Shareware Programs of Interest to Printers The following programs are all shareware. The $5 per disk we charge goes towards the maintenance of the library, etc. The author receives no part of this fee. In each description you will find the author's requested "registration" fee. If you find the softwareuseful you should compensate the author for his efforts by sending him the requested registration fee. You are under no obligation topay the author for the program if you do not use it. For anexplanation of "shareware", see the article at the end of this catalog. Please note that the below listed programs are only a small number of the many programs we have. A complete listing of our some 40,000 programs is available free of charge on disk. These are some of the more popular ones of specific interest to those in the graphic artsindustry. Many of these programs require Windows, but since virtually all printers using the PC are working with Windows, it is assumed that you are working with Windows. If you do not have acopy of VBRUN100.DLL and VBRUN200.DLL in your Windows directory let us know when you order and we will include those two files at no charge with your order. They are required for many Windowsprograms, but you only need one copy in the Windows directory for all programs that require it. GR-0299 Badge-O-Magic. Design and print your own name tags and badges. Make 1-4 line 3" x 4" badges and print to your laserprinter. Six badges per page are printed on either plain or perforated badge stock. $5 GR-1885 EnVision Publisher. An outstanding shareware WYSIWYG desktop publishing program, EnVision Publisher features graphical and mouse support, scalable fonts, object drawing, scaling, editing, etc. You can create pages and add text either directly or by importing from your word processor, add graphic images draw lines (or rectangles, circles, etc.), etc. 2 disks. $10 GR-3000 PCX2FONT. This is an incredible little tool that will convert .PCX images to an HP LaserJet soft font. You can convert your scanned images of signatures, logos, drawings, etc. into fonts. It also will operate in reverse making .PCX files out of fonts that can be edited. $5 GR-3001 4PRINT. This program will print text in a number of different formats, including 2-pages per sheet, 3- or 4-column with intelligent word wrapping, pre-collated booklets, etc. Can be formatted for the number of lines per page. $5 GR-3002 ENV. I love this one. It is faster than hand addressing an envelope. Simply type your address and push the print key and your address (with optional return address) as well as postal bar code for the zip code is immediately printed on one of a variety of sizes of supported envelopes. Also has a built-in mini-word processor where you can create a boilerplate letter and print copies of that letter to each of the selected names in the enclosed database. Real slick. $5 GR-3003 MULTI-LABEL. This is the Rolls Royce of the label making programs. It has WYSIWYG label design. It supports Avery laser labels or you can create your own custom label format. Use your Windows fonts and import graphics. It has outstanding text tools and offers built-in circle or rectangle drawing. You can print either one label or as many as you wish. $5 GR-3004 MR. LABEL. Another outstanding label making program that offers many of the features of GR-3003 above, plus sequential numbering, among other things. $5 GR-3005 BREEZE. This is an outstanding text editor with almost every feature you can think of (and some you probably haven't). It has full mouse support, search and replace, block commands (including copy, move, delete, sort, etc.), auto save, screen saver, macros, multiple windows, spell checker with a user defined dictionary, and even the ability to automatically convert text into a self running executable file. WOW!. $5 GR-3006 HOTDIR. This is without question the most used utility inour shop. A replacement for the DOS DIR command, HOTDIR displaysyour directory in user defined blazing colors, sorted by howeveryou want the directory sorted - by filename, extension, size, date,etc. You can also re-direct the display to your printer - a usefulfeature if your directory fills more than one screen. This diskalso contains several other useful public domain utilities. $5 GR-1350 ZIPKEY. A zipcode directory on disk. A lookup program for zipcodes, city names and states. An outstanding program and a bestseller. $5 GR-1729 PC-WRITE. As powerful and feature-filled as the best of the commercial word processors, this program supports hundreds of printers through a simple menu-driven setup program. Included features are automatic reformatting and pagination, spell checking, up to 11 columns, left and right page layouts, index and contents generator, headers and footers, keystroke