Contents for PEM CardPad Help

About

[Page Layout...]

[Character...]

[Card...]

[Document Template...]

[Card Index...]

[Keyboard/Mouse]

[Drawing]

[Frame]

[Card edit mode]

[.INI file]

[Restrictions]


[Page Layout...](File menu)

  Margins

Each margin is necessary at least about 10 mm (0.39 in) for unprinted areas of a printer.

  Header/Footer

Printing widths are about 5 mm (0.2 in) at the top/bottom of the paper within a printed area. If they are overlapped with a card data at printing, enlarge Top margin or Bottom margin.

If there are the following characters in the header/footer text, they will be replaced with corresponded data.

"&p" or "&P"	 : page number

"&f" or "&F"	 : document file name with a path name

  Card Layout

When selecting All at Print Range, from the top card to the last valid card will be printed.

When selecting Selection at Print Range, you must select cards to be printed previously. You can do it at the Card edit mode.


[Character...] (Form menu)

  Color

Standard means a text color selected at control panel.

  Char spaces

+values enlarge it and -values reduce it. But cannot be reduced more than a limitation.

  Line spaces

+values enlarge it and -values reduce it. But cannot be reduced more than a limitation.

Setting it to a character, it is valid for the line. Setting some values to some characters in the samle line, max value will be taken. Setting +values and -values, they are canceld each other.

  Super/subscript

Superscript: Characters are setted at the vertical top of line.

Subscript:Characters are setted at the vertical bottom of line .

Centered:Characters are setted at the vertical center of line.

  Position

Valid for Super/subscript. Character position is adjusted vertically. +values mean dwonward and -values mean upward.


[Card...] (Form menu)

When setting card size equal with paper size, margins in a card means paper margins. At this case each margin is necessary at least about 10 mm for unprinted areas of a printer.


[Keyboard/Mouse]

Keyboard/mouse operations for PEM CardPad are same as a general windows application. So here only particular operations will be described.

Character mode:

  [Ctrl]+[right arrow]  : move caret to the right card.

  [Ctrl]+[left arrow]  : move caret to the left card.

  [Ctrl]+[up arrow]  : move caret to the upper card.

  [Ctrl]+[down arrow]  : move caret to the lower card.

  [Ctrl]+[PageUp]  : move caret to the previous screen's card.

  [Ctrl]+[PageDown]  : move caret to the next screen's card.

  [Ctrl]+[Home]  : move caret to the top card when it is at the top in an active card.

  [Ctrl]+[End]  : move caret to the last card when it is at the end in an active card.

  Caret can be moved by mouse Click too.

Drawing mode:

  Keyboard operations are not available now.

  Refer to[Drawing] for mouse operations

Frame mode:

  Keyboard operations are not available now.

  Refer to[Frame] for mouse operations

Card edit mode:

  [right arrow]  :  move the selection mark to the right card.

  [left arrow]  :  move the selection mark to the left card.

  [up arrow]  :move the selection mark to the upper card.

  [down arrow]  :move the selection mark to the lower card.

  [PageUp]  :move the selection mark to the previous screen's card.

  [PageDown]  :move the selection mark to the next screen's card.

  [Home]  :move the selection mark to the top card.

  [End]  :move the selection mark to the last card.

  [Shift]+[right arrow], [left arrow], [up arrow], [down arrow], [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home], [End]  :select sequential cards.

  The selection mark can be moved by mouse Click too. Sequential cards can be selected by mouse Click with pressing and holding down SHIFT.


[Drawing]

PEM CardPad supports a line, arrow, rectangle, and ellipse. Select your favorite type, line width, line type and color from the drawing palette, next do Drag in a card, then you can draw.

Characters must be entered previously for drawing.

Three buttons at the top in the drawing palette are for changing mode.

- cross cursor button: drawing mode. you can draw.

- arrow cursor button: selection mode. you can select some drawings for resizing, moving, and changing of line width , line type and color.

- A button: for returning to character mode.

Dot/dash/dotdash lines are available only when line width = 1.

If you want to change the frame color of the painted drawings, first select an unpainted type of drawing and next select color.

Drawing, resizing and moving can be done by a half line vertically and a few millimters horozontally. For details drag with pressing and holding down SHIFT.

