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SERIES 3 PRINTER DRIVERS and SUPPORT FOR RICH TEXT FORMAT ========================================================= PRINTER DRIVERS FOR THE SERIES 3 -------------------------------- The WDR directory/folder contains printer drivers and associated files, which can be copied to a \WDR\ directory on any disk on your Series 3. The next time you then use a `Print setup' option, you will find the extra printers offered in the dialog. HP2.WDR - printer driver for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet II. HP2P.WDR - printer driver for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet IIP/IID. HP3.WDR - printer driver for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet III. PS.WDR, PS.INI, PS.DYL - printer driver (and other necessary files) which supports a basic set of fonts for any Postscript printer. PSAPPLE.WDR, PSAPPLE.INI, PSAPPLE.DYL - printer driver (and other necessary files) for the Apple Laserwriter II series. These support a wider range of fonts than the other Postscript drivers. You may find that you can use these files to drive many other Postscript printers that also have a wider range of fonts. RICH TEXT FORMAT (RTF) SUPPORT FOR THE SERIES 3 WORD PROCESSOR -------------------------------------------------------------- The Series 3 Word Processor can save and load files in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) for interchanging documents with other programs which can save and load RTF files, such as: - Microsoft Word for Windows - Microsoft DOS Word - Microsoft Word on the Macintosh Installation ------------ Before you can save and open RTF files on your Series 3 you must copy the WL$RTF.DYL and WS$RTF.DYL files supplied in the same location on the 3 Link disk as this document. The files must be copied to a \WDR\ directory on the Series 3. You can use the Internal disk or, if you want to avoid using up internal memory, an SSD in drive A or B. (Don't confuse the \WRD and \WDR directories - while \WRD\ is the directory where Word Processor documents are stored, \WDR is where the Word Processor keeps special files of various kinds - templates, and add-on software or printer drivers. WL$RTF.DYL has the software to open RTF files, and WS$RTF.DYL the software to save them - you don't have to copy both.) -> Press the System button, to return to the System screen, and select the `Copy file' option on the `File' menu. -> Move the highlight to the `To file: Name' line. Type \WDR\. -> If you want to copy the files to an SSD, move the highlight to the `To file: Disk' line, and change it to `A' or `B' accordingly. -> Move the highlight to the `From file: Disk' line, and change it to the drive containing MCLINK. On a PC this will be something like REM::A or REM::C. On a Macintosh, it will be REM:: plus the name of the disk - REM::HD40 for example. -> Move the highlight to the `From file: Name' line. The simplest way to select the files is to press Control-Tab. Then type W*.DYL, but with the directory/folder name they are in - for example, if you're copying them from the supplied floppy, use \WDR\W*.DYL (WDR:W*.DYL on a Macintosh). Finally, press Control-Enter, which selects these as the files to copy. (Alternatively, you can press Tab to bring up the file selector, and navigate to the directory concerned. You might then copy the files one by one, or tag them both with the `+' key and copy them together.) -> Press Enter, and the Series 3 will copy the files. You can copy RTF files to and from the Series 3 like any other files, as described in the 3 Link manual. When you next use the `Open file' or `Save as' options in the Word Processor, you will now be able to set the `File type' line to RTF, and select an RTF file. Note: when the file is next saved - and this will happen if you switch to a different file - it will be saved in Word Processor format, complete with style and emphasis information. The .WRD file extension will be used. If at some point you want to send the file back to the PC or Macintosh, use the `Save as' option and make a new RTF version of the file. Direct access to remote RTF files --------------------------------- You can use the `Open file' and `Save as' options directly on RTF files on a PC or Macintosh, as long as the Series 3 is linked by MCLINK. Select the file on REM::. See the 3 Link manual for more details. Using the HP3 printer driver as a nominal RTF driver ---------------------------------------------------- The HP3 printer driver (with file name HP3.WDR - also supplied on this disk) is primarily for printing to the Hewlett Packard III laser printer. However, with RTF, it is worth using HP3.WDR as driver even when there is no prospect of printing to the intended printer because it contains a good basic font set - mono-spaced Courier, a scalable serif font and a scalable sans-serif font which travel well through the "RTF barrier". If you are a Macintosh Word user printing to a Postscript laser printer, you may be pleasantly surprised at the possibilities when using the HP3 driver on the Series 3. To install the HP3 driver, you copy HP3.WDR to a \WDR\ directory on the Series 3 - as for WL$RTF.DYL and WS$RTF.DYL, described above. Restrictions on