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- CONTENTS
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- The first time you print, you will need to make
- sure that Wordworth and your printer are set up
- correctly.
-
- SETTING UP A POSTSCRIPT PRINTER
- SETTING UP YOUR PRINTER
-
-
- Once setup, the document can be printed in
- different ways:
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- PRINTING A LANDSCAPE DOCUMENT
- PRINTING YOUR DOCUMENT
- MAIL MERGING DOCUMENTS
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-
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- * PRINTING FILES
- Setting Up Your Printer
-
- The "Print Setup" requester is used to configure
- the settings for your printer, including the
- printer driver used by Wordworth when printing.
- The driver can be changed by selecting the
- appropriate name from the list gadget.
-
- Print Method:
- Determines what fonts are available when
- editing (the default is Normal):
- ° Normal - Agfa Compugraphic, Adobe
- PostScript Type 1, TrueType
- and Amiga fonts with
- graphics.
- ° Printer Font - Internal printer fonts only
- and no graphics.
- ° PostScript - PostScript printers only,
- see also POSTSCRIPT OPTIONS .
-
-
- Paper Type:
- Determines what type of paper is used for
- printing.
- ° Continuous - Assumes continuous paper and
- so does not ask for more
- paper.
- ° Cut sheet - Asks for more paper and may
- need "Print Border" settings.
- ° Sheet feeder - Assumes multiple sheets and
- so does not ask for more
- paper. May need "Print
- Border" settings.
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-
- Print Border:
- Sets the unprintable area of your printer to
- avoid blank sheets of paper being ejected
- between each printed page.
-
- Print borders, however, are unnecessary with
- Continuous paper.
-
- If you are not sure about the print borders of
- your printer, set the Top, Left and Right to
- 0.25 inches and the Bottom to 1.0 inches.
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- Buttons:
- ° Click Postscript to set OPTIONS for
- PostScript printing (if you have an expensive
- Type 1 PostScript printer).
- ° Click OK to accept the settings in the
- "Print Setup" requester
- ° Click Cancel to ignore any changes
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- * PRINTING FILES
- Printing Your Document
-
- Choose Print (Project menu) to print your
- document. If you have not already SETUP
- your printer, you must do first.
-
- From this requester you can select:
- ° Range of pages to print
- ° Number of copies to print
- ° Arrangement of the pages
- ° Draft mode
- ° What shade to print (Colour, Black & White
- or Grey)
-
- To print a range of pages:
- Select the Range radio button and type the
- page range in the adjacent text gadget (for
- example, type `2-5' if you wish to print
- pages 2 to 5 of your document).
-
- To print a single page:
- Select the Range radio button and type the
- page that you wish to print into the adjacent
- text gadget (for example, type `5' if you wish
- to print page 5 of your document).
-
-
- Buttons:
- ° Click Print to start printing
- ° Click Setup to go to the "Print Setup"
- requester
- ° Click Cancel to ignore any changes and exit
- the Print requester
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-
-
- * PRINTING FILES
- Mail Merging Documents
-
- This command allows you to combine a document
- with information from a database.
-
- You can `merge' Wordworth documents with any
- database that can export its data as an ASCII
- or DIF (Data Interchange Format) file.
-
- Wordworth also allows you to use SPECIAL COMMANDS
- that can control how data is merged with the
- document.
-
-
-
- * PRINTING FILES
- Advanced Mail Merging
-
- There are several selective commands which you
- can use while mail merging. These commands are
- enclosed in chevrons (« or ») and are preceded
- by a colon (:) to distinguish them from normal
- fields.
-
- «:NEXT»
- This skips on to the next record in the database.
- It is useful when printing more than one record
- on a page, as in a document to print a sheet of
- labels.
-
- «:SKIP» and «:ENDSKIP»
- These two command precede and follow a group of
- field names where you want the empty fields to
- be filled with the contents from the following
- field. This is useful for addresses where some
- fields in the address could be empty and you
- don't want gaps in the middle of the address.
-
- «:IF "field" = "value" NEXT» and
- «:IF "field" = "value" STOP»
- These two commands allow conditional checks of
- the data in fields to allow the printing of only
- selected records.
-
- The first command will skip to the next record
- if the "field" contents match the "value". The
- second command will stop the printing of the
- document if the "field" matches the "value".
-
- Other operators that can be used in place of the
- equals:
- OPERATOR MEANS
- <= (or =<) Less than or equal to
- >= (or =>) Greater than or equal to
- <> Does not equal
- < Less than
- > Greater than
-
- NOTE: All comparisons are case insensitive.
-
-
-
- * PRINTING FILES
- Printing A Document In Landscape
-
- To print a document in Landscape, you must first
- choose DOCUMENT (Format menu) and select the
- Landscape option (you will notice that the Width
- and Height measurements are swapped to produce
- a page on its side, a `Landscape' page). Then
- print the document as normal.
-
- Unfortunately, Landscape printing takes a while
- longer than Portrait.
-
- NOTE: You cannot print Landscape documents in the
- "Internal Printer Font" method.
-
- If you have Landscape turned on before
- changing to "Internal Printer Font" method,
- you will be warned that the page will be
- formatted back to Portrait.
-
-
-
- * PRINTING FILES
- PostScript Printer Options
-
- Before you can print to a PostScript printer
- you must first change the "Print Method" ("Print
- Setup", Project menu) to PostScript.
-
- When editing the document you will find that you
- have eleven special `PS_' fonts available to you
- in the Font requester. These fonts are the
- standard PostScript fonts internal to most
- PostScript printers and, with combinations of Bold
- and Italic versions, gives you 35 typefaces to use.
-
- On screen, these printer fonts are displayed using
- the outline fonts available. For example, if you
- have a Times outline font installed, Wordworth
- will use this for display. If an appropriate font
- does not exist, the `Shannon Book' font will be
- used instead.
-
- To change the PostScript print options, choose
- "Print Setup" (Project menu) and ensure you are
- using the PostScript "Print Method". Click the
- PostScript button at the bottom of the requester
- to reveal the "PostScript Setup" requester.
-
- This requester will allow you to output the print
- job to a file or to the printer. If you are sending
- the printout to a Print Bureau, it is best to print
- to a file and then send the file on disk to be
- printed.
-
- From this requester, you can also Scale the output,
- Offset the position or Rotate it by changing the
- values in the appropriate text gadgets.
-
- NOTE: When using the rotate option, the PostScript
- page is rotated anti-clockwise around the bottom
- left corner. You may, therefore, need to Offset the
- page to see any printout.
-
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- Downloading Fonts
- The gadget "Download Fonts" informs Wordworth to
- send all the PostScript fonts in your document to
- the printer before printing. This is used when
- using fonts which are not internal to the printer.
-
- Only PostScript Type 1 fonts can be downloaded to a
- printer and therefore, if you wish to use any of your
- Agfa Compugraphic fonts in a document, you will have
- to convert them to PostScript format before editing.
-
- Text will be printed in Courier if the font does
- not exist and is not one of the inbuilt fonts.
-
- The options on "Download Fonts" are as follows:
- ° "Once Only" - Any new fonts are downloaded to
- the printer once only.
-
- If the printer is turned off,
- you will need to re-download the
- fonts using the "Every Time"
- option.
-
- ° "Every Time" - All fonts are downloaded to the
- printer every time the document
- is printed.
-
- ° "Never" - Fonts are never downloaded. If
- a font is not internal, and it
- has not been downloaded, the text
- will be printed in Courier.
-