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HI-RES WORKSTATION DOCS, Part 2 [Graphics Transparent Mode] ENTRY: f3 key EXIT: RETURN for freehand draw SHIFT RETURN for menu f1,f5,f7 for another mode Graphics transparent mode lets you see what results will look like before they become a permanent part of the screen. When you enter this mode with f3 you will see some type of graphic in the upper-lefthand corner of the screen. This graphic may be garbage if you were using another mode prior to entry. If you have just loaded the program. The graphic may be the Hi-Res Workstation marquee. Whatever it is, do not worry about the screen display. The graphic which can be moved with the JOYSTICK is transparent and is not a permanent part of the screen. Manipulating the graphic The transparent graphic can be maneuvered with the following. JOYSTICK moves the graphic FIRE fastens to the screen with EOR, OR, AND(msk) F,I,R F'lip, I'nvert & R'everse UP ARROW rotate 90 degrees HOME move to top/left corner all SM commands are available Fastening the graphic To make a graphic a part of the screen press the FIRE button on the JOYSTICK. This will stamp the image on the screen. Now when you move the graphic a copy will be left behind. To remove place the graphic over the same area and press FIRE. This will remove it from the screen if you are using EOR which is the default stamp. Other stamp modes are listed below. CTRL E..EOR...reversible CTRL O..OR....non reversible CTRL A..AND...MASK out LOADing files Any window, graphic(PS), and partial screen may be used as a transparent. Any window file that is too large to be used will become truncated. Use the following keys to LOAD/SAVE files. W LOADs window files (w.) G LOADs graphic(PS) files (g.) SHIFT W SAVEs window SHIFT G SAVEs graphic(PS) [NOTE:] Each of the above keys will take you to the file requestor screen. Grab Mode: In addition to LOADing graphics from disk you can also grab any part of the screen as a transparent. The amount that can be grabbed various from 1K to 2K. The maximum amount depends on how much RAM is available for a buffer. You will always be able to grab at least a 1K size area. To grab something from the screen press SPACE and a shaded window will appear. You can change the size of the window the same as in WINDOW edit mode. Move this window over the area you wish to grab then press RETURN. If you decide to cancel, use the BACK ARROW key. The following keys are active while the window is on the screen. CLR clears a window SPACE window/full screen scroll RETURN grab from screen BACK ARROW cancel Storing/recalling from RAM You can store any transparent to a more permanent part of memory which is guaranteed not to be disturbed by other program modes. Up to eight different graphic transparents may be stored (memory permitting). Storing a graphic is performed by using C= S. If the graphic is stored a bell is sounded. To recall a graphic, hold down the C= key and use 1-8. Each number represents a different graphic. To delete a graphic from RAM use C=+CTRL and 1-8. The screen will blank while memory is being rearranged. In order to be safe be sure to select the graphic before you delete. When a graphic is deleted it will still remain in volatile memory until a new graphic is used. SAVING/LOADing a group of graphics for transparent mode Saving and loading a group of transparent graphics is done from the main menu. You may LOAD or SAVE a set of graphics by using main menu selections 3 and 4. When you select either 3 or 4 a reversed question mark will appear next to I/O. Press I for INPUT (LOAD) from a device or O for OUTPUT (SAVE) to a device. This will take you to the file requestor screen. When using a file name keep in mind that the other names will be derived from the first. The third letter will be incremented for each file. You should use either "a" or "1" for the third letter. See example below. w.1 file name g.a file name w.2 file name g.b file name w.3 file name g.c file name When saving, the number of graphics for transparent mode that will be saved is under "memory info" next to "graf". When loading the program will continue to load files until there's no more memory or a disk error occurs. You may cancel by holding down the C= key. [TEXT MODE] ENTRY: f5 key EXIT: RETURN for freehand draw (if cursor is inactive) SHIFT RETURN for menu f1,f3,f7 for another mode Brief overview: Text mode is indeed a most powerful feature of Hi-Res Workstation. This mode allows typing of text in various fonts, styles, and point sizes. Text is proportionally spaced and entered on a line by line basis. Wordwrap with left, center, right and full justification is also available. The most powerful feature of text mode, however, is its ability to LOAD and format pet ASCII text using multiple fonts. Most wordprocessors allow saving their text in this way giving you the ease of using your favorite wordprocessor for writing your main body of text. Then by using Workstation's text mode you can LOAD and format text to the hi-res screen(s). Typing text to the screen When you enter text mode by pressing f5 you will see a vertical line cursor. This cursor is inactive (nonblinking) at first. Move the cursor with the JOYSTICK to select the left margin. The right margin is the right edge of the border. The right margin cannot be moved. So you may need to temporarily scroll the screen to position where text is to be typed. After entering text simply scroll the screen back to its original position, if necessary. To enter text just start typing it to the screen. If you make a mistake use the DELete key to erase. Care needs to be taken when typing in text because once a line is entered it can't be altered. You do not have to return each line. Let wordwrap take care of that for you. If you need to move the cursor to begin a new paragraph just move the JOYSTICK. Take caution, however. The current line you are working on cannot be altered afterwards. When the cursor is deactivated (not blinking) all SM commands are available. Since any JOYSTICK movement deactivates the cursor, it is a good idea to keep the JOYSTICK where