The Card Maker V 1.1 Programmed by Yaron Kidron, Using OSS Personal Pascal. This is public domain software, and may not be disributed for any price, this program is FREE. What is it? The Card Maker, is a special program for creating cards, either for business usage, or for your own pleasure. How much? Nothing. This is free public domain software, and it is not for reselling as well. Who created this program and how? The program was written by Yaron Kidron of Palo Alto, Cal 94306. It was programmed in OSS Personal Pascal, using the GEM compiler. What would you have on your disk after extracting the archive file: *CARD.PRG - Card Maker, V 1.1 *CARD.PAS - The pascal source code, for pascal programmers. *CARD.TXT - This tutorial. Loading & Running the program: ------------------------------ *On color monitors, select MEDIUM resolution. *To load the program, click on CARD.PRG *After program have been loaded into your ST, the screen will be cleared, and an alert box will be desplayed. *Click the OK button. *As soon as the alert box clears, you will see an inverted line on the buttom. This is your Command line. You also be prompted by a COMMAND> prompt. You are ready to use Card Maker. Using the program: ------------------ *The command ruler on the buttom, is your device of creating cards. Although the program was compiled in GEM, it does not support any mouse functions. All commands will be entered in text. *To create your cards, Card Maker offers commands. Each command will be used for different purposes. Though the number of the commands is adequate, each command is very powerfull. These are the commands that Card Maker responds to: Quit,Bye,Exit - Quit Card Maker, return to the Gem desktop. Title - Set your title size, and title's text. Colomns - Enter colomns specifications. Enter - Enter the text that will be printed on your card. Text - Text size. Spacing - Setting the spacing between your lines of text. Center - Center your title. Tstyle - The style of your title. Xstyle - The style of your text. Frame - Draws a boxed frame around your card. RFrame - Draws a round frame around your card. Tline - Draws a line under your title. Cline - Draws a line between your colomns of text. Ginit - Initializes all graphic commands. Reformat - Reformats colomns. Print - Print card. Sline - Scale the line. *Card Maker recognizes all of the commands in upper case ( eg TEXT ), lower case ( eg text ) and both ( eg Text ). BUT it will not respond to non clear commands as TeXt. Explaining how to use the commands: ----------------------------------- Title - After entering this command, you will be asked for the size of your title in pixels. You will have to enter a number from 1-100 ( 1 is the smallest, 100 is the largest. 100 pixels are one half screen. ). Enter your title's text ( eg Happy Birthday ), and hit Return. If any title will be entered, it will be desplayed in it's current size, and style. Colomns - You also can enter text in colomns. You will be asked for the number of colomns you are going to use, of a maximum of 5. Then you will be asked if you want the colomns to be set automaticaly. If you enter yes, then each colomn will have the same length. If you will negate the question, you will be asked to enter your colomn's width in CHARACTERS. Enter - Enter this command if you want to insert the card's text. You will be asked on which colomn would you like to work on. Enter your colomn number (1-5). The line # will be desplayed on the left, and you will have cursor at the right, indicating your colomn length. If you write past this cursor, Card Maker will ask you again to enter the text for this line. If you want to erase things, use the Backspace key. You can also use the Tab key for faster editing. If you have already entered text in the colomn, after you reinserted the Enter command, you will be asked if you want to start from any row (line) number that you have worked on. After entering the text, the text will be desplayed on the screen with it's style, and size. Text - Enter a number from 1 to 100 to specify your text height, in pixels. Spacing - Enter a number from 1 to 200 to specify your text spacing in pixels. ( 16 pixels = one line of spacing, in font sized 6 ). Center - Centering you title, also will ask for a centering factor - which can adjust the spacing. factor reasonable values are 1 to 2. ( eg 1.76 ) Tstyle - The style of your title. Enter a letter from A to G for specifications: A = Normal. B = Bold. C = Lightened. D = Slanted ( italics ). E = Underlined. F = Outlined. G = Shadowed. Xstyle - The style of your text. Enter a letter from A to G. for more info, look above at Tstyle. Ginit - Initializes all graphical commands, as Frame, Rframe, Tline, Cline - but not styles, and heights. Othe commands are one pass without any difficult prompting and entering values. Enjoy this program, and if you have any problems, leave a message for Yaron, on this BBS.