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INSTRUCTIONS ON THE USE OF THE
BANNERIFIC PROGRAM
WHAT BANNERIFIC DOES
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.
HOW BANNERIFIC IS PROVIDED TO YOU
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.
HOW TO RUN BANNERIFIC
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:
1. The height of the letters.
2. The width of the letters.
3. The left margin on the printer.
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.
PRINTER OPTIONS
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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BANNERIFIC PROGRAM
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DECIPHERING ASCII CODES
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.
SOME EPSON CODES (Also IBM dot matrix printer)
Function Decimal ASCII Codes
-------- -------------------
Wide Print 14
Compressed 15
1/8" line spacing 27+48
7/72" line spacing 27+49
Emphasized 27+69
To clear a printer of commands, turn it off, and turn it
back on.
During the printing of a banner, you may end printing by
pressing the ESC key.
HAVE FUN WITH BANNERIFIC
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.
Alan C. Elliott
Mission Technologies
1028 North Madison Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75208
Alan C. Elliott