ENVELOGO COPYRIGHT 1991 JOHN PEDERSEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. John Pedersen CompuServe 76547,357 RR #2, Orangeville, Ontario Canada L9W 2Y9 ========================================================================== NOTE!!! ENVELOGO is a descendant of a program called Laser 'Loper. It has a number of enhancements and uses the Windows Help engine. At the present time, I am not asking for payment for ENVELOGO. Instead, I need feedback on: 1. ANY problems. 2. Installation on your system: easy/hard 3. Your system: printer, Word Processor, etc. 4. Your understanding how it works: easy/hard 5. Degree of usefulness to you: very/not very 6. Any other suggestions? If you get in touch with me, and give me info on ANY or ALL of the 6 questions above, it will be much appreciated, AND I will be able to update you on any bugs that turn up, and enhancements added, or new products that are developed. Send message to John Pedersen, CompuServe 76547,357. ========================================================================== Files contained in the ZIP file: 1. ENVLGO.EXE Executable file (needs VBRUN100.DLL in Windows directory). 2. ENVLGO.HLP Windows-style help file. 3. ENVDEMO.BIN Example envelope template file for LaserJet II printer. 4. DEMOLETR.DOT WinWord Example Document Template File with fixed AUTONEW MACRO. 5. README.TXT Documentation ========================================================================== INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENVELOGO ========================= Introduction: With much loading and clicking, Pagemaker (or equivalent) teamed with your Laser printer, can produce an excellent addressed envelope with a fancy-logo return address. But when you just need to kick out an envelope and put a stamp on it, this envelope printer starts printing in seconds. Using template files, it lets you select any of your fancy- artwork/logo envelope types (personal, business, spouse...), and can paste in the address from the Windows clipboard, or from your word processor. Runs under Windows 3, and needs VBRUN100.DLL. On my system it inhales the envelope within a few seconds after I click the "PRINT" button. It takes care of switching the printer into manual mode (so it waits for you if your envelope is not inserted), and landscape, so you can just shove in an envelope, print it up, and go right back to writing your next letter. The program will automatically convert itself to an icon at the bottom of the screen when printing is finished. The program relies on having a template file on disk that it can quickly dump out to the printer, only inserting the desired address. The user can select from a number of templates, so there can be specific envelopes for yourself personally, and for your dog-washing business, your spouse, and so on. A test template called DEMOPRNT.BIN is included with this program. The address (destination) to be spliced onto the envelope template can be automatically set up by your word processing program when you typed the letter, or transferred via the clipboard from, for instance, the "Windows Cardfile" program, or, heaven forbid, the address lines can even be typed in by hand. The template(s): This is the factor that makes this method very quick, because no manipulation of graphics is required--the entire template file is sitting there, ready to go. However, you do have to get this file in place to begin with. These instructions relate to Pagemaker, outputing to an HP LaserJet II, but it should be possible to handle other combinations in a similar manner. Even with the same combination of hardware and software, there are probably many ways to accomplish the same results, but the following worked well for me. 1. Compose an envelope on Pagemaker (importing a logo created with Corel, Designer, or whatever), and get it looking the way you want. On my page setup, I used a custom paper size of 9.5" x 4.125", with orientation set to "Wide". 2. On the envelope, put an address of 6 lines, each line being "aaa" (no quotes, just the three lowercase letters). I made sure that the font was one which was built into the printer (Courier 12). 3. Print it out on the LaserJet, to make sure it is exactly what you want. Remember, on the Printer Setup, put "Paper Source" to "Manual", and "Orientation" to "Landscape". 4. After you make sure that it prints out exactly the way you want, go back to the Control Panel in the Windows Program Manager, and change the printer connection from LPT1 to FILE. 5. You may have to reset the printer to "Landscape" mode, and to "Manual Feed" again. Then print the envelope once again, but this time it will print to a filename that you will specify. Make sure the file name ends with the extension ".BIN". You will have to tell the Envelogo program the name of the file, and that's it. A WinWord Macro: I refer to a WinWord Macro output file (ie a file created by a macro that I set up in Word for Windows) but in fact this program will just print whatever address it finds in a certain file, and doesn't care how it got there. No doubt there are many ways, and many word-processing programs that can do this. I found it very handy to create a macro such that every time I wrote a letter, using a .DOT document template that put the date and my logo on the letterhead and such, that the address was automatically written into a certain file, replacing whatever had been there previously. This is the address used by the Envelogo program. You open your template file (.DOT extension, MS provides examples with WinWord), presumably in the TMPLATES directory. From the menu, select Macro/Edit, then select Template (not Global), and then select AutoNew from the choices presented. Assuming you use input boxes to get the address from the user, just add a few lines of Basic (WordBasic) to open a file for output, and print the address lines to the file. ======================================================================== Notes about ENVELOGO: a) The program expects the envelope template filenames to end with a .BIN extension. b) The program expects the macro output filename to end with a .TXT extension. b) The program places an ENV.INI file in your Windows directory. c) The printer is expected to be connected to, and is accessed by dumping a binary file directly to, LPT1.