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1. Figure 8 4 User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links To specify the target directories maximum 12 per form one of the following e Enter the directory into which you want to copy files e When the directory you want to copy files to dis plays select highlight it e Select any line that shows a path and edit it If the directory you enter does not exist a dialog box displays requesting confirmation to create a new di rectory Select Yes to create the new directory An empty window for the new directory displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 9 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS You can also use wildcard characters to display a fil tered list of files in a directory AUTOEXEC 6O6G 534 bytes 2E DecrI994 142 16 0 pm AUTOEXEC O4 399 bytes 22 Sepr4994 4 24 32 pm AUTOEXEC 02 418 bytes 26 Sep 1998 40 36 16 am AUTOEXEC 63 465 bytes SrOctrI984 12 58 58 pm AUTOEXEC 64 4714 bytes 2 DeceI994 10 22 40 am AUTOEREC BAK 496 bytes 42 Decr 4994 2335 16 pm AUTOEXEC BAT S42 bytes 25 Jan 1995 42 36 46 pm Figure 8 5 Window example If you enter a directory that does not exist a dialog box displays to confirm creating a new directory Changing directories The window header contains a backup button similar to the button described in the Elixir folders chapter Click on the backup b
2. Figure 2 3 Filter menu For example in the previous window you can enter a filter to display files that start with X as follows 1 Select Enter Filter from the Filter menu 2 In the File Name Entry dialog box shown below type X 3 Click on OK or press lt Enter gt The window displays only those files beginning with the letter X 4 To turn off the filter select Turn Off Filter in the Filter menu 2 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP BASICS Figure 2 4 File Name Entry dialog box Selection menu The Selection menu allows you to select and dese lect one or more specified files within a folder The following figure shows a Selection menu example a Diskatie HEO7BL z HE ort a f F HEG7OP l HEOSBP HEIZOLHDR F a Archive Pe HE2481 HOR HE2480 HOR HNIZVP HDR SV42HE HOR Figure 2 5 Selection menu The Selection menu contains the following options Wildcard Selection Highlight files specified with and DOS wildcard characters ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 9 DESKTOP BASICS View menu Write Selection lt Citrl gt lt W gt Remember a number of selected files see the Re select option below Reselect lt Ctrl gt lt R gt Highlight files remembered using W
3. System configuration Select the System Config option in the System menu to set system configuration parameters The Desktop Basic Setup dialog box displays and contains the fol lowing options 4 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Desktop Basic Setup Beksa oo Sworn on tow dukepece Threshold EIT kB SOO File COADOUBE Figure 4 3 Desktop Basic Setup dialog box Warn on low disk space Displays a warning when disk space falls below the Threshold value default is 500 KB maximum is 25 MB Show banner logo file Display the banner logo BMP file each time you start the Desktop if there are no open window The default logo is DESKLOGO BMP but you can enter any BMP file residing in drive ELIXIR PICS BMPIN Show conversion parameters Displays conversion parameters when converting files Clock Attributes Clock Running Displays the current date and time in the menu bar Clock Attributes Set Time and Date Displays the Date amp Time dialog box for setting the current date and time Double Click Speed Speed at which successive mouse clicks interpret as a double click Slowest Slow Medium the de fault or Fast ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 3 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Country Keyboard Map Displays the Browse Country Keyboard Map dialog box for selecting a KMP file to convert to from AFP font format The
4. ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 25 FILE CONVERSIONS The Form Print Properties FORMPRN dialog box displays Figure 7 15 Form Print Properties dialog box 6 Select enter print options then click on OK The Form Print Properties dialog box contains the fol lowing options File Name The name of the selected file Output The output destination Printer or Disk Printer Port Your printer s port LPT 1 LPT2 or LPT3 Tray The desired printer tray for paper selection Copies The desired number of copies 7 26 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Spacing Select InterWord to justify text by adding or de leting spaces between words This option re duces the complexity of your forms so they print faster Select InterChar to justify text by adding or deleting space between characters This op tion may make the form more readable but causes it to print slower Printer Options Select Print to send your form to the printer Se lect Store to store your file on the printer hard disk for future use Select StorePrint to print your form and store it on the printer Select Constant to store your form one page only in the printer s memory until the printer is turned off or reset Macro The macro number you assigned to your form This also stores your form in the printer s memory until the printer is either turned off
5. Opens a selected icon as does double clicking on an icon Opening an icon has different meanings de pending on whether the icon is a folder Elixir file Elixir application User Tool peripheral device or icon as follows When you open a folder a window displays showing the contents of the folder A folder may contain files and additional folders Each folder corresponds to a DOS directory e When you open an Elixir format file the Elixir Desktop runs the Elixir application associated with the file For example if you open an Elixir form file Elixir Forms Editor runs and loads the form file you selected When you exit the Elixir application the Elixir Desktop redisplays e Opening an application icon clears the Desktop and runs the application When you exit the ap plication the Elixir Desktop redisplays e When you open the Diskette Dispatcher or Scanners icon a Properties dialog box displays allowing you to set specifications and properties for these items Copy lt Ctrl gt lt C gt Copies a selected file or files to another folder or icon When you select this option the screen pointer changes to a small document icon attached to an up arrow To copy the file click on the folder icon into which you want to copy the file as follows e f copying to an Elixir folder the Forms Fonts Images or Documents folder icons on the top left of the Desktop click on the appropriate Elixir folder on an El
6. Portrait Xshift fo Landscape Yshift fo Copies fi Print Fonts _ as Graphic Figure 6 7 Print Driver Dialog dialog box 6 Select print options then click on OK Printing non Elixir forms When printing non Elixir forms from the Output or In put Forms folders the Printer Setup dialog box displays Figure 6 8 Printer Setup dialog box Copy to printer on Port Perform a binary copy operation to the selected Port 6 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES User Defined Print Driver Specify a user defined print driver Click on Setup to select the driver Port Specify the port as LPT1 LPT2 or LPT3 Copies to Print The number of copies you want printed Setup Not applicable Using the Elixir HP print driver The Elixir HP print driver produces files that require substantially less disk space and take less time to print To use the Elixir HP print driver 1 Select and drag the file to the Printers icon The Print dialog box displays ELIXIR HP driver on LPT1 HP LaserJet IIISi on LPT1 t Printer on LPT1 PostScrij _ Set Elixir HP Driver as default printer Page Shift Portrait Xshift Landscape Yshift a _ Print to File Print Fonts _ as Graphic Figure 6 9 Print dialog box 2 Select Elixir HP Driver and click on Setup ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 11 PERI
7. Allows you to run a number of diagnostic utilities and to enter a command to run a diagnostic program of your choice Make Directory lt Ctrl gt lt M gt Allows you to create a DOS directory Converter Props Allows you to specify certain initial setup options for converting files and lets you modify control parame ters for the Converter icon Transformer Props Allows you to specify certain initial setup options for transforming files and lets you modify control parame ters for the Transformer icon Reset to Defaults Resets all configuration parameters to the default values ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE C 7 DESKTOP MENU BAR Refresh Toolset Refreshes the screen display You can use this option if closing a window does not completely remove it or leaves snow on the screen Allows you to switch between Desktop toolsets Special menu The Special menu contains the options shown in the following figure Figure C 4 Special Menu Close All lt F4 gt Efont Factory Closes all open windows on the Desktop Displays the Contour Fonts folder window drive ELIXIR FONTS CONTOURS directory which if in stalled initially contains 35 Bitstream Facelift contour font files The Elixir Efont Factory utility makes high quality screen and printer fonts for PostScript compatible printers from these contour fonts and any other Bit stream Facelift compatible contour fonts you install in
8. Changing the code page To change just the code page for an AFP font for ex ample when using a character set for European languages 1 Download the AFP coded font from your host to the drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPIN or drive ELIXIR FONTS I38IN directory 2 Convert the AFP font to Elixir by specifying Full AFP Font to generate an Elixir version of the font 3 Select Show Coded Fonts from the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder 4 Right click on the coded font to change the code page The Font Related Converter Options dialog box displays ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS XO CNUMS Code Page Sion Contmalion amp Continue Frivi0037 Figure 7 36 Font Related Converter Options dialog box 5 After conversion upload the generated files to your AFP host using the procedures described in the File transfer chapter Editing the Elixir Code Page To edit an Elixir Code Page select Show Code Pages from the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder In the displayed window double click on any Code Page to edit The ElixirFont program starts See the ElixirFont for AFP User Guide for information about editing Code Pages Alternatively you can use the DOS EDIT editor to edit the Elixir Code Page See the AFP font conversion considerations appendix for an example of editing an Elixir Code Page Reconverting fonts created with Elixir Desktop version
9. Delete Deletes the overlay from the printer s disk after use Deselect to save the overlay on the printer s disk Generating source OGL and LOG files OGL output does not include Formwidth Form length Delete Margin or Copies option data and has DDNAME parameters instead of Font and Pseg mapping information Information from the Page Databasing dialog box be low box and the Page Source Converter Options dialog was used as input to generate the sample SOURCE LOG file that follows Shon Page D Federal Bank of Credit asap Peter i Made far CE SERVICES 10 Page Revieen A Local Ib CEFRM2 Lena Page Comments This fomm is designed for the 1995 FedBank Line of Credit Application approved in 1994 by measure 234 in the bylaws _ Updates to this form must be approved by the finance sae MHD AY Wee dese Coe 2 iou ampm 24 hou Figure 7 11 Page Databasing dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 21 FILE CONVERSIONS HESS ISI ISS II IO III III IT TAD E T E Ea TAD E T E EO ep E T E R Hee AUTHOR BANNER TAD E T E EO Se setoaelaaetaettateted D E T E HEOOOOOOooo oo HOOOHOO kT 1 FEDBANK CEF CE SERVICES Federal Bank Line of Credit Application DESCRIPTION TEXT Created 8 23 93 9 15 34 AM DATE TIME STAMP ONTROL NOSTORE WARN SUMMARY CONTROL STATEMENT
10. Left Right Up Down arrow keys lt Alt gt lt A gt lt Alt gt lt F3 gt lt Alt gt lt F2 gt lt Ctrl gt lt F6 gt lt Ctrl gt lt A gt lt Ctrl gt lt W gt ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION B Additional files and directories This appendix describes additional files and directo ries the Elixir Desktop for AFP uses Elixir mapping table directories This section describes directories that contain map ping or correspondence tables You can access these directories using the User Files icon described in the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter PostScript mapping table directory The PostScript mapping table directory drive ELIXIR PSSTASH contains the following map ping tables PSFONT MAP An ASCII file in which each line consists of the six character Xerox production printer font file name an equal sign and the PostScript equivalent ElixiS cript uses PSTOP PSC This ASCII file contains macros and job setup com mands and is added as a header to each PostScript job This file also allows access to international characters PSEND PSC The PostScript page terminator code such as footers line draw page markers and page eject in ASCII format ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE B 1 ADDITIONAL FILES AND DIRECTORIES PSTRAIL PSC This file is appended to the end of multi page Post Script jobs status sheet See the File conversions chapter
11. describes the Elixir direc tory structure and how to use the Desktop to organize and manage forms fonts images documents and jobs ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 1 7 INTRODUCTION Chapter 4 Desktop configuration describes how to customize the Desktop Chapter 5 Additional Desktop features describes further capabilities built into the Desktop Chapter 6 Peripheral devices describes how to configure and use PC diskette drives scanners and printers Chapter 7 File conversions describes how to per form various file conversions Chapter 8 Accessing DOS files and applications describes tools that allow you to access DOS and link DOS files to applications Chapter 9 File Transfer describes how to transfer files between your PC and host computer and how to download and upload files for subsequent processing Chapter 10 Transformations describes how to ap ply Elixir utilities to modify Elixir format form and im age files Appendix A Keyboard shortcuts describes all Desk top keyboard shortcuts fast keys Appendix B Additional files and directories explains the functions and use of related files not described elsewhere in this guide Appendix C Desktop menu bar describes opera tions accessed from Desktop pull down menus Appendix D AFP font conversion considerations describes issues and strategies relating to AFP font co
12. Cascade Tile Arrange Icons The Window menu contains options for arranging the display of open windows and dialog boxes on the Elixir Desktop It also contains an options for opening a message dialog box that displays current activities The bottom portion of the Window menu shows num bered entries allowing you to activate previously opened windows and dialog boxes Figure C 5 Window menu The Window menu contains the following options You can arrange open windows so each header shows and the active window displays in full on top of the other windows You can resize and arrange windows side by side so each window displays fully The active window head er displays as highlighted This option arranges icons in an orderly manner within a window or on the Desktop C 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP MENU BAR Message This option displays a message dialog box containing information on current Desktop activity Help menu The Help menu contains Windows on line help for the Elixir Desktop See the Introduction chapter for more information ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE C 11 D AFP font conversion considerations This appendix describes issues relating to AFP font conversions and how to use the desktop Converter to convert between AFP and Elixir format fonts The ap pendix also describes site specific strategies for font conversion For more detailed informati
13. Converting forms to PostScript format Converting using Elixir s PostScript driver Converting using the Win dows printer driver Converting Elixir forms to PDF format Converting forms to Elixir images Using FGIDs in a form Converting fonts Font requirements for an HP or compatible printer AFP Font Converter Options dialog box Converting AFP fonts to Elixir format Converting double byte AFP fonts to Elixir format Converting double byte Elixir fonts to AFP format Converting fonts to HP PCL format Converting Elixir fonts to HP PCL soft fonts Adding HP PCL fonts to Windows applications Converting AFP and Elixir AFP fonts to HP PCL format Converting Elixir and contour fonts to HP PCL format Converting TrueType fonts Converting HP PCL fonts to Elixir and AFP formats 7 23 7 25 7 25 7 28 7 28 7 30 7 32 7 36 7 36 7 37 7 38 7 38 7 42 7 44 7 45 7 46 7 47 7 47 7 48 7 49 7 50 7 53 xii ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Converting Elixir fonts to AFP format Creating a full AFP font from an Elixir coded font Creating full AFP fonts from Elixir character sets Creating individual font components Changing the code page Editing the Elixir Code Page Reconverting fonts created with Elixir Desktop version 1 00 Generating fonts from outlines Font naming conventions Generating Elixir fonts Generating non Elixir fonts Generating screen fonts Ad
14. DRIENT 0 FORMWIDTH 3600 PELS FORMLENGTH 3200 PELS MARGIN 4 ORIENTATION FORM WIDTH FORM LENGTH MARGIN BEGMENT PSEGO0 S1FBLOGO AUTO PSEG MAPPING ONT FONTOO X1HEO7NP ONT FONTO1 X1HEOS8BP ONT FONTO02 X1HEOS8NP AUTO FONT MAPPING ONT FONTO03 X1HE24BP ONT FONT04 X1HE14BP DELETE CEFRM2 DELETE Y N using Local ID name DVERLAY CEFRM2 SIZE 2040 PELS 2640 PELS OFFSET 24 PELS 8 PELS OVERLAY NAME SIZE and OFFSETS COPIES 1 NOT SHOWN _ This form is designed for the 1993 FedBank Line of Credit Application approved in 1992 by measure 23A in the bylaws Updates to this form must be approved by the finance committee LONG PAGE COMMENTS _ LINES SECTION 21 lines LINES BOXES TEXT IMAGES SECTIONS POSITION ABSOLUTE 0528 PELS ABSOLUTE 0398 PELS DRAWRULE ACROSS 0960 PELS MEDIUM SOLID BOXES SECTION 22 boxes POSITION ABSOLUTE 0095 PELS ABSOLUTE 0079 PELS DRAWBOX 1848 PELS 0480 PELS LIGHT SOLID POSITION ABSOLUTE 0094 PELS ABSOLUTE 0598 PELS DRAWBOX 1848 PELS 0080 PELS MEDIUM SOLID SHADE MEDIUM TEXT SECTION 50 texts POSITION ABSOLUTE 0516 PELS ABSOLUTE 0500 PELS BETTEXT 0 MODERN LINE FONT04 Preferred Customer Line of Credit Application PSEGS SECTION 1 psegs POSITION ABSOLUTE 0720 PELS ABSOLUTE 0160 PELS PLACE SEGID PSEG0O 7 22 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Information in the SOURCE LOG file associated with options in the dialog
15. ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS MCF Fonts Figure 7 8 MCF Fonts dialog box MCF 1 Uses Map Coded Font Format 1 MCF 1 struc tured fields in the resulting output file MCF 1 is IBM s original AFP font specification and AFP ar chitecture supports it as a coexistence object MCF 1 has been superseded by MCF 2 but is still valid MCF 2 Uses Map Coded Font Format 2 structured fields in the resulting output file MCK 2 is recom mended for MO DCA compliance Default Converter looks in the file entered in the Charac ter Mapping File Name option for individual font handling instructions If an entry is found for a font used in the original Elixir form or document the RTYPE keyword format is used else the font using the coded font name in a MCF 1 structures field record is used default Coded Font Name Converter writes all font references using the coded font name Charset Code Page Name Converter writes all font references using a char acter set code page pair The original font s char acter set and code page are referenced for fonts originating in the AFP environment ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 15 FILE CONVERSIONS The six character assigned Elixir name generates the character set name and the code page comes from the Default Code Page option in the Desktop Basic Setup dialog box for non AFP fonts Outline Converter writes all font references using PSF ou
16. Output Fonts folder 3 11 Images folder 3 13 viii ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Elixir Images folder 3 13 Input Images folder 3 13 Output Images folder 3 14 Documents folder 3 15 Elixir Documents folder 3 16 Input Documents folder 3 16 Output Documents folder 3 17 Jobs folder 3 18 Elixir Docs Jobs 3 18 Elixir Data Jobs 3 19 Input Jobs 3 19 Output Jobs 3 19 User Files folder 3 21 System configuration 4 2 Desktop usage switches 4 4 User privileges 4 7 Diagnostics 4 9 Creating a directory 4 10 Converter properties 4 11 Transformer properties 4 14 Resetting System menu options 4 15 Refreshing the screen 4 15 Selecting toolsets 4 16 Opening icons 5 1 Opening a folder icon 5 2 Opening Elixir files 5 2 Opening the ElixirForm icon 5 3 Opening device icons 5 3 Diskette icon 5 3 Printers icon 5 3 Scanners icon 5 3 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE ix TABLE OF CONTENTS Opening other icons 5 4 User Tools icon 5 4 User Files icon 5 4 Dispatcher icon 5 4 Converter icon 5 4 Viewer icon 5 4 Displaying Icon properties 5 5 Files 5 5 Displaying Elixir file formats 5 6 Printing Desktop folder contents 5 7 Displaying a logo 5 9 Copying files 5 11 Copying files to Elixir folders 5 11 Copying files to a DOS directory 5 11 Copying files from a DOS directory 5 13 Copying files to a DOS format diskette 5 13 Copying files from a DOS format diskette 5 14 Copying files to a DOS Elixir form
17. Working Directory The DOS path for the executable Use this field if the application you are running is not present in the drive ELIXIR directory and if you have not specified a DOS PATH statement for the directory in which the application executable resides Command Options Select command options DOS Application for running a DOS applications Send Only Filename uses only the file s stem name for command execution Prompt for parameters program prompts for an ar gument to appends to the command in the Com mand to execute option Run Minimized executes the command in a mini mized window Command Attributes Select command attributes Command is BAT file for DOS batch file com mands redisplays the Desktop when you exit the ap plication If the application is a batch file that calls another batch file the Desktop does not redisplay when you exit the application See the Starting batch files section for more information Deselect to return to the directory specified in the batch file Pause after execution pauses after exiting the application 8 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Display Options Select a command display option Window displays command execution in a window Full Screen displays command execution in a full screen environment Browse Displays the contents of a DOS directory from which you can select a file
18. X1 X2 X3 or X4 where X1 is the horizontal print direction Universal X0 generates only one screen font however ElixirForm can use the sin gle screen font for displaying different rotations Note 1 X1 X2 X3 and X4 correspond to the AFP ACROSS DOWN BACK and UP directions respectively Note 2 The generated screen font names will have the XO X1 X2 X3 or X4 prefixes e When converting unbounded box fonts the Text Direction Support option is not available The ori entation of the font you are converting is the ori entation of the output font e For the Create option select PC Mapped Font to create a partial subset of the Elixir font The characters converted are defined in the default Country Keyboard Map file you specify in the System Config option on the System menu ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 13 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS e Select Full AFP Font to convert the entire char acter set to Elixir format AFP bounded box font customers If your printer uses bounded box fonts only consider the following 1 If you require proof printing of Elixir forms on a HP printer and want to proof print using font directions other than ACROSS select Separate Fonts and the font directions you want to proof print HP printers require that a separate font exist for each font direction 2 If you do not require proof printing or you want to proof print on a HP printer using only the
19. ing the code point matches to a graphic character ID GCID in the code page each character has its own unique ID Thus different code pages allow printing subsets of characters in a character set for example for different European languages ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 3 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS Coded Font Hex Code Point Graphic Character ID C1 LA0200000 97 LP0100000 D8 LQ0200000 Figure D 2 Code Page For bounded box and unbounded box fonts Code Page file names are T1 A Coded Font links Character Sets to Code Pages For bounded box fonts the Coded Font file name is prefixed with X0 For unbounded box fonts the Coded Font file names are prefixed with X1 X4 where X1 denotes 0 rotation from the inline print di rection X2 denotes 90 and so forth Note X3 is an invalid designation for an unbounded box font Coded Font Character Set names Code Page names Character Set Code Page Character bitmaps Character IDs and and IDs keyboard mapping Figure D 3 AFP font components D 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS coun Keyboard Map and PC mapped font iles When converting AFP Bounded box or Unbounded box fonts to Elixir format you can convert the full character set or a PC mapped subset A PC mapped subset is an intermediate font file used for generating screen fonts for use in ElixirForm
20. lt I gt The Dispatcher Commands dialog box displays 2 Select the command you want to execute 3 Click on Setup The User Application Setup dialog box displays 4 Select Prompt for parameters 5 Click on OK The Dispatcher dialog box redisplays 6 Click on Start The Arguments to this program dialog box displays 7 Enter any parameter s required to execute the command 8 Click on OK The command executes with the parameter you specified Dispatcher example The following example shows how you can use the Dispatcher icon to issue a DOS TYPE command to view the contents of an ASCII file This example as sumes that your AUTOEXEC BAT file is on your C drive ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 19 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS User Files 1 Open the Dispatcher icon The Dispatcher Commands dialog box displays On a blank line enter TYPE 1 MORE and click on Setup This DOS command lists the contents of an AS Cll file one screen at a time and then pauses and prompts you to enter any key to continue In the displayed User Application Setup dialog box select the following options DOS application Pause after execution Full Screen Click on OK twice to exit the Setup and Dis patcher Commands dialog boxes Open the User Files icon On the displayed User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box enter C on a blank line and click on O
21. ELIXIR FONTS HPIN ATM True Type Fonts ELIXIR FONTS HPIN TT Outline Fonts ELIXIR FONTS CONTOURS TDF ELIXIR FONTS CONTOURS SPD default also user definable 3800 AFP Fonts ELIXIR FONTS I38IN AFP Fonts ELIXIR FONTS AFPIN In the AFP and 3800 AFP Fonts folders C T1 or X font components display depending on whether you select Show Charset Show Code Page or Show Coded Fonts respectively in the Filter menu ac cessed from the folder header The Outline Fonts folder displays internal names of the font as specified by the menulabel line in the TDF file Output Fonts folder The Output Fonts folder contains a number of subor dinate folders vja a a A HP PCL Fonts ATM Type3 Fonts Screen Fonts Windows Fonts 3866 AFP Fonts AFP Fonts Figure 3 12 Fonts Output Folders window ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 11 ELIXIR FOLDERS When you use the Converter icon to convert files as described in the File conversions chapter output files write to the Output folders with appropriate name extensions as shown in the following table Output Fonts folder DOS subdirectory and file extensions HP PCL Fonts ELIXIR FONTS PRINTER FLJ regular fonts ELIXIR FONTS PRINTER RLJ rotated fonts for proof printing ATM Type 3 Fonts ELIXIR FONTS ATM3OUT PS Screen Fonts ELIX user defined subdirectory IR FONTS GCREEN
22. The de fault is None Font Orientation Specifies Portrait Landscape Inverse Portrait or Inverse Landscape orientation for output fonts Place Screen Fonts in The directory to which screen fonts write creates a new directory if one does not exist Font naming conventions When you select Autoname in the Outline to raster font generator dialog box Efont Factory generates raster fonts and names them using the following conventions e A six character stem name generates e The first two characters of the generated font name describe the font family from the following table ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Font family First two file characters Courier CO Courier Dutch TR Times Roman Swiss HE Helvetica ITC Avant Garde AG Avant Garde ITC Bookman BM Bookman Swiss Narrow HN Helvetica Narrow Symbol Set Century Schoolbook SY Symbol CS Century Schoolbook ITC Zapf Chancery CH Chancery ITC Zapf Dingbats DB Dingbats Zapf Calligraphic PA Palatino If you add a new font family without first adding a name and descriptor to BTFONT NAM Efont Factory assigns XX as the first two characters e The third and fourth characters of the generated font name describe the point size you enter in the Outline to raster font generator dialog box e The fifth character of the generated font file name des
23. This option is similar to copying a file to the Viewer icon and displays the selected file if its extension links with a display application For example you can as sociate the PCX extension with the PaintBrush application To make a file extension link to an application use an ASCII editor to edit the drive ELIXIR ELX INI file and add the line extension application to the file For the above example you would add PCX PBRUSH EXE Displays the File Formats dialog box that shows a list of folders that contain different formats of a selected file files with the same stem name but different exten sions This feature is useful for checking or deleting different formats of a file that may exist on your hard disk Convert lt Ctrl gt lt V gt Transform For one or more files selected in any Elixir folder Forms Fonts or Images choosing this option dis plays a Converter dialog box that allows you to specify the format to which you want to convert the selected file s Alternatively copy one or more selected files to the Converter icon see the File conversions chapter for more information This option functions the same as using the Trans former icon Copying an Elixir format file to the Transformer icon allows applying utilities to the files which generally modify the file headers without converting the file to another format Refer to the Transformations chap ter for more information ELIXIR DESK
24. To check or modify Ventura Publisher icon specifications 1 Select the VP icon by clicking on it 2 Select Tool Props from the Tools menu The User Application dialog box for Ventura Pub lisher displays Check the information you en tered and make changes if necessary 3 Click on OK ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 7 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Starting and exiting Ventura Publisher To start and exit Ventura Publisher 1 To start Ventura Publisher open the VENT icon in the User Tools window The Ventura Publisher main screen displays 2 Exit Ventura Publisher The Desktop redisplays Creating and icon for Elixir s Web site To create an icon that automatically connects you to Elixirs Web site 1 Open the User Tools icon then select ELXWWW XAP 2 Select Tool Props from the Tools menu The User Application Setup dialog box displays Figure 8 3 User Application Setup dialog box 3 Enter your Internet browser s path in the Command to Execute then click on OK 8 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Default is drive NETSCAPE NETSCAPE EXE http Awww elixir com Accessing DOS directories To access directories and files open the User Files icon to display the User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box An example shows in the following User Files figure
25. and HP proof printer fonts The PC mapped subset that gets converted to Elixir format is determined by a Country Keyboard Map file KMP which maps AFP graphic character IDs GCIDs for each character to the corresponding AS Cll keyboard position KMP files are in the drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS di rectory Each KMP file is an ASCII file with the follow ing structure VElixir_ Keyboard_Mapping 1 0 June 1992 pc_keyboard LATIN2 MULTILINGUAL PC ss000000 01 S010000 02 S020000 03 SP3000000 FF Figure D 4 KMP file structure The first line is a required comment identifier The second line is a label identifying the keyboard map ping Other lines are graphic character IDs GCIDs and corresponding ASCII keyboard positions in hexa decimal notation ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 5 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS The following KMP files write to the drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS directory during installation KMP file Description T1000437 KMP Personal Computer for US English UK English and European languages using the IBM character set T1000850 KMP Pc Multiligual 1 for IBM PC multinational keyboards T1000852 KMP Latin2 Multilingual 2 Slavic for Croatian Czech East German Hungarian Polish Ro manian Slovak and Slovenian T1000855 KMP Cyrillic T1000857 KMP Latin 5 Turkish T1000860 KMP Portugal T1000861 KMP Iceland T100
26. copy one or more Input or Elixir form files of the same format to the Converter icon The Form Converter Options dialog box displays and contains the following options Form Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR Efxi HP PCL PostScript PDF _ AFP Overlay _ FOB _ Images _ LOG Figure 7 6 Form Converter Options dialog box Input Format The selected format conversion type Output The output form conversion format s Converting forms to and from AFP format When converting an AFP form file to Elixir format or when converting an Elixir form file to AFP format the AFP Page Converter Options dialog box displays Options in this dialog box may or may not display de pending on the selected form file type ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 9 FILE CONVERSIONS Remove Image Whitespace No Yes Form Offset Resolution of AFP Printer 240 Pels 300 R Units AFP Page Converter Options Elixir Pages in C ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIRADEMON Text Justification Inter Word Inter Character Rotate Pages 0 90 180 270 Format of output files YBM AS400 IRMA OS 2 DOS VSE Font Type Separate KIRA Universal XB Ne AFP Prefix Units Pels inch MM Image Type IM Image IOCA CCITT 4 GOCA E Embed Page Segments _ Use ELX Offset Horizontal Pels Vertical 0 Pets Figure 7 7 AFP Page Converter Options dialog box The following notes app
27. the corresponding Elixir application starts and the file loads in the application For example when you open an Elixir form file the Elixir Forms Editor application starts and the form file loads displays on the screen ready for editing Note that your PC must have the corresponding appli cation installed and enabled Elixir applications can be enabled disabled using the System menu as de scribed in the Desktop configuration chapter Note also that you cannot open an Elixir document icon in the Elixir Docs folder drive ELIXIR DOCS Opening the ElixirForm icon Opening the ElixirForm icon at the right of the Desktop starts the ElixirForm application When you exit the application the Desktop redisplays Note that pressing lt CTRL gt and clicking the right mouse button on the icon instead displays icons rep resenting other installed applications Opening device icons Printers Opening a device icon displays a dialog box for view ing or modifying the current properties of the device represented as follows Diskette icon Configures your PC s internal or external diskette drive See the Icon properties section and Periph eral devices chapter for more in formation Printers icon Configures alocal proof printer connected to your PC See the Icon properties section and Local Printers appendix for more information ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 3 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURE
28. this directory See the File conversions chapter for more information about contour to raster font con version C 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP MENU BAR Install Fonts Runs the Bitstream Loadtype program that installs Bit stream Facelift fonts on your PC Scheduler Setup lt Alt gt lt F2 gt A network independent enhancement to the Desktop that automates file conversion and enables stand alone hands off operation of Elixir tools Scheduler Actions lt Alt gt lt F3 gt Allows you to define up to eight Scheduler actions such as testing for a file in a given directory or check ing a date and time Global View lt Ctrl gt lt G gt Allows you to define how files in Desktop folder win dows are to display such as by Long Name or as icons DOS menu The DOS menu allows you run to DOS commands from the Desktop DOS Command lt Ctrl gt lt D gt Displays a dialog box allowing you to enter any stan dard DOS command Enter a DOS command and click on OK to clear the Desktop and execute the command from the following directories e from the drive ELIXIR directory if there are no windows open on the Desktop e from the directory corresponding to the window if a window is open on the Desktop ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE C 9 DESKTOP MENU BAR After execution the program prompts you to press any key to redisplay the Desktop Window menu