To select a single drawing

1. Set to the selection mode by selecting an arrow cursor button in the drawing palette.

2. Move the arrow cursor on a drawing to be selected and click it.

3. Then selection marks( those are small rectangles ) will be added on the drawing.

To select some drawings

1. Set to the selection mode by selecting an arrow cursor button in the drawing palette.

2. Put the arrow cursors away from lines of drawings and by drag make a rectangle which encloses drawings to be selected.

3. Then selection marks will be added on the drawings.

To resize a drawing

1. Select a drawing to be resized.

2. Put the arrow cursor on one of selection marks and drag.

To change a line type, line width and color

1. Select a drawing or some drawings.

2. Push a line type button, line width button and color button in the drawing palette.

To move

1. Select a drawing or some drawings.

2. Put the arrow cursor on one of the lines and drag.

To delete

1. Select a drawing or some drawings.

2. Press Delete key.

You can also use [Undo]/[Cut]/[Copy]/[Paste] commands.


[Frame]

You can make frames in a card by the frame command in the option menu or by the frame button in the toolbar. A bitmap can be pasted in a frame.

Characters must be entered previously for drawing.

Making, resizing and moving of a frame can be done by a half line vertically and a few millimters horozontally. For details drag with pressing and holding down SHIFT.

To select a frame

1. Move mouse cursor into the frame to be selected and click.

2. Then selection marks( those are samll rectangles ) will be added on the frame.

To resize a frame

1. Select a frame to be resized.

2. Put the arrow cursor on one of selection marks and drag.

To move

1. Select a frame to be moved.

2. Put the arrow cursor on the frame and drag.

To delete

1. Select a frame to be deleted.

2. Press Delete key.

You can also use [Undo]/[Cut]/[Copy]/[Paste] commands.

To paste a bitmap to a frame

1. Copy a bitmap on Clipboard by Paint Brush etc..

2. Select a frame to be pasted the bitmap.

3. Do [Paste] command.


[Card edit mode]

  In this case cards can be edited. You can move to the card edit mode by the card edit command in the option menu or by the card edit button in the toolbar. To return to the character mode, do the same operation.

The card edit mode has two inner modes as followings. To switch these modes, press Insert key.

- Overwrite mode: Cards are overwited by paste command. Contents of cards are emptied by cut command.

- Insert mode : New cards are inserted at the active card by paste command. Selected cards are deleted by cut command and empty cards are added.

To select cards

    Refer to [Keyboard/Mouse]You can use [Undo]/[Cut]/[Copy]/[Paste] commands and Delete key.


[Card Index]

Allowed max count is 30.


[Restrictions]

Some wreckage will be displayed sometimes in the following cases. At that time please double click in the card for displaying correctly .

    - Using super/subscript.

    - Using italic.

    - Selection of characters when a frame exists.

    - Overlapping of frames.

    - Overlapping of frames and drawings.

Please use this program in an enviroment where sufficient unused memory (about above 2MB)exists. If enlarging the card count or the card size, more unused memory will be necessary.


[Document Template...]

You can change attributes of a default document by this command. The following items can be changed.

[Card...]

Card count

[Card Index...]

[Page Layout...]

Set current attributes

Set attributes of the active document to the document template.

Set default values.

Set default attributes to the document template.


[.INI file]

You can change default values by modifing the following items in CARDPAD.INI file.  The figure at the right side of the symbol means a default value.

TabWidth=15

tab width�imm�j, 15mm=0.6in

DisplayEnter=1

1:Display enter mark.

0:Don't display enter mark.

DisplayTab=0

1:Display tab mark.

0:Don't display tab mark.

EnterColor=2

Color number of enter mark. 1 to 16 available. 1:Black ,2:Blue ,... refer to  "Char" dialog box.

TabColor=16

Color number of tab mark. 1 to 16 available. 1:Black ,2:Blue ,... refer to  "Char" dialog box.

FreeCursor=1

1:Enable freecursor mode.

0:Disable freecursor mode.

DefaultFontNo=4

Default font number. 4:MS Arial. Don't change.

DefaultFontPoint=10

Default font point value.

WordWrap=1

1:Enable word wrap.

0:Disable word wrap.

MeasureType=1

1:inch

0:mm

DlgFontNo=4

Font number used in a dialog box. 4:MS Arial. Don't change.