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1-2-3 for Windows READ.ME File **UPGRADING FROM OTHER RELEASES OF 1-2-3** If you are upgrading from another release of 1-2-3, Lotus recommends that you let Install create a new program directory for your 1-2-3 for Windows files. Copy your worksheets, graphics, format files, and any other data files to a data directory before you erase the old 1-2-3 program files. **INSTALL** The 1-2-3 for Windows Install program transfers a file named 123W.INI to your Windows directory. 123W.INI contains the 1-2-3 for Windows default settings. Comments in 123W.INI explain the settings. The Install program adds the following lines to your WIN.INI file to tell Windows what file extensions are associated with 1-2-3 for Windows. wks=123w.exe ^.wks wrk=123w.exe ^.wrk wk1=123w.exe ^.wk1 wk3=123w.exe ^.wk3 Network administrators: You must use the Install disk to install 1-2-3 for Windows on a server; you can perform only node installations from the Install icon. If you run Windows from a network server, you will be able to install Adobe Type Manager only if you have write access to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory while you are installing. See your network administrator to get write access to this directory. **FONT USAGE** If there are no printers installed in Windows, the Style Font Replace dialog box does not list any fonts under Available fonts. ADOBE TYPE MANAGER 1-2-3 for Windows is optimized for use with the Adobe Type Manager (ATM). Do not have any other font manager in memory at the same time ATM is in memory. SOFT FONTS Before the ATM Installer program can install soft fonts for HP LaserJet and PostScript printers, you must select these printers in the Windows Control Panel. Select your printers before you install ATM. 1. Open the Windows Control panel and select Printers. Windows displays a list of printers installed on your system. 2. If an HP LaserJet III or PostScript printer is listed, highlight it and then select Configure. The Printers - Configure dialog box appears. 3. Select Setup. The Setup dialog box for your printer appears. 4. Select OK twice. 5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 for each printer you want to select and then select OK. ATM TROUBLESHOOTING The ATM Installer program transfers a file named ATM.INI to your Windows directory. Settings in ATM.INI control how ATM works. After you install ATM, other Windows applications may look slightly different on screen, because ATM substitutes its scalable fonts for certain Windows bitmap fonts. The point size at which ATM makes this substitution is controlled by the SynonymPSBegin= statement in ATM.INI. SynonymPSBegin= is initially set to 9; this means ATM substitutes its fonts for Windows fonts which are larger than 9 points. If you change this statement to SynonymPSBegin=13, ATM substitutes its fonts for Windows fonts which are larger than 13 points. Other Windows applications that use 10 and 12 point fonts will continue to look the same as they did before you installed ATM. If you experience difficulties with ATM soft fonts, you can remove ATM from your hard disk and re-install it. To remove ATM from your hard disk: 1. If you installed additional fonts, copy those fonts to a temporary directory. 2. Remove all Windows soft fonts from your WIN.INI file. Soft fonts are listed with the installed printers. In the example below, an * (asterisk) marks each line to remove. [PostScript,LPT2] device=14 color=2 feed1=1 *softfonts=11 *softfont1=c:\psfonts\pfm\_a______.pfm,c:\psfonts\_a______.pfb *softfont2=c:\psfonts\pfm\bdbc____.pfm,c:\psfonts\bdbc____.pfb 3. Follow the instructions in "Removing the program from your system" in Chapter 2 of the Adobe Type Manager User Guide. 4. To re-install ATM, insert the ATM disk in drive A and close the drive door. Open the Windows Program Manager. Choose File Run. Type a:install in the Command Line text box and then select OK. **PRINTING PERFORMANCE TIPS** HP LASERJET III PRINTERS If your printer is an HP LaserJet III (including IIIP, IIID, and IIISI), Lotus recommends that you update your Windows driver for this printer to version 3.77 or later. The Windows driver for the HP LaserJet III version 3.77 is located on the Printer Drivers Disk that comes in your 1-2-3 for Windows package. To find out the version number of your driver, do the following: 1. Open the Windows Control panel and select Printers. Windows displays a list of printers installed on your system. 2. If an HP LaserJet III printer is listed, highlight it and then select Configure. The Printers - Configure dialog box appears. 3. Select Setup. The Setup dialog box for your printer appears. 4. Select About to see information about your printer, including the version number of the driver. If your driver version is earlier than 3.77, or if an HP LaserJet III driver is not installed, read the instructions in HPREADME.TXT on the Printer Drivers Disk to learn how to install the new driver. If you are using Windows 3.1, read HPREADME.TXT for information on how to contact Hewlett Packard to receive their latest HP LaserJet III Series driver. When you print to an HP LaserJet III, the Arial, Helv, and Helvetica fonts are mapped to the Univers font and the TimesNewRomanPS and TmsRmn fonts are mapped to the CG Times font. POSTSCRIPT PRINTING In order to print quickly on PostScript devices, 1-2-3 for Windows bypasses portions of the Windows PostScript driver and uses its own drivers. This provides complete compatibility with PostScript output from 1-2-3 Release 3.1 and, in most cases, much faster PostScript printer performance. If you want to use only the Windows PostScript driver for printing from 1-2-3 for Windows, you must edit your 123W.INI file. Add the word "system" to the line postscript= so it reads postscript=system. (You must type the word system in all lowercase letters.) In order to print to PostScript printers as quickly and efficiently as possible, 1-2-3 for Windows limits the number of downloaded fonts you can use in a single print job. The number of fonts you can download depends on the size of the fonts and the amount of memory installed in your PostScript printer. The maximum number of downloaded fonts is controlled by the numpostfonts= statement in 123W.INI. The initial default value is 5, but you can change it to a higher number if your printer has more memory. If the number of downloaded fonts you use in your print job is greater than the value specified by numpostfonts=, 1-2-3 automatically tells the Windows PostScript printer driver to generate the PostScript code for the print job. Different PostScript printers contain different internal fonts. 