29. using IEBGENER The Desktop Converter uses a default block size of 8209 for files formatted for a host dataset Some files such as IBM Core fonts may require a larger block size If a block length error message displays during conversion you may need to increase the default block size for Elixir ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER To change the block size use an ASCII editor to mod ify the ELIXIR DESKTOP SYSTEM AFP INI file Ir ma_block_length parameter value for all conversions OVE font and Pseg IBM recommends a block size of 12288 for font resources under new PSF versions The AFP INI file is similar to the following Elixir_ AFP_Configuration 23 00 Feb 1994 Target_Environment MVS Irma_block_length 8209 Parameters for uploading object format AFP files To upload an object format AFP file in FB format select the FT TSO parameters according to the follow ing table Block size Irma_block_length value AFP INI Record size same as above block size Record format FB Line numbers Position 0 Length 0 Code table STD Transfer mode BINARY Expand tabs NO Truncate spaces NO U L case ASIS Space units TRKS Primary QTY 1 Secondary QTY 2 Uploading the file with FT TSO To send files with FT TSO follow these steps 1 Change the current directory to the directory which contains the FT TSO file transfer software 2 At the DOS prompt type FT TSO lt Enter gt 3 At th
30. 1 00 If you created a non AFP font or modified an existing AFP font and exported the font using the T1ELIXIR code page in version 1 00 of the Desktop and then converted the font back to Elixir format the font does not map properly for screen and HP PCL keyboard use To properly map the font for keyboard use 1 Make a note of the current Country Keyboard Map displayed in the Desktop System Configuration dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 61 FILE CONVERSIONS 2 Change the Country Keyboard Map file name to T1ELIXIR This KMP file comes with the current software version 3 Convert the version 1 00 font to Elixir format 4 Reset the Country Keyboard Map to the map noted in step 1 To remap fonts using the T1ELIXIR code page GCIDs to fonts using standard IBM GCIDs convert the origi nal non AFP font in Elixir format to AFP format using the COADOBE GCID mapping file See the Desktop configuration chapter for more GCID file information Generating fonts from outlines The Elixir desktop includes the Elixir Font Factory Efont Factory a utility that uses contour outline fonts compatible with Bitstream Facelift to generate Elixir printer and screen versions and AFP bounded box and unbounded box bit mapped or raster fonts Note Efont Factory cannot generate fonts from Bit stream Fontware and Fontware compatible fonts The Elixir desktop installation procedure installs 35 contour fonts com
31. 15 6 2 Xerox format 6 1 Diskette icon 2 5 5 3 5 14 6 1 Diskette Properties dia log box 4 5 Dispatcher example 8 21 Dispatcher Commands dialog box 5 4 Dispatcher icon 2 6 5 4 8 2 8 15 display options files 2 11 Docs Jobs Elixir folders 3 18 Document Converter Options 7 77 Document Converter Options dialog box 7 77 documents converting 7 4 7 77 Elixir Documents folder 3 16 folders 3 15 Input Documents folder 3 16 Output Documents folder 3 17 Documents folder 2 3 3 15 7 4 DOS access 2 12 4 9 8 1 8 9 C 10 batch files 8 14 commands 8 17 8 24 C 10 copying files 5 13 directories 3 1 8 9 diskette 5 13 5 14 6 1 executables 8 14 folders and directo ries 3 1 linking files 5 4 menu 2 12 8 24 C 10 storing commands 8 16 DOS menu 8 24 C 10 DOSVSE utility 7 93 double byte font AFP 7 44 converting 7 44 7 45 Elixir 7 45 double click speed 4 4 downloading files converting fonts 9 3 from AS 400 9 18 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 5 INDEX FT TSO parame ters 9 9 object files 9 3 9 7 overview 9 2 text files 9 7 using 3270 9 6 using FT TSO 9 9 E Efont Factory 7 61 ElixiKey 4 10 Elixir applications conventions 1 3 Help 1 6 Elixir code page D 9 Elixir folders changing display 3 4 Data Jobs 3 19 Docs Jobs 3 18 Documents 3 16 Fonts 3 9 Forms 3 6 Graphics 3 13 structure 3 2 Elixir highlight color forms
32. 8 6 Checking the properties of the Ventura Publisher icon 8 8 Starting and exiting Ventura Publisher 8 8 xiv ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Creating and icon for Elixir s Web site 8 8 Accessing DOS directories 8 9 Changing directories 8 11 Copying files between subdirectories 8 12 Linking files to applications 8 12 Linking files to an existing User Tool 8 13 Linking files to a new application 8 13 Checking tool properties 8 14 Opening linked files 8 14 Starting DOS executables 8 14 Starting batch files 8 14 Using the Dispatcher icon 8 15 Setting up Dispatcher commands 8 16 Executing Dispatcher commands 8 20 Copying files to the Dispatcher 8 20 Executing commands from the Dispatcher icon 8 20 Dispatcher example 8 21 Using the Dispatcher to run Elixir utilities 8 23 DOS menu 8 24 PC to MVS host file transfer 9 1 Installation 9 2 Pre transfer considerations 9 2 Downloading files 9 2 Downloading with IBM 3270 or IRMA FT 3270 9 2 Downloading with IRMA FT TSO 9 3 Converting OVE and AFPDS files 9 3 Converting Fonts 9 3 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE XV TABLE OF CONTENTS Input directory information Uploading files Uploading with IBM 3270 or IRMA FT 3270 Uploading with IRMA FT TSO Fonts Output directory information Using IBM 3270 or IRMA FT 3270 Downloading object format AFP files Uploading object format AFP files Downloading text files Uploading text files Using IRM
33. AFP format described in the File Conversions chapter and specify AS400 as the output format in the appropriate dialog boxes 2 Create an AS 400 library and file to use as a temporary storage area for the uploaded resources 3 Copy the AFP resource s to a Shared Folder directory 4 Move the resource s from the Shared Folder to the temporary file using the CPYFRMPCD command Copy From PC Document 5 Install the resource s into the appropriate AFP library using one of the OS 400 AFP resource creation commands CRTFNTRSC CRTPAGSEG or CRTOVL You must identify the libraries your installation uses for storing print ready AFP resources The following sections describe these steps in more detail 9 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER Creating a temporary holding library and file on the AS 400 To create a library and file on the AS 400 enter the following commands on the command line in your AS 400 session in the following examples the library and file that generate are ELXLIB and TEMP respectively CRTLIB LIB ELXLIB lt Enter gt This command creates the ELXLIB library CRTPF FILE ELXLIB TEMP RCDLEN 1024 LVLCHK NO lt Enter gt This command creates a physical file with the follow ing attributes e Record length 1024 e Record Format Level Check NO Copying to the Shared Folder The Elixir Desktop sees the Shared Folder as a stan dard PC hard drive and typically assig
34. After you specify the required fields in the User Appli cation Setup dialog box and click on OK the User Tools window displays an icon labeled with the nick name you specified and an XAP extension to identify it as a User Tool icon The XAP file writes to drive ELIXIR DESKTOP SYSTEM USERTOOL Double clicking on the icon now runs the specified ap plication described in the following section Starting the application To start an application for which you have defined an icon open the User Tools window and double click on the icon If you did not select the Prompt for parameters op tion the Desktop clears and the application starts If you selected the above option a dialog box displays requesting that you enter an argument Enter the re quired argument and click on OK to run the application If you selected the Pause after execution option the program prompts you to press any key to continue after exiting the application Press any key to return to the Desktop Displaying icon properties To check or edit the properties of a previously specified application in the User Tools folder select the application icon and do one of the following e Select Properties from the File menu ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 5 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS e Select Tool Props from the Tools menu on the User Tools window header e Press lt F2 gt The User Application Setup dialog box displays
35. FGID Converter writes all font references using the previously specified Global Resource Identifier GRID The GRID includes the Font Typeface Global Identifier FGID Graphic Character Set Global Identifier GCSGID and the Code Page Global Identifier CPGID mappings Character Mapping File Name Path and name of your AFP font mapping file which provides the Converter with output overlay and document font mapping information Default is drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS DEFAULT FAM AFP Displays the AFP Settings dialog box which con tains the following options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 85 FILE CONVERSIONS AFP Settings Target Environment YSE gt VM MYS Record Format Yariable Variable Fixed IRMA Block Length Record Length y Sequence Numbers DocuT ag for AFP Converter Options Page Bottom Marker Auto Tag attribute file Setto o Figure 7 49 AFP Settings dialog box OGL Displays the Page Source Converter Options dialog box which contains the following options 1 Page Source Converter Options CONTROL neSTORE STORE CodePage Translation REPLACE o include Description Text ALL ag rate BPSD F a Generate ags WARN ee ERROR Taget Envianmert ov eee noSUMMARY WSE VM MVS SUMMARY Figure 7 50 Page Source Converter Options dialog box Include Author Banner Include
36. If you have not established an application as a User Tool icon you can do so by selecting New Tool in the Tool Link Definition dialog box header to display the User Application Setup dialog box See the Creating an application icon section in this chapter for more information about fields in this dialog box Checking tool properties After you establish tool links you can check or modify entries for the Tool Properties from the Tools menu Selecting this option displays the User Application Setup dialog box for editing 8 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Opening linked files When files in a directory link to an application double clicking on a linked file starts the application and loads the file in the application If you selected Prompt for parameters in the User Application Setup dialog box the Arguments to this program dialog box shown in the following figure displays Figure 8 7 Arguments to this program dialog box The parameter file name shown in the dialog box is the file name last entered The example has no pre viously entered file name Starting DOS executables Double clicking on a EXE COM or BAT file prompts you for an argument file name for the ex ecutable If required enter an argument or just click on OK to start the executable Starting batch files When you start a DOS batch file BAT usi
37. User Files 2 4 Font Related Converter Options dialog box 7 60 Font Converter Options dialog box 7 38 Font Global Identifiers 7 20 7 88 font requirements HP or compatible printers 7 38 fonts adding HP PCL fonts to a Windows application 7 69 AFP components D 3 AFP conversion D 1 Bitstream Facelift 7 61 B 2 Bitstream Fontware 7 61 bounded box D 1 D 14 BTFONTS MAP B 2 BTFONTS NAM B 2 character set D 3 coded font D 4 contour 7 61 B 2 conversion strate gies D 12 converter options 7 37 converting 7 3 7 37 CPGID 7 37 DDNAMES 7 19 7 87 Elixir fonts folder 3 9 FGIDs 7 36 GCID D 3 GCSGID 7 37 generating Elixir fonts 7 68 generating non Elixir fonts 7 68 HP PCL 7 46 HP PCL in Windows applications 7 47 HP PCL soft fonts 7 47 Input Fonts folder 3 10 kerning 7 64 loading 7 27 7 32 mapping 7 20 7 61 7 65 7 88 name 7 63 naming conventions 7 65 orientation 7 65 outline 7 61 outline to raster font generator 7 63 Output Fonts folder 3 11 PSFONT MAP 7 64 B 1 PSSEND PSC B 1 INDEX 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INDEX PSTOP PSC B 1 PSTRAIL PSC B 2 screen 7 69 TrueType 7 50 unbounded box D 1 D 14 Fonts folder 2 3 3 9 3 18 7 3 Form Converter Options dialog box 6 9 7 9 Form Print Properties dialog box 7 26 Form Transformer Op tions dialog box 10 4 Formdefs converting 7 92 forms converting 7 2 7 9 converting to
38. a form clockwise by the number of degrees selected If you converted Elixir forms to another format and now want to convert them back to Elixir format you must adjust the page rotation as follows Output rotation Input rotation 0 0 90 270 180 180 270 90 Output rotation is the rotation option selected when the original Elixir form was converted to another for mat Input rotation is the rotation option you should se lect when you convert the form back to Elixir format so the form displays correctly Resolution of AFP Printer Select your printer s resolution 240 Pels or 300 R Units When converting forms to Elixir format the program marks the file with the value you select When reconverting from Elixir to another format you must specify the printer resolution for resizing as follows e If the Elixir file contains the resolution value to which you want to convert the file it does not resize e If the Elixir file contains a resolution value differ ent from the value to which you want to convert it resizes accordingly e If the Elixir file contains no mark it resizes if the Resolution of AFP Printer value is other than 300 R Units When converting an Elixir form originally converted from AFP format specify 240 Pels to retain the size Format of output files Select the output format for AFP file s 7 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS VBM creates AFP f
39. a similar AFP bitmapped raster font 2 Edit a FAM file as in the following example V Elixir_Font_Name_Assignment_Table AFP 3 11 June 1995 MVS_default_ddname FONTDD VM_default_filetype ONT38PP Default_gcsgid 1 Default_cpgid 1 Usage font_id XOaaaaaal option option where following nonpositional case insensitive options are avail able only first two chars significant name aaaaaa internal name for OGL out conversion ddname aaaaaa ddname for OGL on MVS ftype aaaaaa filetype for OGL on VM id hhhh Hexld for LOG gcsgid nnnn_ A Graphic Character Set Global Identifier cpgid nnnn A Code Page Global Identifier fgid nnnn_ A Font Global Identifier Examples font_id X0A075B0 name HE12B ftype ONT3820 DDName FONTLIB gc 1234 cp 5678 fg 1000 font_id XOGO550U name Charly ftype ONT3820 DDName FONTLYN gc 4095 cp 256 fg 4096 font_id XOGO558U name Patsy ftype FONT38PP DDName FONTTIM fg 4097 Note CPGID is the Code Page ID and GCSGID is the Global Character Set ID 3 Use the AFP raster fonts in your form 4 When converting in the Page Source Converter Options dialog box select Mapped in the Font Assignment field then enter the table name that maps the FGIDs ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 37 FILE CONVERSIONS Converting fonts This section describes font conversion and generation procedures The Desktop allows you to perfo
40. also change the current printer s setup by right clicking on the Printers icon The Print dialog box displays and contains the following options ELIXIR HP driver on LPT1 HP LaserJet IIISi on LPT1 PostScript Pri Script Printer on LPT1 _ Set Elixir HP Driver as default printer Orientation Page Shift A Portrait Xshift Landscape Yshift Copies 1 _ Print to File Print Fonts _ as Graphic Figure 6 3 Print dialog box Printer The Print dialog box shows the default printer speci fied is a HP LaserJet IIP connected to the LPT1 port Orientation The orientation of the printed page Landscape or Portrait Page Shift The number of dots you want the printed page shifted to the right Xshift or down Yshift Negative val ues are permissible Copies The number of copies of the printed page ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 7 PERIPHERAL DEVICES Print to File When selected creates an HP PCL print file instead of printing Print Fonts as Graphics Rasterizes fonts as graphics This requires less printer memory speeding up printing time Message Displays the Message Options dialog box Setup Displays a Windows provided print driver specific Document Properties dialog box that allows you to se lect paper and graphic options Printing Elixir forms with highlight color Elixir forms that contain highlight color shades print as sol
41. and copy files from one folder to another see the Desktop basics chapter in this guide The Elixir folder icons shown in the following figure display at the top left of the Desktop kab SR Images Documents Figure 3 1 Elixir folder icons Elixir folder icons allow you to use simple mouse op erations to e access and display Elixir format files e copy Elixir format files into different folders e convert form font image document and job files to and from Elixir format ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 1 ELIXIR FOLDERS To the right of the Elixir folder icons the User Files icon shown in the following figure displays User Files Figure 3 2 User Files icon The User Files icon allows you to access any file or directory on your hard disk or diskette drive See the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter in this guide for a description of the User Files icon Elixir folder structure This section describes the structure and use of the five Elixir folder icons Most Elixir folder icons contain three subordinate fold ers labeled Elixir Input and Output For example when you open the Elixir Forms folder icon the following window displays Elixir Forms input Forms Output Forms Figure 3 3 Forms Folders window Similarly opening the Elixir Fonts Elixir Images and Elixir Documents folder icons display a window show ing subordinate folders call
42. boxes shows as the bold text in parentheses Changing the target environment from MVS to VM When you generate OGL source code the FONT and SEGMENT keywords write with either a DDNAME MVS or a FILETYPE VM parameter The JCL or VM EXEC use these statements to identify the system libraries where these resources exist As a default Elixir writes out OGL with MVS DDNAME parameters On a VM site you can change the default by editing the Target_environment MVS_ statement in the drive ELIXIR DESKTOP SYSTEM AFP INI file to Target_environment VM When you change MVS to VM the Converter changes the parameter to FILETYPE There are two other files in which you can modify the default DDNAME or FILETYPE statements The name and structure of each is as follows drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS DEFAULT FAM file Y Elixir_Font_Name_Assignment_Table AFP 2 10 August 1993 MVS_default_ddname FONTDD VM_default_filetyoe ONT38PP Usage font_id XOaaaaaa dd aaaaal ft aaaaal id hxhx Example font_id XOMYFONT ft FONT3820 id 2B4F dd FONTLIB drive ELIXIR PICS MAPS DEFAULT SAM file Elixir_ Pseg_Name_Assignment_Table AFP 2 10 August 1993 MVS_default_ddname SEGDD VM_default_filetype PSEG38PP Usage Pseg_id S1aaaaaa dd aaaaa Example Pseg_id S1MYSEG dd SEGLIB ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 23 FILE CONVERSIONS Converting Elixir forms to HP PCL You can convert Elixir forms to HP PCL using Win dow
43. contents can be viewed pictorially alphabeti cally by icon by size or by date Dispatcher icon The icon in the Elixir Desktop that stores and invokes a number of DOS commands DOS Disk Operating System the collection of pro grams that gives control of a PC s resources to the user Double click To press the left mouse button twice in rapid succession normally to open an icon Drag To click on an item and move the item with the mouse while holding down the left mouse button Drag and drop A method used to copy an object as follows click on an item on the screen hold down the left mouse button move the mouse to move the screen pointer to an icon then release the mouse button Drop To release the mouse button after dragging an item to an icon Elixir folders The folders represented by the four top left icons on the Desktop the Forms Fonts Im ages and Documents folders Each of these folders contains a subordinate Elixir Input and Output folder GLOSSARY 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION GLOSSARY Extension The period and three characters following a file name An extension identifies the type of infor mation in a file For example ELX indicates an Elixir format form file Fast Keys See Keyboard shortcuts File filter The use of DOS wildcard characters to dis play only those files with selected name characteris tics in a window or dialog box For example to display only files that beg
44. describes Elixir graphics file transforma tions To transform an Elixir image 1 Copy the LP3 file to the Transformer icon The Graphic Transformer Options dialog box displays Graphic lransiormer Options Figure 10 9 Graphic Transformer Options dialog box 2 Select Image then click on OK ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP 10 7 TRANSFORMATIONS The Image Process Transformation dialog box displays and contains the following options Figure 10 10 Image Process Transformation dialog box Source File Displays the directory and file name of the image s you are transforming Destination File Displays the destination directory of the image s you are transforming You must enter a file name Note that using the same file name as the original may automatically overwrite the original file with the trans formed file according to how you set the confirmation option in the Transformer Properties Dialog dialog box Mirror This option allows you to flip an image in horizontal or vertical directions To mirror an image 1 Select Mirror enter a file name in the Destination File option then click on OK 2 In the Mirror dialog box select Horizontal or Vertical and click on OK ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TRANSFORMATIONS Resize This option allows you to resize an image up or down in independent horizontal and vertical percentages To resi
45. dis plays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 47 FILE CONVERSIONS ieee HP Font Converter Options Figure 7 31 HP Font Converter Options dialog box 3 Select enter information then click on OK The HP Font Converter Options dialog box con tains the following options Create All 4 Rotations Select to create font versions rotated in all four 0 90 180 and 270 inline print directions Create Rotated Version Select to create rotated font version for proof printing a form containing rotated fonts Converting Elixir fonts to HP PCL soft fonts When converting Elixir fonts to HP PCL soft fonts all characters in the Elixir font are maintained if you add the following entry to the drive WINDOWS ELX INI file ADVANCEDOPTIONS GENSPACEGLYPHS 1 Where 1 maintains all characters below position x064 and 0 removes these characters Adding HP PCL fonts to Windows applications The following procedure describes the steps neces sary to add HP PCL fonts to your Windows application fonts list 1 Open the Windows Control Panel and select the Printers icon 7 48 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Printers dialog box displays 2 Select the desired printer in the Installed Printers option then click on Setup 3 Click on Fonts then in the Font Installer dialog box click on Add Fonts 4 In the Add Fonts dialog box set the directory path to drive ELIXIR
46. field if the application you are running is not present in the drive ELIXIR directory and if you have not specified a DOS PATH statement for the directory in which the application executable resides Command Options Select command options DOS Application for running a DOS applications Send Only Filename uses only the file s stem name for command execution Prompt for parameters program prompts for an ar gument to appends to the command in the Com mand to execute option Run Minimized executes the command in a mini mized window Command Attributes Select command attributes Command is BAT file for DOS batch file com mands redisplays the Desktop when you exit the ap plication If the application is a batch file that calls another batch file the Desktop does not redisplay when you exit the application See the Starting batch files section for more information Deselect to return to the directory specified in the batch file Pause after execution pauses after exiting the application Display Options Select a command display option Window displays command execution in a window ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 5 PERIPHERAL DEVICES Using scanners 2 Scanners Full Screen displays command execution in a full screen environment Browse Displays the contents of a DOS directory from which you can select a file To use your scanner double click on the Scanner
47. file To convert the file into AS 400 database file format you must e send the file to your own userid e receive the file into an AS 400 database file that you created Note Both files AFP resource object file and save file must have the same record length Use the following commands and procedures on the AS 400 to extract AS 400 objects to a standard AS 400 database file ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 17 FILE TRANSFER CRTSAVF Objname lt Enter gt Make a note of where which library you created this file displays in the return message SAVOBJ objname_LIB ibname DEV SAVF OBJTYP vor SAVF libname objname lt Enter gt SNDNETF objname TOUSRID YourUserlID SameSystem lt Enter gt WRKNETF YourUserID lt Enter gt Press PF11 Display Type Records Make a note of the record length recl of the file you just sent yourself CRTPF Pipe SEL FILETYPE DATA LVLCHK NO lt Enter gt This step might be redundant if completed earlier Select option 1 receive network file from the WRKNETF screen Receive the file into the AFPFile you created earlier Once the objects migrate to a database file you can download them to the PC using AS 400 PC Support specify transfer type 6 no ASCII to EBCDIC conversion CPYTOPCD Copy to PC Document command on the AS 400 to copy the member to the shared folder using a translation table of NONE ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIO
48. fonts in the PUB file Include Screen Graphics Includes screen images in the PUB file Include Printer Fonts Includes proof printer and rotated fonts for the proof printer you specify in the Proof Printer Fonts for op tion in the PUB file Include Printer Graphics Includes printer images in the PUB file Include Elixir Fonts Includes Elixir versions of the fonts in the PUB file Pubfile Version 1 0 Compatible Disables the Include Elixir Fonts option so that PUB files you create are usable in previous versions of the Desktop Proof Printer Fonts For Specifies your proof printer as HP LJ The Elixir Desktop creates a PUB file in the Elixir Forms folder with the same stem name as the file you selected If a PUB file with the same name exists in the Elixir Forms folder the program prompts you to confirm overwriting it You can view the contents of a PUB file by double clicking on its icon as shown in the following figure PUB file open FEDRANK i FEOBANK ELX HEOZNP FHT HEOSBPFNT HETBPFNT HEGSNP FNT HEZGBPENT HETIBPFNHT FBLOGOLWS FBLOGOLP3 aw Figure 5 12 Publication file components example ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 17 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Copying a PUB file to a diskette To copy a PUB file to a diskette 1 Insert a formatted diskette into your diskette drive Open the Diskette icon and make sure Diskette Drive indicates the correct dri
49. for Arial J for 10 points 5 for 5 of a point N for normal and P for portrait Output Fonts The list of fonts to convert and output Click on the ADD button to add the selected font to the list or DEL to delete it Sample text Displays a sample of the selected font and point size Character set mapping The lowest and highest character positions in the font s range in either decimal DEC hexadeci mal HEX or ASCII ASC representation Map font Allows selection of non standard keyboard maps for the TrueType fonts you are converting and for your output fonts Target Displays a dialog box for selecting the keyboard mapping file KMP to use for the non default character layout you want to map to Windows Displays a dialog box for selecting the keyboard mapping file KMP when the TrueType font you are converting uses a non standard keyboard map ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 53 FILE CONVERSIONS Orientation The orientation of the output font portrait in verted portrait landscape or inverted landscape You can click on ADD after selecting each orien tation to simultaneously create all four font rota tions for use in ElixiForm Style The character style of the output font italic bold underlined or overstrike DPI The dots per inch resolution of the output font 240 300 or Custom including the custom horizontal and vertical measures Prepare for PostScrip
50. form to the Clipboard using standard copying procedures then copy the form to a specific job when you need it Provides access to all DOS directories and files and links applications to files See the Additional Desktop features and Accessing DOS files and applications chapters and Additional files and directories appen dix for more information ElixirForm AppBuilder for AFP application icon Represents ElixirForm If you have Elixir AppBuilder for AFP installed you can toggle the icon between the two applications by lt Ctrl gt clicking on it Opening this icon clears the Desktop and starts the ElixirForm or AppBuilder for AFP application Other Elixir application icons If other Elixir applications such as ElixirFont or Elix irlmage are installed icons representing these appli cations also display at the right of the Desktop Open ing these icons starts the corresponding application 2 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP BASICS User Tools icon Allows you to create and define icons for DOS appli cations and batch files so that opening the icon starts the application See the Additional Desktop features and Accessing DOS files and applications chapters for more infor mation Diskette icon Allows you to access and format a diskette in your PC mi disk drive li Diskette See the Additional Desktop features and Peripheral devices chapters for more informatio
51. format fonts Converting to and from AFP page segments If you are converting an AFP page segment file or converting an image to AFP page segment format the AFP Image Con verter Options dialog box also displays and contains the follow ing options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 73 FILE CONVERSIONS AFP image Converter Options ix Asaa o DOSAGE Prefered Color Default A Figure 7 43 AFP Image Converter Options dialog box Image Type Select your image s type IM Image IOCA CCITT4 or GOCA Remove Image Whitespace If an AFP Page Segment image contains unwanted white space select Yes to trim the white space to create a smaller converted file Select No to retain the white space IOCA CCITT 4 minimizes white space according to CCITT Group 4 facsimile format Resolution of AFP Printer Allows you to select 240 Pels or 300 R Units When converting images to Elixir format the file is marked with the value you select When reconverting from Elixir to another image format you must again specify the printer resolution During conversion from Elixir format the image resizes as follows e f the Elixir file contains the resolution value to which you want to convert the file it does not resize e If the Elixir file contains a resolution value differ ent from the value to which you want to convert it resizes accordingly e If the Elixir file contains no mark it resizes if
52. formation The Desktop file formats feature allows you to select a file in any Elixir folder and to display all files with the same stem name but different extensions on the drive to which Elixir installs This feature also allows you to delete either all or selected file formats from the directory To display different versions of a file select the de sired file from an Elixir folder then select Formats from the File menu The File Formats dialog box dis plays and contains the following options Figure 5 3 File Formats dialog box No Operation Performs no operations on displayed files 5 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Delete Formats Deletes all displayed formats of a selected file Delete except Elixir Deletes all formats of a selected file except the Elixir format Printing Desktop folder contents You can display and print a listing of all files in a folder To display all files in a folder 1 Open the desired folder 2 Select Enter Filter from the Filter menu The File Name Entry dialog box displays File Name Entry Figure 5 4 File Name Entry dialog box 3 Enter in the Selecting File s option then click on OK To print the listing of a folder 1 Open the desired folder 2 Select Print Directory Listings from the File menu The Print dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 7 ADDITIONAL DES
53. if necessary You can run DOSVSE e asa DOS command line utility e as a utility executed from the Elixir Dispatcher icon ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 93 FILE CONVERSIONS Running DOSVSE as a DOS command line utility To execute type the following from the drive ELIXIR command prompt DOSVSE full path name jfilename ext lt Enter gt Running DOSVSE from the Elixir Dispatcher icon To set up a Dispatcher utility see the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter To execute select the resource s to convert drag them down to the Dispatcher icon and select the DOSVSE utility Converting files using ELX2VSE ELX2VSE converts AFP data stream files SEG OVE and font files to VSE linkage editor statements The utility uses the CL4 DEF file to obtain the job con trol information included in the object deck You can edit the CL4 DEF file using any standard text editor You should examine this file and modify it to your in stallation standards Parameters that may require modification include CATALOG the destination for the phase file DISP and CLASS ELX2VSE creates a file with the name filename DCK in the directory where the original file resides Uploading to the host To upload the DCK file to the host e Use ELX2VSE to convert then upload the DCK file e Use the DOSLOAD BAT file to automate conver sion and upload See the File transfer chapter for AFPDS to VSE up loading p
54. if the text direction in the form is Across X1 is called out if the text direction is Down X2 is called out if the text direction is Back X3 is called out and if the text direction is Up X4 is called out ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 91 FILE CONVERSIONS When converting AFP and OVE format forms to Elixir format if the form contains call outs for XO fonts the Separate X1 X4 option is not effective Font call outs in the Elixir form remain XO call outs regardless of the font type option selected When outputting fonts to AFP or OVE and back to Elixir format if fonts in your form are all one direction and or you do not want the two digit AFP prefix added select No AFP Prefix Note Do not select No AFP Prefix if you have mixed directional fonts in your form and plan on proof printing See the Font requirements for a HP series II printer section for an example Remove Image Whitespace Select Yes to trim the white space surrounding im ages to create a smaller converted file Select No to retain the white space Converting Pagedef Formdef resources The Jobs folder manages Pagedef and Formdef re sources Opening the Elixir Data Jobs folder provides access to the Elixir AppBuilder jobs database which is stored by default in drive ELIXIR JOBS ELIXIR To convert existing Elixir format Pagedef and Formdef resources 1 Copy the resource to convert to the Converter icon The Application Convert
55. image graphics files from the Input or Elixir Image folders The Converter can also create color IM or GOCA page segments Color IOCA and conversion of full color images to AFP page segment is for future implementation When you copy one or more image files from any of the above folders to the Converter icon the Image Converter Options dialog box displays and contains the following options lmage Converter Options re Figure 7 41 Image Converter Options dialog box Input Format Displays the format of the image s selected for conversion Output Displays the available image conversion output formats 7 72 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Converting Elixir graphics files to Tiles in a Font format This option places a grid on an image and converts each cell of the grid to a character in an Elixir font starting at position Decimal 65 A See the Elix irlmage User Guide for more information When converting Elixir format files select Tiles in a Font and click on OK to display the Extra Converter Options dialog box Extra Converter Options Figure 7 42 Extra Converter Options dialog box The Extra Converter Options dialog box contains the following options Retile Retiles the TXT file associated with the Elixir format LP3 file Orientation Select Port for portrait Land for landscape InvPort for inverse portrait or InvLand for inverse landscape
