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- Visual Forms/WIN and PrintWorks Evaluation Copy
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- Included on this disk are two demo programs - Visual Forms/WIN and
- PrintWorks VBX. Use these products independently or with each other.
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- *** Visual Forms/WIN (VFW) ***
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- Files include: DESIGN.EXE, PANE.VBX, DESIGN.HLP, DESIGN.ICO
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- This is a fully functional program for creating base forms (static)
- as well as positioning your data fields (variable) directly on those forms.
- The ability to create a Windows Metafile (WMF) and Template File (TF)
- are not available in this demo. However, these features plus creating
- a WMF with a placeable header are available in the distributed version.
- Read the Help file (DESIGN.HLP) to understand how the program works
- before you get started.
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- 1. Read the section in the Help file on how to move, re-size and select
- objects as well as actions for keyboard Keys.
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- 2. When adding multiple lines of text, press CTRL+ENTER after each line
- unless you want the text to wordwrap.
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- 3. Create a new Font List or add additional fonts the DEFAULT font list
- before adding new text objects.
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- 4. Clicking the Properties button on the toolbar toggles it on/off.
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- 5. Press CTRL+Left Mouse button to add another object to already
- selected objects.
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- Using Visual Forms/WIN (VFW)
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- Visual Forms/WIN is an interactive forms designer that creates complex
- base forms and documents that are saved as standard Windows metafiles.
- You can even load a BMP file of a form directly into VFW and simply
- position your data fields. This is a quick and easy way to create
- base forms with data fields. Then include them into your application
- using PrintWorks VBX. (See below). Or load a BMP of the form and draw
- directly on top of it as if it were on a light box - to be saved as a
- Windows metafile. This eliminates measuring and guess work. Import
- OCR or ASCII text files and format as left, right, centered or fully
- justified. This saves time in adding large copy blocks such as
- instructions found on many forms. If you don't like the way a font
- looks, make a global change from one font for another with a click of
- the mouse. Copy or repeat one or more objects to another location --
- ideal for labels or sections of a form containing similar yet different
- attributes.
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- Template files (TF) that are created with VFW are used with PrintWorks.
- Template files contain all the necessary information for your data
- fields - Xpos, Ypos, field name or system assigned number, font, text
- formatting, such as: left, right, center, decimal align or fully
- justified. When used with PrintWorks, your customers preview and print
- forms filled with data from within your Visual Basic application.
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- *** PrintWorks VBX ***
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- Files included: PWDLL.DLL, DMWIN.VBX, DMWIN.HLP, PRINTWKS.ICO
- The only differnce between the evaluation copy and and program disk
- is that DMWIN.LIC is not included with this evaluation copy. It is
- however, included on the Program disk when PrintWorks is purchased.
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- TESTn.EXE, TESTn.*, WMF, TF, TFL, BMP - are used for the demo.
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- TEST1.EXE and TEST2.EXE are demos programs. To run the demos, either
- click TEST1.EXE and TEXT2.EXE from the Windows File Manager, or
- create a Program Item on the Windows desktop using PRINTWKS.ICO for
- the icon.
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- DMWIN.HLP is the help file. Click this file from Windows File Manager
- to read.
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- TEST1.EXE consists of 8 controls. Make sure TF, TFL, BMP and WMF files
- are in your working directory to run the demos. TEST1.EXE
- demonstrates the following:
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- Line objects, direct API calls
- Three-D Bar, Bitmaps, starting Preview close up
- Three-D Pie
- Fonts and formatted text
- Rotated Text, PrintEvent and PreviewingClosing custom events
- Multiple pages, Forms, Templates, Data Fields, Metric units,
- Landscape orientation
- Invisible control
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- TEST2.EXE demonstrates using the control as a picture window.
- Command buttons show how to zoom in and out, and how the scroll
- bars automatically appear when needed. This demo also shows how
- the PrintDocument property can be used with the control as a picture
- window to create your own custom preview window.
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- Using PrintWorks VBX
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- PrintWorks is a custom control that greatly simplifies creating, pre-
- viewing and printing documents of all kinds. When used with Visual
- Forms/WIN, your users can preview, print and FAX forms filled with
- data from within your program.
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- PrintWorks creates the output by actually drawing it, not by using
- graphics controls or executing a form print. PrintWorks uses the graphics
- capability of the Windows API to create scalable matafiles to represent
- each page. This results in using less resouces and is the most efficient
- method to preview and print while at the same time produce the highest
- quality output. Preview and print multiple pages with different
- orientations (portait and landscape) and units of meassure (inches and
- metric).
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- There are approximately 90 properties to create customized forms and
- reports containing formatted text (including wordwrap and decimal align),
- lines, circles, rectangles, graphics, and arcs. The hMetaDC property
- contains the metfile device context allowing you to access the Windows
- API directly so that you can add your own routines. You can also save
- PrintWorks metafiles to disk to use with other applicaitons. Use as a
- command button, a picture window or make invisible.
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- Pricing:
- Visual Forms/WIN $249.00
- PrintWorks VBX $149.00 (OCX also available)
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- For more information contact:
- Bytech Business Systems, Inc.
- 5C Medical Park Dr.
- Pomona, NY 10970
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- (914) 354-8666
- (914) 354-5433 FAX
- 74577,1032 CompuServe
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