recording, pull-down menus, button bar, mouse support, preview to screen, context sensitive help, outline and hanging indent, cut and paste, decimal tabs, word count, auto page numbering, importing ASCII files, ability to customize keyboard and more. 4 disks. $20 GR-1940 AS EASY AS. Without question the top Lotus 1-2-3 clone. It looks and feels like Lotus with the same features. Moving from Lotus to As Easy As is transparent. It uses Lotus ver 1A, 2.0, and 2.01 compatible worksheets; allows 8192 rows by 256 columns; has full math string, date and time functions, depreciation, interpolation, etc. Prints to dot matrix and LaserJet printers. Makes graphs, has search and replace, user-definable functions, reads dBase files, macros, and more and more and more. An add-on program with a programmer's kit is available. 2 disks. $10 GR-1904 PKZIP240E. This is the file compression utility everyone is talking about. It's fast and has an excellent compression percentage. $5 GR-1905 LHA. This is the file compression utlity we use in our shop and on our BBS. While it doesn't compress quite as small as PKZIP (#GR-1904), it is Bannerware and we have found it to be very reliable. $5 GR-1724 FORMATQM. This is our favorite disk formatter. FormatQM will format 160k, 180k, 320k, 360k, 720k, 1.2M, and 1.44M in either drive A, B, C, or D. It is fast, formatting a 360k disk in about 40 seconds. There is a thermometer scale at the bottom of the screen to let you know how far into the format you are. Depending upon how you set it up, it will only format perfect disks (rejecting ones with bad sectors) or will mark any bad sectors. It saves you keystrokes because you simply insert another disk once the first one is formatted and it automatically starts again, giving you a count of the number formatted. With the right hardware it can format up to 4 disks at the same time. $5 GR-1723 COPYQM. Similar to FormatQM (#GR-1724) except that it automatically makes multiple copies of a master disk. $5 GR-0565 AUTOMENU. Considered to be the leader in menu programs and one of the most popular of all shareware programs, Automenu is very easy to set up and is extremely powerful. It has online help, mouse support, is network compatible, has ability to use passwords, has timed execution, and much, much more. $5 GR-1208 FORMGENII. An excellent program to help you design, print and store forms easily. The program's features include box drawing, text centering, check boxes, arrows, area fill, calibration of lines, a form previewer and graphic print capability. $5 GR-1208A FORMFILL. This is a companion program to FormGenII (#GR- 1208) which works with your pre-defined forms to put your information in the boxes and print them out. It automatically fills in date, time and sequentially numbered fields. Can also print blank pre-defined forms. Some sample forms are included. $5 GR-1768 FILE EXPRESS. This is a fast and powerful database system that is full of features and easy to learn for the unexperienced user. I don't know what the limit of the number of records possible is, but it exceeds 16 million and allows up to 120 fields per record with up to 250 characters per field. There is outstanding reporting which allows for custom column headings, etc. Other features include duplicate deleting, undeleting of deleted records, printer controls, search on multiple fields, import and export of dBase III and .WK1 files, etc. 3 disks. $15 GR-0676 QMMODEM. One of the most popular and easiest to use pieces of communications software, QModem is the program we use. It is superior to many of the commercial programs and is surpassed in sales by very few shareware programs. It supports most transfer protocals, offers upload and download capabilities and has an outstanding dialing directory which has the capability of automatically setting up script files. 4 disks. $20 GR-1634 GRAPHIC WORKSHOP. What a wonderful tool. Graphic Workshop allows you to view, dither, batch convert from one format to another, crop, scale, print and more. Formats supported are BMP, EPS, GIF, IMG, MAC, MSP, PIC , PCX, TIF, TGA, CUT, RLE, IFF/LBM, and .WPG (raster). You can also invert, halftone, rotate, flip, adjust contrast, etc. This is a must. 2 disks. $10 GR-3007 GEMCAP. Another great little tool. GEMCap will allow you to do a direct capture of a screen as an .IMG file. It works on CGA, EGA, and VGA (16-color, not 256) using a built-in bitmapping font. Great when you need to capture a screen to import into a document. $5 GR-1897 PRINTER's APPRENTICE. Another must for those in the graphic arts industry. PA will print a type style book of all your Type1 or TrueType fonts in one of a number of different formats. It even allows you to customize the titles on each page This is the professional way of