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- 6"mMAGNETIC PAGES: Displayer V1.30 Help
-
- There are several pages of help
- information. Use the 'NEXT' and 'PREV'
- gadgets to move to the next previous
- pages respectively. Use the 'EXIT'
- gadget to return to the magazine.
-
- Terminology
- Page - There are two distinct types
- the Text Page and the Graphics Page. A
- Text Page can contain both text and
- graphics whereas a Graphics Page
- contains just one picture.
-
- Contents Page - A page containing
- icons that allow you to branch to
- different articles.
-
- Article - A group of one or more Pages
- loaded from disk together.
-
- Section - A group of Articles with the
- same Contents Page.
-
- Moving Around the Magazine
- You can move around the magazine
- using the Menus Gadgets or the
- Keyboard. Note that on a Graphics Page
- there are no Gadgets so you must use
- the Menus or the Keyboard.
-
- Command Menu Gadget Key
- --------------------------------------
- Go forward Next Page G3m Cursor
- a Page Right
-
- Go back a Prev Page G5m Cursor
- Page Left
-
- Command Menu Gadget Key
- --------------------------------------
- Go to the 1st Page G0m SHIFT+
- 1st Page of Cursor
- an Article Left
-
- Go to the Last Page G1m SHIFT+
- Last Page Cursor
- of an Article Right
-
- Go to the Next Article G2m Cursor
- Next Article Up
-
- Go to the Prev Article G6m Cursor
- Previous Down
- Article
-
- Go to the Contents G4m Space
- Contents Bar
- Page
- Printing
- There are two printing modes
- available.
-
- Text Only - allows you to print just
- the text from a page. All graphics
- will be ignored.
-
- Graphics Dump - This will print the
- whole page including all text and
- graphics.
-
- When printing in 'Text Only' mode
- two pages of the magazine will usually
- fit on a single sheet of paper.
- However on some printers this won't be
- possible. The '2 Pages/Single Sheet'
- gadget gives you the choice of
- printing one or two pages per single
- sheet of paper.
- Note that when you are printing a
- whole article section or the entire
- magazine printing will always begin
- with the page you are currently on.
- This means that if you have to abort
- printing part way through you can
- resume from where you left off.
-
- Saving Text
- You can save the text from a page
- or article as a standard ASCII file.
- You can then load this file into a
- Text Editor or Word Processor.
-
- Saving Graphics
- You can save a page as an IFF
- picture. You can then load this
- picture into a paint program such as
- DeluxePaint.
-
- Text Search
- This command allows you to search
- the magazine for a particular word or
- sentence. You can choose to search the
- current page article section or entire
- magazine. The 'Case Sensitive' gadget
- allows you to distinguish between
- upper and lowercase characters.
-
- Sleep
- Allows you to free almost all
- memory used by the magazine. A small
- window will be displayed in the top
- right corner of the Workbench
- screen.To return to the magazine click
- in this window once with the left
- mouse button and then once with the
- right button.
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