Thank you for purchasing Colorizer™, the complete color accessory kit for the Macintosh II. Colorizer is designed to provide many of the most-requested color capabilities for your Macintosh II.
We hope you will enjoy your use of Colorizer. If you have any problems, please don’t hesitate to contact Palomar Software.
This Colorizer distribution disk contains version 1.1. This document lists minor differences that were discovered since the printing of the manual.
Please take a few minutes to review these notes before installing Colorizer on your hard disk. You may also wish to refer to the manual to decide which of the four main components you wish to install.
If you are installing Colorizer 1.1 as an update to Colorizer 1.0, there are several things you should be aware of.
First, there are two different installation procedures provided for the Colors accessory. You should use “Update Colors” if you want to keep any custom color schemes you designed using version 1.0.
Also, the MacWrite document “1.1 Update” contains a detailed description of the changes since 1.0, and can be used to supplement the 1.0 manual. You can also purchase a copy of the 1.1 manual; please contact Palomar for more information.
This disk contains the Colorizer software, documentation and installation scripts for that software. It also contains a portion of the System 4.2/Finder 6.0 system software distribution, as licensed from Apple Computer, Inc.
The four components are:
Colorizer: an application
Colors: a Control Panel accessory
Color SaveScreen: a function key (normally FKEY #5)
Color PrintScreen: a function key (normally FKEY #6)
They can be recognized by their respective icons, as shown below:
Of these, the Colorizer application is normally installed by dragging it anywhere on your hard disk.
Automatic installation scripts are provided for the remaining parts of Colorizer. The two FKEY’s can also be installed using Carlos Weber’s FKEY Manager.
Apple’s Installer application is used to automatically add the Colors, Color SaveScreen and Color PrintScreen software to your hard disk.
When you launch the Installer, it will display a list of installation commands, as shown below:
If you’re not sure what a particular script does, select it and click Help.
Note that there are two different scripts for installing Colors. The “Colors” script should be used by new owners of Colorizer, while “Colors Update” is recommended only for those who’ve previously installed Colors.
Due to the way QuickDraw maps colors to black & white, certain colors will be printed as white (and thus not printed) by Color PrintScreen on a B&W printer. This problem does not occur if you select color printing with PrintScreen.
Finder 6.0 allows you to color-code icons; one of those standard colors, cyan (turquoise blue), normally maps to white.
This disk includes a script to modify the Finder’s cyan to be slightly darker, and thus will be printed as black by Color PrintScreen.
Also note that when printing the desktop in Color using PrintScreen, many printers (e.g. ImageWriter II) will map the each color to the nearest of eight possible colors. On such printers, the brown used by Finder 6.0 will be printed as black.
Version 1.1 of the Colors accessory features an extensively revised user interface, based on feedback from 1.0 owners and beta testers of 1.1. Of course, beta testers are never satisfied, and even after the manual was printed, we were still getting suggestions. We decided to heed those suggestions to get the best possible interface.
The operation of Colors remains as described in Chapter 3. However, the exact layout of the Windows and Menus subpanels has changed slightly. The two panels are now similar to each other, and the sample color is always shown in a small square to the left of the pop-up menu.
These differences affect Figure 3-2, 3-4, 3-5 and 3-6 on pages 23-29.
Also, the dialogs shown in Figure 6-14 and 6-15 (pp. 59-60) were not updated for version 1.1 of the application. In particular the Add Color dialog will add multiple colors in succession until you click Done. The Modify Color dialog has also been changed slightly.
1. The “Startup Screen” subpanel of Colors is unreliable when (RAM) memory is scarce.
2. Color PrintScreen fails when the PrintMonitor application is the frontmost window.
3. When the Control Panel is used on a screen other than the main screen (the one with the menu bar), the pop-up menu will appear on the main screen, instead of within the Control Panel. Move your cursor over to the pop-up menu to select an item.
4. If you change the color scheme in the “Menus” subpanel of Colors under MultiFinder, the menus of applications already open won’t be changed. You can, however, hold down the Option key when selecting Control Panel from the apple menu, which allows Colors to change the menus of the current (frontmost) application.