showing your available type styles. $5 GR-1733 WINCLIP. This is another one of my favorites. With Winclip you can print a catalog of your clipart. The program handles either PCX or BMP files. I use Graphic Workshop (#GR-1634) to quickly scale and batch convert my graphics to BMP format and scale them to equal size, then use Winclip to print my catalog, which has about 20 pictures per page. I have printed tens of thousands of pieces of clipart using Winclip and don't know how I would get along without it. $5 GR-3008 ROCKFORD. Remember the TV series, the Rockford Files, where Jim Rockford would print up a business card whenever he needed one? Well you can do the same with Rockford v2.5. You can design, import clipart, add borders, use built-in drawing tools, use either Type1 or TrueType fonts, and print business cards in a heartbeat. $5 GR-3009 CHARTIST. This outstanding program will allow you to create, edit and print flow charts or organizational charts in either portrait or landscape orientation. Any Windows installed font can be used. Bitmapped pictures can be imported. Sample charts are included. Drawing tools include boxes, symbols and lines. Charts can include multiple pages. $5 GR-1800 ZPAY3. An outstanding payroll program - the one we use. This is fast, easy to use, and contains all the reports you need. It handles salaried, hourly, commissions, salary plus commissions, tips, part-time, contractors, occasional employees, 2 overtime rates, bonuses, etc. Includes all federal, state and local tax tables which are customizable within the system. Up to 6 additional deductions may be kept for each employee. At the end of the year it will print W2 and 1099-MISC forms, checks, federal and state reports. Produces monthly, quarterly, and yearly summaries and much more. Well documented and has mouse support and works with the new IRS reporting rules. 2 disks. $10 GR-1028 MEDLIN ACCOUNTING. This series of programs is considered one of the top accounting programs. It is very easy to use and contains almost everything you will need in the way of accounting software. Included is Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Payroll, and Invoicing. $5 GR-1927 BIG FINANCIAL CALCULATOR. This is my favorite of the financial calculators. Whether you need an amortization schedule, want to know how much regular savings will amount to down the road, or any other of some 50 financial calculations, BigFin will do it. Great looking reports and many whistles and bells. $5 GR-0579 BUSINESS LETTERS. Included on this disk are a host of boilerplate business letters. Simply plug them into your wordprocessor, modify them to meet your requirements and print them to your printer. $5 GR-1026 CARDEX. While we can access much of the data we need from our accounting system database, our accounting system isn't the best phone directory. My favorite of all I have tried is CARDEX. It's like a Roll-O- Dex on your computer. In a keystroke you can find any of those important phone numbers. There is also a memo field where you can add notes about each record. My customer service gal couldn't get along without CARDEX. $5 GR-1676 SHAREWARE GUIDE. This evaluation of hundreds of shareware programs is an excellent tool to help you track down that program you are looking for and see what someone else thinks about it. $5 GR-1515 WHAT's IN THAT BOX? This, along with #GR-0003 can be really helpful in introducing employees (or perhaps even yourself) to the wonderful world of DOS. $5 GR-0003 LEARN DOS. This is a primer for the individual just getting involved with computers. It is an absolute must for the beginner. $5 GR-1848 AMTAX. This is one of the best of the do-it-yourself tax preparation programs. Rather than have your CPA prepare your taxes each year, simply enter the data requested by the incredibly user friendly AMTAX, print your tax forms and let your CPA review it and sign his name to it. It saves a bundle. We have AMTAX for tax years beginning with 1988. Request the particular year you want by ordering GR-1848-1992 (or whatever year you wish). We receive the new copy from the author in late November each year. $5 GR-3010 GAMES. I don't have a lot of time for games, but I do occasionally take a break and relax with one of several games. This disk has all of them (except for Solitaire which comes with Windows) on it - my favorites are: DARNIT - the most addictive game I have ever played; KLONDIKE, an outstanding solitaire type game; MAJONG, an incredible Chinese board game; SEAHUNT, like Battleship; Wheel of Fortune - you certainly know what that is; and Blackjack. $5 GR-1231 PC DRAFT CAD. I don't use a CAD program, but I have many customers tell me that this is the best reasonably priced CAD programs around, if you can't afford AutoCad at some $3,000. I have seen some of their output and it is incredible. $5 GR-1923 HOME & BUSINESS LEGAL GUIDE. Included are over 260 ready-to-go legal forms for business and personal use. Simply import into your word processor and customize the form with your name and details. 