This is a demonstration version of DynoPage 1.7. This demo version does everything that DynoPage does, but when it prints, it includes a DynoPage banner on each printed page. You may distribute the demo version of DynoPage freely to anyone and we encourage you to do this.
The icons above represent just some of the over 100 layouts that are included with the commercial version of DynoPage 1.7. Although they may give you an inkling of how you can actually use DynoPage, we thought you'd like an explanation on what DynoPage offers and how to install DynoPage and start using it. The document you're reading covers all that, but first, we thought we'd introduce you to…
DynoPage™ 1.7 brings new and powerful printing capabilities to the Macintosh. Here are a dozen we thought you should know about:
1. DynoPage lets you print to any page size.
DynoPage includes automatic calculation of the reduction (or enlargement) needed to fit your document on a new page size. You no longer need to figure this yourself. Using special layouts, DynoPage lets you print to nearly any paper size, too.
2. DynoPage allows you to print any document double-sided.
DynoPage knows how to order your pages to make double-sided printing a snap. No page numbering calculations for you to do — just click the mouse and it’s done!
3. DynoPage lets you preview the printing of any document from any application.
See what your document will look like on-screen before printing.
4. DynoPage provides you with four unique print orders for your pages: Sheet, Stack, Booklet and Panel printing.
• Sheet printing for double-sided printouts to be cut apart sheet by sheet
• Stack printing for double-sided printouts to be cut apart in pre-collated stacks
• Booklet printing for “fold and staple” instant booklets (signature printing)
• Panel printing for sequential pages on the front side of a sheet before printing to the back side (good for storyboarding and archiving)
Instead of spending endless hours cutting and pasting, or trying to combine documents in one file, try DynoPage. Booklet printing has never been faster or easier!
5. DynoPage gives you easy Drag-and-Drop printing from the Finder under System 7.
Drag a file onto DynoPage icons with pre-set formats, and get instant printing from the Finder—any way you like it!
6. DynoPage lets you print multiple copies of a page onto one sheet of paper.
Print multiples of a page on a single sheet for economical printing—such as labels, postcards, business cards, etc.
7. DynoPage provides full System 7 compatibility, allowing you to receive print instructions from almost any application.
Under System 7, DynoPage supports Apple Events and Interapplication Communication (IAC), Balloon Help and other features.
8. DynoPage works transparently with our special pre-perforated, hole-punched DynoPaper.
DynoPage is designed to print your documents perfectly to DynoPaper, our quality laser paper for personal organizers. We’ve included 40 sample sheets of DynoPaper in your DynoPage package. This letter-size laser paper is micro-perfed and punched to fit all popular organizers, such as Day-Timer, Day Runner, Filofax, Time/Design, Franklin and Lefax. You can easily get refills in several sizes and four colors (white, ivory, gray and yellow).
9. DynoPage saves paper.
Printing four or eight pages to one sheet is just a sample of how DynoPage saves paper. In its own way, DynoPage is of ecological importance.
10. DynoPage lets you print anything to your personal organizer.
Just as Dynodex handles the printing of your contact information, DynoPage provides a link between what you do on your computer and what you can take with you. Carry reports, calendars, charts, outlines, maps, To-Do lists, graphics and other important information with you in your personal organizer—always ready at your fingertips. DynoPage will even print to the individual mini-pages in your organizer (if your printer permits).
11. DynoPage lets you print in ways you never imagined.
DynoPage lets you think about printing in a whole new way! Thumbnails, tri-fold brochures, miniature documents, storyboards—the list is only limited by your imagination.
12. DynoPage is a great archiver.
For those times when printed files are handier than computer disk archives, print your files with DynoPage. Instead of spending hours hunting through dozens of floppy disks, you can create DynoPage-printed files to keep conveniently on hand—and they won’t take up a lot of space.
DynoPage is quite easy to install and use. It's a Control Panel file (DynoPage™) and a printer driver (DynoPage Driver). You install both in your System Folder as well as the DynoPage Folder which holds several layouts for different types of printing. The cdev turns DynoPage on and off and the driver works transparently from within almost any Macintosh application. With the full-featured version of DynoPage, we also include an FKey for turning DynoPage on and off quickly without having to open the Control Panel.
Below are quick steps for installing and using DynoPage. You may wish to print this document normally before installing DynoPage. Or if you are adventurous, you may feel comfortable installing DynoPage, restarting your Mac, and then reading this document on your Mac to get an idea of how DynoPage works. In this case, you would use DynoPage to print this file. You decide.
Following are twenty easy steps from installing DynoPage to getting your first printout. There are Help buttons in nearly every dialog along the way if you need them.
1. Install the DynoPage™ file, the DynoPage Driver file and the DynoPage Folder by copying them into the System Folder of your startup drive. Restart your Macintosh.
