USING THE NEW FONTS ON SIDE A. This side of the disc works from the original PRINTMASTER discs, extending the scope. It does NOT include the PRINTMASTER files which are needed to set up the environment in which PRINTMASTER can work. The PRINTMASTER disc is available from Public Domain and can be obtained from PCW World for the normal copying fees. The A side of the disc contains a series of alternative fonts, which have been adapted from the PRINTIT disc. To use these fonts, PRINTMASTER is run in just the same way as usual, except that when you are requested to turn your disc over and press A, you simply put THIS disc into drive A, press A and carry on normally. Below, Barry Etheridge's notes on the operation of PRINTMASTER are included for convenience. There is little to add - you either do or don't learn to tolerate PRINTMASTER's eccentricities and laconic error comment "Printmaster has crashed" with a message that is, if anything, more confusing than the CP/M messages! It is simply a matter of trial and error (and patience) to find what PRINTMASTER will and will not accept. USING PRINTMASTER. Notes by Barry Etheridge for PCW World c.1989 The version of Printmaster available from PCW World has been substantially amended to make it possible to run the program on all Amstrad 8000 series machines. We are particularly grateful to Geoffrey Childs for an elegant, memory saving, programming solution, which makes this unique version possible. *SETTING UP* The key factor is the arrangement of files on the disc. Side 2 (or SW101 Side 1), which will be the disc left in the drive during operation of the program, must contain the following files:- BORDER.MTX BORDERS.SHP FNTNAMES.MTX FONTICON.SHP FSIZES. SLIB.SDR SLIB.SHP PLUS as many of your favourite fonts ( .FNT files) as you can fit into the remaining disc space. Unfortunately you must sacrifice at least one font but as the fonts you choose are not crucial (provided you remember not to use the absent font(s) in the program!) change them around to find the ones you like before settling on the disc contents. Side 1 of the disc should contain all the remaining files. If the master disc you have received is organised differently then use PIP (or any file handling system such as the space saving NewSWeeP - available from PCW World!) to transfer them in the right configuration to the disc you will actually be using. [Just a tip - when copying a number of individual files to another disc, copy them to m: initially, (eg. pip m:=pmaster.com), to avoid constant disc changing. It is sometimes even better to use pip m:=*.*[c], which will list all the files on the disc, and you press Y or N to select which ones you wish to copy. Then when all the files you need are in m: copy them all in one go to the new disc, (eg. pip a:=m:*.*). Erase all the files in m:, (eg. era m:*.*), and then repeat the process for a second side.] *LOADING PRINTMASTER* Printmaster should be loaded from boot. Either turn off the machine, turn on, and insert side 1 of the PRINTMASTER disc, or press [SHIFT]+[EXTRA]+[EXIT] with side 1 in the machine. On completion of the loading process you will be asked to log the data drive. Just insert Side 2 (or SW101 side 1) into the disc drive and press the [A] key. The opening menu will then appear. For reasons which no-one seems able to fathom this menu will occasionally appear with gibberish (or nothing) in the title box - this doesn't actually affect the running of the program and will return to normal once you use your first function. If the menu fails to appear at all, try pressing any key to clear the problem. If this still fails (it hasn't so far in testing!), it may be necessary to repeat the loading. *USING PRINTMASTER* Printmaster is entirely menu operated and therefore largely self- explanatory. Experimentation is by far the best way to get the most from it. However, you will soon discover, if using single sheet A4 paper, that the printing is squeezed as tightly as possible onto the page and this will result in incomplete images as the paper 'runs out'. Before printing you should therefore turn on the Paper Out Defeat on the PCW printer. Press [PTR], use the cursor arrow keys to move the 'illuminated' section to PO Defeat, then press [+] to turn it 'on'! Now [EXIT] the printer control state and you will be able to print to the extremities of the paper and reproduce all the borders etc. available. #N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N#âƒ#N