PrintOne is a Control Panel (cdev) which adds a PrintOne menu item to the File menu. It does this when it finds that a Print menu item already exists in the File menu. PrintOne will add the menu item for most applications. For those applications it does not add a PrintOne menu item, holding down a user definable key while selecting the File menu will ╥force╙ the Print menu item to be changed to PrintOne. This forcing feature is available in all applications.
When the PrintOne menu item is selected from the File menu, it skips the Print job dialog and directly prints a single copy of the document using the standard default settings to the paper source you set from within the control panel.
INSTALLATION
PrintOne should be placed within the Control Panels folder if you are running System 7. PrintOne now includes a preferences file named PrintOne Prefs. Place this file in the Preferences folder if your running System 7. If you are running System 6, place both PrintOne and PrintOne Prefs directly in the System Folder. Version 1.5 users can simply replace the PrintOne control panel. The PrintOne Prefs file has not changed since V 1.5.0.
CUSTOMIZATION
PrintOne now is a control panel and allows you to customize the disable key, the force key and the paper source. It also allows you to now record a ╥hot key.╙ When the disable key is pressed along with the File menu, any changes made to the File menu by PrintOne are disabled for the moment. When the force key is pressed along with the File menu, PrintOne will force the Print menu item to PrintOne. If the user defined ╥hot key╙ is typed, a single copy of the document will be printed immediately. The default ╥hot key╙ is option - 1.
PrintOne is now localizable to non-English systems. Those familiar with ResEdit should look at STR# resources with ids of -4048, -4047 & -4046. Replacing the contents of those strings with their non-English equivalents will allow PrintOne to operate properly. If you use some applications which are English and some that are non-English, just append the non-English equivalents to the string lists. PrintOne checks all entries in the string list against the names in the menu for a possible match.
GENERAL INFORMATION
PrintOne is shareware. Those using it should send $5 and their name and address along with any comments and suggestion on how to improve PrintOne to CRA Z Software. If you encounter a bug in PrintOne, please report it immediately. Feel free to copy PrintOne and give it to anyone who wants the convenience of printing just one copy of a document without the hassles of the standard print job dialog. If you do, please keep this Read Me file along with it so that others know how to contact CRA Z Software.
Thanks for your support.
UPDATES
Version 1.5.1 fixes an incompatability with NowMenus which caused PrintOne to not automatically insert the PrintOne menu item in the File menu when NowMenus was installed.
Thanks to Scott Underwood for bringing this to our attention.
OTHER PRODUCTS
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