2. Select your printer via the Chooser desk accessory.
3. Open DynoPage from the Control Panel (under the Apple menu) and click the On button.
4. You can print any document with DynoPage. In this example, you'll print two pages on each sheet with this TeachText document. After you've installed DynoPage from the steps above, open the document you're now reading.
After you go through this first printing, you can print from any application you like!
Note to users of A4 Letter paper: You'll want to delete the files in the original DynoPage Folder, in the "Copy Contents to System Folder" and add the files from the DynoPage Folder (A4), located in the DynoPage Additional folder.
System 7 users should follow the same instructions above, but should be aware of a couple points.
If you drag DynoPage™, DynoPage Driver and DynoPage Folder onto your System Folder icon and release, these files will be placed in their correct locations:
• DynoPage™ belongs in the Control Panels folder in the System Folder.
• DynoPage Driver belongs in the Extensions folder in the System Folder.
• DynoPage Folder belongs in the System Folder.
The DynoPage Drop file, located in the DynoPage Additional folder, should be placed on your desktop. See below for how to use the DynoPage Drop file.
5. Start the setup process by choosing Page Setup.
6. Select the appropriate paper size (US Letter or A4 for European printers) and select the orientation of landscape (more on why below). Click OK.
7. DynoPage Setup now appears giving you choices (don't make your choices yet):
• a scrolling icon window, displaying the possible page layouts (the virtual pages or mini-pages on a physical page). A description of each of these layouts is found in the window at the bottom.
• any adjustments for binder holes (important for full size pages you intend to put into a loose leaf binder and for some other layouts)
• whether you want to print the document at (1) 100% (original size), (2) at a reduction or enlargement, or (3) maintaining the line breaks and page breaks as in the original document but with the entire page reduced as a whole.
8. Still in DynoPage Setup, scroll to the Half Page icon (or Half Page A4 if you're using an A4 compatible printer) and select it.
9. Make sure the Adjust for Binder Holes box is not checked for this printing.
10. Of the 3 radio buttons you see, choose Maintain Pagination.
11. The Original Page Settings dialog appears. DynoPage is asking for the settings you would use to print the file if you were not using DynoPage. Make sure Portrait orientation is selected. For paper size, select US Letter (A4 Letter if your document was originally formatted for an A4-compatible printer) or if your printer driver preselects the Custom button, leave it selected. Click OK.
12. Click OK in the DynoPage Setup dialog. That's it for the setup portion. Now you're ready to print.
13. Choose Print from TeachText's File menu.
14. Select the page range, usually All. (Select Best Quality if your printer is not a PostScript printer). Make sure NOT to select any options such as back-to-front printing. Turn off any such options that are there. (DynoPage orders the printout its own way). Click OK.
15. DynoPage Print now appears, asking you for the Print Order. Choose Sheet Printing for this printing.
16. Select the Cut Lines check boxes, but don't select Double-Sided or Multiples this time. Make sure that the Preview check box is clicked. Click OK.
17. Your application now prints your document to what it thinks is the printer, though it is actually being 'spooled' to DynoPage, which saves it to disk and displays (previews) it for you shortly to confirm that everything will print just as you want it.
18. The first sheet of your document appears in the DynoPage Preview window. Zoom in by clicking the mouse anywhere within the print image. Click again to view the sheet as a whole. You can also enlarge the entire window and the paper image by clicking in the window's upper right hand Zoom box.
19. Flip from page to page by clicking on the Next or Previous buttons or on one of the dog ears at the lower left of the print image. You can also enter a page number and click Go To.
20. If everything displays correctly, click the Print button, you should have your printed page(s) shortly.
DynoPage is intuitive at nearly every point, except perhaps one — setting the orientation from the application's Page Setup dialog. Imagine how your virtual pages (mini-pages) will actually print to the target physical page. Will the top of the virtual pages be along the top of a US letter sheet (the top is where the letterhead would be) or along the side of a US letter sheet, as in standard landscape. Even if the orientation of the original document is portrait, if it will now print on the paper sideways, then the orientation you choose in the application's Page Setup should be landscape. Thus, you choose landscape in the above example when printing to the Half Page or Half Page A4 layout, because the virtual pages (mini-pages) that actually get printed lie on the page with their tops to the side of the paper — rotated. In other words, in landscape orientation.
Although the choice of orientation is logical when you think about it, it's not what people are used to. Then again, most people aren't used to printing several pages onto a physical sheet. In fact, in most cases, you can't do it without DynoPage. If you think of the orientation as straight up or sideways, it becomes much easy to come up with the correct page orientation. Just consider whether your virtual pages will print on the physical page straight up or sideways. Ask yourself, will the images of my page be printed straight-up (portrait) or rotated (landscape)? Portrait and Landscape are terms for the shape of wall paintings and they were chosen to allow the user to envision the shape of the page easily. However, when you are dealing with virtual pages, its preferable to consider how the image lies on the sheet rather than the shape of the page.
