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- BookPrint V3.16 Manual
- ----------------------
-
- Copyright:
- ----------
- (c) 1991 Alexander Rawass
-
- Alexander Rawass
- Wilhelminenstraße 44
- 6700 Ludwigshafen 15
- Germany
- 0621/57 75 98
-
-
- This (and all other) version of BookPrint is ShareWare.
- That means, the author allows the free spreading, copying and distribution
- of BookPrint, as long as no profit is made for the distributor.
-
- The Program remains copyrighted by the author (Alexander Rawass)
-
- If you use BookPrint regularly, you have to pay the ShareWare-fee to the
- author, or else you are illegally using BookPrint.
-
- This version of BookPrint is a 'crippled' version, it works only with files
- smaller than 50000 bytes.
-
- You have to send the ShareWare-fee of DM 20 (Deutschmark) or US$ 15 to the
- above address.
- If you pay the ShareWare-fee, you will get a full-working version of
- BookPrint, and you will also get the newest versions of BookPrint per disk.
-
- I. What is BookPrint line
- II. What you need for BookPrint line
- III. Description of gadgets line
- IV. Working with BookPrint line
- V. Paying your ShareWare-Fee line
- VI. PostScriptum line
-
- What is BookPrint?
- ------------------
- BookPrint is a small printing utility, which will save you a lot of paper.
-
- BookPrint is designed to print ascii-files with width not longer than 79
- characters in two columns and the front and back page, which will save
- about 75% of paper.
-
- To use BookPrint, you must own a printer which is capable of printing with
- a printing density of 20cpi (that means 160 characters per line).
- Otherwise, you can use only the non-BookPrint modes of BookPrint.
-
- What you need for BookPrint
- ---------------------------
- An Amiga, of course, a NEC Pinwriter compatible printer and the req.library
- and arp.library in your LIBS: directory.
-
- If BookPrint doesn't work with your printer, send me the ShareWare-fee and
- a description of your printer codes, and I will BookPrint configure to work
- with your printer.
-
- Description of BookPrints gadgets :
- -----------------------------------
-
- o BOOKPRINT MODE
-
- With clicking on this gadget, you select the BookPrint mode, the way of
- printing BookPrint was originally written for.
-
- o 6LPI, 8LPI
-
- With this gadget, you disable BookPrint mode and select vertcal printing
- density
-
- o 66 LPP, 88 LPP
-
- In this gadget you can enter the 'lines per page' for the 6lpi and 8lpi
- mode, respectively.
-
- o 20 CPI, 15 CPI, 12 CPI, 10 CPI
-
- With selecting one of this gadgets, you disable BookPrint mode and select
- the horizontal printing density (in characters per inch)
-
- o SINGLESHEET, DOUBLESHEET
-
- Selecting this gadget, you disable BookPrint mode and select singe- or
- doublesheet mode.
- In singesheet mode, the files is printed only on the front page of the
- sheets, while doublesheet mode prints also on the back pages of thr paper.
-
- o FF
-
- If you select this gadget, it will have the effect that if form feeds
- appear inside the printed file, BookPrint will start either with a new
- column or a new page. If It is not selected, printing will be continous.
-
- o TABS
-
- Here you can select how many spaces a tab should be. The default is eight
- spaces. You you only change this if you want to print a text which is has
- been created with an other tab setting than eight.
-
- o SEND TO FILE, SEND TO PRINTER
-
- depending on the selected gadget, the output is either send to a file or
- directly to the printer.
-
- o SELECT INPUT-FILE
-
- a click on this gadget reveals a wounderful requester from the requester
- library to select the input-file (that is, the file which is to be printed
- by BookPrint)
-
- o SELECT OUTPUT-FILE
-
- with this gadget you can select where the output should go, case you have
- selected 'send to file' mode.
-
- o TITLE
-
- In this string-gadget, you can enter the title for your output.
- The title is displayed together with the page number at the top of each
- printed page.
-
- o START!
