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- DJ_BothSides for Windows v1.3 demo
-
- DJ_BothSides is a Windows utility for the Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 500 printer
- that prints ASCII text files on both sides of the paper in one or two columns
- or in booklet (folded) format. In doing so, it automatically selects an
- appropriate typeface and page orientation.
-
- Please note that the demo will not process more than 16 pages of text.
-
- Changes for version 1.3:
- * Now fully multitasking (to a Centronics parallel printer port).
- * New `Print minimized' menu item.
- * Tab expansion corrected.
- * Report contains more information and most of it is directed to a dialogue
- form rather than to a text window.
- * Numbers > 999 in report contain commas.
- * When the program is LOADed from WIN.INI, the minimized icon is no longer
- slow to appear (Windows 3.1 only).
- * Table in help describing wide file formats tidied up.
- * Minor improvement to some dialogues.
-
- Changes for version 1.2a:
- * [Esc] key no longer disables `Print' menu item.
- * Dialogues no longer resizeable.
-
- Changes for version 1.2:
- * Portrait 20-pitch, 6-point Courier option for files too wide for 12-point
- and up to 132 characters wide.
- * Print envelope option.
- * Footer positioning improved and path component of file name now optional.
- * Subsequent `instance' stopped.
- * More messages when options conflict.
- * Width of print options dialogue reduced and all dialogues now movable.
- * Warning beeps added.
- * Facility for preventing an `Unrecoverable Application Error' when printer
- switched off.
- * Non-ASCII character count added to report.
- * A folded output bug, where part of the front page was misplaced if a
- document had a non-zero minimum left-hand margin, has been corrected.
- * A folded output bug for files containing form-feeds, where a line at the
- foot of a page was occasionally lost, has been corrected.
- * Report of maximum page depth corrected.
- * Empty file trapped.
- * `Run minimized' menu item. (Not much use until the program multitasks
- properly, so it's disabled for the time being.)
-
- Changes for version 1.1a:
- * Print options dialogue [Cancel] button now stops endless display of `too
- wide for printing' message.
- * Truncated lines in folded output should no longer occur.
- * Top margin for 6-point output increased by 2 lines.
- * Booklet formats now include 12-point, 7 lines/inch Courier output for
- files containing form-feeds.
- * The [PgUp] key suppresses/activates printing (if reports are requested).
-
- Changes for version 1.1:
- * Unexpected, random backspaces should no longer appear in double-columned
- and folded 6-point output.
- * Escape key aborts printing (if reports are requested).
- * Help button added to reload paper dialogue.
- * Main window position remembered.
- * Lines not ending in CR/LF allowed.
- * Some minor bugs corrected.
-
- I'm considering the following improvements:
- * A toolbar.
- * Support for Microsoft Word 2.0 `print to file' documents.
- * Support for more cartridge fonts, but your responses indicate that
- Hewlett-Packard aren't selling many cartridges!
- * Cater for arbitrary form-feed position.
-
- David Tilley
- 26 June, 1992
-
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