would like. In the current example, you would specify a portrait page with a width of 12 inches, and depth of 80 inches. Then, you would go to the Printer Setup dialog and select your imagesetter LPD, scroll the page size to custom and select it, enter a page size of 12 inches wide by 20 inches deep and click OK. Then make sure Tiling is checked and that an Overlap of 0 inches is specified.
Two sample custom page templates for printing large pages to an imagesetter are provided on the Auxiliary files disk: one for portrait pages, and one for landscape pages. Note that the printer page orientation is controlled in the Printer Setup dialog and that the DesignStudio page is controlled in the Page Setup dialog box.
Page size and resolution limitations are given in the manufacturer's documentation. You may encounter a PostScript error such as “Limit CheckSetPageParams” if you exceed the limits or do not follow the recommended procedure for printing large custom page sizes. You may encounter a “RIP2 send error” on a Linotronic under these circumstances, as well. The Linotronic RIP 4 can handle much larger page sizes at high resolution than previous RIPS.
• If you are printing to a QMS 2200 using the LPD provided, if the tray size selected is not installed in the printer, you will only be allowed to print pages using manual feed. To avoid this, simply make sure that you have the proper tray installed in your printer.
OPTIMIZING MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE
• Rotation or flipping of objects containing text or pictures becomes slower and takes up more memory, as you increase the number of colors or gray levels displayed, especially if the number exceeds 256. The screen redraws fastest when using Black and White mode. You should use color mode only if your document contains colors. If you have several megabytes of memory, you may not need to be as concerned about color display considerations. If you aren’t using any 32-bit color pictures in your document, you don’t need to have 32-bit QuickDraw installed in your system folder.
It is recommended that if you are working with 32-bit QuickDraw installed, you should click on the Monitors CDEV icon in the Control Panel and reduce the number of colors to 256 (8-bit mode). All the objects that need to be can then be rotated or flipped, efficiently. Once this is done, you can switch back to “millions of colors.” The time saved by rotating or flipping images in this fashion offsets what, in most cases, is a minimal difference in appearance.
• When opening a file or switching pages, if a “There is not enough memory to complete this operation” message appears, close the document, and do either of the following, before reopening it: (1) allocate additional memory in the Finder, using Get Info, or (2) reduce the number of colors displayed, by clicking on the Monitors CDEV in the Control Panel and selecting a new number.
• If DesignStudio runs out of memory during import of a graphic, with Fast Halftones on, it will import the graphic undithered.
WORKING WITH IMPORTED TEXT AND EXISTING DOCUMENTS
• When importing word processing files, if DesignStudio does not find a certain font, you will be asked to indicate a replacement font. Once you have specified a replacement font for a font that is missing from the current system configuration, DesignStudio will record this “replacement preference” in an internal table stored in memory. If you open another document with the same font missing, during the same session, DesignStudio will look for the replacement font in the internal table instead of asking you for a replacement. Thus, you will never be asked more than once during a session, to specify a replacement font for a specific font number when importing files created by the same word processor. The internal table which is stored in memory during the session, is discarded when you quit the application.
When opening a DesignStudio or Ready,Set,Go! document containing a font that is not installed in the current system, you will be asked to indicate a replacement font; however, an internal table will not be generated for the session. You will be prompted each time you open another DesignStudio or Ready,Set,Go! document which contains the font not installed in your current system.
• You will be prompted by the name of a font missing from your current system when asked to specify a replacement font, when opening a DesignStudio or Ready,Set,Go! document. You will be prompted by the number of the font missing from your current system when importing a word processing file supported by DesignStudio.
• When importing Microsoft Word files, make sure the Fast Save option in Word is not used when saving the document.
• When Ready,Set,Go! 4.5 documents are imported preferential hyphens are turned off, and picture blocks do not have a border.
• Stylesheet, Use Format and Use Clipboard options are mutually exclusive in the Replace dialog.
Working with Imported Graphics
• EPSF files, rather than EPSF files saved as PICT should be used for importing and printing from DesignStudio.
• LZW compressed TIFF images are not supported.
• The Fonts Used annex does not indicate fonts embedded in EPSF or PICT graphics, only fonts used in text blocks.
• Deeply nested files may not display the full pathname in the Pictures Used dialog box.
WORKING WITH DIFFERENT VIEWS
• New and Open always set the window to Size to Fit, regardless of the current view or the view saved in the file.
• Cutting and pasting pages in Thumbnail view breaks the links that were made between them and the text blocks on pages elsewhere in the document, but maintains the links on the page which was cut.
• Moving pages in Thumbnail view does not destroy links between text blocks.
• DesignStudio allows you to change views by selecting from a submenu in the Document menu, by using keyboard equivalents, or by using additional command-key toggles from the keyboard.
When changing views from the Document menu or with one of the command-key equivalents, a particular point on the page will be centered in the display window, as follows: where the insertion point is blinking in a text block, at the beginning of a selection range of text, at the upper left corner of an active picture block or object selected with the object pointer, or at the upper left corner of the bounding rectangle of the common center of a group of selected objects.
With any tool selected, pressing Command-Option and clicking on the part of the page which you want centered within the window, will toggle the view between Size to Fit and Actual Size. Pressing Command-Option-Shift will toggle the view between Actual Size and Double Size, and center the area clicked on in the window.
In DesignStudio 1.01, when switching pages, the upper left of the page is positioned in the upper left of the window.
