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- Rubicon v2.0 Bell/Hopkins REGISTRATION $ 89.00
- WORD FEB90 BELL RUBICON DESK TOP PUBLISHING LASERJET HP
- FILES: rubicon1.sdn rubicon2.sdn rubicon3.sdn
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- NEW RELEASE
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- The Publisher is a computer software product which performs
- functions equivalent to the traditional task of typesetting:
- that is, the formatting and arrangement in type, page by
- page, of written text, in the page layouts, type fonts, etc.,
- chosen by the user.
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- The Publisher consists of two main parts: (1) a typesetting
- language consisting of "tags" (instructions) concerning page
- layout, font selection, etc., which can be inserted by the
- user at appropriate locations in a computer text file; and
- (2) an executable "batch processor" program which, upon
- command, accepts a computer text file including such tag
- instructions, interprets and acts on the tags, and transmits
- the results directly to a printer (or, optionally, to a disk
- file for later transmission to the printer).
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- The Publisher is both user-friendly and sophisticated. The
- novice, or casual user, who has no detailed technical
- knowledge of typesetting techniques, and is familiar with
- only the most basic of the Publisher's instruction tags, can
- copy or adapt the examples given later in this Manual to
- generate documents of professional appearance in a variety of
- single- and multi-column layouts and formats. In the hands of
- a more knowledgeable user, the Publisher is capable of
- producing work equivalent to the finest conventional
- typesetting, as found in books and magazines of high quality.
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- 2.2 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
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- COMPUTER
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- The Publisher supports the IBM personal computers (PC/XT,
- PC/AT or PS/2) and other compatible microcomputers. If a
- printer using soft fonts is employed, the computer should
- have sufficient hard disk space for storage of the soft
- fonts. The short procedure for installing the Publisher on
- such a computer has been explained in Section 1. More
- complete information about installation is given in the
- Appendix.
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- OPERATING SYSTEM
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- The Publisher supports the MS-DOS operating system, version
- 2.1 or newer.
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- PRINTER
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- The Publisher supports the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer,
- printers which are set up to emulate a LaserJet, and also
- supports Postscript devices. The model of printer being used
- is specified by the instruction tag <model=>; see the
- Appendix.
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- PHOTO TYPESETTER
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- The Publisher supports any Postscript device.
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- FONTS SUPPORTED
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- The Publisher supports a variety of fonts: the available
- selection depends on the type of printer (or other output
- device) being used.
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- For LaserJet printers, the Rubicon fonts supplied with the
- Publisher, namely the Trajan (serif) and Renner (sans serif)
- families, are supported. The Publisher also supports the
- following Hewlett Packard families of fonts, which the user
- may already own or may acquire: Courier, Line Printer, Times
- Roman, and Helvetica. Installation procedures to make these
- Hewlett Packard fonts accessible to the Publisher are given
- in the Appendix.
-
- For Postscript devices, the 35 standard Postscript fonts are
- supported, using Adobe font names.
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