Booklet 2.40 ------------ 'Booklet' is a program to print documents in landscape orientation using both sides of the paper. It can operate with A5 or US letter paper on HP Laserjet II compatible printers, or 11" x 8" paper on 9 or 24 pin Epson compatible dot-matrix printers. When the output is folded down the middle it becomes an A5 (or similar) booklet. You can use it to print its own documentation. Just type 'booklet booklet.doc'. If you are using an dot-matrix Epson compatible, select 'Printer/Epson 9 pin' or 'Printer/Epson 24 pin' from the menu. If you are using a Laserjet II or compatible, select 'Printer/HP Laserjet, US letter' from the menu. If you are using LPT2 rather than LPT1, select 'Port/LPT2'. Leave ALL other options unchanged (55 lines+header, 80 columns/line, both sides, whole document). Then just choose 'File/Print' and follow the instructions. Upgrading from v2.12 or earlier ------------------------------- If you have a configuration file BOOKLET.CFG in the same directory as BOOKLET.EXE, delete it before running this version. If present it will (probably) cause a load error. You can save a new file once you have entered the program. If you have registered the program you will need to re-enter your registration code using the 'Config/Register booklet' menu option. Note that any '0' or '1' in the code is a number, not the letters 'O' or 'l'. Release History (in reverse order) ---------------------------------- 2.40 20/09/91 1) Added file pick list. 2) Now show path in 'get file name' window. 3) First key delete is now a switchable option. 4) Added Shift/Del to edit keys, to delete all. 5) Restores original drive and directory at exit. 6) Added disk error handler. 7) Restores original break status before DOS shell and restores drive and directory afterwards. 8) Help screens tweaked and more added. 9) Return values documented. 2.37a 23/07/91 1) Documentation only, added IIIP note. 2.37 17/06/91 1) Corrected 'Ignore form feeds' operation. 2) Now bleeps on page change with CsrUp/CsrDn in Page Preview. 2.36 16/06/91 1) Added DOS shell option. 2) Corrected 1st help screen format. 2.35 02/06/91 1) Corrected minor bug in 'Printing sheet' routine. 2) Set break off for duration of program. 2.34 07/05/91 1) Added support for US Letter paper on Laserjets. 2.33 04/05/91 1) Default input that will be deleted if the 1st keypress is not a cursor control is now highlighted as a warning. 2) Cursor key at top/bottom of page now change pages in Preview. 3) Ran docs. through a grammar checker. 85% of US adults can understand me. 2.32 21/04/91 1) Increased size of Get File window. 2.31 19/04/91 1) Reload config. now changes colour immediately if necessary. 2) Appearance of menu bar. 2.30 14/04/91 1) Improved registration instructions. 2) Registration allows moving back up lines. 3) Corrected minor bug in string input. 4) Preview selections now go straight into preview. 5) Added facility to print parts of a document. 6) Sheets now always numbered from beginning of document, even when printing reverse side. 7) Help now allows moving back through screens. 2.20 29/03/91 1) Added configurable printer retries to cure timeouts on some machines, mainly with laser printers. 2) Preview pulldown menu repositioned next to File menu. 3) PgUp in Preview now goes to END of previous page. 4) PgUp & PgDn in Preview don't change the horizontal position. 5) Added an 'ignore form feed' option. Will the people who requested this item please let me know how well it works. If the files you want to print use form feeds INSTEAD of line endings, this may not work very well. 6) Minor modification to the status display. 7) Clarified the colour configuration prompts. 2.12 20/03/91 1) Bug fix release, cured a problem with some Epsons in 66 line mode. 2.11 14/03/91 1) Added a second digit to minor version number. 2.1 11/03/91 1) Added colour configuration. 2.0 27/01/91 1) Added configuration file. 2) Epson modes now don't try to print completely blank column pairs. Saves time when using impact printers. 3) Added option not to print header/footer on pages after end of file. Can improve appearance, but mainly provided to save time on impact printers. 4) Tabs can now be dealt with as spaces. 5) Page limit increased from 200 to 500 on request. If you try to use 500 pages you will get a VERY fat booklet. 6) Added page preview mode. 7) Altered the registration mechanism to simplify version upgrading. A user code is now provided which can be used to mark future releases. 8) Rearranged the menus to accomodate the extra options. 1.8 24/11/90 1) Now sends select symbol set to HP. The program previously used whatever symbol set had been selected as the default. The most noticeable effect was IBM graphics appearing as accented characters. 1.7 14/11/90 1) Added 24 pin Epson printer support. 1.6 19/10/90 1) Set up printer again before second pass. When the program uses a printer on a network it seems the network software treats the second side as a separate job, and resets the printer between passes. NOT TESTED BY ME as I don't have access to a network. 2) 'Printing documentation' help added to help menu. 1.5 08/10/90 1) First public release.