3 disks. $15 GR-0345 LEGAL WORDS. Over 16,000 legal words and their abbreviations. You can add these to your spell checker or use it as a stand-alone source. $5 GR-1777 WILL KIT. If you don't have a will, you should. This program enables you to fill in the blanks and create your own will. $5 GR-0242 EDNA's COOKBOOK. Another program that doesn't have anything to do with printing, but everyone eats and this is my favorite cookbook program. If someone gives you a bushel of tomatoes, simply search for "tomatoe" in the cookbook and find (and print) all the recipes that call for tomatoes. Also see Disk #GR-1837 - a 4-disk set that contains over 3,000 additional recipes for this program. $5 GR-1837 EDNA's COOKBOOK RECIPES. Over 3,000 recipes for the great recipe program, Edna's Cookbook. A 4-disk set. $20 GR-1746 PERSONAL INVENTORY. This is great for both office and home. Enter all of your possessions, where and when you got them, how much they cost, and in which room they are located. In the case of a theft, fire, or other disaster, the insurance company will love you. Lets you make all kinds of reports. One interesting thing about this program is that you will be amazed at what the cost and replacement value is of all of your possessions - business or personal. You're richer than you thought, and Personal Inventory will prove it. $5 GR-1388 VACATION PLANNER. Everyone takes a vacation at one time or another. Use Vacation Planner to plan your trip and generate reports giving distance, travel time, directions, and more. $5 GR-0009 SEMINAR UTILITIES. Included on this disk are almost 100 little utilities that will make your life with your computer easier. This is a disk that is part of the package we give out at our entry level computer seminars. $5 GR-1870 VIRUS SCAN & CLEAN. This is a regularly updated program from MacAfee, the world reknown virus guru. Among the programs on this disk are ones to scan your system for virii, clean any virii found, descriptions of virii, etc. We obtain the current version the first of each month and that is the one we ship. $5 GR-1615 WINDOWS ICONS. There are some 1700 Windows icons on this disk. Included is an icon for everything imaginable. $5 GR-3011 LEGAL DICTIONARY. A legal spelling dictionary. $5 GR-3012 MEDICAL DICTIONARY. A medical spelling dictionary . $5 GR-0333 WORD PERFECT MACROS. A disk full of macros for WordPerfect 5.0+. This is a must for every WordPerfect user. $5 GR-3013 A collection of simple PageMaker templates for booklets, 6- panel brochure, 8-panel brochure, business cards and more. These are some I created to make my life easier and they are public domain. $5 GR-1517 WRITERS TOOLS. There are several programs on this disk, including one of my favorites, Writer's Dream. This great little package from Another Company is what I use to create my menu driven electronic books. $5 GR-3014 OSHA ACT. This is the OSHA act along with examples of suggested company safety mini-manual. $5 GR-3015 FEDERAL EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CALCULATOR. Who says federal employees are overworked and underpaid. Go through this and you will see where a lot of your tax dollars are going. $5 GR-3016 PERSONALITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM. This is literally mind boggling. An incredibly accurate and useful personality analysis program. You have to see it to believe it. Designed for personal use, it also has a place in small business. $5 GR-3017 US GOVERNMENT RIFF POLICY. No employer likes to announce a "reduction in force", but in this economy it is occasionally necessary. You should be pretty safe if you follow the government's own guidelines if you find yourself in this unfortunate position. $5 GR-3018 SERVICE BUSINESS EMPLOYEE TRAINING. This is a training program for service business employees, as well as a tool to determine your company's performance score. A great tool to inspire employees and design better service. $5 GR-3019 EMPLOYEE TIME REPORTING. A nifty little program that replaces the time card. Any terminal can be used for employees to key in and key out. Keep accurate records of hours worked. A great idea and some rather neat programming. $5 GR-3020 BUSINESS TO EMPLOYEE LETTERS. A collection of boilerplate letters to employees, covering almost every conceivable need. Make certain you word your letter right. $5 GR-3021 POLICY POWER. Generate your own company policy manual. $5 GR-3022 MSDS DATABASE. Use this tool to make certain that you have your MSDS on hand and current. $5