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- The PrintShop and PrintMaster programs on the IBM-PC are
- very popular and useful programs. The PSTOOLS II program is
- a collection of utilities designed to enhance these programs.
- Version 0.00 includes three functions.
-
- 1) Print a listing of the icons contained in a library.
-
- 2) Display icons on the screen so that they may be viewed or
- captured with a screen capture program.
-
- 3) Convert PrintShop format pictures to PrintMaster or convert
- PrintMaster format pictures to PrintShop.
-
-
- PSTOOLS II requires an IBM PC/XT/AT/PS2 or compatible computer
- and an EGA, CGA, VGA or Hercules graphics adapter. The program
- will not work with an MDA.
-
- The following files are required to setup PSTOOLS II
-
- SYNFONTS.COM
- CGARUN
- EGARUN
- HGARUN
- PS2.EXE
- ASYN.EXE
- SETUP.EXE
-
- You must run the setup program before you can run PSTOOLS II. The
- setup program will set up PSTOOLS II to work with the graphics
- adapter in your computer. On a system with a hard disk the setup
- program may be run on any drive. On a system with only two floppy
- drives the setup program can be on either drive as long as the
- disk in drive A: is a system disk. On systems with only one drive
- you must copy the PSTOOLS II files to a system disk before
- running the setup program. The setup program will not need to be
- run again unless you change display adapters.
-
- After PSTOOLS II has been set up these files are required to run
- the program.
-
- SYNFONTS.COM
- SYNRUN.COM
- ASYN.EXE
- PS2.EXE
-
- The program may be run from any drive and in any directory as
- long as all the files listed above are together in the same
- directory. To run PSTOOLS II type PS2.
-
- To understand this program you must know a little about
- PrintShop and PrintMaster files. PrintShop program stores picture
- information in two files. One file contains the actual pictures
- and will have a DAT extension, the other file will contain
- the names of the pictures and will have a NAM extension. The
- pictures that come with the PrintShop program are contained
- infiles ICONS.DAT and ICONS.NAM If you have the graphics
- library disk #1 the icons are stored in files named GRLIB1.DAT
- and GRLIB1.NAM. If you have the PrintShop Companion the icons are
- stored in files named GRPSC.DAT and GRPSC.NAM. If you
- have created your own icons they will be stored in files named
- GRDATA.DAT and GRDATA.NAM. PrintMaster stores picture file
- information in the same two files except that they use different
- file formats and the extension SHP for picture files and SDR for
- name files. The pictures that come with the PrintMaster program
- are contained in files slib.shp and slib.sdr.
-
-
- To use the PSTOOLS II program place the disk containing the
- desired PrintShop or PrintMaster files in a drive. Now run the
- PSTOOLS II program as described above. The program is menu
- driven. The main menu headings are displayed across the top of
- the screen. Use the left and right arrow keys to select the main
- heading. As each main heading is selected a menu listing commands
- for that heading will pop down. Use the up and down arrow keys to
- select the desired command. To execute the command press the
- ENTER key.
-
- When converting between PrintShop and PrintMaster format remember
- to use the extension DAT when specifying the PrintShop file name
- and the extension SHP when specifying the PrintMaster file name.
-
- The program has been tested with the EPSON JX-80 printer.
-
- PrintShop and PrintShop Companion are trademarks of Broderbund
- Software.