56. or reset Format Select ASCII to produce ASCII output for writing to disk Select EBCDIC to produce EBCDIC out put for Xerox printers connected to your PC via coaxial cable and a protocol converter Select SmartBox if your PC is connected to the printer through a SmartBox or Agile protocol converter Printer Font Loading Select when to load the fonts onto the printer Al ways Once or Never Select Always to download fonts each time you print Select Once to download fonts to the printer only once as they are encountered fonts stay resident until printer is reset Select Never to use only those fonts resident on the printer no fonts are downloaded Page Shift The number of dots you want the printed page shifted to the right Xshift or down Yshift Negative values are permissible The converted files write to the Output HP PCL forms folder drive ELIXIR PRINTS HPPRINT Note that converted HP PCL files have PRN extensions ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 27 FILE CONVERSIONS Converting forms to PostScript format You can convert Elixir forms to PostScript using Win dows printer drivers default or by selecting Elixir s PostScript driver Elixirs PostScript driver produces optimized output files significantly smaller than those produced by Win dows drivers with identical printer output Leave Elixirs PostScript driver deselected to use the Win dows printer driver Convertin
57. section briefly describes file conversion steps Later sections provide more detailed descriptions ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 7 FILE CONVERSIONS To convert a form font image or document file to a different format 1 To convert a non Elixir file copy the file to the Input folder appropriate for the file format If to convert an Elixir format file the file may already reside in an Elixir folder 2 Open the appropriate Input or Elixir folder and select the file s to convert 3 Copy the selected file s to the Converter icon The Converter Properties dialog box displays Converter Properties _Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFF Font Converters AEP C Outline _ Image Converters AEP J Figure 7 5 Converter Properties dialog box 4 Select the output file format s then click on OK The file s you specify convert and the generated out put file s write to the appropriate Output folder If you specify more than one output format in step 4 each input file converts to the formats you specify and write to the appropriate Output folders If any errors occur during conversion a message dis plays in a separate window If errors do not occur a dialog box displays showing a status for the conversion Following conversion click on OK in the dialog box 7 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Converting forms To convert forms
58. selected file name displays on the button s face when you click on OK See the AFP font conversion considerations appendix for more information Default CodePage Displays the Browse Code Page dialog box for select ing a default code page for font conversion The se lected file name displays on the button s face when you click on OK GCID File Displays the Browse GCID File dialog box for select ing aGCID mapping file for converting non AFP Elixir fonts to AFP fonts The selected file name displays on the button s face when you click on OK Default is COADOBE Tag Display Specifies the data tags print option None prints no data tags Replace Char prints form with the selected field length and replacement characters Tag Name prints tags on the form using the field name Desktop usage switches Select the Usage Switches option in the System menu to customize your Desktop The Desktop Us age Switches dialog box displays and contains the fol lowing options 4 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Usage Switches Figure 4 4 Usage Switches dialog box Confirm file deletions Displays the Confirmation for Command dialog box when deleting file s Confirm file overwrites Displays the Confirmation for Command dialog box for requesting confirmation of file overwrite This option is only applicable for files copied through the Desktop S
59. so that double clicking on the icon executes or starts the application UserTools User Files icon The User Files icon provides access to all DOS direc tories and files as The User Files icon also includes a Tool Link utility Et that allows you to link a file with an application Once linked double clicking on the file starts the application and loads the file User Files ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 1 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Dispatcher icon The Dispatcher icon allows you to store up to 12 DOS commands with optional replaceable parameters When you copy a file to the Dispatcher icon and select a command the name of the file substitutes for the first replaceable parameter Creating an application icon UserTools The User Tools icon allows you create icons for appli cations and batch files on your PC During software installation the ELXWDATA User Tools install The ELXWDATA User Tool starts a batch file that generates a text file called ELXWDATA TXT on the A drive diskette The file contains the contents of your AUTOEXEC BAT CONFIG SYS and INSTALL LOG files and other information such as existing APP and EXE files and system memory Creating an icon To create an application icon open the User Tools icon to display the User Tools window The User Tools window is similar to other Elixir win dows and includes an additional Tools menu title in the window h
60. table to assign Font Global Identifiers FGIDs to font names See the Using FGIDs in a form section for an example of mapping FGIDs to fonts You can also change your target environment from MVS to VM by editing the drive ELIXIR DESK TOP SYSTEM AFP INI file included with the Desktop See the Changing your target envi ronment from MVS to VM section for more information In the Map table field enter the file name of the mapping table in drive FONTS MAPS to use when you select Mapped in the Font Assign ment option DEFAULT FAM is the default Pseg Assignment Select Auto to map page segment image names from their external file names to six character in ternal names without the S1 prefix For LOG the full eight character S1 name is retained Select Mapped to load and use the DEFAULT SAM ta ble in drive ELIXIR PICS MAPS to map page segment names Once compiled the page seg ments store inside the overlay For LOG you can use DEFAULT SAM to assign local four character identifier names for fonts re siding on the printer s disk For OGL you can use this table to assign DDNAMES to page segments ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 19 FILE CONVERSIONS You can change your target environment from MVS to VM by editing the drive ELIXIR DESKTOP SYSTEM AFP INI_ file included with the Desktop See the Changing your target environment from MVS to VM section for more information In the Map table fie
61. the PC from which you copied the form file your screen fonts and screen graphics may not dis play correctly For correct font and graphics display use the Converter icon described in the File conver sions chapter of this guide to regenerate the screen fonts and graphics Using the Elixir Scheduler Desktop The Elixir SchedulerDesktop allows you to specify automated file conversions batch file execution and other actions and the conditions for their performance The actions you can specify are e file conversions e running transcripts e executing an application defined as a User Tool e executing an application defined in the Dispatcher icon e executing any BAT EXE or COM command The conditions for which you can specify the above actions are e the date and or time for performing an action e checking for the existence of a file before per forming an action e performing an action at specified intervals ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 19 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Examples of automated actions you can specify with the Scheduler Desktop are e f files in an Input Folder are present convert them to one or more formats e Ata certain time perform a certain action such as back up files Later this section provides detailed examples In addition if you install the Elixir Desktop on a dedi cated PC attached to a network the Scheduler en ables uploading files to another de
62. the System menu The Converter Properties dialog box displays Converter Properties Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFP Font Converters AFP Outline __j Image Converters AER Figure 6 11 Converter Properties dialog box 2 Click on the Converter Properties button The Converter Properties Dialog dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 13 PERIPHERAL DEVICES Figure 6 12 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box 3 Select Use Elixir HP PCL and PostScript converters then click on OK until all dialog boxes close 4 Copy the file to print to the Printers icon The Print dialog box displays Figure 6 13 Print dialog box 5 Select print options then click on OK To print PostScript using a Windows driver 6 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES 6 Select Converter Props from the System menu The Converter Properties dialog box displays Converter Properties Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFP PostScript Font Converters AFP Outline Image Converters AFP Converter Properties Message Reporting Figure 6 14 Converter Properties dialog box 7 Click on the Converter Properties button The Converter Properties Dialog dialog box dis plays Figure 6
63. to output only one text direction of a bounded box font X0 files when converting to HP PCL both portrait and landscape versions of the se lected font rotation are created When you convert an Elixir AFP unbounded box font to HP PCL format the conversion is automatic and no further dialog boxes display For other conversions depending on the type of font bounded box or unbounded box you are converting from and to the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box displays The available non grayed options de pend on the type of conversion See the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box section in this chapter for a description of the options that apply to your con version type Converting Elixir and contour fonts to HP PCL format When you convert fonts to non AFP Elixir or outline fonts to HP PCL format the HP Font Converter Op tions dialog box also displays and contains the follow ing options HP Font Converter Options _ fxeate AH 4 Hotations _ Create Rotated Version Figure 7 32 HP Font Converter Options dialog box ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Create All 4 Rotations Select to create a version of the font having all four rotations Create Rotated Versions Select to create rotated versions of each FLJ font file thereby allowing proof printing of HP PCL forms con taining mixed orientations Adding the following entry to drive WINDOWS ELX INI maintains all char
64. upload files or leave unselected to return to the Desktop after the operation Enter New Host Name Library Select to display the Host Name dialog box displayed in the following figure when you click on OK or leave deselected to accept the default host name and host library NewName New Host libra SYST OVERLIB o Figure 9 2 Host Name dialog box The Host Name dialog box contains the following options DOS Name The file name as entered in the Loader Load dialog box File Name s option displays New Host Name The new alternate host name New Host Library The new alternate host library name Select Configure from any AFP Folder window header to display the Loader Remote Library Connec tion dialog box shown in the following figure ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER i Unsupported in Personal Communication Figure 9 3 Loader Remote Library Connection dialog box The Loader Remote Library Connection dialog box contains the following options Remote Library Connection Options Select User to access any loading system including AS 400 and NFS libraries VM to connect to a Virtual Storage library or MVS Lib to connect to a Multiple Virtual Storage library MVS Sub Options When you select MVS Lib as the Remote Library Connection option you c
65. using IBM 3270 IRMA FT 3270 or compatible file transfer packages 7 40 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS e AS400 creates files for uploading to AS 400 hosts e IRMA creates files for uploading to MVS hosts using the IRMA FTTSO and compatible file trans fer packages and OS 2 creates files for use with PSF 2 e DOS VSE creates AFP format files for upload ing to DOS VSE hosts Font Type 3800 Applicable when converting fonts to AFP 3800 un bounded box font format X1 X2 X4 or All cre ate AFP unbounded box fonts in the output 3800 AFP Fonts folder These selections correspond to output font rotations of 0 90 and 270 in a clockwise direction Unbounded box font characters have a smaller maxi mum cell size than bounded box font characters Due to this size difference during conversion from Elixir bounded box fonts to AFP unbounded box fonts a message may display indicating that there is an error generating the AFP 3800 character set and the con version may abort If you receive this message during a conversion you should edit the font in ElixirFont to shrink the character cells Create When converting an AFP font to Elixir or HP PCL formats e Full AFP Font converts the entire AFP font to Elixir or HP PCL format Use this option if you plan to edit and reconvert the font back to AFP format See the previous sections and the AFP font conversion considerati
66. you select Processing The maximum is eight actions Timing delay between scheduler tasks The frequency at which the Scheduler tests for TRUE Scheduler actions in seconds 6 Set up the Scheduler action by selecting Scheduler Actions from the Special menu or pressing lt Alt gt lt F3 gt Figure 5 14 Scheduler Tasks dialog box Task Allows definition of up to eight Scheduler actions tasks and to set Task processing ON select or off leave deselected Click on Next or Prev to display and to modify tasks 1 through 8 5 22 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Task test On File s tests for the existence of a file in a direc tory both of which you specify see next options On DateTime tests for a specified PC date and time Test TRUE continually executes the specified action at the timing interval specified in step 5 File s test Directory The directory in which the Scheduler checks for the existence of a file if you select on File s in Task test Filename s The file for which the Scheduler checks if you selected on File s in Task test DOS wildcards are permissi ble Any searches for any files in the specified directory Date When testing for passage of a specified date enter the day month and year you want the Scheduler ac tion processed Select Any after the date to process the Scheduler action eve
67. your ELIXIR FONTS AFPIN directory Each AFP bounded box and unbounded box font con sists of the following three files all of which you must download e Coded font file e Code page file e Character set file The coded font file contains the code page file name and the character set file name The first two charac ters of a coded font file name are as follows e If the AFP font is a bounded box font the first two characters are XO e ifthe AFP font is an unbounded box font the first two characters range from X1 XG The code page file is a table file that assigns hexa decimal positions to each character in the character set file The code page file name starts with T1 You can use one code page file for multiple character set files The character set file contains the bit map font char acters The first two characters of a character set file name are as follows e For a bounded box font the first two characters are CO e For an unbounded box font the first two charac ters range from C1 CG ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 3 FILE TRANSFER Input directory information The following table shows the directories to which you must download AFP files for conversion to Elixir for mat by Elixir Desktop File type Extension Input directory Font any ELIXIR FONTS I38IN unbounded box fonts Font any ELIXIR FONTS AFPIN bounded box fonts AFPDS AFP ELIXIR DOCS AFPIN Ove
68. 0862 KMP Hebrew T1000863 KMP Canadian French T1000864 KMP Arabic T1000865 KMP Nordic T1000869 KMP Greek D 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS Usage notes To select a KMP file when converting AFP fonts to PC mapped Elixir font formats pull down the System menu select System Config and in the displayed dialog box click on the entry for Country Keyboard Map This displays a window corresponding to drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS KMP The window al lows you to select one of the displayed KMP files Note US1 KMP and INTL KMP are older KMP files you can still use however we recommend you use the new KMP files To generate a new KMP file we recommend you du plicate an existing defined one for your current PC keyboard 1 If a GCID exists in the AFP character set but not in the KMP file the Elixir character does not generate in the PC mapped font 2 Ifa GCID exists in the KMP file but not in the AFP character set or code page an empty space is inserted with a width of zero Files generated for AFP font to Elixir conversions The Converter generates the following files when con verting AFP fonts to Elixir format In the Text Direction Support option of the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box if you selected Sepa rate Fonts one screen font for each rotation you specified generates if you selected Universal X0 one screen font gen
69. 1 Transformer Properties Dialog dialog box 4 14 10 2 transforming forms 10 3 images 10 7 Trashbin icon 2 6 TrueType fonts 7 50 TrueType Fonts Attrib utes dialog box 7 51 U Uploading files 9 5 uploading files FT TSO parame ters 9 10 9 12 object files 9 7 overview 9 5 text files 9 8 to AS 400 9 14 using 3270 9 6 using FT TSO 9 9 usage switches 4 4 User Application Setup 8 18 User Application Setup dialog box 8 3 User Files directories 8 9 tool links 8 9 User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box 5 12 5 13 8 10 User Files icon 2 4 3 2 5 11 8 1 8 9 user privileges 4 7 User Privileges dialog box 4 7 User Tools creating application icons 8 2 displaying icon prop erties 8 6 example 8 6 starting an applica tion 8 5 User Tools icon 2 5 8 1 8 2 utilities running 8 23 using the Dis patcher 8 23 V Ventura Publisher creating an icon 8 6 from the Desktop 8 6 View menu 2 10 Viewer icon 2 6 5 29 VM host 7 28 W Window menu C 10 Windows adding HP PCL fonts 7 69 and the Desktop 2 1 character set 7 69 keyboard shortcuts A 2 operating system 2 1 PaintBrush 5 29 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 13 INDEX print driver 7 25 7 28 7 30 print drivers 6 6 Windows applications adding HP PCL fonts 7 47 Windows character mapping 7 69 INDEX 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
70. 10 7 Host Name 9 21 HP Font Converter Options 7 46 Image Converter Options 7 71 7 75 Image Process Transformation 10 8 Loader Load 9 20 Loader Remote Li brary Connection 9 22 Local View 3 5 MCF Fonts 7 15 7 83 Message Options 10 3 Message Options Dialog 4 13 4 15 7 7 Mirror 10 8 Outline to raster font generator 4 12 7 63 Page Databasing 7 22 Page Font Change 10 6 Page remap 10 4 Page Rotate 10 5 Page Shift 10 6 Page Source Con verter Options 7 18 7 86 PostScript Converter Options 4 12 PostScript Converter Properties 7 29 Print 5 8 6 7 6 12 6 15 6 16 Print Driver Dialog 6 9 Printer Properties 4 5 Printer Setup 6 10 Resize 10 9 Rotate 10 10 Scanner Properties 4 5 Shift 10 9 System Diskette 5 14 5 15 Tool Link Definition 8 13 INDEX 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INDEX Transformer Proper ties 4 14 10 1 Transformer Proper ties Dialog 4 14 10 2 TrueType Fonts At tributes 7 51 User Application Setup 8 3 User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links 5 4 5 12 5 13 8 10 User Privileges 4 7 Dialog box Help 1 7 directories accessing 8 9 Bitstream Facelift mapping B 2 changing 8 11 contour fonts map ping B 2 creating 4 10 KMP files 7 42 D 5 mapping 3 21 PostScript mapping B 1 structure 3 1 User Files 8 9 diskette accessing 6 1 DOS format 5 16 6 1 6 2 Elixir format 5 15 properties 4 5 system 5
71. 12 36 46 pm z Figure 5 8 Directory window example Copying files to a DOS format diskette or Diskette To copy selected files from a displayed window to a DOS format diskette 1 Copy the selected file from your diskette s to the Diskette icon on the Desktop The System Diskette dialog box displays and contains the following options System Diskette gt BOS Use Detined DOS Elie For WBiTing Figure 5 9 System Diskette dialog box Directory on Diskette to open Destination for writing files Diskette Drive Disk drive identifier for your disk drive Diskette Type Select the diskette type DOS User Defined or DOS Elixir 5 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Diskette Access Select the diskette format For WRITing formatted diskettes Perform FORMAT creates a DOS formatted diskette 2 Select enter file copy options then click on OK Copying files from a DOS format diskette or Diskette To copy files from a DOS format diskette open the Diskette icon to display the System Diskette dialog box Select enter the following information Directory on Diskette to open The diskette directory from which you want to copy files Diskette Drive The identifier for your disk drive Diskette Type DOS User Defined to copy files from a DOS directory A window displays showing the contents of th
72. 15 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box 8 Deselect Use Elixir HP PCL and PostScript converters then click on OK until all dialog boxes close 9 Copy the file to print to the Printers icon The Print dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 15 PERIPHERAL DEVICES Distiller Assistant v3 0 on NEDI Distiller Assistant yI Of on NENG HP Laces ID PostGcupt Canidae S22 HP Laseviet IP on LP TT HE LaserJet IP PostGcipt Catudge vG2 2 Figure 6 16 Print dialog box 10 Select print options then click on OK 6 16 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 7 File conversions The primary function of the Elixir Desktop is to convert form font image and document multi page form files to and from different formats Note that conversion of Elixir Jobs AppBuilder re sources is not currently supported by the Desktop General procedures GURL RIA F Converter The simplest way to convert files is to use the desktop Converter icon To convert a file or files 1 Select the file s to convert from the appropriate Elixir or Input folder 2 Copy the file s to the Converter icon 3 Specify the output file format s in one or more dialog boxes that display Based on the type of file as determined by file loca tion and extension one or more output files with the correct file extensions write to the appropriate Output folders Note that converting a form font or pa
73. 18 AUTOEXEC BAT 4 10 8 2 8 21 Index B backup button 2 7 8 11 batch files 8 14 Bitstream Facelift fonts 7 61 B 2 Bitstream Fontware 7 61 Browse Code Page dia log box 4 4 Browse Country Key board Map dialog box 4 4 Browse GCID File dialog box 4 4 BTFONTS MAP B 2 BTFONTS NAM B 2 Bubble Help 1 6 C character set D 3 Clipboard 2 4 code page changing 7 59 code point D 3 default D 9 editing D 10 example D 11 Code Page ID 7 37 coded font 7 53 D 4 COMMAND COM 8 14 8 15 CONFIG SYS 4 10 8 2 configuration options 4 2 confirm warn settings 4 5 10 2 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 1 INDEX Confirmation for Com mand dialog box 4 5 Context sensitive Help 1 6 contour fonts 7 61 B 2 conventions 1 3 display 1 3 font naming 7 65 mouse 1 4 typographical 1 3 Converter icon 2 6 7 1 overview 2 6 properties 4 6 4 11 7 4 setup 7 4 Converter Properties dialog box 4 12 5 4 6 8 6 15 7 5 7 8 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box 4 6 4 13 6 8 6 15 7 6 converting PCX files 7 75 TIF files 7 75 adding color to im ages 7 76 AFP fonts to Elixir 7 42 D 7 AFP to HP PCL 7 48 AFPDS 7 90 changing the target environment 7 24 coded fonts 7 57 confirmation 7 95 contour fonts to HP PCL 7 49 documents 7 77 double byte Elixir fonts to AFP 7 45 Elixir fonts to AFP 7 53 FB to VBM 9 14 files 7 1 fixed block files 9 14 font
74. 34 pm i Century Schoolbook italicS 655 bytes 44 Sep 1998 4 18 38 pm i Century Schoolbook BoldSW 649 bytes 44 Sep 1990 4 18 40 pm i CenturySchoolbook BolditS 666 bytes 44 Sep 1996 4 18 44 pm i Dutch8O7 RomanSwa 588 bytes 44 Sep 1998 4 17 8 pm Figure 7 37 Input Contour Fonts folder window To generate an Elixir font from a contour font copy one or more outline fonts from the Input Contour Fonts folder to the Converter icon In the Font Con verter Options dialog box that displays select one or more output font formats then click on OK The Outline to raster font generator dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 63 FILE CONVERSIONS Gutline to zaster font generator See Tine Goreen Fonts n C ELIXIB FONT S SCREENSDEMO Figure 7 38 Outline to raster font generator dialog box The Outline to raster font generator dialog box con tains the following options Font Name The name of the converted raster font s If converting to more than one point size see the description for the next option enter a file name stem ending with 01 Names for converted files increment by 1 for each point size selected in order of ascending point size If you convert more than one contour font file to multiple point sizes the converted files become similarly named The maximum number o
75. A FT TSO Downloading object format AFP files Converting the file to VB format Parameters for downloading object format AFP files Parameters for downloading uploading text files Downloading files Uploading files with FT TSO Parameters for uploading object format AFP files Uploading the file with FT TSO Converting the host file to VBM format Converting FB to VBM format PC to IBM AS 400 file transfer Creating a temporary holding library and file on the AS 400 9 5 9 5 9 5 9 5 9 5 9 6 9 7 9 7 9 7 9 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 9 10 9 11 9 12 9 12 9 13 9 14 9 14 9 15 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Copying to the Shared Folder 9 16 Installing the resources in the AFP libraries 9 16 Overlays CRTOVL Create Overlay A Fonts CRTFNTRSC Cre ate Font Resource 9 17 Page Segments CRTPAGSEG Create Page Segment 9 17 Printing fully composed AFPDS documents 9 18 Extracting object files from the AS 400 to a PC 9 18 Using the Loader 9 20 Transformer setup 10 1 Transforming Elixir forms 10 3 Form Transformer options 10 4 Remap 10 4 Rotate 10 5 Shift 10 6 FontChange 10 6 Transforming Elixir images 10 7 Desktop A 1 Windows A 2 By option name A 3 Elixir mapping table directories B 1 PostScript mapping table directory B 1 Contour fonts mapping table directory B 2 Bitstream Facelift fonts mapping directory B 2 File menu C 1 ELIXIR DESKTOP F
76. AFP printers the output format depending on your AFP host if converting to unbounded box fonts select the rotation X1 X2 or X4 Note that 3800 printers do not support X3 the BACK rotation Full AFP Font the AFP Font Related Con verter Options dialog box displays Figure 7 34 AFP Font Related Converter Options dialog box This dialog box shows the coded font name and the code page and character set the coded font points to The generated AFP fonts are ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 55 FILE CONVERSIONS When converting to a bounded box font CO num character set where num denotes the printer resolution X0 coded font and T1 code page in drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT When converting to an unbounded box font C1 num C4 num X1 X4 and T1 in drive ELIXIR FONTS I38OUT Creating full AFP fonts from Elixir character sets To create an entirely new AFP font from either an AFP originated or non AFP originated Elixir character set 1 Select Show Charset from the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder Copy the selected file from the Elixir Fonts folder to the Converter icon and select AFP Bounded or AFP Unbounded 3800 as the output format for bounded box and unbounded box fonts respectively CAUTION Convert only full character set Elixir fonts These fonts start with CO for fonts con verted from bounded box or C1 C4 f
77. AIS 68 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 46 char 11 LAZHEEEE VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 66 char 12 LAZ7AG66 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 47 char 13 LAZSAG68 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 67 Figure D 5 Elixir Code Page example Brief descriptions of lines in the sample COD file above follow see the AFP Host Font Data Stream Reference manual for more information Line 1 the Elixir header Line 2 a text description of the code page Line 3 the number of code points referenced by the code page Line 4 the graphic character ID used when a character is not assigned to a code point Line 5 print flags that reference the default character Line 6 the code point of the variable spacing character Line 7 enables or disables the variable spacing flag that allows the set variable text instructions to be used in the AFP data stream ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 11 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS Lines 8 end displays the flags set for each code point When VALID the character referenced by the GCID is printed When INVALID the default character is substituted for the character 7 After editing the Elixir Code Page exit DOS Editor as follows Press lt Alt gt lt F gt to view the DOS Editor File menu Press lt X gt to exit the program the program prompts you to save or discard any changes Font conversion strategies This section describes how best to respond to dialog box
78. ALANCE option is not supported Code Page Translation OGL only Writes OGL out to EBCDIC rather than ASCII format Include Description Text Converter generates a specialized comment for inclusion after the Author Banner in OGL or LOG source files The format for this comment is 1 InternalName LocallD MadeFor Short Page Description where 1 is used as a search string for host pro grams which produce listings of overlay source libraries and InternalName is the six character name of the OGL or LOG source See the Page Databasing dialog box in your Elix irForm for AFP User s Guide for information on the other options included in this comment Note that the Date Time Stamp and Long Page Com ments for a form are also included in the conversion Generate BPSD Tags Automatically generates and displays BPSD tags in the OGL formats 7 18 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Font Assignment For OGL select Auto to map fonts from their coded font names to six character internal names without the Xn prefix For LOG the full eight character X coded font name is retained Select Mapped to load and use the DEFAULT FAM table in drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS for mapping font names For LOG use this table to assign local four character identifier names for fonts residing on the printer s disk For OGL use this table to assign individual DDNAMES to fonts For OVE or AFPDS use this
79. C BAT 4 10 8 2 8 21 batch BAT 8 14 BTFONTS MAP B 2 BTFONTS NAM B 2 CL4 DEF 7 94 code page D 3 COMMAND COM 8 14 CONFIG SYS 4 10 8 2 confirm warn set tings 4 5 confirm conversion 7 95 conversion process 7 8 converting 7 1 copying 5 11 8 12 DEFAULT FAM 7 20 7 36 7 88 deleting 4 5 7 95 display options 2 11 downloading 9 2 editing 3 3 graphics 5 29 HP PCL 7 25 7 28 INSTALL LOG 4 10 8 2 linked 8 14 linking 5 4 8 12 management 5 6 PostScript 7 28 properties 5 5 PSEND PSC B 1 PSFONT MAP B 1 PSTOP PSC B 1 PSTRAIL PSC B 2 transfer packages 9 1 transfering 9 1 transforming 10 1 uploading 9 5 versions 5 6 Filter menu 2 7 D 2 folder display changing 3 4 folders changing display 3 4 copying files 5 17 Desktop 3 1 Documents 3 15 7 4 Elixir 3 2 3 3 5 2 7 2 Elixir Data Jobs folder 3 19 Elixir Docs Jobs folder 3 18 Elixir Documents folder 3 16 Elixir Fonts folder 3 9 Elixir Forms folder 3 6 Elixir Graphics folder 3 13 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 7 INDEX Fonts 2 3 3 9 3 18 7 3 Forms 2 3 3 6 7 2 Graphics 2 3 3 13 Images 7 3 Input 3 3 Input Documents folder 3 16 Input Fonts folder 3 10 Input Forms folder 3 7 Input Graphics folder 3 13 Output 3 3 Output Documents folder 3 17 Output Fonts folder 3 11 Output Forms folder 3 8 Output Graphics folder 3 14 structure 3 2
80. DEMO VGA for VGA monitors ELIXIR FONTS SCREEN DEMO FNT for all other supported monitors ELIXIR FONTS SCREEN DEMO WDT width tables Windows Fonts ELIXIR FONTS SCREEN WINDOWS Windows screen fonts 3800 AFP Fonts ELIXIR FONTS I38OUT AFP Fonts ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT AFP Fonts ELIXIR FONTS AFPIN HP PCL Fonts ELIXIR FONTS HPIN FNT The above Output Fonts folders show all formats to which Elixir Desktop products can be converted Note that Elixir fonts converted from AFP fonts display different file extensions Character sets have 240 or 300 extensions code pages and coded fonts do not have file extensions ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS Images folder The Images folder corresponds to the drive AELIXIR PICS directory and contains the Elixir Images Input Images and Output Images folders shown in the fol lowing figure Elixir images input images Output images Figure 3 13 Images Folders window Elixir Images folder The Elixir Images folder corresponds to the drive ELIXIR PICS PRINTER directory and contains Elixir image format files with LP3 extensions You can edit these files by opening double clicking on the files Opening a file starts Elixirlmage for AFP and loads the file Input Images folder The Input Images folder contains a number of subor dinate folders as shown in the followin
81. DERS Input Documents folder DOS subdirectory and file extensions HP PCL Docs ELIXIR DOCS HPIN HP default also user definable AFP Docs TIFF ELIXIR DOCS AFPIN ELIXIR PICS AFPIN TIF BMP ELIXIR PICS BMPIN BMP The above Input Documents folders show all formats from which Elixir Desktop products can be converted Output Documents folder The Output Documents folder contains a number of subordinate folders as illustrated in the following figure 5 xja u u E ug Ey Ey Ey Ey AFP Docs NorAFP Docs HP PCL Docs PostScript Docs u u E EJ PDF Docs XGF Docs Figure 3 18 Documents Output Folders window Note that the PDF Docs output folder displays only if the PDF extended converter has been installed When you use the Converter to convert files as de scribed in the File conversions chapter of this guide output files write to an Output folder with the appropri ate file extension as shown in the following table ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 17 ELIXIR FOLDERS Output Documents folder DOS subdirectory AFP Docs ELIXIR DOCS AFPOUT NorAFP Docs ELIXIR DOCS NRAFPOUT HP PCL Docs ELIXIR DOCS HPOUT PostScript Docs ELIXIR DOCS PSOUT PDF Docs ELIXIR DOCS PDFOUT XGF Docs ELIXIR DOCS XGFOUT The above Output Documents folders show all for mats to which Elixir Desktop products can be con
82. ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 9 ELIXIR FOLDERS If you want to copy an Elixir font using either the User Files icon or DOS COPY command remember to copy all three components for each file In addition the Elixir Fonts folder may contain COD Elixir code page file and CDF Elixir coded font font components These components describe mapping information for converting the font to an AFP format font See the File conversions chapter or the Elixir Font for AFP User Guide for more information The COD and CDF components display when you select Show Code Page and Show Coded Fonts from the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts window header Elixir versions of fonts converted from AFP fonts are composed of additional files See the AFP font con version considerations appendix for more informa tion Input Fonts folder The Input Fonts folder contains subordinate folders as shown in the following figure a a A A HP PCL Fonts ATM Fonts TrueType Fonts Outline Fonts F 3866 AFP Fonts AFP Fonts Figure 3 11 Fonts Input Folders window To prepare a font file for conversion first copy it to the appropriate Input Fonts folder Make sure the file has the correct name extension for the folder as shown in the following table ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS Input Fonts folder DOS subdirectory and file extensions HP PCL Fonts ELIXIR FONTS HPIN FNT ATM Fonts
83. Enter gt This uploads the object format file pcfilename to the host dataset hostfilename A DOS directory path before pcfilename is optional Downloading text files To download a text file such as a source OGL file from your host enter the following command at the DOS prompt RECEIVE ieee paiieneime hostfilename ASCII CRLF lt Enter gt This downloads the text file hostfilename to the PC file pcfilename A DOS directory path before pcfilename is optional The ASCII parameter specifies that the file be con verted from EBCDIC to ASCII The CRLF parameter specifies that records in the PC file are to be separated by carriage return line feed combinations Uploading text files To upload a text file such as a source OGL file fol low these steps 1 Allocate a dataset on your host with the following DCB parameters DCB LRECL 255 BLKSIZE 3000 RECFM VB Enter the following command at the DOS prompt SEND path pcfilename hostfilename ASCII CRLF lt Enter gt ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 7 FILE TRANSFER This uploads the text file pcfilename to the host data set hostfilename A DOS directory path before pcfile name is optional The ASCII parameter specifies that the file be con verted from ASCII to EBCDIC The CRLF parameter specifies that records in the PC file are delimited by carriage return line feed combinations Using IRMA FT TSO This section describes how to use
84. FONTS PRINTER then click on Add The installer reads all soft font files in the direc tory and builds a list that displays a default font name and point size Note that you can simplify this process by con verting one font at a time 5 Select the desired font from the right list box The actual file name displays at the bottom of the dialog box Check the file name to ensure you selected the correct file 6 Click on Add Unless otherwise necessary accept the default directory drive PCLFONTS by clicking on OK in the Add fonts dialog box 7 Select the font from the left list box and click on Edit The Edit dialog box displays 8 Modify the name to match the font file name and click on OK 9 Exit to the Program Manager The HP PCL fonts are now available in the fonts list of your Windows applications ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 49 FILE CONVERSIONS Converting AFP and Elixir AFP fonts to HP PCL format When you convert an AFP or Elixir AFP font an Elixir font created from an AFP font to HP PCL format you should select the coded font file X for conversion To display the coded font file component of a font pull down the Filter menu in the Input Fonts folder and se lect Show Coded Fonts We do not recommend converting character sets C files because fonts do not map to the keyboard and results are unpredictable If you convert an unbounded box font X1 X4 files or choose
85. FP e Elixir software supports printing using Windows 3 11 printer drivers under Windows 3 11 Win dows 95 users must use a printer driver that sup ports API calls rather than Escape calls If you have problems printing with a non Elixir supplied driver check with the vendor to ensure that the driver is appropriate for the operating system you use e Help files include graphics created using screen drivers with large fonts If you use a screen driver with small fonts Help file graphics may not dis play clearly For optimum graphics display use a screen driver with large fonts e Video drivers must be fully compatible with the Microsoft Windows VGA SVGA standard to en sure graphical integrity If you encounter problems when printing shading or graphics the cause may be an incompatibility between a third party video driver and the Microsoft standard To determine if the problem is the third party driver switch to the Microsoft VGA SVGA driver for the screen resolution currently in use If this resolves the problem contact the video card distributor to see if there is an updated version of their driver If this still does not resolve the problem contact Elixir Customer Support e Current versions of Elixir software for an AFP en vironment are applications which use Device De pendent Bitmaps DDB This allows fast graphic manipulation but the size of graphic that can be manipulated and displayed is dependent on the Windows
86. Files 2 4 3 2 5 11 8 1 8 9 User Tools 2 5 8 1 8 2 Ventura Publisher 8 6 Viewer 2 6 5 29 IEBGENER utility 9 9 9 13 Image Converter Op tions 7 71 Image Converter Op tions dialog box 7 71 7 75 Image Process Trans formation dialog box 10 8 Image Viewer 5 30 images PCX and TIF con versions 7 75 adding color during conversion 7 76 converter options 7 71 converting 7 3 7 71 transformer options 10 7 Images folder 7 3 Input folders Documents 3 16 3 17 Fonts 3 10 Forms 3 7 Graphics 3 13 structure 3 3 INSTALL LOG 4 10 8 2 installation 1 9 IRMA FT TSO 9 9 J Jobs folder 2 4 K kerning 7 64 7 68 keyboard mapping 7 35 keyboard shortcuts A 1 A 4 KMP file 7 42 D 5 L linked files 8 14 linking files 8 12 Loader Load dialog box 9 20 Loader menu 9 20 Loader Remote Library Connection dialog box 9 22 Local view 2 11 Local View dialog box 3 5 logo display 5 9 mapping 7 65 B 1 Windows character set 7 69 mapping table INDEX 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INDEX Bitstream Facelift fonts B 2 code page D 3 contour fonts B 2 directories 3 21 B 1 PostScript B 1 MCF Fonts dialog box 7 15 7 83 memory 4 9 menus Desktop 2 1 5 1 C 1 Desktop menu bar 2 1 DOS 2 12 8 24 C 10 File 5 1 C 1 Filter 2 7 D 2 Help C 11 Loader 9 20 options C 1 Selection 2 9 Special 4 1 5 1 C 8 System 4 1 5 1 8 23 C 6 Too
87. Forms Output forms Figure 3 7 Forms Folders window ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 5 ELIXIR FOLDERS Elixir Forms folder The Elixir Forms folder corresponds to the DOS drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR directory and any user defined subdirectories within the drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR directory such as drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR DEMO The Elixir Forms folder displays Elixir form files files with ELX name extensions You can edit any file us ing ElixirForm for AFP by opening the file The Elixir Forms folder also displays files with BAK PUB and INV name extensions as follows Input Forms folder BAK extension files are backup form files that ElixirForm creates You can edit BAK files if you rename their extensions to ELX PUB extension files are publication files used for archiving and copying Elixir form files and all re lated components such as fonts and graphics used on the form to a diskette See the Elixir Fonts folder section in this chapter for more information When you use the ELXINV utility to convert ELX files to a different orientation from portrait to in verse portrait for example you create INV ex tension files To edit these files using ElixirForm rename the extensions to ELX See the Stand alone utilities chapter for more information about the ELXINV utility The Input Forms folder contains the folders shown in the following figure 3 6 ELIX
88. IR FORMS OVEOUT Page SEG ELIXIR PICS SEGOUT segment ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 5 FILE TRANSFER Using IBM 3270 or IRMA FT 3270 The file transfer procedure is determined by the type of file you want to upload or download e Source text files such as OGL files e Object format AFP files such as multi page AFPDS one page overlays OVE AFP fonts or page segment images Object format AFP files are not readable and are stored in datasets with the following DCB specifications RECFM VBM LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 Downloading object format AFP files To download an object format AFP file from a host computer enter the following command at the DOS prompt RECEIVE path pcfilename hostfilename BI NARY lt Enter gt This downloads the object format file hostfilename to the PC file pcfilename A DOS directory path before pcfilename is optional For convenience you may want to specify the input directory path for the type of file you are downloading Uploading object format AFP files To upload an AFP object format file to your host using one of the 3270 file transfer packages follow these steps 1 Allocate a dataset on the host with the following DCB specifications DCB LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 RECFM VBM 9 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER 2 Enter the following command at the DOS prompt SEND athlpcfilename hostfilename CRLF BINARY lt
89. IR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS Forms input Folders FOB Forms AFP OVE Forms OGL Forms LOG Forms a Figure 3 8 Input Forms folder The Input Forms folder correspond to the following subdirectories Input Forms folder DOS subdirectory and file extensions FOB Forms ELIXIR FORMS FOBIN AFP OVE Forms ELIXIR FORMS OVEIN OVE OGL Forms ELIXIR FORMS OGLIN OGL LOG Forms ELIXIR FORMS LOGIN LOG Output Forms folder The Output Forms folder contains a number of subor dinate folders as shown in the following figure ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 7 ELIXIR FOLDERS HP PCL Forms PostScript Forms PDF Forms FOB Forms AFP OVE Forms OGL Forms Figure 3 9 Forms Output Folders window When you use the Converter icon to convert files as described in the File conversions chapter of this guide output files write to the Output folders with ap propriate file extensions as shown in the table on the following page Output Forms DOS subdirectory and file extensions folder HP PCL Forms ELIXIR PRINTS HPPRINT PRN PostScript Forms ELIXIR FORMS PSOUT PS PDF Forms ELIXIR FORMS PDFOUT FOB Forms ELIXIR FORMS FOBOUT FOB AFP OVE Forms ELIXIR FORMS OVEOUT OVE OGL Forms ELIXIR FORMS OGLOUT OGL LOG Forms ELIXIR FORMS LOGOUT LOG The above Output Forms folders sh
90. IRMA FT TSO to move text files such as OGL source and AFP object format files between a PC and a host computer Downloading object format AFP files As FT TSO cannot download VBM format files down loading AFP object format files requires you first con vert the files to variable blocked VB format before downloading Converting the file to VB format Use IEBGENER to convert AFP object format files from VBM to VB format Parameters for downloading object format AFP files To download an object format AFP file in VB format select the FT TSO parameters using the following values 9 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER Block size 8209 Record size 8205 Record format VB Line numbers Position 0 Length 0 Code table STD Transfer mode BINARY Expand tabs NO Truncate spaces NO U L case ASIS Space units TRKS Primary QTY 1 Secondary QTY 2 Parameters for downloading uploading text files For downloading and uploading text files such as OGL use the following sample FT TSO parameters values Note that since host text files may be stored in datasets with different DCB parameters you may be required to change the parameters to match the exact text file DCB parameters Block size 3000 Record size 255 Record format VB Line numbers Position 0 Length 0 Code table STD Transfer mode EXT Expand tabs NO Truncate spaces NO U L case ASIS Space units TRKS Primary QTY 1 Secondar
91. IXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 19 ELIXIR FOLDERS Output Jobs PDdetsFDef PPFA Source Figure 3 20 Input Jobs folder The PDef FDef folder corresponds to the drive ELIX IR JOBS AFPIN directory Compiled object format FORMDEF and or PAGEDEF files must be copied to this directory for importing into AppBuilder All file ex tensions are valid See the Elixir AppBuilder for AFP User Guide for more information The Output Jobs folder contains folder icons as shown in the following figure es cee Pbets Def PPEA Source Figure 3 21 Output Jobs folder The PDef FDef folder corresponds to the drive ELIX IR JOBS AFPOUT directory Compiled object format FORMDEF and or PAGEDEF files generated by App Builder write to this directory Output files have OBJ extensions The PPFA Source folder corresponds to the drive ELIXIR JOBS PPFAOUT directory Source FORM DEF and or PAGEDEF files generated by AppBuilder ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS write to this directory Output files have SRC ex tensions See the Elixir AppBuilder for AFP User Guide for more information User Files folder oe a User Files In addition to the Elixir folders described in the previ ous sections the Elixir Desktop installation procedure creates a number of directories that contain mapping or correspondence tables You can access these di rector
92. J Font Converters AFP J Image Converters AFP J Figure 7 2 Converter Properties dialog box Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFP Displays the AFP Page Converter Options dialog box for setting AFP page conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Form Converters PostScript Displays the PostScript Converter Options dialog box for setting PostScript conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Font Converters AFP Displays the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box for setting AFP font conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Font Converters Outline Displays the Outline to raster font generator dialog box for setting outline font conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Image Converters AFP Displays the AFP Image Converter Options dialog box for setting AFP image conversion parameters ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 5 FILE CONVERSIONS Converter Properties Displays the Converter Properties Dialog dialog box which contains the following options Figure 7 3 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box Working Directory Directory where temporary read writes occurs during transformations Default is the root We recommend specifying a RAM disk for faster transformations Confirm file overwrites during transformation Requests confirmation before overwriting existing output files Deselect this option automatica
93. K A window displays the contents of the C drive on your PC In the window header select By Name from the View menu The contents of your C drive displays in alpha betical order Select the AUTOEXEC BAT file and copy it to the Dispatcher icon In the displayed Dispatcher Commands dialog box select the TYPE 1 MORE line and click on START The screen clears and the contents of your AUTOEXEC BAT file displays followed by a Press any key to continue message Press any key to redisplay the Desktop After specifying the DOS TYPE command in the Dispatcher Commands menu you can use the ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS procedure above to list the contents of any ASCII file from the Desktop Using the Dispatcher to run Elixir utilities You can run DOS based Elixir utilities from the Desk top in several ways for example by using the DOS menu However the Dispatcher allows you to con veniently run the utilities by copying files to the Dis patcher icon and specifying the commands required to run the utilities in the Dispatcher Commands dialog box The following figure shows an example of a dia log box with commands for some Elixir utilities SCRNFONT Z1 WYSE FNT7S5HDR 21 YES SHOWELX Figure 8 10 Dispatcher Commands dialog box exampl
94. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Display next page Display previous page Filter menu Jump to files beginning with letter Reselect Select adjascent file Select Unselect All Write Selections By option name Back up one directory level Close top window Close All Close dialog box menu Convert Copy to Delete Diagnostics Dispatch Display start of file list Display end of file list Display next page lt Page Down gt lt Page Up gt lt Alt gt lt I gt press lt letter gt lt Ctrl gt lt R gt Left Right Up Down arrow keys lt Ctrl gt lt A gt lt Ctrl gt lt W gt lt Ctrl gt lt B gt lt F3 gt lt F4 gt lt Esc gt lt Ctrl gt lt V gt lt Ctrl gt lt C gt lt Del gt lt Alt gt lt F5 gt lt Ctrl gt lt I gt lt Home gt lt End gt lt Page Down gt ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE A 3 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Display previous page DOS Exit Elixir Filter menu Formats Help Jump to files beginning with letter Make PubFile Open Print Properties Reselect Select adjacent file Select All Scheduler Action Scheduler Setup System Config Unselect All Write Selections lt Page Up gt lt Ctrl gt lt D gt lt Alt gt lt F4 gt lt Alt gt lt I gt lt Ctrl gt lt F gt lt F1 gt press lt letter gt lt Ctrl gt lt U gt lt Enter gt lt Ctrl gt lt P gt lt F2 gt lt Ctrl gt lt R gt
95. KTOP FEATURES Don NEU t Assistant v3 0 on NEGU et iD E Peran Cartidge Pe Figure 5 5 Print dialog box 3 Select enter print information then click on OK Displaying a logo You can configure the Desktop to display a logo upon start up The logo displays only if you closed all win dows when last exiting the Desktop The displayed logo may be any BMP graphics file in drive ELIXIR PICS BMPIN The default logo is DESKLOGO BMP 5 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES To specify the logo to display 1 Copying files Select System Config from the System menu The Desktop Basic Setup dialog box displays Desktop Basic Setup Figure 5 6 Desktop Basic Setup dialog box Select Show banner logo file enter the stem name of the BMP file in the drive ELIXIR PICS BMPIN to display then click on OK Depending on your monitor s screen resolution the size of the displayed logo changes Copying files involves different procedures depending on whether you are copying files to or from Elixir folders DOS directories on the hard disk DOS format diskettes DOS Elixir format diskettes Viewer icon ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 9 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES In each case you select files from a window and then copy them in one of the following ways e Drag and drop files on the destination icon e Press l
96. Keyboard shortcuts appendix Landscape The orientation of a page or the fonts lo gos or images on a page A landscape page is nar rower on the sides than on the top See the definition of portrait for a figure describing the orientation of fonts on pages GLOSSARY 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION GLOSSARY Menu A list of options from which you make a selec tion to perform an action A menu displays when you select a menu title from the menu bar or from a win dow header or when you click on an option Menu bar The horizontal bar displayed at the top of the Desktop from which you access pull down menus Menu titles Text that identifies a menu displayed in a window header or on the menu bar Message area A bar just below the menu bar that displays error messages or information about the ac tivity you are performing Mouse button A button on the top of the mouse ElixirForm uses the left and right buttons of a mouse Multi select Selecting more than one file or icon by shift clicking on them Open a folder Elixir file application or peripheral device 1 Opening a folder icon displays a window showing the contents of the folder 2 Opening an Elixir file icon starts the application that created the file and loads the file 3 Opening an application icon starts the application 4 Opening a peripheral device displays a dialog box allowing you to set the device parameters Option A word or ph
97. LIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP BASICS Elixir folder icons The five icons displayed at the top left of the Desktop represent specific DOS directories You can access directory files and convert them from one format to another using these icons See the Additional Desktop features Elixir folders and File conversions chapters for more information Forms folder Represents the drive ELIXIR FORMS directory con taining Elixir Input and Output form files Fonts folder Represents the drive ELIXIR FONTS directory con taining Elixir Input and Output font files Images folder Represents the drive ELIXIR PICS directory contain cs ing Elixir Input and Output image files Doe Documents folder Represents the drive ELIXIR DOCS directory contain EL ing form list files referencing the Elixir format files for I Ry multi page documents Documents Note that Documents folder functionality for PDF files requires PDF option products ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 3 DESKTOP BASICS User Files icon User Files Jobs folder Represents the DOS ELIXIR JOBS directory and is used with Elixir AppBuilder to create multiple Elixir form print files called Jobs A job includes formatting information for the print run and individual pages and comprises a print ticket and form files Temporarily stores Elixir format ELX form files dur ing job creation You can copy an Elixir format
98. N FILE TRANSFER Using the Loader You access the Loader menu from AFP Input and Output folders It contains the Download or Upload depending upon whether you access the option from an Input or Output folder respectively and Configure options Select the Download or Upload options to display the Loader Load dialog box The following figure dis plays the dialog box for the Download fonts option o Figure 9 1 Loader Load dialog box The Loader Load dialog box contains the following options for Library The name of the system library display only Download or Upload Allows you to download or upload the files you select in the Input or Output folder when you select Selected Files or to download or upload all files in the folder from which you accessed the Loader menu when you select All File Name s Allows you to enter the file name of the specific file you want to download or upload for example NEWNAME in the previous figure For File Type Select Charset CodePage CodedFont or All to identify the font file components you want to download ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 19 FILE TRANSFER or upload See the AFP font conversion considera tions appendix for information on each of the components Process For future implementation Process related resources For future implementation Pause After Select to pause after you download or
99. ON INTRODUCTION Dialog box Help Click on the Help button in a dialog box to view an associated Help topic Under Windows 95 and Win dows NT right click on a dialog box option to display an associated Help topic Help pop ups and jumps Within Help topic text words or phrases underlined in green are pop ups or jumps When you click on a pop up topic a box displays within the current Help topic with additional information When you click on a jump a different associated Help topic displays Help hypergraphics Hypergraphics are special graphics within Help files that contain hot spots Hot spots are either pop up topics or jumps Hypergraphics in Elixir Help are most commonly dialog boxes with option hot spots pop up definitions toolboxes with tool hot spots topic jumps and menus with option hot spots topic jumps or pop up definitions Move the cursor over a hypergraphic until a hand dis plays then click on this hot spot to display a pop up topic or a jump To close a pop up topic click the mouse button To return to the original Help topic from a jump click on lt Back gt in the Help file menu Organization of this guide This guide contains the following chapters and appendices Chapter 1 Introduction presents an overview of Desktop functions features and documentation Chapter 2 Desktop basics describes the layout and basic operation of the Desktop Chapter 3 Elixir folders
100. OR AFP USER GUIDE xvii TABLE OF CONTENTS Open lt F2 gt C 2 Copy lt Ctrl gt lt C gt C 2 New C 3 Duplicate C 3 Delete lt Del gt C 4 Properties lt F2 gt C 4 Print lt Ctrl gt lt P gt C 4 Print Directory Listing C 5 View C 5 Formats C 5 Convert lt Ctrl gt lt V gt C 5 Transform C 5 Dispatch lt Ctrl gt lt I gt C 6 Close lt F3 gt C 6 Exit Elixir lt Alt gt lt F4 gt C 6 System menu C 6 System Config lt Alt gt lt F6 gt C 7 Usage Switches C 7 User Privileges C 7 Diagnostics lt Alt gt lt F5 gt C 7 Make Directory lt Ctrl gt lt M gt C 7 Converter Props C 7 Transformer Props C 8 Reset to Defaults C 8 Refresh C 8 Toolset C 8 Special menu C 8 Close All lt F4 gt C 8 Efont Factory C 9 Install Fonts C 9 Scheduler Setup lt Alt gt lt F2 gt C 9 Scheduler Actions lt Alt gt lt F3 gt C 9 Global View lt Ctrl gt lt G gt C 9 xviii ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TABLE OF CONTENTS DOS menu C 10 DOS Command lt Ctrl gt lt D gt C 10 Window menu C 10 Cascade C 11 Tile C 11 Arrange Icons C 11 Message C 11 Help menu C 11 Bounded box and unbounded box fonts D 1 Additional filter options D 1 AFP font components D 3 Character Set D 3 Code Page D 3 Coded Font D 4 Country Keyboard Map and PC mapped font files D 5 Usage notes D 7 Files generated for AFP font to Elixir conversions D 7 Default Code Pages D 9 Editing an Elixir Code
101. PHERAL DEVICES The Elixir HP Driver dialog box displays and con tains the following options os un ep Pies Pa S 0 a E H Figure 6 10 Elixir HP Driver dialog box Printer Select the type of HP LaserJet printer Il III or 4 Printer Port Select the printer s port LPT 1 LPT2 or LPT3 Output Mode Select an output mode Use PCL commands or Use rasterization The Use rasterization option allows you to print some embedded objects such as circles and paths that HP PCL may ignore or print other ob jects in their place Font Substitution Tables Select a font substitution table option No uses printer resident fonts Selected uses fonts from the table selected en tered in the Selected Table option Create As Macro Select and enter a value in Macro ID number to store your form on the printer for future use Select Font Table Displays the Select Font Table dialog box from which 6 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES you can select the font table that displays in the se lect Table option 3 Select enter print driver options then click on OK until all dialog boxes close Printing PostScript You can print PostScript using either the Elixir Con verter or a Windows PostScript driver To print PostScript using the Elixir converter 1 Select Converter Props from
102. Page D 10 Font conversion strategies D 12 AFP bounded box font customers D 14 AFP unbounded box font customers D 14 Hybrid customers D 14 Index INDEX 1 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE xix 1 Introduction This guide describes the Elixir Desktop for AFP the Windows based operating environment for launching and using Elixir applications such as ElixirForm for AFP Elixirlmage for AFP and ElixirFont for AFP Additionally the Desktop has numerous productivity enhancing features including those which enable you to e convert files using icons e link files to applications thereby allowing you to start an application and load a file in one step e define icons for DOS or Windows based applica tions you want to launch from the Desktop such as word processors desktop publishers and spreadsheets Because this guide describes all functions and fea tures of the Desktop certain options described herein may not apply to your specific configuration In such cases unavailable options display in gray not black on menus and dialog boxes and some screens and icons may not display at all See the Elixir for AFP Getting Started Guide for de tailed installation information ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 1 1 INTRODUCTION Customer support Elixir Customer support centers provide telephone technical assistance for Elixir users during business hours If you have purchased your Elixir product directly from El
103. S D Scanners Scanners icon Configures scanners connected to your PC See the Icon properties section and Peripheral devices chapter for more information Opening other icons Viewer Opening the User Tools User Files Dispatcher Con verter and Viewer icons results in different displays User Tools icon Displays the User Tools window for creating an icon for DOS applications or batch files See the Access ing DOS files and applications chapter for more information User Files icon Displays the User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box for linking fileswith DOS applica tions See the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more information Dispatcher icon Displays the Dispatcher Commands dialog box for en tering DOS batch commands See the Icon proper ties section and Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more information Converter icon Displays the Converter Properties dialog box for con verting form font and graphics files to and from differ ent formats See the Icon properties section and Desktop configuration and File conversions chap ters for more information Viewer icon Displays the Windows Notepad for displaying the con tents of an Elixir format file for editing See the View ing files section for more information 5 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Displaying Icon prop
104. T TIF BMP Images ELIXIR PICS BMPOUT BMP Screen Images ELIXIR PICS SCREEN LW8 AFP PSEG Images ELIXIR PICS SEGOUT SEG The above Output Images folders show all formats to which Elixir Desktop products can be converted Documents folder The Documents folder corresponds to the DOS drive ELIXIR DOCS directory It also contains subordinate Elixir Document Input Document and Output Document folders as illus trated in the following figure Elixir Documents input Documents Output Documents Figure 3 16 Documents Folders window ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 15 ELIXIR FOLDERS Elixir Documents folder The Elixir Documents folder corresponds to the drive ELIXIR DOCS DOCLIST subdirectory and con tains form list files A form list file is a DAT file you create for proof print ing using an ASCII editor containing a list of Elixir ELX form files for a multi page document Input Documents folder The Input Documents folder contains two subordinate folders as shown in the following figure Documents Input Folders Figure 3 17 Documents Folders window To prepare a file for conversion first copy it to the ap propriate Input Documents folder Make sure the file has the correct name extension for the folder as shown in the following table 3 16 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOL
105. TOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE C 5 DESKTOP MENU BAR Dispatch lt Ctrl gt lt I gt With one or more files selected opens the Dispatcher Commands dialog box See the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more information Close lt F3 gt Closes an open window Alternatively click on the close box on the window header Exit Elixir lt Alt gt lt F4 gt Closes the Elixir Desktop and returns to Windows System menu The System menu allows you to configure the Elixir Desktop The Desktop configuration chapter de scribes all options in the System menu Figure C 3 System menu System Config lt Alt gt lt F6 gt Allows you to configure basic system parameters such as warnings logo displays conversion parameters and double click speed C 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP MENU BAR Usage Switches Allows you to customize the Desktop by enabling and disabling certain options including confirmation dialog boxes property sheets saving settings on exit con verter selections and processes stop User Privileges Allows you to set the level of control over certain Desktop user operations For example you can choose whether or not to allow a user to access an Elixir application from the Desk top If you choose not to allow access the icons rep resenting the Elixir application and its associated folder do not display Diagnostics lt Alt gt lt F5 gt
106. Zl Elixir Desktop and Converters for AFP User Guide June 1999 Version 4 00 Elixir Technologies Corporation P O Box 1559 Ojai CA 93024 Copyright 1999 by Elixir Technologies Corporation All rights reserved June 1999 Version 4 00 Printed in the United States of America Trademarks and Service Marks Company Bitstream Bitstream Inc Elixir Elixir Technologies Corporation HP PCL LaserJet Hewlett Packard Company IBM Personal Computer AT PS 2 AFP and all other IBM products mentioned in this publication are trade marks of International Business Machines IRMA Digital Communications Associations Inc Logitech Logitech Inc MS DOS Microsoft Mouse Microsoft Corporation Norton Utilities Symantec Corporation PaintBrush Z Soft Corporation All other product names and trade names used herein are trademarks of their respective owners Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted including without limitation material gener ated from the software programs which are displayed on the screen such as icons screen display looks etc Changes are periodically made to this document Changes technical inaccuracies and typographic er rors will be corrected in subsequent editions Drivers Notes and cautions The following notes and cautions apply to the Elixir Desktop and Converters for A
107. a command on a Dispatcher line In the Dispatcher Commands dialog box click on Setup and specify the working directory for the DOS EDIT command normally drive DOS Select DOS application for the Command Options parameter and click on OK Click OK in the Dispatcher Commands dialog box to close it Display the Code Pages in the Elixir Fonts folder pull down the Filter menu and select Show Code Page Drag and drop COD file you want to the Dispatcher icon select the line with the EDIT 1 command and click on Start This loads DOS EDIT and loads the selected COD file D 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS xxElixir_code_page 1 8 April 1992 code_page_description France CECP nunm_code_ points i191 default_char P6100868 flags_i INVALID PRINTED INCREMENTED variable space_char 4844 flags_Z2 VARIABLE_SPACING_ENABLED char 6 LAGLAG68 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 81 char 1 LAGZHGGH VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED Ci char Z LA11 66 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 45 char 3 LAizGGGG VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 65 char 4 LAIZ 60 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 7C char 5 LAI48 66 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 64 char 6 LALSA 66 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 42 char 7 LAi68 6 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 62 char 8 L 176088 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 43 char 9 LAI amp AG68 VALID PRINTED INCREMENTED 63 char 16 L
108. acter rotation of the font When converting unbounded box fonts GLO generates When converting bounded box fonts GL1 GL4 gener ate depending on the orientations selected in the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box The Elixir Code Page file COD in drive ELIX IR FONTS ELIXIR This ASCII file contains GCIDs and corresponding code points for each character in the character set You can edit this file and use it to generate new code pages for AFP member libraries The Elixir Coded Font file CDF in drive ELIX IR FONTS ELIXIR This ASCII file contains a ta ble of correspondence between KMP character set and code page for the font D 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS e The PC Mapped font file X HDR if you selected the Keep PC Mapped Font option of the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box This file con tains only those characters from the AFP charac ter set that match those in the selected Country Keyboard map KMP file Default Code Pages The Default Code Page or Elixir Code Page is an ASCII COD file in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR and contains GCIDs and corresponding code points for each character in the character set An Elixir Code Page is the Elixir version of an AFP Code Page and includes GCIDs and EBCDIC code points that convert to Elixir format from an AFP font You use the Elixir Code Page when converting an Elixir font to AFP format for the first
109. acters in the Elixir font when converted to HP PCL soft fonts ADVANCEDOPTIONS GENSPACEGLYPHS 1 Note e GENSPACEGLYPHS 0 removes all characters below x0 64 e GENSPACEGLYPHS 1 maintains all characters below x0 64 Converting TrueType fonts You can use TrueType fonts on your Elixir forms but you must first convert the fonts to bitmap format You can display the TrueType Fonts window by either opening the Input Fonts TrueType Fonts icon select ing TrueType Fonts from the Special menu or pressing lt Alt gt lt T gt Note TrueType underline and overstrike styles are not supported during Desktop conversion You must first convert to Elixir format then use ElixirFont to add these styles You can then convert the underline overstrike Elixir font to other formats To convert TrueType fonts to supported formats 1 Copy a file from the TrueType Fonts folder to the Converter icon The Font Converter Options dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 51 FILE CONVERSIONS 2 TrueType Fonts Attributes Select the desired output format then click on OK Depending on the output format a Font Converter Options dialog box may display prior to the True Type Fonts Attributes dialog box If a Font Converter Options dialog box displays select the desired font rotation and or output options then click on OK For more information on these options see the procedures for conve
110. an example ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 13 FILE CONVERSIONS Units Units for horizontal or vertical offset in pels inches or millimeters Remove Image Whitespace Not applicable to form conversions Embed Page Segments Includes converted Page Segments within the data stream when converting to OVE Deselecting this op tion includes only a reference to the Page Segment Note that the Page Segment must exist in your host Page Segment library Floating Offsets Horizontal is applicable for converting to AFP format Shifts output right for portrait orientation and shifts output down for a landscape orientation by the num ber of dots specified The offset value displays in the unit of measurement selected in the Units option The default unit is pels so offset values converted to inches or millimeters may be slightly off due to round ing errors You can edit the value displayed if necessary Vertical is applicable for converting to AFP format Shifts output down for portrait orientation and shifts output right for a landscape orientation by the number of dots specified The offset value displays in the unit of measurement selected in the Units option The de fault unit is pels so offset values converted to inches or millimeters may be slightly off due to rounding er rors You can edit the value displayed if necessary Fonts Displays the MCF Fonts dialog box which contains the following options 7 14
111. an select PComm NFS REXXec or APPC as the MVS sub option Input Library Enter the input library name when downloading files from a remote library The default input library name for the form font or image format you are download ing displays Output Library Enter the output library name when uploading files to a remote library The default output library name for the form font or image format you are uploading dis plays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 21 FILE TRANSFER Receiver amp Sender Enter the receive or send command for downloading files from or uploading files to a remote library The defaults for the form font or image format you are re ceiving or sending display for the VM and MVS Lib connection options The syntax for User library connections is RECEIVE pcfile hostname filetype filemode options SEND pcfile hostname filetype filemode options where pcfile is the PC file name hostname is the name of the resource filetype is one of the follow ing OGL source OVERLAY OVE OVLY38PP Fonts FONT3820 or Psegs PSEG38PP filemode is the VM CMS file mode the default is A1 and options are the file transfer options for text OGL ASCII CRLF RECFM F LRECL 80 for object CRLF RECFM V LRECL 8205 For example a text command could read SEND TEST OGL_ TEST OVERLAY A1 ASCII CRLF RECFM F LRECL 80 RECEIVE TEST OGL TEST OVERLAY A1 ASCII CRLF You can embed 1
112. and line When you copy a file to the Dispatcher ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 15 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS icon and select the command line the file name sub stitutes for the replaceable parameter If you want a prompt to enter a parameter each time you run the Dispatcher command select the Prompt for parameters option in the User Application Setup dialog box The parameter you specify adds after the Dispatcher command Use the lt Backspace gt lt Del gt and horizontal arrow keys to edit a selected line If you frequently run more than 12 Dispatcher execu tables you may want to store eleven of your most frequently used commands and leave one line open to enter other commands as required After entering a command select Setup in the dialog box header to display the User Application Setup dia log box shown in the following figure Figure 8 9 User Application Setup dialog box The User Application Setup dialog box shows the command you entered in the Command to Execute option you can edit the command if required ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS The User Application Setup dialog box displays the following options Command to Execute The command you want to execute through the Dispatcher Nickname Optional Long Name Not applicable when setting up Dispatcher executables Working Dire
113. at diskette 5 15 Copying files from a DOS Elixir format diskette 5 16 Copying files from Output to Input folders 5 17 Copying Elixir form files 5 17 Creating a PUB file 5 17 Copying a PUB file to a diskette 5 19 Restoring a PUB file from a diskette 5 20 Using the Elixir Scheduler Desktop 5 21 Scheduler setup 5 22 Scheduler Desktop examples 5 26 Scheduler example 1 5 26 Scheduler example 2 5 27 x ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Viewing files 5 29 Viewing Elixir image files 5 29 Setting the default Elixir Form font 5 31 Diskette drive 6 1 Scanner device 6 3 Configuration 6 3 Using scanners 6 5 Proof printing 6 6 Printing Elixir forms 6 6 Printing Elixir forms with highlight color 6 8 Printing non Elixir forms 6 10 Using the Elixir HP print driver 6 12 Printing PostScript 6 15 Printing PostScript using the Elixir converter 6 15 Printing PostScript using a Windows driver 6 15 General procedures 7 1 Elixir folders 7 2 Forms folder 7 2 Fonts folder 7 3 Images folder 7 3 Documents folder 7 4 Initial converter setup 7 4 File conversion procedures 7 8 Converting forms 7 9 Converting forms to and from AFP format 7 9 AFP Page Converter Op tions dialog box 7 11 Generating source OGL and LOG files 7 22 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE xi TABLE OF CONTENTS Changing the target environment from MVS to VM Converting Elixir forms to HP PCL Converting using the Elixir HP print driver
114. block size that matches that of the Irma_block_length value in the AFP INI file and a record length equal to the block size minus 4 Most font libraries installed for PSF version 2 have a block size of 12288 and a record size of 12284 9 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER The following section provides a sample JCL to per form this procedure Converting FB to VBM format Use the following JCL to convert a fixed block file to VBM format This is a required conversion if you want to upload a file using IRMA FT TSO The JCL specifies a VBM record format on both the SYSUT1 and SYSUT2 steps of the IEBGENER LOADSEG JOB 8200 Z200 Z220001 KASHANI7 1994 CLASS A EEEE INEN cE RESID ATVI i JCL TO CONVERT VBM FILE TO VB FORMAT E EXEC PGM IEBGENER ISYSPRINT DD SYSOUT ISYSUT1 DD DSN DISK DISP OLD DCB RECFM VBM LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 ISYSUT2 DD DSN SYS1 PSEGLIB S1TEST DISP SHR DCB RECFM VBM LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 IISYSIN DD DUMMY ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 13 FILE TRANSFER PC to IBM AS 400 file transfer This section describes how to upload your files to an AS 400 computer The requirements for file transfer are e You must install PC Support on your PC e You must attach your PC to an AS 400 e You must activate the Shared Folders function of your PC Support session The steps involved are as follows 1 Convert form image font or document files to
115. bove file transfer packages first install the appropriate PC card the PC file transfer software and the host resident software Contact your technical support staff if you are not sure whether you installed all components correctly Pre transfer considerations The following sections describe setup procedures on the MVS host and on your PC before you start down loading or uploading files Downloading files Note the following before downloading files to your PC Downloading with IBM 3270 or IRMA FT 3270 To download object format AFP files all except OGL files using the 3270 packages first copy the files to a dataset with the following DCB attributes RECFM VBM LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 Downloading with IRMA FT TSO To download object format AFP files all except OGL files using FT TSO first copy the files to a dataset with a variable blocked VB record format 9 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER Converting OVE and AFPDS files If you want to download and convert one page overlay OVE or multi page AFPDS files to Elixir format first download all fonts and images referenced by the OVE or AFPDS files and convert them to Elixir font image and screen format files Converting Fonts The Elixir Desktop can convert bounded box and standard unbounded box AFP fonts You must down load unbounded box AFP fonts to your ELIXIR FONTS I38IN directory and download bounded box AFP fonts to
116. box that displays select the HP PCL output format then click on OK 3 Select a HP printer in the Print Driver dialog box that displays then click on OK 7 78 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Desktop creates a PRN file in the Output Docu ments HP PCL Docs folder drive ELIXIR DOCS HPOUT Converting Elixir DAT files to PostScript documents To convert a DAT file to PostScript format 1 Copy the file s to convert from the Document folder s Elixir or Input folder to the Converter icon In the Document Converter Option dialog box that displays select PostScript then click on OK Select a PostScript printer in the Print Driver dialog box that displays then click on OK The program creates a PS file in the Output Docu ments PostScript Docs folder drive ELIXIR DOCS PSOUT Converting Elixir DAT files to AFP documents To convert a DAT file to AFPDS format 1 Select the file s to convert from the Elixir or Input folder of the Documents folder Copy the file s to the Converter icon In the Document Converter Option dialog box select the AFPDS output format and click on OK or press lt Enter gt ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 79 FILE CONVERSIONS The AFP Page Converter Options dialog box dis plays Figure 7 47 AFP Page Converter Options dialog box 4 Select converter options then click on OK The progra
117. conversion Floating offsets Horizontal Shifts output right for portrait orientation and shifts output down for a landscape orientation by the num ber of dots specified ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 75 FILE CONVERSIONS Floating offsets Vertical Shifts output down for portrait orientation and shifts output right for a landscape orientation by the number of dots specified Converting TIF and PCX files to Elixir When converting TIFF or PCX images to Elixir the Image Converter Options dialog box displays Image Converter Options Figure 7 44 Image Converter Options dialog box Select the resolution of the image as 240 or 300 dpi Note that the image is resized if you do not spec ify its original resolution the higher the resolution the smaller the image Adding color to images during conversion You can apply color to black and white images or change a highlight color image s color during conversion To add or change image color during conversion 1 Copy the Elixir image LP3 to the Converter icon 7 76 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Image Converter Options dialog box dis plays Image Converter Options Po Figure 7 45 Image Converter Options dialog box 2 Select AFP PSeg then click on OK 3 Select a color from the Preferred Color option then click on OK For converted black and white files color applies to all of the b
118. conversion considerations appendix for more detailed information about KMP files Converting AFP fonts to Elixir format To convert AFP fonts to Elixir format 1 Download the three components for each AFP font Coded Font Character Set and Code Page to drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPIN for bounded box fonts or to drive ELIXIR FONTSI I38IN for unbounded box fonts See the File transfer chapter for more information 2 Verify that the Country Keyboard Map KMP file is correct 7 42 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS See the AFP font conversion considerations ap pendix for more information 3 Open the Input Fonts folder AFP Fonts for bounded box fonts or 3800 AFP Fonts for unbounded box fonts then select Show Coded Fonts from the Filter menu The X components of the AFP fonts display 4 Copy the font s to the Converter icon 5 In the displayed Font Converter Options dialog box select Elixir The AFP Font Converter Options dialog box dis plays oe yY Dose Resolution of AFP Pinter gt 240 Pels 300 R Unas Formal of output hies gt VEM awn a Figure 7 26 AFP Font Converter Optionsdialog box 6 Select enter information in the following options then click on OK Text Direction Support Depending on your printer and on the type of AFP font to convert Select Separate Fonts and either All X1 X2 X3
119. converted font in the ACROSS direction select Universal X0 3 If you want to generate separate fonts for different rotations select Separate Fonts and select the required rotation AFP unbounded box font customers When converting an Unbounded box font to Elixir only the orientation of the font converts to Elixir Screen fonts for the rotation also generate You can use each converted rotation for proof printing Hybrid customers If you are converting fonts from an AFP source into Elixir format for use in Elixir forms that you will convert and print on non AFP for example Xerox printers 1 Generate PC mapped Elixir fonts non AFP fonts generally do not contain as many characters as AFP fonts 2 For bounded box fonts generate one font for each rotation of the AFP font that you are converting by selecting Separate Fonts and the rotation you require D 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION Glossary This glossary provides a list of the basic terms used in this guide Application Any program you run on your PC Elixir applications are represented by icons on the Elix irForm Elixir Desktop If an Elixir application is not in stalled on your PC its icon does not display Arrow An arrow shaped screen pointer used for se lecting objects Boxed text Text on a form that is bound by a column with a set height and width Button on the screen An area on the screen that causes a response when you c
120. cribes the type style from the following table ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 67 FILE CONVERSIONS Type style Fifth file character used Normal N Demi D Bold B Italic l Bold Oblique V Oblique O Light Italic Q Demi Italic R Medium Italic S Bold Italic T Demi Oblique U e The sixth character of the generated font name describes the orientation from the following table Orientation Sixth file character used Portrait P Landscape L Inverse portrait Inverse landscape J For example a converted ITC Zapf Chancery 12 point bold portrait font becomes named CH12BP ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS You can assign two character descriptors for ad ditional fonts not included in the above tables as follows e First determine the TDF file name in the Input Outline Fonts folder by selecting a font and drag ging it within the folder The cursor changes and identifies the font name Press lt Esc gt to return to a standard cursor e Next use the DOS TYPE command to display the contents of the TDF file for the font The TDF file displays the HPCODE a two character font family identifier e Now edit BTFONT NAM in drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS using an ASCII editor and add a line that includes the following to the end of the file The full DOS name of the TDF file a space the two character designator a space th
121. ct Properties from the File menu The User Application Setup dialog box displays and contains the following options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 3 PERIPHERAL DEVICES Figure 6 2 User Application Setup dialog box Command to Execute The command that executes the application associ ated with the icon For example to create a WordPer fect icon you would specify WP If you want to link the application to files in the same directory as the application see the Linking files to an already defined User Tool section you can also type in the DOS command with an embedded 1 parame ter The embedded 1 parameter specifies the loca tion in the command at which you want the file name to appear See also the Prompt for parameters option Nickname for application A nickname up to 8 characters for the application you want to run For example you may specify VENT as a nickname for Ventura Publisher After creating an icon the User Tools window displays the icon with the nickname under it 6 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES Optional Long Name A descriptive name for the application up to 29 char acters For example for Ventura Publisher you can enter Ventura Publisher The long name is informa tional only it identifies the application in the dialog box Working Directory The DOS path for the executable Use this
122. ctory Optional allows you to enter the path of the directory containing the executable useful if the executable you are running is does not reside on drive ELIXIR and you did not specify a DOS PATH statement DOS application Select if you want to specify a DOS application en ables the Command Attributes options Send Only Filename Execution of this command uses only the stem name of the file Prompt for parameters Select to prompt for an argument when executing the command see the description for the Dispatcher Commands dialog box This allows you to run com mands directly from the Dispatcher icon without re quiring you to copy files to the Dispatcher icon Run Minimized Executes the command in a minimized window Command is BAT file For a batch BAT file select to return you to the Desktop after executing the command Leave dese lected the default to return you to DOS after execut ing the command If the executable is a batch file that calls another batch file you return to the second batch file Pause after execution Select to pause after command execution and to prompt for any keystroke to continue redisplays the Desktop Otherwise redisplays the Desktop immedi ately after command execution ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 17 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Display Options Window displays command execution in a window Full Screen displays command execution in a full scr
123. d in the conversion Generate BPSD Tags Automatically generates and displays BPSD tags in the OGL formats Font Assignment For OGL select Auto to map fonts from their coded font names to six character internal names without the Xn prefix For LOG the full eight character X coded font name is retained Select Mapped to load and use the DEFAULT FAM table in drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS for mapping font names ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 87 FILE CONVERSIONS For LOG use this table to assign local four character identifier names for fonts residing on the printer s disk For OGL use this table to assign individual DDNAMES to fonts For OVE or AFPDS use this table to assign Font Global Identifiers FGIDs to font names See the Using FGIDs in a form section for an example of mapping FGIDs to fonts You can also change your target environment from MVS to VM by editing the drive ELIXIR DESK TOP SYSTEM AFP INI file included with the Desktop See the Changing your target envi ronment from MVS to VM section for more information In the Map table field enter the file name of the mapping table in drive FONTS MAPS to use when you select Mapped in the Font Assign ment option DEFAULT FAM is the default Pseg Assignment Select Auto to map page segment image names from their external file names to six character in ternal names without the S1 prefix For LOG the full eight character S1
124. degree of rotation and click on OK 10 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION Desktop A Keyboard shortcuts This appendix lists all Keyboard shortcuts for Desktop operations and for child window menus Close dialog box menu lt Esc gt Organization of the following Desktop keyboard short cuts is by pull down menu File menu Close top window lt Alt gt lt F gt lt F3 gt Convert lt Ctrl gt lt V gt Copy to lt Ctrl gt lt C gt Copy quit lt Esc gt Delete lt Del gt Dispatch lt Ctrl gt lt I gt Exit lt Alt gt lt F4 gt Formats lt Ctrl gt lt F gt Help lt F1 gt Open lt Enter gt Print lt Ctrl gt lt P gt Properties lt F2 gt ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE A 1 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS System menu lt Alt gt lt S gt System Configuration lt Alt gt lt F6 gt Diagnostics lt Alt gt lt F5 gt Make Directory lt Ctrl gt lt M gt Special menu lt Alt gt lt P gt Close All lt F4 gt Efont Factory lt Alt gt lt E gt Scheduler Action lt Alt gt lt F3 gt Scheduler Setup lt Alt gt lt F2 gt DOS menu lt Alt gt lt D gt DOS command lt Ctrl gt lt D gt Window menu lt Alt gt lt W gt Help menu lt Alt gt lt H gt Contents lt F1 gt Windows Back up one directory level lt Ctrl gt lt B gt Display start of file list lt Home gt Display end of file list lt End gt A 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
125. ding HP PCL fonts to Windows applications Windows character mapping Converting images Converting Elixir image files to Tiles in a Font format Converting to and from AFP page segments Converting TIF and PCX files to Elixir Adding color to images during conversion Converting documents Converting Elixir DAT files to HP PCL documents Converting Elixir DAT files to Post Script documents Converting Elixir DAT files to AFP documents 7 53 7 53 7 55 7 56 7 59 7 60 7 60 7 61 7 65 7 68 7 68 7 69 7 69 7 69 7 71 7 72 7 72 7 75 7 76 7 77 7 78 7 78 7 79 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE xiii TABLE OF CONTENTS AFP Page Converter Op tions dialog box 7 80 Converting AFPDS to multiple Elixir forms 7 90 Converting Pagedef Formdef resources 7 92 Converting files using DOSVSE 7 93 Running DOSVSE as a DOS com mand line utility 7 93 Running DOSVSE from the Elixir Dispatcher icon 7 93 Converting files using ELX2VSE 7 94 Using ELX2VSE 7 94 Running ELX2VSE as a DOS command line utility 7 95 Running ELX2VSE from the Elixir Dispatcher icon 7 95 Deleting converted input files 7 95 Confirming file conversion 7 95 ElixirDoc 7 96 Desktop tools 8 1 User Tools icon 8 1 User Files icon 8 1 Dispatcher icon 8 2 Creating an application icon 8 2 Creating an icon 8 2 Starting the application 8 5 Displaying icon properties 8 6 User Tools example 8 6 Creating an icon for Ventura Publisher
126. ditional functionality to normal Windows operations by providing pull down menus in sub windows or child windows that you can access from any Elixir folder icon The following sections describe these functions 2 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP BASICS Backup button You can access the backup button by first opening any Elixir folder on the Desktop Forms Fonts Im ages or Documents then opening any Elixir Input or Output folder Each click on the backup button or lt Ctrl gt lt B gt dis plays the contents of a directory one level closer to the root You can also use the backup button to change the de fault directory of an Elixir Input or Output folder in the SYSTEM INI file as follows e Select Save Settings on Exit in the Usage Switches dialog box System menu e Use the backup button to change to the directory you want as the default e Exit close the folder Figure 2 2 Backup button Filter menu The Filter menu allows you to display files you select using the and DOS wildcard characters ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 7 DESKTOP BASICS Files in this folder 21 Diskatie E HEO78L F HEGO7OP l a E HE OSH 7 7 HETIBLHOR x HEIZOL HDR HEIZOP HOR HET46L HDR F f F F F HEI4BP HDR HE2481 HOR HE248 HOR HNIZVP HDR SV42HELHOR SYRHP HOR
127. e You must install Elixir utilities in the drive ELIXIR di rectory Unless you have included drive ELIXIR in a DOS PATH statement either precede each com mand shown in the example with drive ELIXIR or specify drive ELIXIR for Full path to executable for optional lookup in the User Application Setup dialog box Some Elixir utilities require that you specify the stem name file name without the extension of the file as a parameter To use the Dispatcher for such utilities select the Usage Switches option from the System menu and from the displayed dialog box and select the Send Only Filename on Dispatches option ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 21 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS DOS menu The DOS menu allows you to enter any DOS com mand from the Desktop Pull down the DOS menu and select DOS Com mand the only option Alternatively enter lt Ctrl gt lt D gt at the keyboard The DOS Commands dialog box shown in the follow ing figure displays Enter any DOS command and click on OK to exe cute the command The DOS command you enter executes from the di rectory corresponding to the top window on the Desk top If no windows are open the command executes from the root directory for example C Figure 8 11 DOS Commands dialog box 8 22 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 9 File transfer This chapter describes procedures for transf
128. e Desktop archival feature ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 15 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES The archival feature creates a publication PUB file containing references to all font graphics and form in formation for an Elixir format ELX form file in the Elixir Forms folder drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR You cannot use standard DOS or Elixir copy proce dures to copy Elixir form files because these files con tain elements such as text fonts and graphics that reside in different Elixir directories Creating a PUB file To create a PUB file for an Elixir form file follow these steps 1 Select the ELX file to archive 2 Select Make Pubfile from the Selection menu The Elixir Publication File dialog box displays 3 Select enter information then click on OK Elixir Publication File Ea Pubfile name WNL Vv Include Screen Fonts y Include Screen Images __ Include Printer Fonts y Include Printer Images Bj Include Elixir Fonts Y OK _ Pubfile Version 1 0 Compatible Proof Printer Fonts For x Xerox 4045 gt Xerox 2700 HP LJ ee Figure 5 11 Elixir Publication File dialog box The Elixir Publication File dialog box contains the fol lowing information PubFile name The name of the PUB file you want to create based on the ELX file stem name ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Include Screen Fonts Includes screen
129. e PC file name prompt enter the name of the PC file you want to upload and press lt Tab gt ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 11 FILE TRANSFER Optionally precede the name of the file with the DOS directory path containing the AFP file you want to upload 4 Atthe dataset name prompt enter the name of the host dataset to which you want to upload the PC file and press lt Tab gt 5 Enter the appropriate transfer type The transfer type you specify depends on whether you are transferring AFP object files like page segment images or OVE format forms or text files like OGL format forms Note A transfer type is a collection of file transfer parameters that you can store and name For de tails see your FT TSO documentation 6 Press lt F1 gt to upload the file from the PC to the host Converting the host file to VBM format After uploading an FB file use IEBGENER to convert the file to VBM format In the IEBGENER JCL job specify the SYSUT1 and SYSUT2 input and output DCB parameters as fol lows if you created the file by selecting the IRMA Output Format option DCB LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 RECFM VBM When you configure the DCB parameters as above the MVS system catalog views the AFP dataset as a VBM file instead of a FB file the RECFM initially as signed to the file The target host library SYS1 FONTLIB or user defined to which the resources copy after the IEBGENER copy must have a
130. e PostScript format files write to the Output PostScript Forms folder drive ELIXIR FORMS PSOUT Converted Post Script files have PS extensions Message Displays the Message Options dialog box 7 32 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Converting Elixir forms to PDF format The Desktop allows you to convert a single page Elixir form to Adobe s Portable Document Format PDF However converting multiple page form and docu ment files require installation of the Elixir PDF option key To convert Elixir forms to PDF format 1 Copy the Elixir form s to the Converter icon The Form Converter Options dialog box displays Form Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR _ AFP Overlay OG _ LOG Figure 7 22 Form Converter Options dialog box 2 Select PDF then click on OK The PDF Settings dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 33 FILE CONVERSIONS PDF Settings Input ELX File c elixir forms elixir demo bulof2 elx PDF Settings Output PDF Directory c elixir forms pdfout DIR Output PDF File Font Settings Substitute All Fonts MM Fonts Rasterize All Fonts Type3 Fonts Use Font Mapping c elixir psstash psfont map KMP Map Table Figure 7 23 PDF Settings dialog box 3 Select enter conversion options then click on OK The PDF Settings dialog box contains the following optio
131. e button to finish entering text double click to click the left mouse button twice in rapid succession ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INTRODUCTION drag to click and hold the mouse on an item and move the item with the mouse drag and drop to drag an item as above then release the mouse but ton once the item is positioned over a the area If the selected object is a file and the destination is a direc tory the file copies to the directory object a selectable item on the screen open to point and double click on an icon the effect of this operation depends on the icon point to move the mouse to position the screen pointer on an area of the screen select to point to an object and click the mouse this usually highlights the object lt Alt gt click to hold down the lt Alt gt key while pressing the left mouse button this allows you to select a range of files in a window lt Ctri gt click to hold down the lt Ctrl gt key while pressing the left mouse button this allows you to select individual files from a group in a window lt Shift gt click to hold down the lt Shift gt key while clicking the mouse this allows you to select more than one object at a time ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 1 5 INTRODUCTION On line Help Elixir software uses the Microsoft Windows Help pro gram to provide on line Help for all functions For more information about Windows Hel
132. e en tered directory Select the files then copy the files to a target icon on the Desktop Copying files to a DOS Elixir format diskette or Diskette A DOS Elixir format diskette is a DOS format diskette that contains the Elixir file directory structure You can copy files such as PUB files to a DOS Elixir format diskette without first creating the destination Elixir di rectories on the diskette To copy selected files from a displayed window to a DOS Elixir format diskette insert a diskette into your PC disk drive If the diskette is not already DOS Elixir formatted select the DOS Elixir and Perform FOR MAT options to format the diskette before copying files ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 13 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Copy the selected files to the Diskette icon on the Desktop The System Diskette dialog box displays For WAlTina Figure 5 10 System Diskette dialog box Select enter the following information then click on OK Directory on Diskette to open Select DOS Elixir to display the drive ELIXIR direc tory Diskette Drive The identifier for your disk drive normally A or B Diskette Type DOS Elixir copies files to a DOS Elixir format diskette Diskette Access As appropriate select either For WRITing for a for matted diskette or Perform FORMAT to create a DOS formatted diskette with an Elixir directory structure C
133. e typestyle Generating Elixir fonts When using Efont Factory to create fonts for use in ElixirForm select the Keep Left Kern option in the Outline to raster font generator dialog box ElixirForm supports left kerning and selecting this option spaces and kerns all form characters correctly on the screen and on the printer output Generating non Elixir fonts If you want to use the Efont Factory to create fonts for non Elixir applications do not select the Keep Left Kern option See the description for the Keep Left Kern option in the Generating fonts from outlines section for more information ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 69 FILE CONVERSIONS Generating screen fonts Screen version fonts differ for different monitors and therefore require regenerating when you e copy Elixir fonts from a PC on which Elixir for an other monitor is installed or e reinstall Elixir on your PC and specify a different monitor You need screen fonts when creating or editing forms with ElixirForm Creating screen versions of forms also allows you to preview Elixir fonts in the Elixir Fonts folder You may also want to regenerate the screen version of a new or revised Elixir character set To do so se lect its Coded Font CDF file component copy it to the Converter icon and select the Screen option The PC mapped file regenerates with the modifica tions you made If you convert only the character set HDR fi
134. eader Select the New Tool option in the Tools menu to display the User Application Setup dialog box which contains the following options 8 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS se RE Pa Ga Figure 8 1 User Application Setup dialog box Command to Execute The command that executes the application associ ated with the icon For example to create a WordPer fect icon you would specify WP If you want to link the application to files in the same directory as the application see the Linking files to an already defined User Tool section you can also type in the DOS command with an embedded 1 parame ter The embedded 1 parameter specifies the loca tion in the command at which you want the file name to appear See also the Prompt for parameters option Nickname for application A nickname up to 8 characters for the application you want to run For example you may specify VENT as anickname for Ventura Publisher After creating an icon the User Tools window displays the icon with the nickname under it ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 3 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Optional Long Name A descriptive name for the application up to 29 char acters For example for Ventura Publisher you can enter Ventura Publisher The long name is informa tional only it identifies the application in the dialog box
135. ed Elixir Input and Output This folder structure allows you to edit or view form font image document and job files having different formats as shown in the following figure 3 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS O O O Input Elixir Output DP SN Eea In Basket Area Out Basket Figure 3 4 Input Elixir and Output folders Each Input folder is similar to an in basket con taining files you can convert to Elixir format by copying them to the Converter icon See the File conversions chapter in this guide for more in formation Each Elixir folder is similar to a working area where you can edit and view converted files Each Output folder is similar to an out basket to which edited Elixir format files are written after you convert them to their original or other non Elixir format by copying them to the Converter icon See the File conversions chapter in this guide for more information To use Elixir folders for file editing follow these steps 1 Copy a file you want to edit or view to the appropriate Input folder Convert the file to Elixir format as described in the File conversions chapter of this guide Double click on the converted Elixir format file to start the appropriate Elixir application and load the file Edit the file using the tools provided by the Elixir application After editing save the file Convert the edited Elixir fo
136. een environment After specifying options click on OK to redisplay the Dispatcher Commands dialog box Click on e Start to execute the highlighted command e OK to update information in the dialog box with out executing any commands e Cancel to cancel any changes to the Dispatcher Command dialog box Executing Dispatcher commands You can run DOS command files using the Dispatcher in two ways e by copying selected files to the Dispatcher icon e by opening the Dispatcher icon and executing commands Copying files to the Dispatcher To execute Dispatcher commands by copying one or more files to the Dispatcher icon 1 Select one or more files 2 Copy the selected files to the Dispatcher icon using any copy procedure or press lt Ctrl gt lt I gt or select Dispatch from the File menu The Dispatcher Commands dialog box displays 3 Select the command line for the command you want to execute or enter or modify a command on any line 4 Click on Start ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS The Desktop clears and the command executes mul tiple times each time with one file as an argument to the command Executing commands from the Dispatcher icon To execute a command and specify a parameter to the command directly from the Dispatcher icon 1 Open the Dispatcher icon double click on it select it and press lt Enter gt or just press lt Ctrl gt
137. ent and specify record format block and record lengths DocuTag for AFP converter op tions and form page bottom marker settings OGL Displays the Page Source Converter Options dialog box which contains the following options 1 Page Source Converter Options xi OPTIONS CONTROL _ Record Format Variable z noSTORE n STORE CodePage Translation REPLACE S Include Description Text ALL Generate BPSD Tags BARA ooo E E E i ERROR Founwidthy Taaa iaman e l noSUMMARY EEE MSE VM tM SUMMARY Forlength bake e F ieee Mane Auto Mapped M p lable 00 410 1 Figure 7 10 Page Source Converter Options dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 17 FILE CONVERSIONS Include Author Banner Includes the form s Page Author information in the file conversion The author banner includes the author s name at the top of the form file See the Page Databasing Information defaults sub menu in your ElixirForm for AFP User s Guide for more information Keep Texts Boxed OGL only Writes boxed text on a form into OGL as a DRAWBOX WITHTEXT command during conver sion Boxed text with no visible border is written as DRAWBOX WITHTEXT xxPELS xxPELS 0 and justified text is always written as JUSTIFY LASTNO last line remains LEFT justified All justification in this mode is done INTERWORD only option the OGL compiler supports The B