Try experimenting with different settings. The diagrams below should make it a little more clear.
In the above example, you would choose landscape in the application's Page Setup and portrait in the Original Page Settings dialog (after choosing Maintain Pagination).
In this example, you would choose portrait in the app's Page Setup and landscape in the Original Page Settings dialog. The DynoPage User Manual describes this entire process thoroughly.
Of course, there may be occasions where you would also print portrait to portrait or landscape to landscape. If you make a mistake in the orientation from the app's Page Setup, you can always choose Page Setup from the DynoPage Setup dialog and make your corrections there. The rule to remember is: what is the TARGET sheet of paper being printed to and what is the TARGET direction the virtual pages will lay on the sheet.
You can of course print double-sided. DynoPage will arrange your pages for you, printing all the front sides, and will then ask you to insert the sheets again to print the back sides. In fact, a significant use of DynoPage is to print a simple full size document double-sided.
Printing at 100% or setting a reduction (or enlargement) will reflow your document into the new page shape and margins. This may or may not produce desirable results depending on what you are printing. Graphics, tables and some headers and footers are examples of things that print best at Maintain Pagination. The Maintain Pagination button essentially instructs DynoPage to shrink the page as a whole to a new size, still retaining the page's original side-to-side ratio, line breaks and page breaks.
DynoPage Drop is an exciting System 7 enhancement. Print any Mac file to any page size right from the Finder! DynoPage Drop is ready and waiting on your desktop, which is where we suggest you place it to get maximum usefulness out of it.
DynoPage Drop launches the Mac application, opens the file, activates DynoPage, and tells it to print your file according to the print settings you most often use. Want to change those print settings? Just double-click DynoPage Drop and set your print choices.
You can also make copies of DynoPage drop—each with its own icon—for the different types of printing you do: normal printing (single-sided), double-sided, booklets, and pages for your personal organizer. The DynoPage Drop application is located in the DynoPage Additional folder.
The full package of DynoPage contains many more items than are included with this demonstration version:
• over 100 layouts for all the possible ways you might want to print and for different paper sizes, including A4 Letter, US Legal, US Letter, B5 Letter, Tabloid, and several popular personal organizer manufacturers such as Day-Timers, Day Runner, Filofax, Lefax, Franklin and many more.
• DynoPage Editor, which allows you to create new layouts for any purpose.
• DynoPage/IAC, a tiny application which runs in the background under System 7 and allows you to control DynoPage by sending it messages.
• a User Manual of 64 pages.
• on-disk Read Me's giving additional tips and suggestions on printing, saving paper and saving time with DynoPage, using DynoPage with QuicKeys™.
• the right to purchase DynoPaper at significant discounts.
• free technical support from our Tech Support staff.
DynoPage was designed to be compatible with the largest number of applications (and DA's) and the largest number of current and future printers, as well as with future versions of Macintosh system software. Still, there are certain applications that may be somewhat or entirely incompatible with DynoPage in its current rendition.
1. Because DynoPage is itself a driver and a print spooler of sorts, it does not work with some other spoolers such as SuperLaserSpool 2.02, though it works fine with Apple's Print Monitor and the GCC Print Manager.
2. An application or DA must be able to print for DynoPage to be useful. If your program doesn't have a Page Setup, if you experience problems doing a Page Setup with your application or if DynoPage doesn't appear after you do a Page Setup, try going to the Finder (or another app) and doing a Page Setup there. Then do your print from your program.
3. Applications and DA's which invoke the Page Setup and Print routines in non-standard ways may not work at all with DynoPage, may 'trigger' it unreliably or may force you to rely on workarounds.
4. Applications which send PostScript directly to the printer as PostScript commmands may not produce desirable results, since they circumvent standard printing commands and thus may circumvent DynoPage.
5. Applications which print a document one page at a time, sending each page separately to the printer rather than all together as one collected print job will not work correctly with DynoPage 1.7. DynoPage cannot print more than the first virtual page from these applications. Such applications include 4th Dimension and MacWrite 4.6 or earlier versions.
DynoPage comes with a complete User Manual and 40 sheets of Dynodex paper, which is pre-perforated and pre-punched, so that you can create your own personal organizer pages. If you would like to order DynoPage™ or if you have further questions, please call us toll free at (800) SAY-DYNO. That's (800) 729-3966. You can also reach us at (408) 252-0420, Monday through Friday. Our fax number is (408) 252-0440.
If you would like to order Dynodex®2.0, The Real Contacts Database™ or DynoPaper (pat.pending), or if you would to get a demo version or more information, phone us or fax us. Our mailing address is:
Portfolio Systems
10062 Miller Avenue, Suite 201
Cupertino, CA 95014
You may also contact us at any time by electronic mail at Applelink: DYNOTECH, America Online & Connect: PORTFOLIO, and CompuServe: 71341,3076.
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