headers and footers ----------------------------------- The Word Processor supports only one header, which applies to the whole document. If an RTF file specifies some other type of header, such as for even pages only, this may become the header for the whole document. The `On first page' settings in the Word Processor's `Header' and `Footer' dialogs are not affected by opening an RTF file. If a header in Microsoft Word has a separate stylesheet size, or any changes of font within its text, these will be ignored. Microsoft Word may not support the %F and %M codes, nor two- and three-column headers, which will be treated as left-justified. The same restrictions apply to footers as to headers. Other limitations ----------------- USE A .RTF FILE EXTENSION FOR ALL RTF FILES - ON THE SERIES 3, PC AND MACINTOSH. When you save an RTF file, the Word Processor forces this extension, but you should also use this file extension when creating RTF files on a PC or Macintosh word processor. (On a Macintosh, this means that filenames of RTF files should end with a dot, followed by the three characters R T F ). Content which is beyond that handled by the Series 3 word processor (such as boxes, graphics, side-by-side formatting of paragraphs and tables of contents entries) are not transferred into Series 3 Word documents. Using Stylesheets in Microsoft DOS Word --------------------------------------- (This information is based on version 5.0 of the MS-DOS version of Microsoft Word.) Microsoft Word for DOS saves a document's style information in a separate file - a stylesheet. It can also, however, handle files without a stylesheet, using in-line formatting - storing special codes in the document which specify the various settings for each paragraph. If you use a stylesheet with a particular Microsoft Word file, and you want to transfer the file to and from the Series 3, do not change any of the styles while on the Series 3. (You can still apply styles to paragraphs, and you can use emphases as normal.) When you next send the file to the PC and use it in Microsoft Word, it will ask for the stylesheet to use. Microsoft Word checks that the document styles still match the stylesheet. Any paragraphs which have a style that does not match those in the stylesheet are converted to use in-line formatting. If you are a user of the `Alter paragraph' option (instead of the `Styles' option) for changing the look of paragraphs, this should not worry you. Control over fonts with Microsoft DOS Word ------------------------------------------ Microsoft Word for DOS does is not as sophisticated in its mapping of incoming fonts when it reads an RTF file as is Microsoft Word for Windows or Microsoft Word for the Macintosh. When you load an RTF document using Microsoft Word for DOS (having created it on your Series 3), you may find that some fonts have been mapped to those which are not present in the current printer driver (in which case, they will be printed as Courier). For greater control over the fonts DOS Microsoft Word uses, you have two options: 1) To simply use in-line formatting to change the fonts. 2) Use an approach involving two separate stylesheets. The first is simpler to understand but the second solution, once in place, has the advantage of automatically applying to all files that you subsequently transfer from the Series 3 into DOS Microsoft Word. The steps involved in this second approach are as follows: -> Choose a representative document, written on the Series 3, that includes all the styles you use on a regular basis -> Save this as an RTF file -> On loading it into Microsoft Word, leave the stylesheet selection blank (delete any suggestion offered to you) -> You will probably find it easier in what follows to make the style bar visible (use Options) -> For each style that you want to record, place the cursor in some text with that style -> Use Format Stylesheet Record (alternatively, Alt-F10) -> Give as the Key Code the shortcode used on the Series 3 for the style -> Leave Usage as Paragraph and type anything you like into Remark (leave it blank if you wish) -> For Variant, in most cases you can accept the default offered to you, but match `Standard' to `Body Text', and `Heading level' styles to the appropriate Series 3 `Header level' style (especially if you use outlining). -> Repeat for all the styles you are interested in -> When finished, save the resulting stylesheet (use Gallery Transfer Save), with a name such as "S3" -> Then in Gallery, look at the fonts specified by each style, and make any changes required -> Save the stylesheet you have at the end of this second pass WITH A DIFFERENT NAME, say "S3P" (with the "P" standing for "Printing"). From now on, whenever you load an RTF file prepared by the Series 3 into DOS Microsoft Word, all you need to do is: -> When prompted for the name of a stylesheet, give "S3" (or whatever you named the first of the two stylesheets) -> Once the load has completed, use Format Stylesheet Attach to attach the second stylesheet, "S3P" or whatever, instead. Use of BOTH stylesheets is essential to the operation of the scheme. The system takes some effort to set up but you will be amply rewarded with its power and ease of use in the long run.