In addition, if you are not editing text, are not working on a picture block with the cropping tool, or do not have a block selected, when you change views, either by using a command key or by using a menu item, the part of the page visible in the old view remains centered in the new view. If the option key is pressed when changing views, the upper left of the page will be positioned in the upper left of the window. Pressing the Command key with numbers 1 through 5 changes the views from Size to Fit, Half Size, 75% Size, Actual Size and Double Size, respectively, zooming in on the part of the page which currently appears. Pressing the Command key and Option key at the same time, changes the magnification level the same way, except that the upper left corner of the page is positioned in the upper left of the window. This differs from what is described in the User's Guide and Tutorial.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• DesignStudio allows you to create “stationery,” using the pop-up menu in the Save As dialog box, accessed under the File Menu. Stationery serves as a document template, which contains any text, graphic and picture objects in the document, along with all preferences, defaults, printer settings and page setup specifications.
The only difference between a normal DesignStudio file and a DesignStudio stationery file is that when a stationery document is opened, your document will open as “Copy of xxx” where “xxx” is the name of the stationery file.
Once a document has been saved as stationery, it may only be modified as stationery if it is opened, modified, and the user chooses Save As, selects DesignStudio Stationery, and gives it the original name.
The icon for DesignStudio stationery looks similar to a normal DesignStudio document icon, except that it is slightly smaller, and has a drop shadow.
Both stationery and normal DesignStudio documents appear in the directory when using Open, in the File Menu.
The various import buttons, such as color, text glossary, object glossary, stylesheets, kerning data and tracking data work off of stationery as well as normal DesignStudio documents.
• A file system search for a TIFF, RIFF, or EPSF file can be cancelled when opening a DesignStudio document. Clicking Search, followed by Command-period will cancel the search for that particular file, leaving its picture block empty. If Help is clicked, and you cannot locate the file, clicking Cancel will cause the application to search all mounted volumes. Clicking Command-period immediately after clicking Cancel will cancel the search. As of DesignStudio 1.01, TIFF, RIFF and EPSF images are referenced in such a way that you will be prompted for the graphics file only if it has been restored from backup or moved to a different directory folder.
• You can specify for each picture block if the picture block should be “greeked” or not. A “greeked” picture displays on screen and prints as a shape with an “X” inside. The difference between “Draft” printing and “greeked” pictures is that when “Draft” is checked in the Print dialog, all pictures, regardless of this flag, are “greeked.” Thumbnail display and normal printing recognize and appropriately print greeked pictures. In DesignStudio 1.01, greeked picture blocks display differently from empty ones.
GENERAL INFORMATION
• Certain constraints apply to rotated objects: (1) Alignment must be done using the specifications sheet, (2) color fill and pen patterns may appear altered (but print properly), and (3) white type in a transparent text block on top of a filled object may appear transparent (but prints properly).
• Shaped text blocks pasted into picture blocks cannot be printed.
• Double or dashed rules applied to shaped text and picture blocks, or polygons, cannot be printed. They will display and print as solid borders.
• If diagonal lines with arrowheads do not print properly, make the line length longer.
• While there are limitations on the screen display of dashed rules applied to non-rectangular shaped objects, they will print correctly.
• In Facing Pages view, objects can only be grouped on the same page.
• Any operation on a group that modifies the page a member of the group is on, will split the objects into two groups. This applies to members of a group which span Facing Pages or on the pasteboard when pages are changed.
• Tracking tables are only saved for a font/style combination if they have been edited. This is different from kerning tables which are generated from the System and saved the first time a font/style combination is used in a document.
• When doing a revert for a particular kern table, the table reverts to the kerning setting contained in the System file for the font, rather than to the settings for the file when it was last saved.
• The Hyphenation Exceptions file is created in the Dictionary folder (if there is a Dictionary Folder). Otherwise, it creates it at the level of the application. You should bring this file along with your document, together with font lists, picture lists and high resolution graphics files to your service bureau, when printing.
• The annex menu is disabled if there are no annexes present.
• The maximum size of the bounding rectangle for all objects is 36 inches by 36 inches. This relates to creating objects with the mouse, resizing objects with the mouse, and resizing objects with specification sheets.
• The limit on manual kerning from the dialog box or keyboard is .25 ems.
• If a number you have entered in a dialog box is invalid or out of range for a particular property, DesignStudio will indicate the proper range of values for the property in question. In addition, if the value entered is greater than the maximum (or less then the minimum) it will automatically be changed to the maximum (or the minimum) after the alert box appears.
• QuicKeys and MacroMaker should not be used to access items on the Draw menu.
• Alignment overrides grouping. When aligning grouped objects, the objects in the group will be aligned and no longer maintain their position relative to each other.
• Objects with borders less than one point should be aligned using the specifications sheet, for accurate results.
• Additional Letraset Printer Description (LPD) files can be created to support printers other than those supported by the LPD’s provided on the Auxiliary Files Disk. For additional information, contact Letraset Graphic Design Software Technical Support.
• The Print dialog box displayed on page 8-10 of the DesignStudio User's Guide is incorrect, and should appear exactly as shown on page 9-87.
• You should use version 2.0 of Symantec's SAM™ Intercept, rather than earlier versions.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
The telephone number that should be used for contacting Letraset’s Graphic Design Technical Support and Customer Service is (800) 634-3463 (please note that the number given on page 1-10 of the DesignStudio User’s Guide is incorrect). The number for Technical Support is correctly printed on the inside cover of both the Tutorial and User’s Guide.
You can also obtain technical support via E-mail, at the following addresses:
