A d d r e s s P r i n t V 3 . 1 & A d d r e s s - S t a r V 1 . 0 B y P a u l L a t h w e l l 1 9 9 3 Program ------- Paul Lathwell Software -------- AMOS Professional DPaint IV Hardware -------- Amiga A500 1.3 & 2.04 1Meg + Ext Drive Star LC200 Colour Printer AddressPrint & Address-Star are Public Domain, Freeware, or send me something please ware. They may be freely distributed as long as no money changes hands except for copying, cost of disk, and postage. No profit should be made unless by the author! If you find this program useful please feel free to send me something i.e. MONEY, sweeties. Or if your female, Single, good-looking aged between 17-22 then send yourself! Anyone who sends me something and makes me happy by doing so will become a registered user and will be notified of updates and other programs in the making. Anyone who wishes to register and receive an update of AddressPrint or Address-Star should send £2-00 (Sterling only) to the address found at the end of this document. Users outside the U.K. should provide a suitable stamped self-addressed envelope. Please make cheques payable to: Paul Lathwell DISCLAIMER ---------- THE USER OF THIS PROGRAM DOES SO AT THEIR OWN RISK. ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE TO SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, DATA OR OTHER PROPERTY SUFFERED WHILE USING THIS PROGRAM IS YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY AND IS TOTALLY UNACCOUNTABLE TO THE AUTHOR. Compatibility ------------- AddressPrint V3.0 and higher should work with most printers providing you use the correct printer driver. Address-Star V1.0 will definitely work with a Star LC200 printer and may work with other Star printers. If you do experience problems with AddressPrint or Address-Star, please let me know giving details of your Amiga, printer and other hardware. Please ensure that you use the correct printer driver for your printer. Copying to other disks ---------------------- In order to make AddressPrint or Address-Star run on another disk the following files/directories are required: 1: AddressPrintV3.1 (obviously!). or Address-StarV1.0 2: AddressPrintV3.1.info or Address-StarV1.0.info 3: Directory named - Addresses and the files in it called ADPprefs31 for AddressPrint or ADPprefs for Address-Star. 4: The file named - copyright_sprite.abk 5: Port-Handler in the l/ directory. 6: printer.device in the devs/ directory. 7: parallel.device or serial.device, (depending where you have connected your printer.) in the devs/ directory. 8: The appropriate printer driver for your printer in the devs/printers directory. History ------- AddressPrint was the resolution to a problem I had. Basically I found it a hassle to keep changing the set-up on my word processor just to print an address label. So with my copy of AMOS in hand I set to work on AddressPrint V1.0 (never released)... The earlier versions of AddressPrint (V1.0 - V2.2) are in fact early versions of Address-Star as they would only work with a Star LC200 printer!!! V1.0 Loadfile, Createfile, Printfile and Redofile (once loaded). Very basic but done the job (Ooeer!). V1.3 The same as V1.0 except that it let you know it was printing. V2.0 Better user interface, looked nicer, this was to be the finished product. V2.1 All singing all dancing version with Printer options. Wow!!! The first released version. V2.2 Basically V2.1 less the bugs and some cosmetic changes. Address-Star V1.0 & AddressPrint V3.0 AddressPrint improved then renamed to Address-Star V1.0 a custom version for the Star LC200 printer. This new version is then reprogrammed to work with other printers and renamed back to AddressPrint V3.0 Improvements: A screen has been added to display the current file, and the maximum no. of characters permitted is displayed on the main screen. Printer options have also been extended: Label Skip Left & Right margin settings No. characters per line Save Preferences feature AddressPrintV3.1 - As V3.0 but with a label spacing feature, enabling the user to account for labels of different size & spacing. This feature can be found on the Print Options screen and is changed in the same way as the margin settings. Permitted values are - 1 min to 10 max. It is now also possible to quit AddressPrint whilst on the Print Options screen. Please note - Address-Star does not have the label spacing feature. If you would like to see an updated version of Address-Star, please contact me at the address at the end of these documents. --------------------- Instructions ------------ You should not really need these but they're here all the same: Load File --------- Eeeeer? Oh yeah you load a file with this one via a file requester. Create File ----------- Well this is where you type in the all important addresses. Max of five lines. e.g.. Name : Paul Lathwell Line 2 : 3 Sweetbriar Close Line 3 : Gadebridge Line 4 : Hemel Hempstead Line 5 : Herts HP1 3PA. Delete File ----------- Come on do you really need to ask! OK. Remove a file from the disk. Redo File --------- Only selectable with a file in memory. This is an amend facility the whole file needs to be re-typed except for the file name. If a file is in memory and you select Load, Create, or delete from the menus the Redo feature will be lost unless the file is reloaded. It is however, still possible to select the Print and Options from the menus. Print File ---------- Print the file in memory. Printer Options --------------- To change the colour, font, and style simply click on the appropriate text using the LMB. Colours: Black Red Blue Violet Yellow (not advisable as you can't really see it on white) Orange Green Fonts: (Only available on Address-Star) Draft Courier Sanserif Script Orator Quality: (AddressPrint only) Draft or NLQ Styles: Normal Italics Bold (LMB = On, RMB = Off) The following are selected with LMB: ------------------------------------ Save Prefs - Saves the current settings to disk. The Prefs file is automatically loaded when you run ADP. Skip Label - Feeds labels up by one label. LMB & enter values via keyboard press : ----------------------------------------------- Label Spacing - Values 1 to 10. (Not Address-Star) Left Margin - Values from 1 to 75 can be selected. Right Margin - Values of 6 to 80 depending on the settings of left margin and characters per line. Characters per line - 5 min., 35 max. To return to the main program click (LMB) on the box that says 'RETURN' and hey-presto your back! (clever eh?) To exit from ADP just press the ESC key at any time except during printing (or on Print Options screen - Address-Star) as this will have no effect... -------------------------- For registration, bug-report and questions, please write to the following address: Paul Lathwell 3 Sweetbriar Close Gadebridge Hemel Hempstead Herts HP1 3PA. England. I cannot guarantee an immediate response but will do my utmost to reply to anyone who contacts me. Anything sent via the postal service is your own responsibility. If you loose anything in the post please let me know and contact the postal service. I cannot, and will not, accept responsibility. Sorry! If you wish to be informed of updates and new programs send your name and address to me. --------------- Available soon... InlayPrint - Utility for creating & printing cassette box inserts. LabelPrint - No more untidy disk labels, print them using this 3.5 inch disk label data-base. OnForm - Order form printing utility. --------------- * Paul Lathwell * * Bye *