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Printing styles and tips:
Sections follow to discuss printing for the following styles
Epson and compatible printers
Postscript printing
Print screen TSRs
HP Laserjet support
Epson command compatible printers
If you have this sort of printer, you probably want the following 2
lines in your CONFIG.GED file:
PRINTER PORT = LPT1:
PRINTER MODE = -2
These lines specify that the printer is on parallel port 1, and that GED
should select the right resolution for printing.
Use Control-P, NOT Shift-Print Screen to initiate printing.
The HP Laserjet
Native HP support has been provided in minor release 1.05.
If you have this sort of printer, you probably want the following 3
lines in your CONFIG.GED file:
PRINTER TYPE = HP
PRINTER PORT = LPT1:
PRINTER MODE = -2
These lines specify that your HP printer is on parallel port 1, and that
GED should select the right resolution for printing.
Use Control-P, NOT Shift-Print Screen to initiate printing.
PostScript Printers
If you wish output to go directly to a PostScript printer, and do not
have a print-screen driver installed, it is probably best to leave out
all lines in CONFIG.GED referring to printers. This will assume an INT5
sort of driver which will be ignored if one is not installed.
Postscript printing is usually done outside a GED session. To print a
tree of diagrams, one would normally issue commands like:
GEDPS -f diagrams.ps -1*
PS -P1 diagrams.ps
The first command takes the contents of the entire DFD tree and places
them in DIAGRAMS.PS.
The second command outputs the diagrams to a Postscript printer on COM1.
If your printer is on a network or parallel port, you may use the usual
DOS PRINT command to print your diagrams.
If you wish to use the diagrams in a desktop publisher, such as Ventura
Publisher, you must not put more than 1 diagram in a file (otherwise
they will all print atop one another). Also, you must consider whether
your document will be landscape or portrait; GEDPS defaults to
landscape, but the -r flag will change the diagram to portrait mode.
Print Screen TSRs
Many printer manufacturers, and many programs, provide TSRs for
capturing or printing screen images. GED works with most of these.
The mechanism most vendors have standardized on is the use of Interrupt
5, often abbreviated as INT5, to support these TSRs.
If you are running such a TSR (Capture, by Inset systems; FRIEZE by
ZSoft; GRAB in WordPerfect; and a host of others), you should configure
GED with the following line in CONFIG.GED:
PRINTER MODE=-1
You should print as usual from GED, by using the Control-P (print)
function. Using the Shift-PrintScreen key will work, but will not give
GED a chance to erase the cursor and clean any error messages from the
screen. When the cursor returns, printing is complete.
See CAPTURE.DOC for some specific product suggestions.