it cannot be moved by accident. [NOTE:] When typing in lines using different size fonts, don't worry about any overlap or gap in vertical spacing. The line will drop down or move up after it has been entered. ACTIVE KEYS CTRL B'old CTRL O'utline CTRL U'nderline CTRL R'everse CTRL I'talics CTRL N'ormal C= (1-6) selects font CTRL BACK ARROW text options menu Using the text options Typing CTRL BACK ARROW will bring up the text options. The first menu is style. Bold, italics, outline, reverse, and underline are available. Each of these styles are additive, meaning that more than one can be selected at once. There's also an option to revert back to normal text. Press either RETURN for next menu or BACK ARROW to exit. Justification is the next menu with the options of left, center, right and full. These selections determine how the body of text is to be arranged. Make the desired selection and either press RETURN for next menu or BACK ARROW to exit. Text link is the third option. Setting this value to zero will ignore the link configuration and you will be limited to typing on one screen. When the value is set to 1 you can type across or down multiple screens (link permitting). The forth selection is vertical spacing. This is sometimes referred to as "leading". The value here indicates the minimum vertical space in pixels between lines. Option number five "skip" is used for text LOADing. The value here is the number of bytes to skip from a text file. This allows continuation of a LOAD that has been stopped. See text LOAD for more information. The final option is the font selection. To select a font use the number keys. To LOAD a new font press L. This will bring up the file requestor screen. To delete a font from memory use the DELete key after selecting the desired font. The amount of memory available for all fonts is shown at the left of the screen. Each font listed displays the point size followed by the name and number of blocks the font uses. [NOTE:] You can skip from the first to the last text option by using the UP ARROW key. Text LOADing As stated earlier you can LOAD unformatted pet ASCII text to the hi- res screen using different fonts and justification. To LOAD text use CTRL BACK ARROW to call the text options menu. Answer all menus and prompts. The last prompt will be a file name. Either use the file requestor or type one in the box. Once a file has been selected and found you will see a shaded window appear on the hi-res screen. This window represents where the text will be LOADed. Manipulating the window is done the same way as in WINDOW edit mode. The following keys are now active. CLR...........clears window SPACE.........window/screen scroll RETURN........LOAD text to screen BACK ARROW....cancel text LOAD All SM commands are available Once you have adjusted the window and placed it where you want the text, press RETURN to start the LOAD. The text will LOAD formatting to the size of the window. After the last line has LOADed, you can select another area or use BACK ARROW to exit. If you stop LOADing a file, you can pick up where you left off by getting the SKIP value from the text options menu after a LOAD. This may not be necessary if you are only LOADing from one text file. [NOTE:] Before attempting any of the following, screens must be linked via the menu screen and text link set to 1 via text options. Text on linked screens (across) When screens are linked across, the right margin will be the right border of the last screen. For example, if there are two screens linked, the right margin will be at the border of the second screen. This holds true if you are LOADing text on linked screens also. When LOADing text the window will be light blue and you will not be able to the change the right margin. Make sure the screen areas are clear or the LOAD will not be permitted. [NOTE:] When typing on across linked screens, the screens will shift in half screen increments when you reach the right border. This shifting will continue until the right border of the last linked screen, after which the screens will adjust to continue with the next line. Text on linked screens (down) When screens are linked down you will be able to type down past the initial screen. The screens will scroll up in half screen increments allowing more space for text until the bottom of the last linked screen. When LOADing the window will be light red and you will not be able to adjust the bottom border. Loading on down linked screens is handy for arranging text in multiple column format. You must make sure, however, that the area below the initial screen is clear or the LOAD will not be permitted. FONTs on this disk The fonts that appear on this disk are numerous in variety and size. The font name will give you the point size and if the font contains upper and/or lower case characters. If a name consist of both upper and lowercase characters, then the font does also. If a name consist of uppercase only, then the font has just uppercase and no lowercase. [PIXEL EDIT MODE] ENTRY: f7 key EXIT: RETURN for freehand mode SHIFT RETURN for menu f1,f3,f5 for another mode Pixel edit is a close-up mode used for fine editing of small areas. When entering pixel mode by using f7 you will see a shaded window that represents the area. You can move this window with the JOYSTICK. While the window is on the screen all SM commands are available. After you have selected an area to edit, press FIRE or SPACE and you will see a close-up view of that section. In the center of the screen is a square icon. This is the cursor. Move it with the JOYSTICK and hold FIRE to change the pixel underneath. At the bottom of the screen is a menu of three editing modes toggle, draw, and erase. Select each mode by hitting the first letter in each. Also at the bottom of the screen is a representation of the actual size of the area. This makes it easy to see how changes will look. Other functions include: SPACE moves out to the shaded window allowing you to select another area or screen with SM commands. CRSR keys scroll the viewing area. CLR clears the viewing area. CTRL U to undo the previous