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CONTENTS
The first time you print, you will need to make
sure that Wordworth and your printer are set up
correctly.
SETTING UP A POSTSCRIPT PRINTER
SETTING UP YOUR PRINTER
Once setup, the document can be printed in
different ways:
PRINTING A LANDSCAPE DOCUMENT
PRINTING YOUR DOCUMENT
MAIL MERGING DOCUMENTS
* PRINTING FILES
Setting Up Your Printer
The "Print Setup" requester is used to configure
the settings for your printer, including the
printer driver used by Wordworth when printing.
The driver can be changed by selecting the
appropriate name from the list gadget.
Print Method:
Determines what fonts are available when
editing (the default is Normal):
° Normal - Agfa Compugraphic, Adobe
PostScript Type 1, TrueType
and Amiga fonts with
graphics.
° Printer Font - Internal printer fonts only
and no graphics.
° PostScript - PostScript printers only,
see also POSTSCRIPT OPTIONS .
Paper Type:
Determines what type of paper is used for
printing.
° Continuous - Assumes continuous paper and
so does not ask for more
paper.
° Cut sheet - Asks for more paper and may
need "Print Border" settings.
° Sheet feeder - Assumes multiple sheets and
so does not ask for more
paper. May need "Print
Border" settings.
Print Border:
Sets the unprintable area of your printer to
avoid blank sheets of paper being ejected
between each printed page.
Print borders, however, are unnecessary with
Continuous paper.
If you are not sure about the print borders of
your printer, set the Top, Left and Right to
0.25 inches and the Bottom to 1.0 inches.
Buttons:
° Click Postscript to set OPTIONS for
PostScript printing (if you have an expensive
Type 1 PostScript printer).
° Click OK to accept the settings in the
"Print Setup" requester
° Click Cancel to ignore any changes
* PRINTING FILES
Printing Your Document
Choose Print (Project menu) to print your
document. If you have not already SETUP
your printer, you must do first.
From this requester you can select:
° Range of pages to print
° Number of copies to print
° Arrangement of the pages
° Draft mode
° What shade to print (Colour, Black & White
or Grey)
To print a range of pages:
Select the Range radio button and type the
page range in the adjacent text gadget (for
example, type `2-5' if you wish to print
pages 2 to 5 of your document).
To print a single page:
Select the Range radio button and type the
page that you wish to print into the adjacent
text gadget (for example, type `5' if you wish
to print page 5 of your document).
Buttons:
° Click Print to start printing
° Click Setup to go to the "Print Setup"
requester
° Click Cancel to ignore any changes and exit
the Print requester
* PRINTING FILES
Mail Merging Documents
This command allows you to combine a document
with information from a database.
You can `merge' Wordworth documents with any
database that can export its data as an ASCII
or DIF (Data Interchange Format) file.
Wordworth also allows you to use SPECIAL COMMANDS
that can control how data is merged with the
document.
* PRINTING FILES
Advanced Mail Merging
There are several selective commands which you
can use while mail merging. These commands are
enclosed in chevrons (« or ») and are preceded
by a colon (:) to distinguish them from normal
fields.
«:NEXT»
This skips on to the next record in the database.
It is useful when printing more than one record
on a page, as in a document to print a sheet of
labels.
«:SKIP» and «:ENDSKIP»
These two command precede and follow a group of
field names where you want the empty fields to
be filled with the contents from the following
field. This is useful for addresses where some
fields in the address could be empty and you
don't want gaps in the middle of the address.
«:IF "field" = "value" NEXT» and
«:IF "field" = "value" STOP»
These two commands allow conditional checks of
the data in fields to allow the printing of only
selected records.
The first command will skip to the next record
if the "field" contents match the "value". The
second command will stop the printing of the
document if the "field" matches the "value".
Other operators that can be used in place of the
equals:
OPERATOR MEANS
<= (or =<) Less than or equal to
>= (or =>) Greater than or equal to
<> Does not equal
< Less than
> Greater than
NOTE: All comparisons are case insensitive.
* PRINTING FILES
Printing A Document In Landscape
To print a document in Landscape, you must first
choose DOCUMENT (Format menu) and select the
Landscape option (you will notice that the Width
and Height measurements are swapped to produce
a page on its side, a `Landscape' page). Then
print the document as normal.
Unfortunately, Landscape printing takes a while
longer than Portrait.
NOTE: You cannot print Landscape documents in the
"Internal Printer Font" method.
If you have Landscape turned on before
changing to "Internal Printer Font" method,
you will be warned that the page will be
formatted back to Portrait.
* PRINTING FILES
PostScript Printer Options
Before you can print to a PostScript printer
you must first change the "Print Method" ("Print
Setup", Project menu) to PostScript.
When editing the document you will find that you
have eleven special `PS_' fonts available to you
in the Font requester. These fonts are the
standard PostScript fonts internal to most
PostScript printers and, with combinations of Bold
and Italic versions, gives you 35 typefaces to use.
On screen, these printer fonts are displayed using
the outline fonts available. For example, if you
have a Times outline font installed, Wordworth
will use this for display. If an appropriate font
does not exist, the `Shannon Book' font will be
used instead.
To change the PostScript print options, choose
"Print Setup" (Project menu) and ensure you are
using the PostScript "Print Method". Click the
PostScript button at the bottom of the requester
to reveal the "PostScript Setup" requester.
This requester will allow you to output the print
job to a file or to the printer. If you are sending
the printout to a Print Bureau, it is best to print
to a file and then send the file on disk to be
printed.
From this requester, you can also Scale the output,
Offset the position or Rotate it by changing the
values in the appropriate text gadgets.
NOTE: When using the rotate option, the PostScript
page is rotated anti-clockwise around the bottom
left corner. You may, therefore, need to Offset the
page to see any printout.
Downloading Fonts
The gadget "Download Fonts" informs Wordworth to
send all the PostScript fonts in your document to
the printer before printing. This is used when
using fonts which are not internal to the printer.
Only PostScript Type 1 fonts can be downloaded to a
printer and therefore, if you wish to use any of your
Agfa Compugraphic fonts in a document, you will have
to convert them to PostScript format before editing.
Text will be printed in Courier if the font does
not exist and is not one of the inbuilt fonts.
The options on "Download Fonts" are as follows:
° "Once Only" - Any new fonts are downloaded to
the printer once only.
If the printer is turned off,
you will need to re-download the
fonts using the "Every Time"
option.
° "Every Time" - All fonts are downloaded to the
printer every time the document
is printed.
° "Never" - Fonts are never downloaded. If
a font is not internal, and it
has not been downloaded, the text
will be printed in Courier.