-
- here, you will activate BookPrint. Your input-file will be loaded,
- processed and printed either to printer or to a file.
-
- o ABOUT!
-
- A *very* important gadget.
-
- o QUIT!
-
- with this gadget, you can quit BookPrint (I thought some time about not
- including such an option, cause I don't think anyone wants to leave this
- cuty litte piece of software)
-
-
- Working with BookPrint
- ----------------------
-
- You can process every text file with bookprint, but if you want to use the
- 'BookPrint mode', it is best to use only files with a line length not
- greater than 79 characters. If it is greater, it will also work fine, put
- output doesn't look good then.
-
- In 'BookPrint mode', the file is printed with two columns per page, with
- each column being 79 characters wide and 88 lines long. In 'BookPrint
- mode', the file is printed on BOTH sides of the paper.
-
- BUT HOW CAN BOOKPRINT DO THAT?
-
- It is very easy.
- First, BookPrint will print only the odd pages (the pages 1,3,5,...) on the
- front page of the sheet.
- Then, a nice requester will appear, saying 'please turn the paper'.
- Then, you'll have to remove the paper from the printer and insert it again,
- but upside down (so that printing will start on the back page of page -1-).
- Then you'll click the gadget, and BookPrint will continue to print the even
- pages (2,4,6,...) on the back of the odd pages.
-
- (If you don't understand anything now, just try to print this documentation
- with BookPrint, and you'll see)
-
- If you select 'send to file', the odd and the even pages will be sent to
- two files, respectively. They call themselves <output>.odd and
- <output>.even, while <output> is the filename you specified in the 'select
- output-file' gadget.
-
-
-
- In the other modes (the 'non-BookPrint-modes'), you can print only with one
- column per page, but you can freely select horizontal and vertical printing
- density (with the gadgets '20cpi,...,10cpi, 6cpi, 8cpi), the output
- destination (file or printer) and you can also select to print on both
- sides of the paper or on one side only.
-
-
- Paying your ShareWare-Fee
- -------------------------
-
- This is very very important!
- Using BookPrint regularly without paying is both illegal and immoral!
- And, of course, as a registered user you will receive the latest,
- uncrippled version of BookPrint as fast as possible.
-
- Send the money (either DM 20 if you live in Europe, or either US$ 15 if you
- live in the states or elsewhere in the world (I'll take no yen, of course))
- to :
-
- Alexander Rawass, Wilhelminenstr.44, 6700 Ludwigshafen, Germany
-
- Bug comments and ideas for improvement are also welcome.
-
- Don't forget to include your own address with the letter, or you will
- receive absolutely nothing!
-
-
- Distribution
- ------------
-
- BookPrint is freely distributable ShareWare.
-
- You can copy it as you want, as long as you make no profit from copying.
- That means, a disk with BookPrint on it should not cost more than ca. 3 DM,
- which is about US$ 3.
-
- It would be great if BookPrint would be included on some FD-series, like
- Fish, TBAG, Franz, AUGE, Tornado, etc.
-
- Spread BookPrint as you can, push it in every FTP-server and in every net
- you can find, put it in your local mailbox and be happy with it.
-
- But, of course, you may only distribute the COMPLETE BookPrint.
- BookPrint consists of the following files :
-
- BookPrint - the program
- BookPrint.Doc - this documentation
- BookPrint.ReadMe - a short readme file
- BookPrint.Vertrieb - for german eyes only
- BookPrint.*.info - some .info files which give nice icons
-
- If any of the files are missing, BookPrint may no longer be distributed!
-
- German distributors, read BookPrint.Vertrieb!
-
-
-
- PostScriptum
- ------------
-
- I am not responsible for anything that happens if or when you use
- BookPrint or not.
- I am not responsible for any sort of virus, computer crashs, hardware
- explosion or a blow-up printer.
- I am not responsible for the second world war, neither will I be
- responsible for the next to come.
-
- I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, so please forgive me my bad writing, my
- writing errors and my *bad* documentation.
- Next time I'll try better :-)
-