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- README.TXT
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- This file provides information on the following subjects:
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- SHARE.EXE
- Setting a Gray Screen Background
- Printing Adjustments
- Envelope Printing
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- SHARE.EXE
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- Microsoft Profit requires that the DOS utility SHARE.EXE be running.
- During installation, Profit attempted to add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- Depending on how your AUTOEXEC.BAT file is structured, it may or may not
- have been able to do so.
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- You need to have the following line invoked prior to starting Windows. The
- easiest solution is to make sure that it is located in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- prior to the line where Windows is started.
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- Share /f:4096 /l:40
-
- You should not have any other SHARE statements before this line or they
- will take priority.
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- SETTING A GRAY SCREEN BACKGROUND
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- You can add a line in the MSPROFIT.INI file that will turn the
- gray "pinstripes" in Profit to a light gray background. This is
- useful if you have a high resolution monitor that is prone to flickering.
-
- Put the following line in the [msprofit] section of MSPROFIT.INI:
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- GrayBackground=1
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- PRINTING ADJUSTMENTS
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- While Microsoft Profit was tested on many different printers, Profit may
- need to be adjusted slightly on your printer to align with preprinted Deluxe
- forms.
-
- In the MSPROFIT.INI file (found in your WINDOWS subdirectory) are two lines:
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- PrintOffsetX=0
- PrintOffsetY=0
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- These control the horizontal and vertical placement of printing on a form.
- To use these offsets, first verify that your printer is printing an invoice
- correctly on a custom Deluxe form. By increasing or decreasing the offsets
- by one, you move the printed region 1/32".
-
- Examples:
- PrintOffsetX=4 moves the printed region 4/32" right and PrintOffsetX=-4
- moves it 4/32" left. PrintOffsetY=4 moves it 4/32" down, etc.
-
- At this time, the offsets only adjust the placement of invoices, quotes,
- refunds, and checks. Reports, billing stmts, labels and envelopes are
- produced by a nonadjustable report writer.
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- ENVELOPE PRINTING
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- Microsoft Profit detects the type of printer you have and determines
- the proper page layout to print envelopes. For some printers Profit may
- be unable to obtain enough information to print the envelope correctly.
- In those cases, it is possible to configure some portions of the envelope
- layout manually by adding settings for your printer to the MSPROFIT.INI
- file. If your envelopes are printing correctly, you can skip this
- section.
-
- The following settings are available:
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- Setting Value/Description
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Force Portrait 1 Always print in portrait orientation.
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- Force Landscape 2 Always print in landscape orientation.
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- Align Left 4 Align to the left side of the paper tray.
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- Align Right 8 Align to the right side of the paper tray.
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- Use Envelope Feeder 16 An envelope feeder is installed and should
- be used.
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- Reverse Landscape 32 Normally when a printer prints to paper in
- landscape orientation, the text is drawn
- down the page (as viewed when holding the
- paper in portrait landscape). This setting
- indicates that the printer draws up the
- paper when printing landscape text.
-
- To apply these settings to your printer, you need to know the name
- of your printer driver. This can be determined by viewing the
- WIN.INI file using the SysEdit program supplied with Windows. Run
- SysEdit by selecting 'Run...' from the File menu in Program Manager.
- Type SysEdit and press return and the System Edit program will be
- opened with your AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI
- files displayed, each in its own window. Click on the WIN.INI
- window to bring it to the top and find the 'device=<some printer>'
- line in the [windows] section (where <some printer> is information
- about the default printer). For example if you have an Apple
- LaserWriter II NTX you may see:
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- device=Apple LaserWriter II NTX,pscript,LPT2:
-
- The text between the commas in the 'device=' entry is your printer
- driver name. In the example above, 'pscript' is the printer driver.
-
- To change the way Profit configures the page for envelopes, add an
- entry to your MSPROFIT.INI file (found in your WINDOWS directory)
- by editing it with Windows Notepad or another text editor. In the
- [MSPROFIT] section, add a line with your printer driver as its name
- and its value being the settings you want changed. For example, to
- print envelopes on the Apple LaserWriter II NTX on the left side of
- the page, add the following entry:
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- [MSPROFIT] <-- this line will already be present
- pscript=+4 <-- this is the new line
-
- The '+' before the value tells Profit to remember its internal
- settings for the printer, while leaving it out tells Profit to
- completely replace the internal settings with those specified
- in the .INI file. It is generally best to add the '+'.
-
- To print envelopes on the same printer on the left side of
- the paper tray (4) and in portrait orientation (1), add the two
- individual settings together:
-
- [MSPROFIT]
- pscript=+5
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