2. GETTING STARTED... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONTENTS OF THE PACKAGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please check to be sure that you have received a complete unit of Professional Page, consisting of the following: This manual The Quick Reference Guide A Registration card The Program Licence Agreement Envelope containing: A Professional Page Program Disk A Professional Page Fonts & Utilities Disk Program Identification/Serial Number stickers REGISTRATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professional Page is a 'professional" product, as the name suggests. With this in mind, we understand the importance of good after-sales support. We can only give you this type of service if we know who you are. Please fill in your registation card and return it to us promptly. As a registered Professional Page owner, you will receive infofmation on upgrades and bulletins about our products, as well as three months of free access to our technical support phone number. (See Appendix I: Technical Support Infomation.) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computer: ~~~~~~~~~ Professional Page is designed to work on any properly configured Amiga 500, 1000, or 2000. Operating System: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kickstart 1.2 or higher. Workbench 1.2 or higher. Memory Requirements: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A minimum of one megabyte of memory is required. If you have an Amiga 500 or 1000 with only 512K or RAM, for example, Professional Page will not load. For large complicated documents, especially those usig lots of bitapped graphics, more than one megabyte of memory is recommended. Display Monitor: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any Amiga compatible monitor. Since Professional Page uses the interlaced high resolution mode (which produces an annoying flicker), a high persistence monitor is ideal. Flicker reducing tinted screens are available for standard Amiga monitors at a nominal cost (see Appendix G:Using Professional Page with Other Amiga Products.) Disk Drives: ~~~~~~~~~~~ One Amige 3.5" floppy disk drive is required. A dual drive or hard drive configuration is recommended. Output Device: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professional Page outputs to PostScript compatible printers and typesetters (see Appendix D: Connecting Your Amiga to a Printer.) Disk Contents: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are two disks contained in the Professional Page package. One disk is labelled "Program". It contains the actual Professional Page program and all of ahe data that the program uses. The other disk is labelled "Fonts and Utilities". This disk includes all of the files used in the Tutorial section plus all of the sample page layouts used in the Design section. You will also find samples of bit-mapped graphics and structured drawings. In addition, there are some grids or page templates for your use. These templates are examples of some common design fomats for different types of documents. The disk also contains special Professional Page screen fonts. These fonts are in the standard Amiga format, and are specially designed to show on screen what the actual laser printer or typesetting machine output will look like. A utility called MakeFont is also included. It will allow you to create any point size of any font included on the disk. (See Appendix C:Utilities for a complete list of the utilities and their uses.) CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Professional Page manual and the software it describes conform closely to many of the standard Amiga conventions. It is assumed that you have some familiarity with basic Amiga procedures. To help novices in the early stages, some basic procedures are descnbed in detail even if that may seem redundant to experienced Amiga users. Some of the basic conventions adhered to throughout the manual are: * The use of "bullets" (*) to indicate related information, lists or sequences. * Use of the Amiga hierarchy of terms for pull down menus. Main menus are called "menus", sub-menus are called "items", and options of sub-menus are called "sub-items". The terms "gadgets" and "tools" are also used. * Menu selections are often listed in this manual using the format: Menu/Item/Sub-Item. For example, Page/Alter/Current refers to the Current sub-item in the Alter item of the page menu. * Where keyboard equivalents are found, the following notation is used (where "x" is a specified character): A x - Depress x while holding the Right Amiga key. C X - Depress x while holding the CTRL key. a x - Depress x while holding the ATL key. s X - Depress x while holding the SHIFT key. * All manual references to Professional Page screenmenus, items, sub-items, gadgets and tools are in italics. * Moving the mouse pointer to a desired location and pressing the left button to make a selection is called "clicking" or "selecting". * Moving the mouse pointer to a desired location, pressing the button and holding it down so as to move some screen object is referred to as "dragging". * Keyboard equivalents are graphically depicted in dhe pictures of the pull-down menus. * Text in BOLD type is used to highlight important information. * The COURIER font indicates text that you should type in via the CLI or in the text line of a requester. Many of the terms used in this manual come from the publishing field, such as pica and leading, or are Amiga specific, such as menus and gadgets. For a complete explanation of these terms, consult the Glossary. MAKING A WORKING COPY OF PROFESSIONAL PAGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You should not use the original disks which you received with the Professional Page package other than to make working copies from them. Instead, immediately make a backup copy of each disk to use as your working disks. Put the original program disks away in a safe place, and only use them to make replacements if your backup copies are lost or damaged. For your convenience, Professional Page is not copy-protected. Please respect the fact that Gold Disk Inc. has made it easy for you to make backups of this program. Don't sell, lend, give, or otherwise distribute this program to anyone. Please read the Program Licence agreement and the copyright information relating to unauthorized copying. Remember, software piracy is a crime, and it discourages the development, improvement, and technical support of good software. Making a Backup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (See "Duplicating Your Disks" and "Copying a Disk" in your Amiga user manual). It is easier and quicker to make a copy using the CLI, but a novice may want to use the mouse and the icons in Workbench. Using Workbench is a bit slower and more cumbersonae than using CLI, but it's more intuitive and less intimidating for a new Amiga user. From CLI (Command Line Interface--the AmigaDOS): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Use the Amiga Workbench disk, your Professional Page program disk, (the "source" disk) and a blank 3.5" disk (the "destination" disk) on which to make your copy. * Boot up with the Workbench disk. * Open up the CLI as described in your Amiga manual and type: DISKCOPY DFO: TO DFl: * The Amiga will request that you insed the "source", and "destination" disks into the appropriate drives. * Place the Professional Page program disk in the first drive, DF0: and be certain that the disk is write protected. * Place your blank disk into the second drive, DFl:, and press the RETURN key. Your Professional Page disk will now be duplicated. * To copy the Fonts and Utilities disk, repeat the above steps, using the Fonts and Utilities disk as the "Source" disk. From the Worrkbench: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Boot up with the Workbench disk that came with your Amiga. Place the Professional Page program disk in the first dnve, and a blank disk in the second dnve. Be certain that the program disk is write-protected. * Move the mouse pointer over to the icon of the Professional Page program disk and "grab" the icon by pressing and holding down the left mouse button. * Still holding down the left mouse button, move the Professional Page icon over on top of disk icon for the blank disk, and release the button. * The Amiga will provide the necessary instructions to complete the backup. * After the disk copy is finished, you must rename the copy of Professional Page. To do this, select the backup disk by clicking on its icon, and activate the Rename item from the Workbench menu, as described in your Amiga manual. * The backup disk will have automatically been given the name "Copy of PPage". Rename the disk "PPage". Similarly, when you make a backup of the utilities disk, rename it "PPageUtil". WARNING: NEVER REMOVE A DISK FROM ANY DISK DRIVE WHILE A DISK LIGHT IS ON! If you do, you may destroy the infomnation on the disk. Until you have made a backup of your Professional Page program and utilities disks, be extremely cautious. STARTING PROFESSIONAL PAGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From the Workbench: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Insert the Professional Page program disk "PPoge", in the lirst dnve and boot the system. * Double click on the Professional Page disk icon to bring up the Professional Page window. * Double click on the Professional Page program icon to start the program. From the CLI: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Insert the Professional Page disk in the second drive, while your workbench disk is in the first dnve. Open up the CLI, as described in your Amiga manual. Change directories by typing: CD DF1 : and press the RETURN key. * Assign the special Professional Page fonts by typing: ASSIGN FONTS: PPageutil:FONTS and press the RETURN key. * When the prornpt reappears, run the Professional Page program by typing: PPAGE:PPAGE