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- PAMPHLET Ver 1.1
- A printing utility for the HP LaserJet
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- Copyright (C) 1987
-
- Martin Beattie
- 9190 Rolling Tree Lane
- Fair Oaks, CA 95628
- CompuServe [76555,454]
- GEnie [M.BEATTIE]
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- PAMPHLET is a printing utility to help keep your hardcopy
- printouts, listings, etc neatly and in a more managable size. It
- lists a text file to the HP Laser Jet in the landscape mode and
- places 2 pages side by side. These pages are not printed
- sequentially, but in the order required to create a small
- manuscript or pamphlet. It requires two passes of the paper
- through the printer and thereby prints 4 pages per sheet. The
- page placement is calculated by the program making a dummy run
- through the file to be printed to determine page breaks. The
- pages are counted, the number of sheets are calculated and then
- the individual pages are assigned to a specific sheet location.
- The printing process then begins and all of the "front sides" of
- the sheets are printed. The operator is prompted to turn the
- paper over and, when ready, touch the <ENTER> key to start the
- "back page" printing. If you have a LaserJet Series II, all you
- need to do is to use PAMPHLET.COM. After the first half of the
- pages are printed, then take the entire stack EXACTLY as it lies
- in the out tray and place it in the paper tray. DO NOT turn it
- over or around -- the alignment and sequencing should be correct.
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- If you have a LaserJet which does not have internal landscape
- compressed print, you need a Y cartridge for this program to
- work. I do not know if the orientation of the paper as it comes
- from the printer is appropriate with other LaserJet series. You
- may have to experiment. The program PAMPH.COM will print the
- pages in sequential order with the right hand page front first as
- 1, 3, 5 then left page back 2, 4, 6 if you have trouble with the
- ordering of pages with PAMPHLET.COM. After the first pass, you
- must then re arrange the paper so the the back of 1 (3, 5, etc)
- will print in order for the second pass. Place the numbered page
- (1,3,5) face down with the top of the minipage (and the page
- number) to the left of the paper tray. Arrange it so that the
- sheet with page 1 will feed first, 3 second, etc. Lastly, a
- title page will be printed if one has been requested.
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- Pagination is determined by linecount of 66 or the presence of a
- form feed character. Line length is limited to 80 characters.
- Longer lines will wrap around--such lines will begin with "---->"
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- The program is run from the DOS prompt as follows:
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- C>PAMPHLET d:path\filename[.ext] [/fdpm] [Title string]
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- The "/" options will ELIMINATE the presence of the filename,
- date, and page numbers on the top line of each page. The default
- state prints a header line with all of this information. If you
- elect to use this option all desired options should be adjacent
- to the "/" (ie. "/fd") if they are separated by spaces they will
- inadvertantly appear in the title page. The "m" option reduces
- line length to 70 to allow holes to be punched along the center
- margins. The default line length is 80.
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- The [Title String] can be more than one word an up to about 40
- characters in length. It will be placed on a separate title
- page.
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- This program may be freely copied and distributed freely provided
- 1) that no fee is charged for such copying and distribution and
- 2) that it is distributed ONLY in its original, unmodified state.
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- If you like this program, and find it of use, a contribution
- and registration would be appreciated. If you are using this
- program in a commercial environment, registration is mandatory.
- Registered users will receive a diskette containing the latest
- version of PAMPHLET (C) and the Turbo Pascal source code. I have
- recently obtained a copy of Turbo C. If source in C is
- available, it will be provided as well. A contribution of $15 is
- suggested.
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- If you correspond with comments and/or questions please note
- which version you are using.
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- Have fun,
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- Martin
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