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- What is Rashumon?
- Rashumon is the first multi-lingual word-processor for the Amiga computer.
- It supports multiple fonts (including Agfa Intellifonts), 256 colors for
- graphic objects and 8 colors for text and tables. it has full Postscript
- and an IFF support (exporting and importing, including PC and Mac files).
-
- Installing Rashumon in a Hard Disk:
- Rashumon comes with a utility that automatically does the installing for you.
- To install Rashumon in your hard disk, double click the Install_HD icon.
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- =============================== Version 3 updates ===========================
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- 1. Printing:
- Rashumon 3 prints at the highest resolution of your printer. You can't print
- at any better quality! Printing quality can be selected from the "prefs"
- requester from 12 options. Make sure the "Density" option in PrinterGfx
- (preferences) is set to the highest density your printer supports.
- The Postscript mode lets you print Postscript level 2 documents including
- color and gray scale images and text (up to 1.6 milion colors or 256 gray
- shades.
-
- 2. Scala Lingua script output.
- Any document can now be converter into Scala Lingua script format. The
- conversion includes: text (in any language), color, attributes, layout,
- line spacing, tab stops, IFF brushes. Structured drawings (made by
- Rashumon's Table Generator) aren't supported in Scala's current version but
- will be supported in next version.
-
- 3. General
- Rashumon 3 was developed under SAS 6.51 compiler. It was optimized with SAS
- optimizer and FlexeLint. Debugging was made with SAS CPR, MemGuard, and
- MemWatch.
-
- =========================== Technical Support ===============================
- We give technical support by Fax or by mail. Our fax number is +9723-315-967.
-
- Our address is:
- HarmonySoft, 69 Jabotinsky st. Givatayim 53319 ISRAEL.
-
- EMail: (InterNet) harmony@ccsg.tau.ac.il
-
- =========================== AmigaHASP instructions ==========================
- 1. Please connect the AmigaHASP protection plug to the Serial Port.
- 2. When you run Rashumon for the first time, you will be asked to personalize
- your copy by entering your name and address / company name as well as your
- personal user id. The user id should be included in the package.
- 3. If you have ordered the Try&Buy pack, you will be able to try Rashumon 10
- times before you decide to buy it. Then you will be asked to personalize
- it and you will ofcourse need to get your perosnal id from HarmonySoft.
-
- =========================== Fonts manipulations =============================
- With Rashumon 3 you can change the current font you are using to a differect
- one while keeping the same size used. This is done by simply pressing F10 and
- choosing the new font.
- It is also possible to change the text's size without effecting the font that
- is currently used. This is done by pressing SHIFT+F10.
- These 2 commands can be used on highlighted text in order to either change
- characters sizes in the selection to a certain size without effecting the
- fonts used within the selection.
- Also, you can change a selection to a different font without effecting
- characters sizes.
-
- ========================== Using your own fonts =============================
- Rashumon supports both bitmapped and Agfa Intellifont compugraphic fonts. You
- can add any of these types to your fonts: library. further more, Rashumon's
- Font Requester gives you the ability to use fonts from different paths. Just
- click the "Add Path" gadget in order to add a new path.
-
- To use Postscript Adobe Type1 fonts from Rashumon, you need to have:
-
- 1. The Type1 font as a .PFB file (unless this font is one of your printer's
- resident fonts - in that case, just add the font's name to the
- 'residentfonts.pref' file.
- 2. The metric file as a .AFM file. You must have an .AFM file for it's plain,
- bold, italics and bold-italics (both are optional since Rashumon can
- italicize fonts automatically creating an Oblique type).
- 3. Screen font for each Postscript type. If you don't have a screen font, you
- can send your Type1 font to HarmonySoft and we will create a screen font
- for you.
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