138. er Options dialog box displays 2 Select either PPFA Source Application or AFP Compiled Pagedefs Formdefs then click on OK The Export Options dialog box displays See your Elixir AppBuilder for AFP User Guide for a de scriptions of the available options 7 92 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS 3 Select enter options then click on OK The converted resources display in the Output Jobs folder in either the PPFA Source or PDEF FDEF folder To convert PPFA source or object compiled Pagedefs and formdefs into Elixir format 1 Copy the resource to convert to the Converter icon The Application Converter Options dialog box displays 2 Select Elixir Application then click on OK The Import Options dialog box displays See your Elixir AppBuilder for AFP User Guide for a de scriptions of the available options 3 Select enter options then click on OK The converted resources save in AppBuilder s da tabase and are accessible by double clicking on the icon in the Elixir Data Jobs folder or by load ing it within AppBuilder Converting files using DOSVSE The DOSVSE program extracts AFP structured field information from a downloaded phase file in prepara tion for conversion to Elixir generic format This utility converts the file into an Elixir readable file structured field records only The conversion over writes the existing file so make a backup before run ning it
139. erates which Elixir can rotate for all directions In the Create option if you selected PC Mapped Font e A PC mapped a partial subset Elixir font gen erates with the required HDR GLH and GLY components in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR The Elixir font file name is the same as the Coded Font file and starts with X ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 7 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS An Elixir Coded Font file CDF generates in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR This ASCII file contains a table of correspondence between KMP character set and code page for the font The program uses this file for ASCII to EBCDIC translation when converting Elixir forms ELX to OVE and OGL formats or if you selected Full AFP Font The full AFP character set converts to Elixir for mat with the required HDR GLH and GLY components in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR The Elixir file name is the same as the Coded Font and starts with C You can edit this file with ElixirFont and reconvert it back to AFP format The following files also generate An ASCII font metrics HDA file in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR This file contains additional AFP font header information required when reconverting the Elixir font file back to AFP format Elixir rotation files GLO GL4 in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR These ASCII files contain met rics including A space B space C space GCIDs and orientation information for each char
140. erring files between your PC and a MVS host computer and between your PC and an AS 400 computer using a PC to host file transfer package It also includes infor mation on using the Loader menu options to configure host connections specify font libraries and download and upload files between an AFP host and a PC PC to MVS host file transfer You can use any host to PC file transfer package that allows binary file transmission to transfer AFP font page segment image one page overlay and multi page AFPDS files between an MVS host and your PC Elixir has tested and verified the performance of the following file transfer packages e IBM 3270 recommended e IRMA FT 38270 recommended e IRMA FT TSO Binary file transfer ensures that ASCII to EBCDIC translation does not occur This requirement is neces sary because all files except OGL files generated on your PC by the Elixir Desktop are in EBCDIC format The above packages also allow you to transfer source OGL files produced by Elixir Desktop to an MVS host Since source files created by Elixir Desktop are in AS Cll format source file uploading requires conversion to EBCDIC Procedures for transferring files with the IBM 3270 and IRMA FT 3270 packages are similar and de scribed in a single section ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 1 FILE TRANSFER Procedures for transferring files with IRMA FT TSO are in a separate section Installation To use any of the a
141. erties Files Using the Desktop you can view and modify property specifications for the following Converter icon Dispatcher icon Viewer icon device Diskette Scanners and Printers icons file icons To display and modify properties for any of the above select the appropriate icon then perform one of the following e Press lt F2 gt e Press the right mouse button e Select Properties from the File menu Selecting Properties for a file icon displays the File Object Properties dialog box which contains the fol lowing options Date of last access 6 cl 1992 Figure 5 2 File Object Properties dialog box File name and extension The name and extension of the selected file Enter a new file name and extension to rename the file File type Selected file type For example Elixir HP PCL or PostScript File size Size of the selected file in bytes ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 5 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Date of last access Date file created or last changed Time of last access Time file last accessed If you select more than one file a dialog box for each subsequent file displays when you click on OK or Cancel Displaying Elixir file formats When you convert Elixir and Input folders files files with the same stem names but different extensions write to the appropriate Output folders see the Elixir folders and File conversions chapters for more in
142. es 4 7 Window menu C 10 Desktop Basic Setup dialog box 4 3 5 10 Desktop Diagnostics dialog box 4 9 Desktop folder printing contents 5 7 Desktop Toolsets dialog box 4 16 Desktop Usage Switches dialog box 4 4 diagnostics 4 9 dialog box AFP Font Related Converter Options 7 54 7 56 AFP Font Converter Options 4 12 7 39 7 43 AFP Image Con verter Options 4 12 7 73 AFP Page Converter Options 4 12 7 10 AFP Settings 7 17 Arguments to this program 8 14 Browse Code Page 4 4 Browse Country Keyboard Map 4 4 Browse GCID File 4 4 Confirmation for Command 4 5 Converter Proper ties 4 12 5 4 6 8 6 15 7 5 7 8 Converter Properties Dialog 4 6 4 13 6 8 6 15 7 6 Date amp Time 4 3 Desktop Basic Setup 4 3 5 10 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 3 INDEX Desktop Diagnos tics 4 9 Desktop Toolsets 4 16 Desktop Usage Switches 4 4 Diskette Properties 4 5 Dispatcher Com mand 5 4 Document Con verter Options 7 77 Elixir HP Driver 6 13 Elixir Publication File 5 18 Enter Path of Direc tory to Create 4 11 Extra Converter Op tions 7 72 File Formats 5 7 File Name Entry 5 7 File Object Proper ties 5 5 Font Converter Op tions 7 38 Font Related Con verter Options 7 60 Form Converter Op tions 6 9 7 9 Form Print Proper ties 7 26 Forms Converter Options 6 9 Forn Transformer Options 10 4 Global View 3 4 Graphic Trans former Options
143. es presented by the Elixir Desktop when convert ing fonts from AFP to Elixir format The section assumes that you are converting AFP fonts to Elixir format to generate Elixir forms which you can then convert to other formats The selections you make in dialog boxes are de pendend upon the kind s of fonts you require and the type of printer s you are using at your site e AFP bounded box fonts only e AFP unbounded box fonts only e Hybrid AFP and Xerox fonts When converting AFP fonts to Elixir the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box displays D 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS AFP Font Converter Options Text Direction Support Orientation to Assign Separate Fonts Across KI Down X2 Universal XB Back 3 Up X4 As Screen Fonts in C ELIXIR FONTS SCREEN DEMO Resolution of AFP Printer 240 Pels 300 R Units Format of output files YBM AS400 IRMA 0572 DOS VSE Font Type 3800 _ xt x2 x3 K AB Create CharSet Only Full AFP Font _ Keep ASEH Mapped Font Country Keyboard Map THEBES 37 _ Netty on mismatch Figure D 6 AFP Font Converter Options dialog box Your response to the Text Direction Support option determines how Elixir screen fonts generate as follows e When converting bounded box fonts Separate Fonts allows you to generate all rotated versions or selected rotated versions of the screen font
144. f files you can create is 99 Autoname Names the font files using the naming conventions described in the Font naming conventions section which follows We recommend using Autoname rather than Font Name for naming fonts To identify newly created fonts using this option view the fonts using the By Date option in the Elixir Fonts folder View menu Point Size s The point size s for the converted font file s Enter any size from 2 to 99 See the Font Name option de scription for information about converting to more than one point size 7 64 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Res The resolution in dots per inch dpi of the target printer The default is 240 dpi normally used on AFP printers Char Set The character set of the raster font being generated US ISO XB international ISO Custom creates full character sets 0 Z upper case and numerals only a z lower case only Each corresponds to a GMP ASCII file in driveAELIXIR FONTS MAPS Each line in a GMP file is of the form mm nn where mm is the hex number of the input font and nn is the hex number of the corresponding output font Range The number for the first and last characters to con vert in decimal hexadecimal or ASCII representa tion The default range is 0 255 decimal Prepare for PostScript use Select this option when printing on a PostScript printer to place the screen font reference in the f
145. f printer drivers and environmental configurations Elixir cannot guarantee that all drivers and printers labeled HP compatible will produce cor rect results Table of contents Notes and cautions 1 Introduction 1 1 Customer support 1 2 Elixir training 1 2 Who should use this guide 1 2 Conventions 1 3 Display conventions 1 3 Typographical conventions 1 3 Mouse operations 1 4 On line Help 1 6 Organization of this guide 1 7 Installation 1 9 Starting the Elixir Desktop 1 9 Exiting the Elixir Desktop 1 10 Common Windows operating system 2 1 Desktop layout 2 1 Icons 2 2 Elixir folder icons 2 3 Forms folder 2 3 Fonts folder 2 3 Images folder 2 3 Documents folder 2 3 Jobs folder 2 4 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE vii TABLE OF CONTENTS Clipboard icon 2 4 User Files icon 2 4 ElixirForm AppBuilder for AFP appli cation icon 2 4 Other Elixir application icons 2 4 User Tools icon 2 5 Diskette icon 2 5 Printers icon 2 5 Scanners icon 2 5 Dispatcher icon 2 6 Converter icon 2 6 Trashbin icon 2 6 Viewer icon 2 6 Transformer icon 2 6 Sub window menus 2 7 Backup button 2 7 Filter menu 2 7 Selection menu 2 9 View menu 2 10 Accessing DOS 2 12 Folders and DOS directories 3 1 Elixir folder structure 3 2 Changing folder display 3 4 Forms folder 3 6 Elixir Forms folder 3 6 Input Forms folder 3 7 Output Forms folder 3 8 Fonts folder 3 9 Elixir Fonts folder 3 9 Input Fonts folder 3 10
146. firm file overwrites during transformation Allows you to specify whether you overwrite exist ing output files with files you create using the same names Select this option to display a dia log box requesting confirmation before overwriting an existing file Not selecting this option automati cally overwrites existing files Show properties before transformation Allows you to specify default setup options for dia log boxes for each file transformation type Pause after transformation Select this option to pause after each transformation Stop process after Select Error to stop a conversion when an error is reported or select All files processed to stop a conversion after processing all files Click on the Message Reporting button 10 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TRANSFORMATIONS The Message Options Dialog dialog box displays and contains the following options Wuite Mesceqes lo LUGE MELEXIRDESE TOPASYS TEM MESSAGE LOG Figure 10 3 Message Options Dialog dialog box Message Reporting Select Show messages after process to display transformation messages in the Message window after processing or Write Messages to LOGfile to specify the LOG file to which transformation messages are written New Messages Select Overwrite LOGfile to overwrite an existing LOG file or Append to LOGfile to append new messages to an existing LOG file Transforming Elixir forms Th
147. for bounded box and unbounded box fonts respectively Note that you can convert Elixir bounded box fonts to either AFP bounded or unbounded box fonts 3 In the displayed AFP Font Converter Options dialog box select the output format and Coded Font Only The generated AFP fonts are e When converting to a bounded box font X0 coded font in drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT e When converting to an unbounded box font X1 X4 in driveAELIXIR FONTS I380UT Creating a character set If you modified the font character set only no code page or coded font changes you need only convert the character set to AFP using the following steps ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS 1 From the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder select Show Charset 2 Copy the Elixir font from the Elixir Fonts folder to the Converter icon and select AFP Bounded or AFP Unbounded 3800 as the output format for bounded box and unbounded box fonts respectively CAUTION Convert only full character set Elixir fonts These fonts start with CO for fonts con verted from bounded box or C1 C4 for fonts converted from unbounded box PC mapped Elixir fonts are named X HDR and must not be used for conversions to AFP format Note that you can convert Elixir bounded box fonts to either AFP bounded or unbounded box fonts 3 In the displayed AFP Font Converter Options dialog box select the output format and CharSet Onl
148. for more informa tion about PostScript processing Contour fonts mapping table directory The contour fonts mapping table directory drive ELIXIR FONTS TABLES contains the TFB file cre ated when you do not select Keep Left Kern in the Outline to raster font generator dialog box see the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more information Bitstream Facelift fonts mapping directory The Bitstream Facelift fonts mapping directory drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS contains the BTFONTS NAM and BTFONTS MAFP files BTFONTS NAM Contains an ASCII list with the following information for each font the TDF font file name the two character font family designator and the typestyle BTFONTS MAP Contains a table that maps the name of a new Bit stream Facelift font to the name of a PostScript font on a printer B 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION C Desktop menu bar This appendix describes or refers you to the options and corresponding keyboard shortcuts fast keys available from the Desktop pull down menus Elixir Suite for AFP Figure C 1 Desktop menu bar File menu The File menu options perform operations on files applications or attached devices printers scanners and diskette The following figure shows the File menu Figure C 2 File Menu The File menu contains the following options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE C 1 DESKTOP MENU BAR Open lt F2 gt
149. g figure 6 vja PCX Images TIFF Images BMP Images AFP PSEG Images Figure 3 14 Images Input Folders window ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 13 ELIXIR FOLDERS To prepare a file for conversion first copy it to the ap propriate Input Images folder Make sure the file has the correct name extension for the folder as shown in the following table Input Images folder DOS subdirectory and file extensions PCX Images ELIXIR PICS PCXIN PCX TIFF Images ELIXIR PICS TIFFIN TIF BMP Images ELIXIR PICS BMPIN BMP AFP PSEG Images ELIXIR PICS SEGIN SEG The above Input Images folders show all formats from which Elixir Desktop products can be converted Output Images folder The Output Images folder contains a number of sub ordinate folders as shown in the following figure la Se HP PCL Images PCX Images TIFF Images BMP Images Screen Images AFP PSEG Images Figure 3 15 Images Output Folders window When you use the Converter icon to convert files de scribed in the File conversions chapter of this guide output files write to the appropriate Output folders with appropriate file extensions as shown in the following table 3 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS Output Images folder DOS subdirectory and file extensions HP PCL Images ELIXIR PRINTS HPPRINT PCX Images ELIXIR PICS PCXOUT PCX TIFF Images ELIXIR PICS TIFFOU
150. g system defaults from the System menu Access DOS Allows DOS access from the Desktop 4 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Diagnostics Select the Diagnostics option in the System menu to run a number of diagnostic utilities and or enter a command to run a diagnostic program of your choice The Desktop Diagnostics dialog box displays and con tains the following options Desktop Diagnostics Figure 4 7 Desktop Diagnostics dialog box Free Memory Displays available memory in KB The figure dis played also includes the size of the Windows swap file on your PC Free Resources Displays available Windows resources as a percentage Base Memory Displays total system RAM Maximum file list Displays the maximum number of files that can dis play in a window Disk Space Left Displays the disk space left on the hard disk on which the Elixir Desktop displays Current drive Displays the current drive View Install Displays the log file INSTALL LOG that generates when installing Elixir software on your PC When you report any problems to the Support Center the center ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 9 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION may ask for the contents of this log file to help deter mine the source of your problem View Autoexec BAT Displays the contents of the AUTOEXEC BAT file Show Installed ElixiKeys Displays installed Elixikeys on yo
151. g using Elixir s PostScript driver To convert files with Elixir s PostScript driver 1 Right click on the Converters icon The Converter Properties dialog box displays Converter Properties _Converter Property Sheets _ Form Converters AFP PostScript Font Converters AFP __Outline _ Image Converters AFP Converter Properties Message Reporting Figure 7 16 Converter Properties dialog box 2 Click on the Converter Properties button The Converter Properties Dialog box displays Figure 7 17 Converter Properties Dialog box 7 28 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS 3 Select Use Elixir HP PCL and PostScript converters then click on OK until all dialog boxes close 4 Copy the Elixir form s to the Converter icon The Form Converter Options dialog box displays Form Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR _ AFP Overlay GL ILOG Figure 7 18 Form Converter Options dialog box 5 Select PostScript then click on OK The PostScript Converter Options dialog box dis plays PostScript Convertor Options Figure 7 19 PostScript Converter Properties dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 29 FILE CONVERSIONS 6 Select enter conversion options then click on OK The PostScript Converter Options dialog box contains the following options PostScript Level Select the pr
152. ge and Exit to exit the Viewer Clicking on the arrows in the image window header al lows you to zoom in to 2X 4X 8X 16X and 32X magnifications and to zoom out to 2X 4X and 8X magnifications The printed image size also displays PRN displays in the window header When displaying magnifications greater than 1X the left of the window displays the magnified view and the right of the window shown a portion of the image at 1X magnification Clicking on the button to the right of the arrow toggles a grid at magnifications of 8X or greater Moving the screen pointer in the window displays the coordinates of the pointer in dots with respect to the top left corner of the image ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Setting the default ElixirForm font ElixirForm uses screen fonts by default when creating forms You can change the default to Elixir generic format fonts by editing a parameter in the ELX INI file To set the default ElixirForm font to Elixir generic format 1 Close all open Elixir products 2 Open the ELX INI_ file typically in C WINDOWS C WIN95 or C WINNT in Windows Notepad or Wordpad 3 In the AdvancedOptions section change the value of the PreferScreenFonts parameter from 1 to 0 where 1 represents screen fonts and 0 repre sents Elixir generic fonts 4 Restart Elixir for the change to take effect ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 29 6 Per
153. ge segment file whose name is one of the restricted OGL keywords can result in printing problems See the BM Overlay Generation Language 370 User s Guide and Refer ence manual for a list of restricted OGL keywords ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 1 FILE CONVERSIONS The Converter icon also allows you to run a number of Elixir utilities as described in this chapter Elixir folders Forms folder This section describes how to convert files to different formats You may want to review the information in the Elixir folders chapter before reading this section Each Font Form Image and Document folder dis played on the desktop contains subordinate Input Elixir and Output folders Elixir Forms input Forms Output Forms Figure 7 1 Subordinate folders example The Input Forms folder comprises folders containing non Elixir single page form files you can convert to other formats To convert a non Elixir single page file to another format you must copy it to the appropriate folder in the Input Forms folder The Elixir Forms folder contains Elixir format form ELX files and or other subordinate folders contain ing Elixir forms When you create Elixir Forms or con vert form files to Elixir format files write to this folder When you convert form files from the Input Forms folder to any non Elixir format or when you convert Elixir forms from the Elixir Forms folder the resulting out
154. graph ics 7 36 Elixir Forms folder 3 6 Input Forms folder 3 7 orientation 7 31 Output Forms folder 3 8 PDF 7 32 PostScript 7 28 transformer options 10 3 Forms Converter Op tions dialog box 6 9 Forms folder 2 3 3 6 7 2 FT 3270 9 1 FT TSO 9 1 G GCSGID 7 37 Global Character Set ID 7 37 Global View dialog box 3 4 Graphic Transformer Options dialog box 10 7 graphics converting to a font 7 72 Elixir Graphics folder 3 13 Elixir Image Viewer 5 30 Input Graphics folder 3 13 Output Graphics folder 3 14 tiles 7 72 Graphics folder 2 3 3 13 H Help on line 1 6 Help hypergraphics 1 7 Help menu 1 6 C 11 Help pop ups and jumps 1 7 Host Name dialog box 9 21 HP Font Converter Op tions dialog box 7 46 HP or compatible printers font requirements 7 38 HP PCL fonts 7 47 Hybrid conversions D 14 IBM IRMA 3270 9 6 icons applications 8 2 checking properties 8 8 Clipboard 2 4 Converter 2 6 7 1 create example 8 6 Desktop 2 2 Diskette 2 5 5 3 6 1 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 9 INDEX Dispatcher 2 6 8 2 8 15 Documents 2 3 7 4 Elixir Web site 8 8 ElixirDoc 7 96 ElixirForm 2 4 folders 2 3 Fonts 2 3 7 3 Forms 2 3 7 2 Graphics 2 3 Images 7 3 Jobs 2 4 modifying 5 5 opening 5 1 5 3 Other Elixir applica tions 2 4 Printers 2 5 5 3 properties 5 5 Scanners 2 5 5 3 6 3 Transformer 4 14 Trashbin 2 6 User
155. h the User Files icon allows you to establish links between files in a window and an application executable or batch file For example if you link files created by a word proc essing program to the word processing application double clicking on any of the file icons starts the word processing program and loads the selected file in the program You can link files to an application for which a User Tool exists or create a User Tool for an application and link files to it ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 11 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Linking files to an existing User Tool If you created a User Tool icon for an application you link files in a directory to the application as follows Select Tool Link from the Tools menu to display the Tool Link Definition dialog box which contains the fol lowing options Delniion of lool Link tar this Window UserToot Nickname VENT Open only fde with emension CHP ee Figure 8 6 Tool Link Definition dialogbox UserTool Nickname Enter the nickname specified when creating the user tool Using the User Tools example in the previous section you would enter VENT for Ventura Publisher Open only files with extension Only links files with the extension you specify Leave deselected to not use an extension filter Files with all extensions link to the application Linking files to a new application
156. he beginning of the file list You can run all Elixir conversion applications by copy ing files to the Converter icon as described in this chapter You can also run the conversion applications as stand alone programs To run any Elixir conversion program open the Elixir Doc icon to display a window showing a list of Elixir conversion applications You can specify the setup options for the conversion application to use by clicking on its icon then select ing Properties from the File menu The appropriate property sheet for the selected conversion displays Specify the options and select OK to save the op tions to disk To run a stand alone converter do one of the follow ing e Double click on the icon e Select Open from the File menu e Press lt F2 gt The Desktop clears and the selected converter appli cation runs You can now perform file conversions as described in this guide for each converter application After conversion select Quit or Exit to return to the desktop ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 8 Accessing DOS files and applications This chapter describes how the Elixir Desktop allows access to DOS files and applications Desktop tools The Elixir Desktop includes a number of tools that en able you to access DOS files and applications as follows User Tools icon The User Tools icon allows you to establish an icon for any Windows application DOS application or batch file
157. he message window displays empty and 4 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION messages write to drive ELIXIR MESSOUT MSG which is viewable in any text editor Transformer properties The Transformer Props option in the System menu displays the Transformer Properties dialog box which contains the following options Transformer Properties Figure 4 11 Transformer Properties dialog box Transformer Properties Displays the Transformer Properties Dialog dialog box which contains the following options Figure 4 12 Transformer Properties Dialog dialog box Working Directory Directory where temporary read writes occurs during transformations Default is the root We recommend specifying a RAM disk for faster transformations ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 13 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Confirm file overwrites during transformation Requests confirmation before overwriting existing output files Deselect this option automatically overwrite existing files This option is applicable only when transforming form and LGO files to Elixir format Show properties before transformation Specifies default dialog box setup options for each file transformation type Pause after transformation Pauses after each transformation Stop process after Select when to stop processing Error stops a conversion when an error occurs All file
158. he resource name is used without the 3 character extension Overlays CRTOVL Create Overlay CRTOVL OVL OVE300 resource FILE ELXLIB TEMP where OVE300 is the installation name for the AFP Overlay library Fonts CRTFNTRSC Create Font Resource CRIFNTRSC_FNTRSC FONT300 resource FILE ELXLIB TEMP where FONT300 is the installation name for the AFP Font library Page Segments CRTPAGSEG Create Page Segment CRIPAGSEG_ PAGSEG SEG300 resource FILE ELXLIB TEMP where SEG300 is the installation name for the AFP Page Segment library ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER The resource s are now ready for use with your AFP printer Printing fully composed AFPDS documents You can also upload and print fully composed AFPDS documents To upload AFPDS files follow the steps above for moving the file from the PC to the Shared Folder Issue the CPYFRMPCD command as above you may want to move the document into a file other than TEMP if you want to save the document To print issue the following command PRTAFPDTA FILE DOC300 TEST FIDELITY CONTENT where DOC300 is the installation AFP Document Library and TEST is the file to print FIDELITY CONTENT is optional Extracting object files from the AS 400 to a PC Extracting files from the AS 400 involves creating a special type of AS 400 file called a save file then sav ing the AS 400 AFP resource object a font overlay etc to the save
159. hlight color 6 8 non Elixir forms 6 10 PostScript 6 15 proof printing 6 6 properties Converter 4 6 4 11 7 4 diskette 4 5 displaying icon 8 6 ElixiScript Con verter 7 28 file 5 5 icons 5 5 8 6 printer 4 5 scanner 4 5 6 3 tool 8 14 Transformer 4 14 10 1 user application 6 3 PSEND PSC B 1 PSFONT MAP B 1 PSSTASH B 1 PSTOP PSC B 1 PSTRAIL PSC B 2 PUB files 5 18 copying 5 19 creating 5 17 restoring from disk ette 5 20 Q Quick Help 1 6 R refreshing screen 4 15 Resize dialog box 10 9 Rotate dialog box 10 10 S Scanner Properties dia log box 4 5 scanners icon 6 3 properties 4 5 6 3 Scanners icon 2 5 5 3 6 3 Scheduler Desktop actions tasks 5 23 setup 5 22 testing examples 5 26 use 5 21 screen refreshing 4 15 screen fonts 7 69 Selection menu 2 9 Shift dialog bo 10 9 shortcuts keyboard A 1 Special menu 4 1 5 1 C 8 starting the Desktop 1 9 sub window 2 7 support customer 1 2 SYSTEM INI file 2 7 system configuration 4 2 system diskette 5 15 6 2 System Diskette dialog box 5 14 5 15 System menu 4 1 5 1 8 23 C 6 T INDEX 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INDEX TDF file 7 68 Tool Link Definition dia log 8 13 tool properties 8 14 Tools menu 8 12 8 14 toolsets 4 16 Transformer icon 10 1 properties 4 14 10 1 setup 10 1 Transformer icon 2 6 Transformer Properties dialog box 4 14 10
160. hout using network interrupts and you can perform this from a DOS based system The Scheduler Desktop is operational in non network environments and can process files sent over modems for printing to a remote printer Scheduler Desktop examples This section describes examples of using the Sched uler Desktop Scheduler example 1 The following example describes setting up a Sched uler action to run a batch file at one minute past noon The example assumes that you set up the Scheduler Desktop on a dedicated PC attached it to a network and if applicable defined the Network Scheduler di rectory to which files print to disk 1 Select the Scheduler Setup option from the Special menu and select the options you want in the dialog box that displays the options as described earlier in this section 5 24 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES 2 Select the Scheduler Actions option from the Special menu and enter or select the following to set up a Scheduler action based on a DateTime test Task 1 Task test On DateTime Filename s SYS Date 02 Month 12 Year 92 Hour 12 Min 1 Sec 0 Action to take BATchFile Name JOBXXX After action Task processing OFF 12 g2 Dae Pate Honn yea Figure 5 15 Testing for a passed date time example This example sets up Scheduler action number 2 to run the f
161. how Coded Fonts Selecting each option displays different components of fonts as follows If displaying the Input or Output AFP or AFP 3800 Font folders selecting the appropriate option dis plays the Character Set Code Page and Coded Font for each AFP font The next section de scribes these components If displaying the Elixir Font folder Show Charset displays the HDR component of the Elixir font that you should use when you want to convert the font to another format Show CodePage displays the Elixir Code Page files COD ASCII files that are the editable equivalents of AFP Code Pages D 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS Show Coded Fonts displays the Elixir Code Font CDF ASCII files which list the character set code page and keyboard mapping file for the font The following section describes these files AFP font components Character Set Code Page Each AFP font has three components e Character Set e Code Page e Coded Font The Character Set contains the actual font bitmaps for characters For bounded box fonts character set file names are CO For unbounded box fonts Character Set file names are C1 C4 where C1 denotes an inline print direction of 0 C2 denotes 90 and so forth The Code Page is a file that maps keyboard entries to characters in a character set Each key on a keyboard corresponds to a hexadecimal code point When print
162. how diskette property sheet Displays the Diskette Properties dialog box each time you copy a file to or open the Diskette icon See the Additional Desktop features and Peripheral devices chapters for more information Show printer property sheet Displays the Printer Properties dialog box each time you print a file See the Peripheral devices chapter for more information Show scanner property sheet Displays the Scanner Properties dialog box each time you use the Scanners icon See the Peripheral de vices chapter for more information Save Settings on Exit Retains the Usage Switches change made in the cur rent Desktop session and displays them in future sessions Monochrome Monitor Executes the DOS MODE MONO command required for SIGMA monitors on PS 2 systems and for newer after 1990 SIGMA monitors running in monochrome non grayscale mode ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 5 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Converter Displays the Converter Properties Dialog which con tains the following options Figure 4 5 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box Working Directory Directory where temporary read writes occurs during transformations Default is the root We recommend specifying a RAM disk for faster transformations Confirm file overwrites during transformation Requests confirmation before overwriting existing output files Deselect this option automaticall
163. ibe more ad vanced Desktop operations Common Windows operating system The Elixir Desktop uses the standard Windows inter face for display and use of operational elements such as icons command buttons tools menus dialog boxes and mouse See your Windows manual for complete information Desktop layout The Elixir Desktop comprises two main display areas e The top of the Desktop displays the menu bar and message area e The remaining Desktop area displays icons Both menu bar and icons provide access to pull down menus See the Sub window menus section in this chapter and the Desktop configuration and Addi tional Desktop features chapters for more infor mation The message area displays information about the op eration in process including relevant warning and er ror messages ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 1 DESKTOP BASICS Message area Menu bar Eli Suite foi AFP i i i ee a Converter Senere Testes Figure 2 1 Desktop layout Icons Each Desktop icon represents an application folder utility or PC device configured for your system Gener ally the name shape and appearance of an icon indi cate its purpose or the type of action you can perform The following sections briefly describe each icon and where applicable refer you to chapters where you can find more information 2 2 E
164. id black with the Elixir HP Driver Printing these forms via the Converter icon produces print output with the highlight shading displaying as gray shades To print Elixir forms with highlight color 1 Select Converter props from the System menu The Converter Properties dialog box displays Converter Properties _Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AEP EostScript Font Converters AER C Dutline J Image Converters AFP J Figure 6 4 Converter Properties dialog box 2 Click on the Converter props button 6 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES The Converter Properties Dialog dialog box dis plays Figure 6 5 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box 3 Select Use Elixir HP PCL and PostScript converters then click on OK until all dialog boxes close 4 Open the Elixir forms folder select the forms to print then press lt Ctrl gt lt V gt The Forms Converter Options dialog box displays Form Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR Output HP PCL PostScript _ PDF _ AFP Overlay FOB T OGL _ Images _ LOG Figure 6 6 Form Converter Options dialog box 5 Select HP PCL then click on OK The Print Driver Dialog dialog box displays ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 9 PERIPHERAL DEVICES gt Print Driver Dialog _Printer Orientation Page Shift
165. ies using the User Files icon described in the Additional Desktop features and Accessing DOS files and applications chapters See the Additional files and directories appendix for detailed information on mapping table directories ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 21 4 Desktop configuration To customize your Elixir Desktop for AFP you can use the System menu options shown in the following figure You can also access some options using the shortcut keys displayed to the right of menu options System menu Special menu Figure 4 1 Desktop menu bar The System menu contains the options shown in the following figure Figure 4 2 System menu ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 1 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Each option in the System menu allows you to per form certain configuration actions System Config lt Alt gt lt F6 gt Configures basic system parameters Usage Switches Enables disables selected Desktop functions User Privileges Specifies user access controls Diagnostics lt Alt gt lt F5 gt Accesses the diagnostics application Make Directory lt Ctrl gt lt M gt Creates a DOS directory Converter Props Specifies control parameters for the Converter icon Transformer Props Specifies parameters for the Transformer icon Reset to Defaults Resets all configuration parameters to default values Refresh Refreshes the screen display Toolset Provides several Desktop toolsets
