*************************************************************** * * * Print Shop Soft docs * * by Doctor Vax * * 6/24/84 * * * *************************************************************** 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.