_________________________________________________________________________ September 8, 1992 To: All "PS-Up" Supporters From: Knight Research - Compuserve ID 71301,3400 Subject: New Release - Version 2.41 The latest release of PS-Up contains minor changes - there was a bug in the previous Version 2.40 which made the printing of multiple files sometimes unpredictable. (If a file did not end in a carriage return / line feed / white-space, subsequent files in the same job would be flushed from the printer and not print. I never got an error report on this one but the bug was there nonetheless). One other fix in this version - if "Fountain Borders" were selected and a "Binding Margin" of any size other than .5 inches was used, no border would print on the document. (Wrong internal variable being used in the menu selection. This was the default menu selection for new users who haven't saved their initial profile, but it escaped our testing). Many thanks to Gary for finding and reporting this bug! NEW Features: To make it worth your while in downloading, Version 2.41 of PS-Up has added: (*) New "COPIES" option - on the File Listbox screen, a new pop-down listbox has been added to allow you to select 1 to 10 copies of the document(s) to be printed. This feature uses the Postscript #copies function and should produce the fastest uncollated copies. Thanks for your support, Doug. _________________________________________________________________________ Futures: I have had requests to look at the following enhancements to the PS-Up program: * Provide International support for the A4 paper size. * Provide Code page 850 character support. * Provide Command Line option to print file(s) from the command line - and Pipe the results to a file or TCP/IP. * Save the last drive/directory you were in so that you will automatically return there when run PS-Up again. * Duplexing support for printing on both sides of the paper. * A variety of margin, font, and other changes too numerous to mention. These can probably be accomodated with a prefix & postfix codes section. With this feature, you will have the ability to "hook" into the PS-Up program and send a file of your choosing with the appropriate setups. * Long terms ideas of mine...change the program to use the PM GPI calls and eliminate the requirement to have a postscript printer! * Eliminate the fan-out menus and move the entire program to one concise dialog box with drop-down list option boxes...this would eliminate a lot of mouse clicks. * Change the program to use the drag & drop metaphor. Printing would be accomplished by pulling an icon based file from a list box and dropping it on a variety of different icons which represent printers and page formats. This would also supporting printing ascii text from a other programs as well as the OS/2 file manager. (Drag & drop was added to OS/2 with release 1.3 CSD 5015 and is fully supported in OS/2 2.0). No promises on if/when I'll get at these suggestions but I do appreciate the feedback. _________________________________________________________________________ Previous Releases: Version 2.40: August 9, 1992 Edition - New features: (1) New Graphics - you don't have to look at my mug anymore! The graphic is the company logo for Knight Research. (2) Support for FORMFEED characters! If the text contains ascii-12 formfeed characters, they will force a newpage during printing (logical page). Or if you want to get the maximum on each sheet of paper, you can ignore formfeeds from the Menu option. Version 2.37: July 3, 1992 Edition - New features: (1) select MULTIPLE files at a time for printing. (2) Background "Watermarks" for a personalized touch in printing. (3) Visual indicator when printing---background changes color. Version 2.32b: New features: (1) supports HPFS long file and directory names. (2) line numbering option for program listings. (3) binding margins for 3-hole punch and other bindings. Version 2.25: New features: (1) Save Setups - to keep the options you've selected. Version 2.10: Original Compuserve release. - November 1991. _________________________________________________________________________ If you are a first time user of PS-Up, this is a postscript formatting program which is useful for formatting plain ascii text files and printing them on a postscript printer under OS/2. PS-Up should run on any version of OS/2 1.1 or greater. It DOES require a postscript printer to print. This program will format 1, 2, or 4 pages of text...66 lines to a page on a sheet of paper. Printing to a file is supported. PS-Up is a multi-threaded program and does not tie up the OS/2 desktop while it prints. 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