166. ile JOBXXX on 12 02 92 at 12 01 PM If Any is selected for the Date the Scheduler action would occur every day at 12 01 PM Scheduler example 2 The following example describes setting up a Sched uler action that continuously runs a utility at specified time intervals 1 Select the Scheduler Setup option from the Special menu and select the options you want in the dialog box that displays the options as described earlier in this section 2 Select the Scheduler Actions option from the Special menu and enter or select the following ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 25 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES to set up a Scheduler action based on a Test TRUE test Task 2 Task test Test TRUE Action to take Usertool Name NETCOMX After action None Scheduler lacks 2 Date Bate Mah eat 1 BO jon ia take Vins oo ea O oS Heateo NETCOMX BAlch ie Figure 5 16 Testing fora TRUE condition example This example sets up Scheduler task number 2 to run the usertool NETCOMX continuously at intervals specified in step 5 in the Scheduler setup section You can use this Scheduler action to periodically send messages over the network to inform nodes that the Scheduler is active and waiting Viewing files Da Viewer The Viewer icon links applications to file extensions so that copying a file with a certain extension to the ic
167. in with ABC in a directory of many files you could enter ABC See also Wildcard character File name The name of a file The ElixirForm Elixir Desktop uses DOS file naming conventions DOS file names consist of a base stem name containing up to eight characters and an extension of up to three characters Folder icon The Desktop icon representing a DOS directory Folders allow you to quickly organize infor mation on the Desktop Format To prepare a diskette so it can hold informa tion Formatting a diskette erases the information on the diskette Form elements The individual lines shapes images and text that compose a form You can create change move copy delete import or load a form element Form template A form loaded as an overlay or visual guide only for the purpose of designing new form ele ments around it A form template does not become part of the form when the form is saved only the new elements added are saved with the form Free text Text on a form that is not bound by a col umn with a set height and width The width of the form is the only restriction Grayed options Grayed options are menu options you cannot choose because they do not apply to your current selection Also called dimmed options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE GLOSSARY 3 GLOSSARY Head to head In duplex printing when the page top is printed in the same position on both sides of the page Head to toe In du
168. indow for the new directory displays You can also use wildcard characters to display a fil tered list of files in a directory Click on OK to copy the files See the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more informa tion Copying files from a DOS directory User Files To copy one or more files from a DOS directory open the User Files icon to display the User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box Enter the name of the directory from which you want to copy files or if the path to the directory displays se lect it and click on OK A window similar to the following figure displays showing the contents of the directory In the window select the files you want to copy then drag and drop the files on the Desktop target icon The target icon can be any of the Elixir folders the Diskette icon or the User Files icon ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 11 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES NOTES lt DIR gt 2 PSFONTS lt DIR gt S QUEST lt DIR gt TEMP lt DIR gt TxBRDG lt DIR gt TVPESET lt DIR gt wep lt DIR gt WINDOWS lt DIR gt AUTOEXEC O68 534 bytes 20 Decw4994 1216 8 pm AUTOEXEC O1 399 bytes 22 Sep 1994 4 24 32 pm AUTOEXEC O2 410 bytes 26 Sep 1994 10 36 16 am AUTOEXEC O3 465 bytes 6 Oet 1994 12 58 50 pm AUTOEXEC O4 474 bytes 2eDec 4094 10 22 40 am AUTOEXECBAK 490 bytes 42 Dec 1994 2 35 16 pm AUTOEXEC BAT 512 bytes 25 Jan 1995
169. inter s PostScript level PS Level 1 or PS Level 2 KMP Enter the path for your KMP file or click on the but ton and select one from the Browse KMP File dialog box Font Mapping File Enter the path for your font mapping file or click on the button and select one from the Browse Font Map ping File dialog box Source Directories Fonts Enter the path for your input font file or click on the DIR button and select one from the Browse Input Fonts Directory dialog box Source Directories Images Enter the path for your input image file or click on the DIR button and select one from the Browse Input Im ages Directory dialog box Source Directories Forms Enter the path for your input form file or click on the DIR button and select on from the Browse Input Forms Directory dialog box Place each character separately Approximates the position of non standard Adobe Type 1 fonts in the converted PostScript file Converting using the Windows printer driver To convert files with the Windows printer driver 1 Copy the Elixir form s to the Converter icon ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Form Converter Options dialog box displays Form Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR _ Ett _ HP PCL _ PostScript _ PDF Figure 7 20 Form Converter Options dialog box 2 Select PostScript then click on OK The Print Driver Dialog dialog box displa
170. ipheral devices This chapter describes how to access and use periph eral devices connected to your PC Devices covered in this chapter include e diskette drives internal or external e scanners e printers Diskette drive or Diskette You access diskette drives through the Desktop Disk ette icon The Diskette icon allows you to e specify the drive letter of the diskette drive you want to access e copy files from the hard disk to a diskette e copy files from a diskette to the hard disk e format a high or low density diskette in DOS or DOS Elixir formats DOS format with the standard Elixir directory structure on the diskette e format a low density diskette with the Xerox printer format The Additional Desktop features chapter provides procedures for copying DOS and Xerox printer format files to and from diskettes ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 6 1 PERIPHERAL DEVICES To assign a drive letter or to format diskettes open the Diskette icon to display the System Diskette dialog box shown in the following figure This dialog box also displays when you copy one or more files to a diskette by copying file icons to the Diskette icon Figure 6 1 System Diskette dialog box Diskette Setup To specify a drive letter enter the letter for the Disk ette Drive option Any actions you subsequently per form using the Diskette icon apply to the diskette drive you
171. is section describes Elixir form transformations To transform an Elixir form 1 Copy the ELX file to the Transformer icon ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP 10 3 TRANSFORMATIONS The Form Transformer Options dialog box displays Figure 10 4 Form Transformer Options dialog box 2 Select your option s then click on OK Form Transformer options The Form Transformer Options dialog box contains the following options Remap Displays the Page Remap dialog box which contains the following options a Page Remap Output SELIXIR FORMS ELDIRADEMO TAXAFP E Figure 10 5 Page Remap dialog box Input Displays the directory and file name of the form s you are remapping Output Displays the destination directory and file name of the form s you are remapping 10 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TRANSFORMATIONS Original KMP File The original keyboard mapping assigned to the file you are remapping Target KMP You can select a keyboard mapping file from the list of files in the drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS directory See the AFP font conversion considerations appen dix for more detailed information about KMP files Rotate Displays the Page Rotate dialog box which contains the following options Output ELISIR OBMS ELIXIR DEMO TAXAT E i Rotate es oe m 2p Figure 10 6 Page Rotate dialog box Input Displays the directory a
172. isplay is as close as possible to its appearance when printed Scroll To move a directory list in a window so you can view different parts of the list GLOSSARY 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION GLOSSARY Scroll bar A bar displayed on the right side of some windows used for scrolling The scroll bar contains a scroll arrow and buttons and a slider bar that moves within the scroll box Select To click on an object menu option or form element A selected item appears highlighted Shift click To click on an object while holding down the lt Shift gt key Usually used to select multiple elements Slider bar A bar in the scroll box at the side of some windows that scrolls items in the window when you drag it up and down Snap to A function that causes form elements to automatically align with the nearest grid point when a grid is displayed in the Work area Tape icon The icon representing a tape drive con nected to your PC Trashbin icon The Trashbin icon is in the lower right corner of the Desktop and represents a receptacle for items you want to delete You delete a file by dragging it to the Trashbin icon UDK User Defined Key a substitute escape charac ter defined by a user for specific print jobs Unselect To cause one or more selected high lighted icons or elements to not be selected any more The quickest way to do this is to click on an other area of the Desktop or Work area U
173. ixir Input or Output folder and fi nally on the destination folder C 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP MENU BAR New Duplicate e f copying to a non Elixir folder click on the User Files icon to display the User Files Directory Paths dialog box In the dialog box specify the directory into which you want to copy the file and click on OK For information on copying files to and from diskettes and tapes see the Desktop basics and Peripheral devices chapters Creates a new file in a window folder A dialog box displays in which you enter the name and extension of the new file If you create an Elixir format file in an Elixir folder you do not need to specify an extension because the Elixir Desktop creates files with the appropriate extensions When you create a new Elixir font you generate all three component files When you create a new file in the Elixir Documents folder you generate a DAT file with a sample blank form Creates a duplicate of a selected file in the same folder A dialog box displays and prompts you to enter a name for the duplicate file If you duplicate a file in any Elixir folder and do not specify an extension for the into option the extension appropriate for that folder generates ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE C 3 DESKTOP MENU BAR Delete lt Del gt Deletes selected files and empty folders you cannot delete a folder that contains files
174. ixir Technologies then contact one of the support center hotlines See the Elixir for AFP Getting Started Guide for infor mation about contacting your support center Elixir training Elixir Technologies Corporation offers training for the full range of our Windows based family of products For more information contact Elixir Learning 805 641 5900 ext 6 Who should use this guide This guide serves users needing first time or ongoing reference information about the Elixir Desktop for AFP Users should already be familiar with Microsoft Win dows operations printer and font management opera tions and PC peripherals and have access to refer ence manuals for related PC software and hardware ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INTRODUCTION Conventions Most of the following conventions are the same or similar to Windows conventions e display conventions e typographical conventions e mouse operations Display conventions The Elixir Desktop ElixirForm ElixirFont and Elix irlmage all adhere to Microsoft Windows conventions for using menus menu commands dialog boxes command buttons icons and mouse See your Win dows manual for more information Typographical conventions The following typographical conventions are used throughout this guide and other Elixir product guides e Keystrokes are shown enclosed in lt gt angle brackets For example lt Enter gt e Key combinations are den
175. lack pixels For converted highlight color files color applies to the background color plane Converting documents You can convert multi page document DAT files from the Input Document or Elixir Document folders DAT files reside in the drive ELIXIR DOCS DOC LIST directory Elixir Documents folder and contain existing Elixir format ELX form files which together comprise a single multi page document Each form file without the ELX extension in the form list file is preceded with and delimited by a car riage return line feed combination For example a file called TEST DAT could contain the following lines o oTAX FEDBANK ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 77 FILE CONVERSIONS You can double click on any DAT file to view the file in Windows Notepad Copy a DAT file to the Converter icon to display the Document Converter Options dialog box Document Converter Options Figure 7 46 Document Converter Options dialog box Input Format Displays the format of the documents you are converting Output Allows you to select one or more of the displayed for mats to which you can convert input documents For mats to which you cannot convert display grayed Converting Elixir DAT files to HP PCL documents To convert a DAT file to HP PCL format 1 Copy the file s to convert from the Document folder s Elixir or Input folder to the Converter icon 2 In the Document Converter Option dialog
176. ld enter the file name of the mapping table in drive ELIXIR PICS MAPS to use when you select Mapped in the Pseg As signment option DEFAULT SAM is the default CONTROL Builds the CONTROL statement used in OGL and LOG source files NOSTORE specifies that the form is not stored in a library STORE stores the form in a library REPLACE stores the form in a library and re places any existing forms with the same name ALL displays every message the system gener ated during processing WARN displays only the warning messages generated during processing ERROR displays only the error messages gen erated as a result of OGL 370 processing NOSUMMARY specifies that a summary does not display as part of the source listing SUMMARY displays a statistical summary as part of the source listing Formwidth Enter the FORMWIDTH command arguments di rectly For example 3600 PELS Formlength Enter the FORMLENGTH command arguments directly For example 3200 PELS 7 20 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Copies This option is valid in certain circumstances See your Comparex documentation for information Margin Enter the offset from the edge of the paper to the beginning of the printing area If you specify a margin value in the Form Control Block use the same value The default margin is 0 Sequence Numbers Appends 8 digit sequence numbers to output in columns 73 80
177. lder 3 f Documents The Input Documents folder comprises folders con taining non Elixir multi page documents you can con vert to other formats To convert a non Elixir document you must copy it to the appropriate folder in the Input Documents folder The Elixir Documents folder contains DAT files AS Cll files that reference the Elixir format form ELX files comprising a multi page document When you convert documents to Elixir format DAT files write to this folder and ELX files write to the Elixir Forms folder When you convert documents from the Input Docu ments folder to any non Elixir format or when you convert DAT files from the Elixir Documents folder the resulting output files write to folders in the Output Documents folder Initial converter setup Before you start file conversions you may find it help ful to select several setup parameters that are com mon to most conversions and which display in dialog boxes when you convert files Select these options in the Converters Properties dialog box To display the Converters Properties dialog box se lect the Converter icon then perform one of the following e select Properties from the File menu e press lt F2 gt e right click on the icon e select Converter Props from the System menu 7 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Converter Properties Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFP J PostScript
178. le to screen format the screen font that gen erates does not properly map for the keyboard Adding HP PCL fonts to Windows applications See your Microsoft Windows documentation for infor mation on adding HP PCL fonts to your Windows ap plication fonts list Windows character mapping To map fonts converted with the Efont factory to the standard Windows character set Latin 1 ANSI 1252 1 Copy the outline font to the Converter icon 7 70 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Font Converter Options dialog box displays Font Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR Output Elan Screen Windows HP PCL AFP Bounded AFP Unbounded 3800 ATH Type3 Figure 7 39 Font Converter Options dialog box 2 Select either Elixir Screen Windows or ATM Type 3 then click on OK The Outline to raster font generator dialog box displays Gutline to raster font generator Figure 7 40 Outline to raster font generator dialog box 3 Select the Char set map Custom option then click on the Full button The Browse Code Page dialog box displays 4 Select ANSI GMP then click on OK until all dialog boxes close ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 71 FILE CONVERSIONS Character remapping when converting ATM or True Type fonts to Elixir or APF formats occurs immediately Converting images Using the Elixir Desktop you can convert
179. lick on it For example an OK button that accepts your entries when you click on it in a dialog box Click on an item To momentarily press and release the left mouse button with the screen pointer on an item Close To exit from a window dialog box application or the Desktop Close box A small white box at the left of a window header and at the left of the menu bar Clicking a close box on a window header closes the window Clicking a close box on the menu bar exits the Desktop Command button A button in a dialog box that con firms or cancels an action when you click on it The Cancel button cancels the command The OK but ton confirms and executes the command and saves the information you specified in a dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE GLOSSARY 1 GLOSSARY Converter icon The icon that converts font form im age and document files to and from different formats Cursor A screen pointer used when entering text in the work area or in a dialog box Desktop The Elixir Desktop working environment consisting of the menu bar the screen area and icons on the screen Dialog box A rectangular box that displays and re quests information You enter information in fields in the dialog box and normally confirm your entries by clicking on an OK button or by pressing lt Enter gt Directory A list of hard disk or diskette contents Desktop directories are represented by folder icons Folder
180. llow you to enter any standard DOS command 2 12 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP BASICS Enter a DOS command and select OK to display the Elixir Exec window and execute the DOS command from either of the following directories e the ELIXIR directory if no windows are open on the Desktop e the directory corresponding to the window if a window is open on the Desktop After the DOS command executes the system prompts you to enter any key to redisplay the Desktop See the Accessing DOS files and applications chap ter for additional ways to access DOS Exiting the Desktop You can exit the Desktop in any of the following ways Click on the Exit Box at top left of Desktop Press lt Alt gt lt F4 gt Press lt Alt gt lt X gt Select Exit from the File menu ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 13 3 Elixir folders This chapter describes the Elixir Desktop folder or ganization To better understand this chapter you should already be familiar with DOS directory structures Folders and DOS directories Directories and subdirectories are structures DOS uses to store and organize files Folder icons on the Desktop represent DOS directories or subdirectories Just as a DOS directory contains files and subdirecto ries Desktop folders contain files and other folders Using folder icons is easier than using DOS directo ries because you can display folder contents as icons in a window
181. lly overwrite existing files This option is applicable only when transforming form and LGO files to Elixir format Show properties before transformation Specifies default dialog box setup options for each file transformation type Pause after transformation Pauses after each transformation Stop process after Select when to stop processing Error stops a conversion when an error occurs All files processed stops conversion after processing all files 7 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Message Reporting Displays the Message Options dialog box which con tains the following options Wuite Mesceqes lo LUGE MELEXIRDESE TOPASYS TEM MESSAGE LOG Figure 7 4 Message Options Dialog dialog box Message Reporting Show messages after process Displays any error messages on screen after processing Message Reporting Write Messages to LOG file Writes any error messages to the file LOG en tered in the text box New Messages Overwrite LOG file Overwrites the previously created LOG file after processing New Messages Append to LOG file New error messages add tot he end of the previously created LOG file A maximum of 64 KB of text displays in the mes sage log window If message text exceeds this the message window displays empty and mes sages write to drive ELIXIR MESSOUT MSG which is viewable in any text editor File conversion procedures This
182. ls 8 2 8 12 View 2 10 Window C 10 message area 2 1 Message Options Dialog dialog box 4 13 4 15 7 7 10 3 Mirror dialog box 10 8 monochrome monitor setup 4 6 mouse 1 4 MVS host 7 28 9 1 O other Elixir application icons 2 4 Outline to raster font generator dialog box 4 12 7 63 Output folders Fonts 3 11 Forms 3 8 Graphics 3 14 structure 3 3 P Page Converter Options 7 11 7 80 Page Databasing dialog box 7 22 Page Font Change dia log box 10 6 Page Remap dialog box 10 4 Page Rotate dialog box 10 5 Page Shift dialog box 10 6 Page Source Converter 7 85 Page Source Converter Options dialog box 7 18 7 86 Pagedefs converting 7 92 PaintBrush 5 29 peripheral devices 6 1 PostScript printing 6 15 PostScript Converter 7 29 PostScript Converter Options dialog box 4 12 PostScript Converter Properties dialog box 7 29 PostScript mapping ta ble B 1 Print dialog box 5 8 6 7 6 12 6 15 6 16 Print Driver Dialog dialog box 6 9 printer specific AFP printer resolu tion 7 12 7 80 print drivers 7 25 7 28 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE INDEX 11 INDEX Printers icon 2 5 5 3 printing Elixir forms 6 6 printing non Elixir forms 6 10 proof printing 6 6 properties 4 5 Printer Properties dialog box 4 5 Printer Setup dialog box 6 10 Printers icon 2 5 5 3 printing Desktop folder con tents 5 7 Elixir forms 6 6 Elixir forms with hig
183. ly to conversions for the for mats specified When converting Elixir form files to OGL OVE or LOG formats output file names alter as follows OGL output file names truncate after six charac ters OVE and LOG output file names truncate af ter six characters and get a 01 prefix When converting to OGL the following messages display if you do not specify a default code page in the Desktop Basic Setup dialog box Error Cannot load ELIXIR Code Page xxxxxxx Error Unable to build default ASCII to EBCDIC table To access the Desktop Basic Setup dialog box pull down the System menu and click on System Config When converting an OVE form to Elixir format dashed and dotted lines box borders and individ ual lines convert to genned images and write to drive ELIXIR PICS GENIMAGE directory Also box borders thicker than 32 pels convert as lines not boxes This is due to the IBM overlay format where outlines larger than 32 pels convert to mul tiple lines instead of single thick lines 7 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Rasterized images such as paths rounded corner boxes and embedded segments are handled as bitmapped images and stored in drive ELIXR PICS GENIMAGE as LP3 files The LP3 file names contain the form name without the 01 prefix and a sequence number in positions seven and eight For example a file named 01TESTAA becomes TESTAA01 When you load the form in ElixirForm the image is
184. m creates an AFP file in the AFP Docs folder drive ELIXIR DOCS AFPOUT directory AFP Page Converter Options dialog box Options in this dialog box may or may not display de pending on your selections in the Form Converter Op tions dialog box Elixir Pages in Source directory for Elixir forms default is drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR Text Justification Applicable for conversions to OVE and OGL The de fault Inter Word justifies text by adding or deleting spaces between words This option reduces the com plexity of your form so the form prints faster Inter Character justifies text by adding or deleting spaces between characters This option makes the form more readable but extends printing time ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Rotate Pages Rotates the screen version of a form clockwise by the number of degrees selected If you converted Elixir forms to another format and now want to convert them back to Elixir format you must adjust the page rotation as follows Output rotation Input rotation 0 0 90 270 180 180 270 90 Output rotation is the rotation option selected when the original Elixir form was converted to another for mat Input rotation is the rotation option you should se lect when you convert the form back to Elixir format so the form displays correctly Resolution of AFP Printer Select your printer s resolution 240 Pels or 300 R Units When conve
185. n Printers icon Allows you to access a local proof printer connected to your PC Printers See the Additional Desktop features chapter and Local Printers appendix for more information Scanners icon Allows you to start a scanner connected to your PC di rectly from the Desktop Scanners See the Additional Desktop features and Peripheral devices chapters for more information e Dispatcher icon Allows you to invoke DOS commands or batch files in which you can embed replaceable parameters See the Additional Desktop features and Accessing DOS files and applications chapters for more infor mation ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 5 DESKTOP BASICS Converter icon Allows you to convert form font and graphics files and multi page documents to different formats by using simple drag and drop mouse operations Converter See the Additional Desktop features and File con versions chapters for more information Trashbin icon Allows you to delete folders and files associated with a Ld Aa specific directory or application Trashbin See the Deleting files and folders section for more information Viewer icon Allows you to view Elixir format files associated with an application without having to first launch the ap plication Viewer G See the Additional Desktop features chapter for more information Sub window menus The Elixir Desktop offers ad
186. n Send only Filename Create the batch file to perform the following e convert input Dispatcher files to the output format you previously set up in the Desktop e write an error log you can set the Scheduler desktop to check for the existence of the log and to pause or to transmit an error message if it ex ists e send files directly to the printer e delete any unwanted files on the PC Later this chapter describes more details about these actions 5 Set up the Scheduler Desktop by selecting Scheduler Setup from the Special menu or by pressing lt Alt gt lt F2 gt Make the appropriate selections in the Scheduler Setup dialog box shown in the following figure _ Ting dolay Beton scheduler taske Figure 5 13 Scheduler Setup dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 21 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES All Scheduler Activity Sets processing to Processing on or OFF for up to eight Scheduler actions Processing polls each Scheduler action to test it for a TRUE condition If a Scheduler action tests TRUE a consequent action results Task Scheduling by The processing mode ID Priority processes Sched uler actions using number 1 as the highest priority and number 8 as the lowest priority Circular proc essing processes Scheduler actions sequentially without priority Number of allowable scheduler tasks The number of Scheduler actions tested for when
187. name is retained Select Mapped to load and use the DEFAULT SAM ta ble in drive ELIXIR PICS MAPS to map page segment names Once compiled the page seg ments store inside the overlay For LOG you can use DEFAULT SAM to assign local four character identifier names for fonts re siding on the printer s disk For OGL you can use this table to assign DDNAMES to page segments You can change your target environment from MVS to VM by editing the drive ELIXIR DESKTOP SYSTEM AFP INI_ file included with the Desktop See the Changing your target environment from MVS to VM section for more information ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS In the Map table field enter the file name of the mapping table in drive ELIXIR PICS MAPS to use when you select Mapped in the Pseg As signment option DEFAULT SAM is the default CONTROL Builds the CONTROL statement used in OGL and LOG source files NOSTORE specifies that the form is not stored in a library STORE stores the form in a library REPLACE stores the form in a library and re places any existing forms with the same name ALL displays every message the system gener ated during processing WARN displays only the warning messages generated during processing ERROR displays only the error messages gen erated as a result of OGL 370 processing NOSUMMARY specifies that a summary does not display as part of the source listi
188. nd file name of the form s you are rotating Output Displays the destination directory and file name of the form s you are rotating Rotate Allows you to rotate the output forms with respect to the print direction of the input forms by the number of degrees you specify 0 90 180 or 270 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP 10 5 TRANSFORMATIONS Shift Displays the Page Shift dialog box which contains the following options Page Shift Figure 10 7 Page Shift dialog box Input Displays the directory and file name of the form s you are shifting Output Displays the destination directory and file name of the form s you are shifting Shift The number of dots you want the printed page shifted to the right Xshift or down Yshift FontChange Displays the Page Font Change dialog box which con tains the following options _CNELEUR FONT MAr PONTLIGT Figure 10 8 Page Font Change dialog box Input Displays the directory and file name of the form s to which you are changing the font ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION TRANSFORMATIONS Output Displays the destination directory and file name of the form s to which you are changing the font Font Map File Click on the FONTLIST button to select a LST font mapping file from the list of files in the drive ELIXIR directory Transforming Elixir images This section
189. ng SUMMARY displays a statistical summary as part of the source listing Formwidth Enter the FORMWIDTH command arguments di rectly For example 3600 PELS Formlength Enter the FORMLENGTH command arguments directly For example 3200 PELS Copies This option is valid in certain circumstances See your Comparex documentation for information Margin Enter the offset from the edge of the paper to the beginning of the printing area If you specify a margin value in the Form Control Block use the same value The default margin is 0 ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 89 FILE CONVERSIONS Sequence Numbers Appends 8 digit sequence numbers to output in columns 73 80 Delete Deletes the overlay from the printer s disk after use Deselect to save the overlay on the printer s disk Converting AFPDS to multiple Elixir forms To convert AFPDS files to Elixir 1 Copy the AFPDS data stream file to the Input AFP Docs folder and assign the extension AFP to the file Copy the file to the Converter icon and select Elixir Select the following options from the AFP Page Converter Options dialog box Figure 7 51 AFP Page Converter Options dialog box 4 Select the following options ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Rotate Pages Allows you to rotate the output forms with respect to the print direction of the input forms by the number of degrees you specify Resolution
190. ng the User Tools icon the Elixir Desktop loads an additional COMMAND COM program in system memory to en able returning to the Desktop The size of the pro gram file is about 11 KB If the batch file you want to start from the Desktop re quires a major portion of available memory the addi tional COMMAND COM file may not leave enough memory to run your batch file for example a Ventura Publisher chapter that contains many fonts and para graph tags consumes much memory ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 8 13 ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS To utilize the maximum amount of system memory start batch files as follows e f possible start the application directly without using a batch file e Do not select the Command is BAT File option in the User Application Setup dialog box and use an ASCII editor to add the following lines to the end of the batch file drive CD ELIXIR ELIXIR drive is the drive on which the Desktop installs e Use a commercially available memory manage ment program to remove unwanted memory resident programs from memory Add the com mand s required to remove the additional COMMAND COM program to the first line of your application batch file Select the Command is BAT File option in the User Application Setup dialog box Using the Dispatcher icon The Dispatcher icon allows you to specify up to 12 DOS commands with optional embedded replaceable parameters Copying a file t
191. ns Input ELX File The name of the input file form to be converted Output PDF Directory The output directory for the PDF file The default is drive ELIXIR DOCS PDFOUT DIR Allows you to browse and select a file from the Output PDF Directory Output PDF File The name of the output file When processing multiple files leave this option blank Substitute All Fonts MM Fonts Creates Multiple Master versions of all fonts in your job Requires that Elixir versions of the fonts are in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR Use this option when your document text consists mostly of alphanumeric information with common typefaces 7 34 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Converter scans each Elixir font in the form and in the PDF file embeds hints for generating Adobe Multiple Master instances Because these are vector fonts PDF file size is minimized To view the file you must have Adobe Type Manager 3 0 or newer installed Note that custom characters such as logos or special symbols fonts display as al phanumeric characters For documents containing fonts of this type see the Rasterize All Fonts or Use Font Mapping options described below Rasterize All Fonts Type 3 Fonts Embeds all form fonts in the PDF file as Adobe Type 3 raster fonts Requires that Elixir versions of the fonts are in drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR Used when most fonts in your form are special char acters or images
192. ns the drive let ter I You may want to create a directory on the Shared Folder drive for holding the resources you copy in the following example we use the ELXFOLD directory To create the directory pull down the System menu and select Make Directory or press lt CTRL gt lt Ms gt In the dialog that displays type I ELXFOLD Click on OK to create the new directory To copy resources to the new Shared Folder directory open the output folder for the resource you want to up load for example for overlays open the AFP OVE folder Select the resources and copy them to the User Files icon In the dialog box that displays enter ELXFOLD on a blank line and click on OK The resource s copy to the Shared Folder ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 15 FILE TRANSFER Installing the resources in the AFP libraries You must now move the resource file s from the Shared Folder into the temporary file and then refor mat them to AS 400 database format First move the resource from the Shared Folder to the temporary file by issuing the Copy From PC Document command at the AS 400 console session The syntax for the com mand is as follows CPYFRMPCD FROMFLR ELXFOLD TOFILE ELXLIB TEMP FROMDOC resource nam TRNTBL NONE where resource nam is the name of the resource file you are uploading Next reformat the resource into an AS 400 database object by issuing one of the following commands Note that t
