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* *
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* Print Shop Soft docs *
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* by Doctor Vax *
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* 6/24/84 *
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* *
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Ok, to start off with this is one EXCELLENT program, and all you need
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is an APPLE II+/IIe/IIc with at least 48k of memory or APPLE III in
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emulation mode. optional equipment is as follows. Joystick,Koala pad
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and color ribbons and paper. To start just put boot up the disk and
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you come to a menu. You can use eitherthe joystick,cursor keys or the
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Koala pad to move to the proper program.
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Obviously if this is your first time you will choose SETUP. Now tell
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it what type of printer you have, what slot and type of printer
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interface and how many drives you have. You can use Print Shop with
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only one drive, but once you start making your own designs you will
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need two. at this point, to test your printer setup, make sure your
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printer is ready and type return. You should see 'WELCOME TO THE PRINT
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SHOP' print out. If it does we're ready to go!! Oh, one last thing, to
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use the KOALA PAD plug it in BEFORE you boot up. Also the buttons may
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be used as RETURN and ESCAPE.
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Greeting Card
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To make a Greeting card highlight it on the menu and press return. You
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have a choice of 'Ready Made' or 'Design your Own' if you choose
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design your own, just follow the step by step instructions. First
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you'll design the FRONT then the INSIDE. You'll be asked to choose a
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border,graphic,graphic size,grahic layout, font. There are 3 graphic
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sizes; small,medium and large. The staggered graphic layout will
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evenly space 13 (small) or 5 (med) sized graphics. The tiled layout
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will place small graphics side by side on the whole page. Note that
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the CUSTOM, TILED or STAGGERED layout can't be useWith the large
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graphic. The Custom layout lets you choose how many SMALL or MEDIUm
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graphics will be printed. Use the arrow keys or koala pad to the
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different positions and hit return to select. When done just move to
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the DONE box and hit return. Choose a FONT and we will type a message.
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You will now see a box. on the right the 'C' means centered. By
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pressing ^P (CTRL=P) you can change it to Flush Left/Right. On the
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left side you will see small boxes. You can change the Font being
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printed to be SOLID(preset) OUTLINE or 3-D. by pressing ^F will change
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this. You can also set the print to be larger or smaller by pressing
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^S. You will not be able to JUDGE the outcome until AFTER your done.
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When you done just hit return and now you'll go to the INSIDE card
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design. This is done exactly the same way. When done with the inside
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you will be at the print menu. Just position your paper at the
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perforations and go! The system will pause with 'THINKING' on the
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screen and then print. Congradulations on you first card! One last
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note, using graphics #51-60 in the TILE mode will print nice
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backrounds
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SIGN
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The SIGN mode will let you print full page signs. These can be of any
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graphic supplied or one of your own, that you designed with the
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Graphics Editor. The procedure is the same as for the front page of
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the GREETING CARD.
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LETTERHEAD
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In LETTERHEAD we design the top first. Choose a graphic or no grahic.
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If you choose graphic,you will now see a way to postion them. The
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options are shown as you move the highlighter up and down. Select one
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and you will now have to choose the FONT. This is the same as for the
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GREETING CARD with the exception of not being able to alter the size.
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Just type in your message. You can use ^F/P as before also. If you
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want your address printed the line will wrap around the screen but
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will be printed on one line if your message is to long. If you don't
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want your address just hit return. For that extra touch you can have a
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horizontal line your name from the rest of the page. Choosing a
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graphic for the bottom isthe same as the top. When you have finished
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the design go to the print menu and VIOLA? Nice eh? You can also print
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multipule copies to use for your word processing needs.
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BANNER
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Highlight 'BANNER' then return. Choose a FONT that you want, return
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and now choose either solid or outline printing. Type your message on
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the two lines. If your message doesn't fit, you'll have to edit your
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message. Only on line can go on the banner even though you type your
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message on two. you can also 'CHAIN' two banners or graphic pictures.
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By doing this you can get different fonts or graphics on one banner.
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The graphic choices are done the same as in the GREETING CARD. Choose
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the postions of the graphics and just print.
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SCREEN MAGIC
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Screen Magic is a very powerful SCREEN PRINTING program. It will print
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different shades of grey as well as printing the whole screen.The menu
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has five choices. They are: See Kalaidescopes,Draw text on screen,Get
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screen,Save Screen and Print screen. Let's highlight KALAIDESCOPES
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first and then go onto the others. Kalaidescope will let you see 12
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different screens. by pressing RETURN you can advance to the next one.
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Hitting ESCAPE will freeze the present screen. When you hit ESCAPE
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the screen will be put into memory and you will go back to the menu.
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Kalidescope 2 will start out like 1 but has only one starting point
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and return will not work. Hitting ESCAPE will though and also put the
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screen in memory. NOTE that you can only have one screen in memory at
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a time. DRAW ON TEXT will let you do just that with the screen in
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memory. Just choose a FONT and type. The number of lines and
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characters differs with the font size. Also ^F will toggle between
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solid and outline as 3-D is not available. Now center your text. It
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can be done from top to bottom if desires. If you want to get a
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different screen that you previously saved, type in the name and drive
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#. Hit return for a catalog of RETRIEVABLE screens. Only screens
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created with the screen editor are valid. Save screen is just that. It
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will ask you if you want init disk. If you dont have a inited disk get
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a SCRATCH and just follow the directions. Print screen will print the
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screen in memory. You can choose between normal or reverse. Reverse
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meaning that all the BLACK areas of your screen will be printed. You
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will also be asked if you want a border around the screen. This is a
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single black line and is not like on the GREETING CARDS. The print
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menu is like the others with the exception of 'PRINT TOP HALF OR
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BOTTOM HALF'? This is if you want to fold the paper in 1/2, as the
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PRINT SHOP works only on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
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GRAPHIC EDITOR
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Last but not least is the Graphic Editor. This will let you edit ANY
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an ALL graphics CREATED or USED by the PRINT SHOP. The menu to the
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right of the drawing screen is really self expanatory (so is the whole
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program so why this big text file??) but, the one thing you should
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know about is the ^D- device. This is NOT for a drive selection!!!
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This will let you reactivate the KOALA PAD if it was not on the system
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when you booted up. The buttons on the joystick and koala pad act as
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'D' for draw and 'E' for erase. NOTES: before you can edit the
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original PRINT SHOP graphics the must be save to another disk. As I
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stated before ONLY graphics created with PRINT SHOP can be used.
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Print Shop suggests that if you have a serial printer to set it at
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9600 baud. Try this if your printing is erratic. For those of us that
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have the OKIDATA 92 we will not get as good graphics as the other
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printers. This is because the graphic resolution is only 72x72. The
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others are 160(120)x72. Who cares, we get better print quality
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anyway.
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