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* Print Shop Soft docs *
* by Doctor Vax *
* 6/24/84 *
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Ok, to start off with this is one EXCELLENT program, and all you need
is an APPLE II+/IIe/IIc with at least 48k of memory or APPLE III in
emulation mode. optional equipment is as follows. Joystick,Koala pad
and color ribbons and paper. To start just put boot up the disk and
you come to a menu. You can use eitherthe joystick,cursor keys or the
Koala pad to move to the proper program.
Obviously if this is your first time you will choose SETUP. Now tell
it what type of printer you have, what slot and type of printer
interface and how many drives you have. You can use Print Shop with
only one drive, but once you start making your own designs you will
need two. at this point, to test your printer setup, make sure your
printer is ready and type return. You should see 'WELCOME TO THE PRINT
SHOP' print out. If it does we're ready to go!! Oh, one last thing, to
use the KOALA PAD plug it in BEFORE you boot up. Also the buttons may
be used as RETURN and ESCAPE.
Greeting Card
To make a Greeting card highlight it on the menu and press return. You
have a choice of 'Ready Made' or 'Design your Own' if you choose
design your own, just follow the step by step instructions. First
you'll design the FRONT then the INSIDE. You'll be asked to choose a
border,graphic,graphic size,grahic layout, font. There are 3 graphic
sizes; small,medium and large. The staggered graphic layout will
evenly space 13 (small) or 5 (med) sized graphics. The tiled layout
will place small graphics side by side on the whole page. Note that
the CUSTOM, TILED or STAGGERED layout can't be useWith the large
graphic. The Custom layout lets you choose how many SMALL or MEDIUm
graphics will be printed. Use the arrow keys or koala pad to the
different positions and hit return to select. When done just move to
the DONE box and hit return. Choose a FONT and we will type a message.
You will now see a box. on the right the 'C' means centered. By
pressing ^P (CTRL=P) you can change it to Flush Left/Right. On the
left side you will see small boxes. You can change the Font being
printed to be SOLID(preset) OUTLINE or 3-D. by pressing ^F will change
this. You can also set the print to be larger or smaller by pressing
^S. You will not be able to JUDGE the outcome until AFTER your done.
When you done just hit return and now you'll go to the INSIDE card
design. This is done exactly the same way. When done with the inside
you will be at the print menu. Just position your paper at the
perforations and go! The system will pause with 'THINKING' on the
screen and then print. Congradulations on you first card! One last
note, using graphics #51-60 in the TILE mode will print nice
backrounds
SIGN
The SIGN mode will let you print full page signs. These can be of any
graphic supplied or one of your own, that you designed with the
Graphics Editor. The procedure is the same as for the front page of
the GREETING CARD.
LETTERHEAD
In LETTERHEAD we design the top first. Choose a graphic or no grahic.
If you choose graphic,you will now see a way to postion them. The
options are shown as you move the highlighter up and down. Select one
and you will now have to choose the FONT. This is the same as for the
GREETING CARD with the exception of not being able to alter the size.
Just type in your message. You can use ^F/P as before also. If you
want your address printed the line will wrap around the screen but
will be printed on one line if your message is to long. If you don't
want your address just hit return. For that extra touch you can have a
horizontal line your name from the rest of the page. Choosing a
graphic for the bottom isthe same as the top. When you have finished
the design go to the print menu and VIOLA? Nice eh? You can also print
multipule copies to use for your word processing needs.
BANNER
Highlight 'BANNER' then return. Choose a FONT that you want, return
and now choose either solid or outline printing. Type your message on
the two lines. If your message doesn't fit, you'll have to edit your
message. Only on line can go on the banner even though you type your
message on two. you can also 'CHAIN' two banners or graphic pictures.
By doing this you can get different fonts or graphics on one banner.
The graphic choices are done the same as in the GREETING CARD. Choose
the postions of the graphics and just print.
SCREEN MAGIC
Screen Magic is a very powerful SCREEN PRINTING program. It will print
different shades of grey as well as printing the whole screen.The menu
has five choices. They are: See Kalaidescopes,Draw text on screen,Get
screen,Save Screen and Print screen. Let's highlight KALAIDESCOPES
first and then go onto the others. Kalaidescope will let you see 12
different screens. by pressing RETURN you can advance to the next one.
Hitting ESCAPE will freeze the present screen. When you hit ESCAPE
the screen will be put into memory and you will go back to the menu.
Kalidescope 2 will start out like 1 but has only one starting point
and return will not work. Hitting ESCAPE will though and also put the
screen in memory. NOTE that you can only have one screen in memory at
a time. DRAW ON TEXT will let you do just that with the screen in
memory. Just choose a FONT and type. The number of lines and
characters differs with the font size. Also ^F will toggle between
solid and outline as 3-D is not available. Now center your text. It
can be done from top to bottom if desires. If you want to get a
different screen that you previously saved, type in the name and drive
#. Hit return for a catalog of RETRIEVABLE screens. Only screens
created with the screen editor are valid. Save screen is just that. It
will ask you if you want init disk. If you dont have a inited disk get
a SCRATCH and just follow the directions. Print screen will print the
screen in memory. You can choose between normal or reverse. Reverse
meaning that all the BLACK areas of your screen will be printed. You
will also be asked if you want a border around the screen. This is a
single black line and is not like on the GREETING CARDS. The print
menu is like the others with the exception of 'PRINT TOP HALF OR
BOTTOM HALF'? This is if you want to fold the paper in 1/2, as the
PRINT SHOP works only on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
GRAPHIC EDITOR
Last but not least is the Graphic Editor. This will let you edit ANY
an ALL graphics CREATED or USED by the PRINT SHOP. The menu to the
right of the drawing screen is really self expanatory (so is the whole
program so why this big text file??) but, the one thing you should
know about is the ^D- device. This is NOT for a drive selection!!!
This will let you reactivate the KOALA PAD if it was not on the system
when you booted up. The buttons on the joystick and koala pad act as
'D' for draw and 'E' for erase. NOTES: before you can edit the
original PRINT SHOP graphics the must be save to another disk. As I
stated before ONLY graphics created with PRINT SHOP can be used.
Print Shop suggests that if you have a serial printer to set it at
9600 baud. Try this if your printing is erratic. For those of us that
have the OKIDATA 92 we will not get as good graphics as the other
printers. This is because the graphic resolution is only 72x72. The
others are 160(120)x72. Who cares, we get better print quality
anyway.