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- INSTRUCTIONS ON THE USE OF THE
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- BANNERIFIC PROGRAM
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- WHAT BANNERIFIC DOES
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- BANNERIFIC is a program which lets you produce large
- banners on your computer printer. All IBM PC keyboard
- characters may be used. The size of the characters
- produced on the printer is variable, and may be as large
- as the width of your computer paper.
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- HOW BANNERIFIC IS PROVIDED TO YOU
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- The BANNERIFIC program is brought to you by AD-WARE(tm)
- from Mission Technologies. Advertisers in this product
- help to defray the initial costs of producing and
- distributing the original program. You are free to make
- copies of this program, and pass it on to a friend.
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- HOW TO RUN BANNERIFIC
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- The program BANNERIFIC is stored on disk as the file
- BANNER.EXE. To begin the program, enter the command BANNER,
- and press the Enter key. After the initial messages are
- shown on the screen, you will be given the opportunity to
- choose the size of your banner. Default values for the size
- and placement of the letters may be chosen by pressing ENTER
- at the prompts. Otherwise, enter an appropriate number for
- the questions:
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- 1. The height of the letters.
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- 2. The width of the letters.
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- 3. The left margin on the printer.
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- I would suggest that you first print an example banner with
- the default values, and then experiment with what the
- height, width, and margin options do.
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- PRINTER OPTIONS
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- BANNERIFIC will operate on any printer. However, most
- printers have the ability to change from one style of
- printing to another. To let you to choose these printer
- options BANNERIFIC allows you to send the printer control
- commands based on ASCII codes. For example, the control
- command to change an EPSON printer into compressed mode is
- ASCII number 15 (decimal). By using such codes, you can find
- a printing style that fits your needs. To send the computer
- a command which is more than one number, simply place a plus
- "+" sign between numbers. For example, the control codes to
- place an EPSON printer into 7/72 inch line spacing is 27+49.
- This action makes the printed lines closer together and
- makes a nicer looking banner.
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- DECIPHERING ASCII CODES
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- Many printer manuals give control codes in terms other than
- decimal ASCII numbers. For instance, ESC 1 (escape one) is
- translated into decimal ASCII codes by looking at the ASCII
- chart in the BASIC manual (appendix G). The ASCII code for
- ESC is 27, and for 1 (one), it is 49. Thus ESC 1 is 27+49
- for the purposes of the BANNERIFIC program.
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- SOME EPSON CODES (Also IBM dot matrix printer)
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- Function Decimal ASCII Codes
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- Wide Print 14
- Compressed 15
- 1/8" line spacing 27+48
- 7/72" line spacing 27+49
- Emphasized 27+69
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- To clear a printer of commands, turn it off, and turn it
- back on.
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- During the printing of a banner, you may end printing by
- pressing the ESC key.
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- HAVE FUN WITH BANNERIFIC
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- I hope you get plenty of good use out of BANNERIFIC. If you
- feel that the AD-Ware method of providing good programs is
- worthwhile, I would appreciate your support. Please write.
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- Alan C. Elliott
- Mission Technologies
- 1028 North Madison Avenue
- Dallas, Texas 75208
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- This disk copy was originally provided by "The Public Library",
- the software library of the Houston Area League of PC Users.
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- Programs are available from the Public Library at $2 per disk
- on user-provided disks. To get a listing of the disks in the
- Public Library, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to
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- Nelson Ford, P.O.Box 61565, Houston, TX 77208.