When you start up Envelope Window for the first time, it will be set to use the factory standard page setup options for your printer. (Some printer software allows you to override these with your own default settings, in which case EW will use these instead.) In any case, these settings are most likely for printing text documents, not envelopes, so you'll need to change them for Envelope Window. The way to do this is to choose Page Setup... from the File menu, which will show the standard Page Setup dialog for your printer - it's different for every printer, so I can't tell you what you'll need to set, specifically. It's a safe bet you'll need to change the paper size and possibly also the portrait/landscape orientation settings. You might also want to make the margin widths narrower if your printer allows you to do that from Page Setup. I'm working on adding this to Envelope Window itself.
The next thing you should change is the envelope font & return address settings, Envelope Settings under the Edit menu. Type your address in the text box to the left (if you don't want your envelopes to print with a return address, leave it blank.) Also set your preferred font/size for both the return and 'To' addresses using the menus at the right. Click 'Save Settings' to save your changes! If you just close the window EW will assume you only want the settings to take effect temporarily (you're just not in the mood for Garamond today... you're sending hate mail and don't want your return address to print...) and won't save them into its Preferences file.
Address Lists
After you use EW for awhile, you may have accumulated a number of addresses you print out envelopes for on a regular basis. Envelope Window makes it easy to save these addresses so that using them is a menu selection away. There are two ways of doing this. The first, and quicker way, is to enter the address you want to save into EW's 'To' field, then click on the popup menu above the text box and choose "Add Current Address to List". The address will be added to the menu and saved. The other way is to choose "Address List" from the Edit menu and click the New Address button. This will create a new list entry with a dummy address, which you should replace with the actual address you want to save.
The Address List window is also how you will manage your addresses - editing the ones that have changed (or that you made a typo with) or deleting the ones you no longer use.
EW is specifically set up so that you don't have to add an address to your list in order to print it out. Using another program, I found that most of my addresses were for stuff I bought off eBay or from catalogs, and would seldom, if ever, use again. If you aren't sure you'll need an address regularly, no need to clutter your list with it. When it starts up, Envelope Window automagically inserts into the address field any short snippet of text (less than 200 characters) that it finds the clipboard, which is usually where one-time-use addresses will be.
Settings Files
Envelope Window also lets you save different settings files for different uses, You could have one file with your home address as the return address, and your friends and family in the address list (alongside the phone company, electric co. and anyone else you pay bills to regularly) all using an informal handwritten font. You could save a seperate settings file with your business return address and contact address list, as well as more 'business-like' font settings. Or you could use the settings files for different sizes of envelopes. Or any combination of the above.
The way to do this is to FIRST choose 'Save Settings As...' from the File menu, which will show a standard save dialog for you to choose a name and location for the newly-created settings file. THEN make any desired changes to the page setup/address list/envelope settings information and save them in the normal way(s). This is backwards from how you usually work with files, but because what you're doing is basically making a copy of EW's preferences file and then telling it to save any changes to that, the file has to exist first, otherwise you'd only be saving the changes to your normal prefs file. When you double click on the new settings file, EW will open up and use that file's settings rather than its usual preferences. Any changes you make while Envelope Window is running will be saved back to the settings file EW was opened with, not to the regular prefs file.
AppleScript
Version 1.1 has limited support for AppleScript. See the Sample Scripts folder for more.
Registering Envelope Window
You have a two-week trial period to decide to register. At the end of two weeks EW will print a shareware notice in the lower left corner of each envelope you print. Registering will stop this notice from printing, as well as personalize your copy of EW with your name and organization, and also removing the big ugly UNREGISTERED from the window.
To register, you can use the Register program that came with EW, or you can register through a secure (or non-secure, your choice) web site at <http://order.kagi.com/?UR8>
Registrations are handled via Kagi. When Kagi receives your order, they'll send you an email. Included in this email will be the code you need to register your copy of EW. SAVE THIS EMAIL! If you reformat your hard drive, change computers, or do a clean reinstall of your system, you may need to re-enter the code. While your code is kept on file, and we will do our best to help out and resend the code if you need it, it saves everyone involved a lot of time and trouble if you just keep the original email, or print it out and file it away.
Licensing terms:
When you buy a license for Envelope Window, Envelope Window is licensed to YOU, for your own use. If you own 6 Macs (and use them all) and want to keep a registered copy on each one, fine. If you want multiple copies on one machine, fine (but why?) It is NOT licensed to be used by your sister, the guy down the street, or every member of your user group.
Tips:
Positioning Addresses: there's no real way (yet) to position addresses on an envelope. The return address prints in the top left corner, and the To address is centered on the envelope based on the longest line of the address. You can use this to your advantage if you find that a certain address is printing too far in a certain direction for your taste. Use the following recipes for both the return address and a specific To address. You'll probably want to do this manually, right before printing, to avoid screwing up your address list menu with extra spaces or blank entries.
If an address is too far to the right: add spaces to the end of the longest line of the address.
If an address is to far to the left: add spaces to the beginning of each line of the address.
If an address is too low: add blank lines to the end of the address
If an address is too high: add blank lines to the beginning of the address
This is given as a temporary workaround, not an actual solution. I'm working on a better way to do this for future version of Envelope Window.
Swapping Preference Files: Since the file formats for settings files and the regular Envelope Window Preferences file that lives in the Preferences folder (inside the System Folder) are the same, you can swap them yourself if for some reason you don't like to or can't open up a settings file directly. The settings file you want EW to use must be inside the active Preferences folder and must be names 'Envelope Window Preferences' without the quotes for this to work. Why you'd want to do this, I don' t know, but there may be special cases, so I'm passing the info along.
