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RELEASE NOTES FOR PSPORT
This is a utility of the 'one dumb job' variety. It does one job, and
does it fast and with minimal hoorah.
PSPort is SYSTEM 7 ONLY. Its only interface is Drag and Drop, so you
cannot use it with earlier Systems. If you double-click on it from a
System 6 machine, you will get an error message and the software will
quit gracefully.
PSPort does this: it filters PostScript files originating on MS-DOS
or Unix systems and converts them so that they can be downloaded
from Apple Macintosh computers. The conversions are these:
Control-D (ASCII 4) is thrown away.
Control-Z (ASCII 26) is thrown away.
CR (ASCII 13) is passed unstranslated.
LF (ASCII 10) is thrown away _if_ it follows a CR. If not,
it is converted to a CR.
That's it. PSPort has been tested to work on ASCII-encoded
MS-DOS-originated PostScript files. I surmise it would be a
Real Bad Idea to use it on Binary-encoded PostScript files...
To use PSPort _with_ System 7, simply select the files you want to
filter and drag them on the program's icon or an alias of it. New
files will be created, and your original source files will remain
unaltered.
Greg Swann
9/16/92
ADDENDUM REGARD VERSION 2.0.0
There are only two changes in this version:
1. PSPort is _massively_ faster. Of my utilities, this is the one
that has been most annoying to me to use, simply because PostScript
files are so large. Version 2.0.0 makes use of the Lizzie
Border/Amanuensis/Mark My Words read/write logic to do the same
'one dumb job' many orders of magnitude faster.
2. In keeping with the spirit of the season, PSPort now sports a
festive icon.
Happy Holidays to all!,
Greg Swann
12/16/92
ADDENDUM REGARD VERSION 2.0.1
If you want, we can call this one BirkensPort...
DTPForum member Jim Birkenseer dropped me a note regarding version
2.0.0. He had what I thought was a good interface idea, so I've
distorted it beyond all recognition through the lens of my mind and
implemented the mangled version here (grin).
What Jim wanted was for PSPort to save the newly created files in
its own home folder, rather that in the home folder of the original
files. He D&Ds directly from DOS floppies, so saving to PSPort's
folder would save him time and headaches. I thought that was a
little non-intuitive as a default, so what I've done is add two
keyboard overrides.
1. If you D&D on PSPort, it works as it always has, saving the new
files in the same folder as the originals.
2. If you hold down the Option key as you D&D, you will be prompted
for a volume/folder to save the new files into. As with Amanuensis,
the highlighted prompt string is meaningless. We're simply looking
for a target folder.
3. If you hold the the Command key as you D&D, the new files will
be saved into the folder where PSPort itself lives.
This is the only change implemented with this version.
However... Jim was raving about how great PSPort is and how he wants
to send me money for it. In truth, it's not great - just a little
hack involving less than an hour of work to date - and it's free.
But I _do_ have for-pay products that are eminently of interest to
service bureaus and type shops, PSPort's primary audience.
These are:
XP8 - a very intelligent file filter that cleans up and makes
Quark-ready the filthiest text. Among many other features, it
offers DOS-file reformatting, financial-text clean-up, garbage
disposal, typographic quality enhancement, and the best quote
conversion we know of. A shareware version of XP8 can be found on
CIS, GO DTPForum, Library 5, under the name XP8.SEA.
Torquemada The Inquisitor - batch global search and replace
software with wildcards, pattern matching, string substitution, et
very cetera. With Drag & Drop under System 7, you can run up to 640
searches on up to 128 files in one batch. Features the most
intelligent case-conversion we know of. The most-recent freeware
version (1.1.0) can be found on CIS, GO DTPForum, Library 5, under
the name TORQUE.SEA. The current commercial version is 1.2.2,
offering a great many enhancements.
Mark My Words - (currently in development, shipping Jan. ’93) very
intelligent, configurable conversion of MicroSoft Word 4.0/5.0/5.1
and WriteNow 3.0 files to QuarkXPress tags. As much of the original
coding as you want is maintained, and yet you are able to make very
fast global edits (e.g., with Torquemada). Moreover, you can
contiue to draft and edit text in your Word Processor while
retaining the power and robustness of XPress Tags. With Em
Software's Xtags, you can even retain in-line pictures, tables and
borders. A sort of "pre-ware" vision of the Mark My Words schema
can be seen in a program called WordLess Plus, which can be found
on CIS, GO DTPForum, Library 5, under the name WLPLUS.CPT.
(While I've vectored all the files toward CIS, my primary haunt,
they are also available on other services, and on any BBS which has
the most recent version of AMUG's "BBS In A Box" CD-ROM on line.)
All of these programs are sold on the same terms: (US)$50 each, per
license. Two to 10 licenses are $45 each, and 11 or more are $40
each. All of these programs will eventually be rolled into a
stand-alone text editor cum word processor currently in design with
the working name "MyEditor". You will be entitled to a 25% discount
on the price of the MyEditor, when it is released, for each of
these utilities you have purchased and registered. In other words,
if you own XP8, your discount will be 25%. If you own XP8 and
Torquemada, it will be 50%. And if you own all three, you will be
entitled to a 75% discount.
If you want to buy any or all of these programs, send a check or
money order to:
Greg Swann
P.O. Box 1724
Andover, MA 01810
Of course, if you just want to send me money - for PSPort or one of
my other freeware hacks - go right ahead (grin).
(More) Happy Holidays to all!,
Greg Swann
CIS: 70640,1574
12/20/92