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SERIES 3 PRINTER DRIVERS and SUPPORT FOR RICH TEXT FORMAT
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PRINTER DRIVERS FOR THE SERIES 3
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The WDR directory/folder contains printer drivers and associated files,
which can be copied to a \WDR\ directory on any disk on your Series
3. The next time you then use a `Print setup' option, you will find
the extra printers offered in the dialog.
HP2.WDR - printer driver for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet II.
HP2P.WDR - printer driver for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet IIP/IID.
HP3.WDR - printer driver for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet III.
PS.WDR, PS.INI, PS.DYL - printer driver (and other necessary files)
which supports a basic set of fonts for any Postscript printer.
PSAPPLE.WDR, PSAPPLE.INI, PSAPPLE.DYL - printer driver (and other
necessary files) for the Apple Laserwriter II series. These support a
wider range of fonts than the other Postscript drivers. You may find
that you can use these files to drive many other Postscript printers
that also have a wider range of fonts.
RICH TEXT FORMAT (RTF) SUPPORT FOR THE SERIES 3 WORD PROCESSOR
--------------------------------------------------------------
The Series 3 Word Processor can save and load files in Microsoft Rich Text
Format (RTF) for interchanging documents with other programs which can save
and load RTF files, such as:
- Microsoft Word for Windows
- Microsoft DOS Word
- Microsoft Word on the Macintosh
Installation
------------
Before you can save and open RTF files on your Series 3 you must copy the
WL$RTF.DYL and WS$RTF.DYL files supplied in the same location on the 3 Link
disk as this document. The files must be copied to a \WDR\ directory on the
Series 3. You can use the Internal disk or, if you want to avoid using up
internal memory, an SSD in drive A or B.
(Don't confuse the \WRD and \WDR directories - while \WRD\ is the directory
where Word Processor documents are stored, \WDR is where the Word Processor
keeps special files of various kinds - templates, and add-on software or
printer drivers. WL$RTF.DYL has the software to open RTF files, and
WS$RTF.DYL the software to save them - you don't have to copy both.)
-> Press the System button, to return to the System screen, and select the
`Copy file' option on the `File' menu.
-> Move the highlight to the `To file: Name' line. Type \WDR\.
-> If you want to copy the files to an SSD, move the highlight to the
`To file: Disk' line, and change it to `A' or `B' accordingly.
-> Move the highlight to the `From file: Disk' line, and change it to the
drive containing MCLINK. On a PC this will be something like REM::A or
REM::C. On a Macintosh, it will be REM:: plus the name of the disk -
REM::HD40 for example.
-> Move the highlight to the `From file: Name' line. The simplest way to
select the files is to press Control-Tab. Then type W*.DYL, but with the
directory/folder name they are in - for example, if you're copying them from
the supplied floppy, use \WDR\W*.DYL (WDR:W*.DYL on a Macintosh). Finally,
press Control-Enter, which selects these as the files to copy.
(Alternatively, you can press Tab to bring up the file selector, and navigate
to the directory concerned. You might then copy the files one by one, or tag
them both with the `+' key and copy them together.)
-> Press Enter, and the Series 3 will copy the files.
You can copy RTF files to and from the Series 3 like any other files, as
described in the 3 Link manual. When you next use the `Open file' or
`Save as' options in the Word Processor, you will now be able to set the
`File type' line to RTF, and select an RTF file.
Note: when the file is next saved - and this will happen if you switch
to a different file - it will be saved in Word Processor format,
complete with style and emphasis information. The .WRD file extension
will be used. If at some point you want to send the file back to the
PC or Macintosh, use the `Save as' option and make a new RTF version
of the file.
Direct access to remote RTF files
---------------------------------
You can use the `Open file' and `Save as' options directly on RTF
files on a PC or Macintosh, as long as the Series 3 is linked by
MCLINK. Select the file on REM::. See the 3 Link manual for more
details.
Using the HP3 printer driver as a nominal RTF driver
----------------------------------------------------
The HP3 printer driver (with file name HP3.WDR - also supplied on this disk)
is primarily for printing to the Hewlett Packard III laser printer. However,
with RTF, it is worth using HP3.WDR as driver even when there is no prospect
of printing to the intended printer because it contains a good basic font set
- mono-spaced Courier, a scalable serif font and a scalable sans-serif font
which travel well through the "RTF barrier".
If you are a Macintosh Word user printing to a Postscript laser printer, you
may be pleasantly surprised at the possibilities when using the HP3 driver on
the Series 3.
To install the HP3 driver, you copy HP3.WDR to a \WDR\ directory on the
Series 3 - as for WL$RTF.DYL and WS$RTF.DYL, described above.
Restrictions on headers and footers
-----------------------------------
The Word Processor supports only one header, which applies to the whole
document. If an RTF file specifies some other type of header, such as for
even pages only, this may become the header for the whole document.
The `On first page' settings in the Word Processor's `Header' and `Footer'
dialogs are not affected by opening an RTF file.
If a header in Microsoft Word has a separate stylesheet size, or any changes
of font within its text, these will be ignored.
Microsoft Word may not support the %F and %M codes, nor two- and
three-column headers, which will be treated as left-justified.
The same restrictions apply to footers as to headers.
Other limitations
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USE A .RTF FILE EXTENSION FOR ALL RTF FILES - ON THE SERIES 3, PC AND
MACINTOSH. When you save an RTF file, the Word Processor forces this
extension, but you should also use this file extension when creating RTF
files on a PC or Macintosh word processor. (On a Macintosh, this means that
filenames of RTF files should end with a dot, followed by the three
characters R T F ).
Content which is beyond that handled by the Series 3 word processor (such as
boxes, graphics, side-by-side formatting of paragraphs and tables of contents
entries) are not transferred into Series 3 Word documents.
Using Stylesheets in Microsoft DOS Word
---------------------------------------
(This information is based on version 5.0 of the MS-DOS version of
Microsoft Word.)
Microsoft Word for DOS saves a document's style information in a separate
file - a stylesheet. It can also, however, handle files without a stylesheet,
using in-line formatting - storing special codes in the document which
specify the various settings for each paragraph.
If you use a stylesheet with a particular Microsoft Word file, and you want
to transfer the file to and from the Series 3, do not change any of the
styles while on the Series 3. (You can still apply styles to paragraphs, and
you can use emphases as normal.) When you next send the file to the PC and
use it in Microsoft Word, it will ask for the stylesheet to use. Microsoft
Word checks that the document styles still match the stylesheet. Any
paragraphs which have a style that does not match those in the stylesheet are
converted to use in-line formatting.
If you are a user of the `Alter paragraph' option (instead of the
`Styles' option) for changing the look of paragraphs, this should not
worry you.
Control over fonts with Microsoft DOS Word
------------------------------------------
Microsoft Word for DOS does is not as sophisticated in its mapping of
incoming fonts when it reads an RTF file as is Microsoft Word for Windows or
Microsoft Word for the Macintosh. When you load an RTF document using
Microsoft Word for DOS (having c