DVIprintSetUp V3.87 =================== - Freeware - by Stefan Scherer 28.12.1993 General Information =================== DVIprintSetUp provides easy use of the PasTeX printer driver DVIprint. It is intended for use with the previewer ShowDVI and replaces the ARexx script "StartDVIprint.sd". The GUI contains the major print options and can be used (almost) completely via the keyboard. The program needs KickStart V37 or higher. DVIprintSetUp is Freeware. With the program DVIprintSetUp it is very easy to start the print process from ShowDVI. The simple ARexx script coming with the PasTeX drivers could only handle page ranges. The irritating selection with "OK" and "Cancel" and the missing option settings made me write this program. Now the printer, the page offsets and several other options can conveniently be set and saved as permanent defaults. Installation ============ 1. Copy the program "DVIprintSetUp" to the directory "TeXMF:bin/pastex". The ARexx script looks there for the program. 2. Copy the ARexx script "StartDVIprintSetUp.sd" to the directory "TeXMF:pastex/rexx". 3. Now you have to modify the ShowDVI configuration. Load the file "TeXMF:pastex/config/ShowDVI.config" into your editor. You can either overwrite the function key attached to the print process, or introduce a new function key. The ARexx script "TeXMF:pastex/rexx/StartDVIprintSetUp" has to be linked to this key. Save the changed configuration. 4. If you were using the environment variable "DVIPRINT" before, you should remove all entries that can be influence via DVIprintSetUp, i.e., the page offsets, the printer, and several other values. In "DVIPRINT" only static values should be stored, e.g., the size of the font buffer. This finishes the installation. Now load a DVI file to ShowDVI and press the print button. The DVIprintSetUp window will appear. Here you can make changes to the other default settings. You should save your personal choices for DVIprintSetUp and start a test print. Invocation ========== DVIprintSetUp is called via the ARexx script "StartDVIprintSetUp.sed", which is activated by a function key as defined in ShowDVI.config. The program has two parameters: the name of the DVI file and the current page number for the initial setting of the "From" and "To" page range gadgets. These values are automatically provided by the ARexx script. On invocation the DVIprintSetUp window appears on the ShowDVI screen, or if this is not present, on the WorkBench screen, and the "From" gadget is active. The page range begins and ends with the current page number. For normal printing the (default) settings are correct and only the page numbers have to be changed, e.g., to print several pages at a time. Additionally several options for DVIprint can be changed, e.g., the horizontal and vertical page offset and their measure units, the setting for continuous range printing, odd or even pages only, the output file (which could well be "NIL:"), and the other switches described in the DVIprint documentation. Online-Help =========== When active, DVIprintSetUp provides a context sensitive "Help" function (in German only). By clicking on the gadgets or ing the text gadgets the relevant help text is displayed. All functions and switches of DVIprintSetUp are disabled in help mode (even "Save" and "Print") and are reset on leaving the help function. Technicalities ============== The program DVIprintSetUp uses its own configuration file "TeXMF:pastex/config/DVIprintSetUp.config" for permanently saving the settings. In addition to that the program remembers the settings used in the last printing process (except for the page numbers) in the environment variable "DVIPRINTSETUP" for the next print job. This variable is lost when rebooting the machine. This allows for temporarily saving modified settings without overwriting the permanent defaults. Author ====== Please send bug reports and suggestions to the author. Stefan Scherer Abt-Wolf-Straße 17 96215 Lichtenfels, Germany Tel: 09571/6203