1-2-3 for Windows supports the Standard 35 font set. If your PostScript printer contains a different internal font set, you may see some inconsistencies between your displayed and printed work. If you want to use a font that is included in your PostScript printer but is not supported by 1-2-3 for Windows, use the Windows PostScript driver to print from 1-2-3 for Windows; add the word "system" to the statement postscript= so it reads postscript=system. (You must type the word system in all lowercase letters.) PRINT MARGINS Most Windows printer drivers have hard-coded minimum margin values. If your printer has a hard-coded minimum margin value, you cannot enter a smaller margin value with File Page Setup. For example, if you choose File Page Setup and enter a right-margin value of 0, but your printer's minimum margin value is 0.25", the value displayed in Page Setup is 0.25". This minimum margin value may affect compatibility when printing some 1-2-3 Release 3.1 files. Files that fit on one page when printed from 1-2-3 Release 3.1 may now require more than one page when printed from 1-2-3 for Windows. To ensure these files still fit on one page, use File Page Setup Compression Automatically fit to page. USING /PRINT FROM 1-2-3 CLASSIC /Print sends data to the current printer. If you want to change the printer you use for /Print you must use the File Printer Setup dialog box; there is no 1-2-3 Classic method for changing printers or ports. /Print does not work with PostScript printers. **DDE** 1-2-3 FOR WINDOWS AS A SERVER APPLICATION The format for execute strings sent to 1-2-3 for Windows is [run("command_string")] where command_string is any 1-2-3 for Windows command, including macros. DDE SYSTEM TOPIC 1-2-3 for Windows supports a special topic called System, which provides a context for items of information that may be of general interest to other applications. The System items that 1-2-3 for Windows supports are listed below. 1-2-3 responds to a request for any of these items in tab-delimited, CF_TEXT format. Each string is terminated with a carriage- return and linefeed characters, for example, \r\n (CRLF). SysItems Returns a list of all System-topic items supported by 1-2-3 for Windows. Example: SysItems\tTopics\tFormats...\r\n Topics Returns a list of all 1-2-3 for Windows DDE topics, including all files in memory plus the special System topic. Example: System\tC:\123W\SALES.WK3\tC:\123W\EMPLOYEE.WK3...\r\n Formats Returns a list of all Clipboard formats that 1-2-3 for Windows supports. This list does not distinguish between formats that can be only copied or only pasted and formats that can be both copied and pasted. Example: Lotus123Private\tWk3\tWk1\tTEXT\tBITMAP...\r\n Selection Returns the address of the currently selected range, preceded by the current file name. If no range is selected, returns the current cellpointer location, preceded by the current file name. Example: C:\123W\SALES.WK3\tA:B2..A:B4\r\n RangeNames Returns a list of all files in memory and their named ranges. Tab characters separate each range and CRLF characters precede each new file name. Example: C:\123W\FILE1.WK3\tRANGE1\tB:A1..B:B9\tRANGE2\tC:B28..C:D45\r\n C:\123W\FILE2.WK3\t\RANGE1\tD:Z1..E:Z100\r\n **USING DOS** THE TRANSLATE UTILITY Because of memory limitations, you may not be able to start the Translate utility from the Translate icon. If you cannot start Translate from the icon, end the Windows session and remove any memory-resident programs to free as much conventional memory as possible. Then start Translate from the operating system prompt as described in Appendix A of the User's Guide. COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS To specify command-line parameters for 1-2-3 for Windows 1. Highlight the 1-2-3 for Windows icon. 2. Choose File Properties from the Windows Program Manager. 3. In the Command Line text box, append a command-line parameter to 123W.EXE. (For example, C:\123W\123W.EXE -S) You can specify the following command-line parameters: -s Makes 1-2-3 for Windows use the software floating point driver instead of a math coprocessor. Use this parameter if you have a defective math coprocessor in your computer or if your computer tells 1-2-3 you have a math coprocessor when you do not. Under these circumstances, all your formulas may evaluate to 0, ERR, or *** (asterisks). -i Lets you specify an initialization file other than 123W.INI. filename Lets you specify a file to load whenever you start 1-2-3. {SYSTEM} and /SYSTEM 1-2-3 for Windows provides the {SYSTEM} and /SYSTEM commands to be compatible with versions of 1-2-3 for DOS. 1-2-3 for Windows also provides the {LAUNCH} and DDE commands for accessing other applications from within 1-2-3. Caution: Do not use {SYSTEM} and /SYSTEM when you have other Windows applications running. **CORRECTIONS TO THE DOCUMENTATION** The command Tools Icon Palette should be Tools SmartIcons in the following parts of the documentation: * Chapter 1 of the User's Guide * Chapters 1 through 3 of Quick Start for 1-2-3 Upgraders * The SmartIcons Quick Reference The Tips on pages 36 and 54 of DataLens Drivers for 1-2-3 will not work for drivers and databases that require passwords. If you are unable to complete Data Connect to External or Data External Options commands, use /Data External from 1-2-3 Classic. 