changes. SHIFT SPACE toggles the display on/off. RETURN exits to freehand draw. [PRINTER PROGRAMS] Using the printer section you can print from one to three screens in memory or a whole document of many screens in a variety of useful ways. In order to get a printout you will need to use the correct print program for your printer. EPSON print The Epson print program should work for most Epson compatible printers (any printer that has an EPSON MODE). Your interface will have to be set to transparent by either using the print program or by switching dip switches directly on the interface itself. Fortunately, most interfaces have a special secondary address code that allows them to be transparent. COMMODORE print The Commodore 7 pin print program will work for all commodore compatible printers. Commodore printers do not give near the quality of printouts as Epson compatibles do. A good investment in improving your computer system would be a quality Epson compatible printer. Going to the printer section The print program LOADed by the main program when GOTO PRINTER is selected will be the first one on DISK. You can select any printer directly by LOADing a utility. All printer files are essentially utilities that begin with the "U- print." prefix. To avoid having to select your printer from utilities only the correct printer utility should be copied to other disk. EPSON and COMMODORE printer programs Once you have LOADed the correct printer program you should see a menu of four main selections SCREENs, LOAD, PRINT, and OPTIONs. SCREENs Selecting this will allow you to alter the order of the screens. All SM commands except COPY are available. Press RETURN to return to the menu screen. LOAD This will LOAD from 1 to 3 screens depending on the link configuration. PRINT This prints from memory 1 to 3 screens depending on the link. OPTIONS Use OPTIONS to change how the screens will be printed. When OPTIONs is selected, a list of options is displayed on screen with the selected option highlighted. Move the selector bar with CRSR up and down. CRSR left and right will change the value of the option. The + and - keys will increment or decrement the value by 10. To exit options press RETURN. HORZ SCALE and VERT SCALE These are the first options on the OPTIONs display. These values will determine how large the printout will be. For example, if you are printing one screen (320 x 200 pixels) at a scale value of 2.0 HORZ by 2.0 VERT, then the printout will be 640 x 400 (320 x 2.0 by 200 x 2.0). Be sure to change the density to adjust for the larger printout TOP and LEFT margins Each value represents the number of dots at the TOP and to the LEFT of the screens/document. To center a MULTI-screen document use the following. LEFT margin ((paper width(8 inches) x density)- (320 x #of horz screens x horz scale)) / 2 TOP margin ((paper length(11 inches) x vert density(72 for 8/9 pin))-(200 x #of vert screens x vert scale)) /2 DENSITY Density refers to how close the horizontal dots are to be printed. Your printer may or may not support every density available. The densities with asterisks by them are the ones most likely to cause problems with older printers. DEVICE The printer device should be changed to match that of your printer or interface.The default of 4 should be correct for most printers. SECONDARY (EPSON only) This value affects how the interface behaves. The desired secondary device is one that will give a transparent operations (no emulation). This should be 5 for most printer interfaces. Refer to your printer or interface manual. QUALITY (EPSON only) Use a value of 0 for draft (one pass) and a value of 1 for multipass printing. Be aware that the density will also affect the quality of the printout. [NOTE:] Get the darkest print by using multipass print and a density of 240. Then by using different HORZ scale values you can simulate the width of the following densities. HORZ scale equal density width 2.0 120 dpi 3.0 80 dpi 4.0 60 dpi SIDEWAYS Change this value to one for sideways printing. Keep in mind the scale values apply after rotation. [NOTE:] Entire documents can also be printed sideways if the number of screens down is no more than three. BOX TOP and LEFT With these values it is possible to box an entire document of multiple screens. This might add a nice final touch to any flyer or brochure. Both of these values should be greater than one, yet less (most likely 1/2) the TOP and LEFT margins respectively. 0=n/216, 1=n/72 (EPSON only) This is a technical adjustment to make to the vertical advancement of the paper. It is best to use 0 (n/216) if compatible with your printer. If not try 1 (n/72) value. Older printers are most likely to give problems with n/216. DOCument menu [NOTE:] Use BACK ARROW to go between the two menus. The document menu is for printing a multi-screen page. Even with 3 screens in memory this is not nearly enough to cover an 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of paper. Documents are printed by LOADing a section at a time then printing that section and repeating on until the last section has been printed. DOC define This should be selected first to define the document as to the number of screens across and down. The starting file name is also defined here. DOC preview This will show a compressed view of an entire document up to 3 x 4 screens. DOC print Use this selection to print an entire document from disk. Remember to check the option settings prior to printing. DOC LOAD This selection LOADs all option and document settings, including the starting file name. This makes printing your favorite flyer or brochure much easier. DOC SAVE This SAVEs all option and document settings, including the starting file name. Document files begin with the DOC. prefix. PRINTER commands Only send printer commands if you know what you are doing. The default command for Epson printers is a RESET. For Commodore it is a simple line feed in graphics mode. Most commands are sent to make fine adjustments to your printer's settings. Exiting back to the MAIN program To exit the printer, or any other utility for that matter, use SHIFT- Q.