193. nt to AFP then reconvert from AFP to either Elixir screen or HP PCL format and select Universal X0 from the AFP Font Converter dialog box Every font orientation X1 through X4 generates in the drive ELIXIR FONTS PRINTER directory AFP Font Converter Options dialog box This section describes all the options in the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box When converting AFP bounded or unbounded box fonts to Elixir screen format you should also convert the AFP code page to Elixir format The AFP Font Converter Options dialog box contains the following options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 39 FILE CONVERSIONS Figure 7 25 AFP Font Converter Options dialog box Text Direction Support Orientation to Assign Applicable when converting bounded box AFP fonts to Elixir format and bounded box AFP and Elixir AFP fonts to HP PCL format e Universal X0 creates one screen version of the font that ElixirForm can rotate when designing Elixir forms e Separate Fonts creates separate screen fonts for each rotation X1 X2 X3 X4 or all four screen font rotations Screen Fonts in Directory for screen fonts Default is ELIXIR FONTS SCREEN DEMO Resolution of AFP Printer Applicable when converting Elixir and HP PCL fonts to AFP 240 Pels or 300 R Units The image resizes for different resolutions Format of output files Output format for AFP fonts e VBM creates files for uploading to MVS hosts
194. nversions Glossary Index ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INTRODUCTION Installation See the Elixir for AFP Getting Started Guide for instal lation information Starting the Elixir Desktop To start the Desktop double click on the Elixir Suite for AFP icon in the Program Manager Elixir Applica tions window The Elixir Desktop displays Exit button zs Taniere Figure 1 1 Elixir Desktop If you are using a monochrome monitor and have diffi culty reading Title bar text select Usage Switches from the System menu Then in the Usage Switches dialog box select Monochrome Monitor ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 1 9 INTRODUCTION An Elixir logo may also display at the center of your screen The logo disappears when you press a key on the keyboard or a mouse button Note that you cannot move icons on the Desktop Exiting the Elixir Desktop To exit the Elixir Desktop or any of its associated applications Double click on the Close button at the top left of any Elixir application Press lt Alt gt lt F4 gt Press lt Alt gt lt X gt From the File menu and select Exit Click on the X at the top right corner of the appli cation window 1 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 2 Desktop basics This chapter describes the Elixir Desktop layout and basic operation Later chapters descr
195. o the Dispatcher icon substitutes the name of the file for the replaceable pa rameter and invokes the command The Dispatcher icon provides a convenient way to store commonly used DOS commands that you start using simple mouse operations Some examples of functions you can store and run using the Dispatcher icon are e DOS batch files e Elixir utilities or batch files 8 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS e Quick DOS operations such as the disk optimizer You can use the Dispatcher icon as follows e Copy one or more files to the Dispatcher icon and in the displayed dialog box select the batch com mand you want to run with the selected file s as replaceable parameter s e Open the Dispatcher icon enter a batch com mand and enter the name of the file you want to run as a parameter to the batch command Setting up Dispatcher commands To set up Dispatcher commands open the Dispatcher icon to display the Dispatcher Commands dialog box shown in the following figure SCRNFONT Z1 WYSE FNT7SHDR 21 YES SHOWELX Figure 8 8 Dispatcher Commands dialog box example The dialog box allows you to enter and display up to 12 DOS commands To enter a command select a line and type the command You can use a 1 replaceable parameter in the com m
196. of AFP Printer Allows you to select 240 Pels or 300 R Units When converting images to Elixir format the file is marked with the value you select When reconverting from Elixir to another image format you must again specify the printer resolution During conversion from Elixir format the image is resized as follows e f the Elixir file contains the resolution value to which you want to convert the file it does not resize e f the Elixir file contains a resolution value differ ent from the value to which you want to convert it resizes accordingly e If the Elixir file contains no mark it resizes if the Resolution of AFP Printer value is other than 300 R Units When converting an AFP page segment to Elixir for mat specify 240 pels When converting Elixir image files originally converted from AFP format specify 240 dpi to retain the size The conversion process creates one page Elixir forms in the Elixir Forms folder a DAT file in the Elixir Documents folder appropriate fonts in the Elixir Fonts folder see the Converting fonts section and the AFP font conversion considerations appendix for in formation and any images in the Elixir Image folder Font Type When converting to Elixir format Universal X0 cre ates call outs to X0 universal bounded box fonts in the Elixir form file Separate X1 X4 creates call outs that emulate unbounded box font types in the Elixir form file based on the following
197. on see the ElixirFont for AFP User Guide Bounded box and unbounded box fonts AFP fonts for IBM 3800 printers are unbounded box fonts A characteristic of unbounded box fonts is that for printing rotated fonts you need a separate font for each of the three available rotations of the font 0 90 and 270 from the inline print direction AFP fonts for IBM 3812 3820 3825 3827 and 3835 printers are bounded box fonts For printing rotated fonts on these printers you need only one version of the font that you rotate on the fly Additional filter options The Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts Input AFP Fonts 3800 AFP Fonts Output AFP Fonts and 3800 AFP Fonts window headers display additional options as shown in the following figure ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 1 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS Elba Suite for AEP Files in this folder 22 71866426 COD T1000424 C00 1606876 COD M66 z F A F T1861625 C0D T1090 F IB26 LOD TIDOBASECOD TIDCDCFS 7 TIV10273 C0D TIV10274 C0D TIV10275 C0D T1V10277 C00 TIV16273 COD F F F F F TIV1928G COD T41V10282 COD TIV10284 C0D T4V168288 COD T1V10297 COD TV16568 COD T1V18874 COD zs Tanien Figure D 1 Filter menu selections Show Character Sets Show Code Pages S
198. on starts the application and loads the file For example you can link all PCX file to the Windows PaintBrush program so that copying a PCX file to the Viewer icon starts PaintBrush and displays the PCX file ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES To link applications to file extensions use any ASCII editor to edit the ELX INI file in the drive WINDOWS directory You can also click the right mouse button on the Viewer icon to start Windows Notepad with ELX INI loaded In the file under the Viewer_Filemap section add lines in the following format extension application e extension is the file extension e application is the executable linked to extension For example PCX PBRUSH EXE This line links PCX files to the PaintBrush application Viewing Elixir image files The Viewer icon also display Elixir format images LP3 and screen graphics LW8 by copying the files to the icon You can copy the above files from any folder to the Viewer icon ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 27 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES ACK amp WHITE image Figure 5 17 Elixir image LP3 display example The Elixir Image Viewer application displays Elixir im ages or the screen versions of Elixir images in an im age window as shown in the above example From the File menu select Attributes to display infor mation about the image Print to print the ima
199. only Long Name Display files by name creation revision date and size in bytes Icon Display files as icons with names underneath Show Actual Display reduced bit mapped screen versions of Elixir form font and image files Allows you to preview files without invoking the application and loading the file Name Display files alphabetically by file name ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 2 11 DESKTOP BASICS Accessing Type Display files alphabetically by file type extension Date Display files by creation revision date Size Display files by size in bytes Ascending Display files in ascending order either by name or type alphabetically with A first by date chronologi cally with oldest date first or by size smallest file first Descending Display files in descending order either by name or type alphabetically with A last by date chronologi cally with latest date first or by size largest file first Settings Displays the Local View dialog box which summarizes the file view settings for the open folder View changes in this dialog box override global view settings You can apply view settings to all Desktop folders us ing the Global View dialog box See the Elixir folders chapter for more information DOS The DOS menu allows you to run DOS commands from the Desktop Selecting the DOS Command option or pressing lt Ctrl gt lt D gt displays a dialog box to a
200. ons appendix for more information e PC Mapped Font creates a PC mapped or sub set version of an AFP font Use this option if the font will be converted to a format that uses ASCII based fonts e g Xerox Centralized or you will be converting forms using this font to full page images or using one of Elixir s PreProcessor products to convert a datastream to PDF ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 41 FILE CONVERSIONS Keep ASCII Mapped Font An ASCII Mapped font or PC Mapped font is an in termediate font file used for generating screen for use in ElixirForm and HP proof printer fonts It con tains only those characters from the AFP character set that match those in the selected Country Keyboard map KMP file Keeps the PC mapped font file after a conversion Deselected to automatically delete the file after a con version does not affect the generation of screen fonts Set MCIR Flag Sets a flag in your font file which says that this font can be used with magnetic ink character recognition MCIR printers Country Keyboard Map Displays the Browse Country Keyboard Map dialog box The selected KMP file name displays on the but ton when you click on OK Notify on mismatch Provides a notice when an original font code page does not match one in the Keyboard Map file You can select a keyboard mapping file from the list of files that reside in the drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS di rectory See the AFP font
201. onts map ping table PSFONT MAP a file containing a mapping between the PostScript name and DOS file name for each font When this option is not selected the fonts mapping table does not include the PostScript font name Keep Left Kern Select this option the default to keep left kerning in formation for left kerned characters When this option is deselected you delete left kerning and create a width table in the drive ELIXIR FONTS TABLES di rectory containing width height offset left and right kerning and ASCII index values for each font charac ter The width table has the same name as the font file and has a TFB file extension Information in TFB files allows you to build a left kern ing table for using the font in non Elixir environments Check for size limit Ensures that the generated font size is within your printer s size limit 64k and 128k truncate the font at the specified limit and issue an error message None generates the font regardless of size ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 65 FILE CONVERSIONS Creating a screen font larger than 128 KB may result in errors See your printer manual for printer font size limits Darken characters Due to the limitation of some printers small fonts may print lightly To compensate for the problem use Darken RT to darken horizontally when printing in portrait orientation and Darken DN to darken verti cally when printing in landscape orientation
202. op operations ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 1 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Opening icons Opening an icon typically starts a corresponding appli cation or causes a window or dialog box to display showing properties related to the icon In most cases you can modify the properties displayed to affect the performance of the object represented by the icon You can open an icon in any of the following ways e Double click on it e Click on it and press lt Enter gt e Click on it and select Open from the File menu The following sections describe the results of opening various icons Opening a folder icon When you open a Forms Fonts Images or Docu ments folder icon a window showing the contents of the folder displays Each folder typically comprises one or more sub folders containing files Note that each folder corresponds to a DOS directory Opening Elixir files Elixir files are generic Elixir format files that you ac cess from the Desktop Elixir folders and include e Elixir format form files in the Elixir Forms folder drive ELIXIR FORMS e Elixir format font files in the Elixir Fonts folder drive ELIXIR FONTS e Elixir format graphics files in the Elixir Graphics folder drive ELIXIR IMAGES e Elixir format document files in the Elixir Docu ments folder drive ELIXIR DOCS 5 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES When you open an Elixir file
203. opying files from a DOS Elixir format diskette To copy files from a DOS Elixir format diskette open W the Diskette icon on the Desktop to display a System 1 Diskette dialog box Diskette 5 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES Select enter the following information then click on OK Directory on Diskette to open Drive to copy files from Diskette Drive The identifier for your disk drive Diskette Type DOS Elixir copies files from an Elixir diskette Diskette Access For READing A window displays showing the contents of the en tered directory Select the file then copy the files to a target icon on the Desktop Copying files from Output to Input folders To copy one or more files from an Elixir Output folder to a corresponding Input folder 1 Select the output file s from the Output folder 2 Copy the file s to the destination Elixir icon on the Desktop The selected file s copy into the appropriate In put folder You cannot copy files directly from the Output Docu ments folder to the Input Documents folder Instead you must copy them to the User Files icon and then enter the path for the appropriate Document Input folder in the User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box that displays Note also that you cannot copy files from an Input folder to an Output folder Copying Elixir form files To copy a form file and all associated elements use th
204. or X4 to create different screen font rotations ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 43 FILE CONVERSIONS Select Universal X0 to create a single screen font which ElixirForm can rotate The Text Direction Support option is disabled for unbounded box fonts The orientation of the font you are converting is the orientation of the output font See the AFP font conversion considerations ap pendix for more information Create Select the font type to create e PC Mapped Font generates an Elixir font from a partial subset of the AFP font for use with Elixir Form also generates HP PCL fonts for proof printing Use this option if you do not want to re convert the Elixir font back to AFP format See the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box sec tion for more information e Full AFP Font converts the entire AFP font and generates an Elixir version of the coded font character set and code page This option should be used if you plan to reconvert the Elixir font back to AFP format Keep ASCII Mapped Font Creates a PC mapped font file after an AFP to Elixir conversion Deselect the default to auto matically delete the file after a conversion When converting AFP fonts to Elixir fonts the gener ated font components have the following file prefixes character sets begin with C coded fonts begin with X and code pages begin with T Character set file extensions may or may not generate and will var
205. or fonts converted from unbounded box PC mapped Elixir fonts are named X HDR and must not be used for conversions to AFP format You can convert Elixir bounded box fonts to AFP bounded or unbounded box fonts In the displayed AFP Font Converter Options dialog box select the following the printer resolution normally 240 pels for AFP printers the output format depending on your AFP host if converting to unbounded box fonts select the rotation X1 X2 or X4 Note that 3800 printers do not support X3 the BACK rotation ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Full AFP Font the AFP Font Related Con verter Options dialog box displays Loded Font XO CNUMS Frivi0037 CO CHUMS Code Boge Cha Set Sion Confmalion amp Continue Figure 7 35 AFP Font Related Converter Options dialog box This dialog box shows the character set name to convert the coded font name based on the char acter set name and the default code page you specified in the Desktop System Configuration dialog box You can change the code page and coded font names if desired Initially the default code page specified in the Desktop Basic Setup dialog box accessed by pulling down the System menu and selecting System Config displays If you change the code page in the Font Components dialog box the code page you enter generates for the current conversion and
206. or other folders If Confirm File Deletions is selected in the Desktop Usage Switch Settings dialog box accessed from the System menu a confirmation prompt displays show ing the name of the file Properties lt F2 gt Allows you to view or set specifications in dialog boxes for files the System Diskette the converter dispatcher and attached scanners and printers Print lt Ctri gt lt P gt Selecting properties for the Diskette icon displays the System Diskette dialog box described in the Desktop basics and Peripheral devices chapters Selecting properties for the Converter icon dis plays the Converter Properties dialog box de scribed in the File conversions chapter Selecting properties for the Dispatcher icon dis plays the Dispatch Commands dialog box de scribed in the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter Selecting properties for the Scanners icon dis plays the User Application Setup dialog box de scribed in the Peripheral devices chapter Selecting properties for the Printers icon displays the Print dialog box described in the Local print ers appendix Sends one or more selected files to the default Win dows printer and port See the Local printers appen dix for more information Print Directory Listing Prints the directory listing for the open Desktop folder C4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP MENU BAR View Formats
207. orientation by the num ber of dots specified The offset value displays in the unit of measurement selected in the Units option The default unit is pels so offset values converted to inches or millimeters may be slightly off due to round ing errors You can edit the value displayed if necessary Vertical is applicable for converting to AFP format Shifts output down for portrait orientation and shifts output right for a landscape orientation by the number of dots specified The offset value displays in the unit of measurement selected in the Units option The de fault unit is pels so offset values converted to inches or millimeters may be slightly off due to rounding er rors You can edit the value displayed if necessary Fonts Displays the MCF Fonts dialog box which contains the following options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 83 FILE CONVERSIONS MCF Fonts Er Eo l n gt n acte Mapping File Name beeem l E lixis Fonts Maps Default fam i i HEEE HEEE EEEE HEEE EEE EEE AEA cece cece cece Figure 7 48 MCF Fonts dialog box MCF 1 Uses Map Coded Font Format 1 MCF 1 struc tured fields in the resulting output file MCF 1 is IBM s original AFP font specification and AFP ar chitecture supports it as a coexistence object MCF 1 has been superseded by MCF 2 but is still valid MCF 2 Uses Map Coded Font Format 2 structured fields in the resulting
208. ormat files for uploading to MVS hosts using IBM 3270 IRMA FT 3270 or compatible file transfer packages AS400 creates AFP format files for uploading to AS400 hosts IRMA creates AFP format files for uploading to MVS hosts using the IRMA FTTSO and compatible file transfer packages OS 2 creates AFP format files for use with PSF 2 DOS VSE creates AFP format files for uploading to DOS VSE hosts Font Type When converting to Elixir format Universal X0 creates call outs to XO universal bounded box fonts in the Elixir form file Separate X1 X4 creates callouts that emulate un bounded box font types in the Elixir form file based on the following text direction Across X1 is called out text direction Down X2 is called out text direction Back X3 is called out text direction Up X4 is called out When converting AFP and OVE format forms to Elixir format if the form contains call outs for XO fonts the Separate X1 X4 option is not effective Font call outs in the Elixir form remain XO call outs regardless of the font type option selected When outputting fonts to AFP or OVE and back to Elixir format if fonts in your form are all one direction and or you do not want the two digit AFP prefix ad ded select No AFP Prefix Deselect No AFP Prefix if you have mixed directional fonts in your form and plan on proof printing See the Font requirements for an HP compatible printer sec tion for
209. oted by a plus sign be tween keys For example lt Shift gt lt F1 gt indicates to simultaneously press the lt Shift gt and the lt F1 gt keys e Menu titles are shown in bold Menu options are enclosed in square brackets For example Select New from the File menu ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 1 3 INTRODUCTION e Commands options actions and parameters that require description are shown in bold fol lowed on the next line by the description For ex ample Delete Deletes the selected files e Steps in a procedure are shown in numbered bold paragraphs For example 1 At the prompt enter the file name and extension Comments relating to a step such as this para graph are shown in regular text following the bold paragraph e Commands you enter at the DOS prompt are shown in larger text Within DOS commands variable names and keys you press are shown in italics For example CD ELIXIR lt Enter gt Mouse operations You can perform most operations in Elixir applications by using the mouse The terminology is similar to other Windows based applications Mouse operations are performed using the left or right mouse buttons depending on the specific task The following mouse related terms are used in this guide click to momentarily press and release the left mouse but ton once A right mouse button click is specified where necessary For example Click on the right mous
210. output file MCK 2 is recom mended for MO DCA compliance Default Converter looks in the file entered in the Charac ter Mapping File Name option for individual font handling instructions If an entry is found for a font used in the original Elixir form or document the RTYPE keyword format is used else the font using the coded font name in a MCF 1 structures field record is used default Coded Font Name Converter writes all font references using the coded font name Charset Code Page Name Converter writes all font references using a char acter set code page pair The original font s char acter set and code page are referenced for fonts originating in the AFP environment 7 84 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The six character assigned Elixir name generates the character set name and the code page comes from the Default Code Page option in the Desktop Basic Setup dialog box for non AFP fonts Outline Converter writes all font references using PSF outline font parameters only valid for Adobe Type 1 or True Type fonts You must set up font fam ily name references in your AFP font mapping file before selecting this option If no font matches are found the character set and code page names are used To set up font family name references open your font mapping file default is drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS DEFAULT FAM then follow the instructions in the Font Family Descriptors section
211. ow all formats to which Elixir Desktop products can be converted 3 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS Fonts folder The Fonts folder corresponds to the drive ELIXIR FONTS directory and contains the Elixir Fonts Input Fonts and Output Fonts folders as shown in the fol lowing figure Elixir Fonts input Fonts Output Fonts Figure 3 10 Fonts Folders window Elixir Fonts folder The Elixir Fonts folder corresponds to the DOS drive ELIXIR FONTS ELIXIR subdirectory and dis plays Elixir format font file names with HDR exten sions You can edit these files using ElixirFont by opening double clicking on the files See the Elixir Font User Guide for more information Although only HDR extension files display each Elixir format font consists of three files having the same stem name but different extension as follows e HDR the font header file e GLH the glyph character header file e GLY the glyph character bitmap file The GLH and GLY files are also in the drive ELIX IR FONTS ELIXIR subdirectory but do not display in the window You can display all three components if you open the subdirectory using the User Files icon described in the Accessing DOS files and applica tions chapter of this guide When you copy a font from the Elixir Fonts folder us ing the Desktop copy operation copying to a diskette for example all three file components copy
212. p select the How to Use Help option in the Help menu or see your Microsoft Windows documentation The Help files included with your Elixir software in clude graphics created using screen drivers with large fonts If you use a screen driver with small fonts the Help file graphics may not display clearly For opti mum graphics display use a screen driver with large fonts You can display on line Help in the following ways Bubble Help Click on an icon with the right mouse button to view its properties if applicable or to display bubble help Bubble help is a short description of the icon function that displays in a bubble extending from the icon Quick Help Enable the quick function by selecting the quick help option in the Usage Switches or Preferences for Elixirlmage dialog box When you move the screen pointer over an icon on the screen a short description of the icon function displays in the message area of the screen During certain operations a message about the function you are performing also displays in the message area To see these operational mes sages disable quick help Context sensitive Help To use this function click on an icon and press lt F1 gt If available the appropriate Help topic displays If no specific topic is available the Help table of contents displays Help menu Select Help from the top pull down menu and choose one of the displayed topics ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATI
213. page sections display as T1xxxxxx COD files in the Elixir fonts folder Conversion to SCREEN Windows or HP PCL fonts is for future implementation Converting double byte Elixir fonts to AFP format To convert double byte Elixir fonts to AFP format 1 Copy the font XOxxxxxx CDF file to convert to the Converter icon The Font Converter Options dialog box displays Font Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR E ligir Screen Windows HP PCL AFP Bounded AFP Unbounded 3800 ATM Type3 Figure 7 29 Font Converter Options dialog box 2 Select either AFP Bounded or AFP Unbounded 3800 then click on OK The AFP Font Converter Options dialog box dis plays 7 46 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS ee y y o tric ss Screen Fonts WE ban FON S G0 BEES DI MO Becoltion of APP Printer gt 240 Pels _ 300 R Undts Eoral of output Hes YEM Figure 7 30 AFP Font Converter Options dialog box 3 Select Full AFP Font then click on OK until all dialog boxes close The font outputs to either drive ELIXIR FONTSS I38OUT bounded drive ELIXIR FONTSS AFPOUT unbounded Converting fonts to HP PCL format To convert fonts to HP PCL format 1 Copy the font file s to the Converter icon The Font Converter Options dialog box displays 2 Select HP PCL and click on OK The HP Font Converter Options dialog box
214. patible with Bitstream Facelift in drive ELIXIR FONTS CONTOURS the Outline Contour Fonts folder If not already installed you can install Bitstream Facelift fonts on your PC 1 Select Install Fonts from the Desktop Special menu 2 Insert the first Bitstream Facelift diskette into your diskette drive and follow the on screen instructions Once installed you can generate up to 6 point sizes of a font each time you use the Efont Factory 7 62 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Efont factory also allows you to e generate whole or partial character sets e generate different font resolutions e automatically generate font names e perform additional transformations such as font rotation and darkening when generating Xerox fonts e map to standard Windows character sets You can display the Contours fonts window by double clicking the Outline Fonts icon by selecting Efont Factory from the Special menu or by typing lt Alt gt lt E gt The following figure shows the Input Contour Fonts folder window AIP i i DUR D via i Swiss72 HarrowObliqueSWs 645 bytes 44 Sep 1996 4 18 20 pm 2 E Swiss721 HarrowBoldSwWA 637 bytes 14 Sep 1998 4 18 24 pm Swiss721 NarrowBoldOblique 660 bytes 44 Sep 1998 4 18 26 pm R ITC Zapf Chancery Mediumh 666 bytes 44 Sep 1999 4 18 30 pm W ITE Zapf Dingbats SWA 643 bytes 44 Sep 1998 4 18 32 pm L Century Schoolbook SWA 646 bytes 44 Sep 1999 4 18
215. pecify a Type 1 font you must enter it exactly as it appears in the Adobe Type Manager Installed ATM Fonts window If you want to view the resulting PDF file on another PC the chosen font must also be available through ATM on the target machine MAP Press this button to browse and select other files re siding on the Font Mapping Table KMP Map Table Uses a customized mapping table to control transla tion of PDF file keystrokes The name entry box dis plays the specific mapping file to be used for the conversion The default file is drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS X1000437 KMP U S See the ElixirForm for AFP User Guide and ElixirFont for AFP User Guide for more information KMP Press this button to browse and select other files re siding on the Keyboard Country Mapping Table See the ElixirForm User for AFP Guide and ElixirFont for AFP User Guide for more information Converting forms to Elixir images To convert or rasterize a form to an Elixir image LP3 file in drive ELIXIR PICS PRINTER select the Images option in the Form Converter Options dialog box The Image Converter Options dialog box dis plays You can specify the image resolution as 240 or 300 dpi the default ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Using FGIDs in a form To use FGIDs in a form select the fonts and create a new FAM file or edit the DEFAULT FAM file as follows 1 Identify the FGIDs for the selected fonts and find
216. plex printing when the top of one side of the page is printed in the same position as the bottom of the other side of the page Highlighted A highlighted option appears darkened on the screen and indicates that it is selected Icon A small roughly rectangular shaped symbol on the Desktop that represents an application a file a folder or a peripheral device Importing files The process of copying non Elixir format files from different storage media such as a hard disk a diskette or tape to the appropriate Desk top input folder or to the Work area Information box A white square at the right of the menu bar identified with an i Clicking on the infor mation box displays information about the open Elixir Desktop application Inverse Landscape The orientation of fonts logos or images on a page See the definition for portrait for a figure describing the orientation of fonts on pages Inverse Portrait The orientation of fonts logos or images on a page See the definition for portrait for a figure describing the orientation of fonts on pages Kerning Adjusting the spacing between characters to make certain letters appear better fitted together and more attractive on the page Keyboard shortcut Also called Fast keys A special one or two key combination that allows you to exe cute an option without using the mouse Keyboard shortcuts are shown on each menu beside the name of the option and are listed in the
217. printing 6 8 Elixir HP Driver dialog box 6 13 Elixir Image Viewer 5 30 Elixir Publication File dialog box 5 18 Elixir Web site creating icon for 8 8 ElixirDoc icon 7 96 ElixirFont installation 1 9 ElixirForm font default 5 31 ElixirForm icon 2 4 ELX2VSE utility 7 94 Enter Path of Directory to Create dialog box 4 11 exiting the Desktop 1 10 Extra Converter Options dialog box 7 72 extracting files from AS 400 9 18 F fast keys A 1 A 4 FGIDs 7 20 7 36 7 88 File Formats dialog box 5 7 File menu 5 1 C 1 File Name Entry dialog box 5 7 File Object Properties dialog box 5 5 file transfer AS 400 9 14 configuration 9 2 converting fonts 9 3 downloading AFP files 9 7 downloading text files 9 7 from the host 9 2 initial setup 9 2 input directories 9 4 object files 9 7 output directories 9 5 OVE AFPDS files 9 3 overview 9 1 to the host 9 5 uploading AFP files 9 7 uploading text files 9 8 using IBM 3270 9 6 using IRMA FT 3270 9 6 using IRMA FT TSO 9 9 using the Loader 9 20 files INDEX 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INDEX BAK 3 6 BAT 8 14 COM 8 14 8 15 DAT 7 4 DCK 7 94 ELX 7 2 7 4 FAM 7 20 7 36 7 88 HDR 7 3 INV 3 6 KMP D 5 LOG 7 22 LP3 7 3 7 36 7 72 OGL 7 22 PCX 5 29 7 75 PUB 3 6 5 17 SYS 8 2 TDF B 2 TFB 7 64 B 2 TIF 7 75 TXT 7 72 access alternatives 4 8 AFPDS 7 90 AUTOEXE
218. put form files write to folders in the Output Forms folder 7 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Fonts folder Images folder be Images The Input Fonts folder comprises folders containing non Elixir font files you can convert to other formats To convert a non Elixir font you must copy it to the appropriate folder in the Input Fonts folder The Elixir Fonts folder contains Elixir format font HDR files When you create Elixir Fonts or convert font files to Elixir format files write to this folder When you convert font files from the Input Fonts folder to any non Elixir format or when you convert Elixir fonts from the Elixir Fonts folder the resulting output font files write to folders in the Output Fonts folder The Input Images folder comprises folders containing non Elixir image files you can convert to other for mats To convert a non Elixir image you must copy it to the appropriate folder in the Input Images folder The Elixir Images folder contains Elixir format image LP3 files When you create Elixir images or convert image files to Elixir format files write to this folder When you convert image files from the Input Images folder to any non Elixir format or when you convert Elixir images from the Elixir Images folder the result ing output files write to folders in the Output Images folder ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 3 FILE CONVERSIONS Documents fo
219. rase in a menu that you can select Peripheral device A printer scanner or tape drive connected to your PC Point To move the mouse so the screen pointer in most cases an arrow rests on the desired item Portrait The orientation of a page or the fonts lo gos or images on a page A portrait page is narrower on top than on the side like pages in this book See the following figure for the orientation of fonts on pages ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE GLOSSARY 5 GLOSSARY Portrait Landscape v 2m is E us S fi advospur asiaauy Inverse Portrait yeod adedspur asiaauy HIVIFIOT SIBAUT Orientation of fonts on Portrait left and Landscape pages Printer icon An icon representing a proof printer con nected to your PC Pull down menu See menu Raster graphics Pictures composed of bit maps where each element of the picture is a dot defined as black or white Replaceable parameter A parameter usually 1 used in commands to represent a selected file name The selected file name replaces the parameter during certain operations Run To execute or start an application Scanner icon The icon representing a scanner con nected to your PC Screen pointer A pointer shaped like an arrow that displays on the screen and which you can move by rolling the mouse on a flat surface Screen version The version of a color or font com posed such that its appearance on a screen d
220. rite Selection When you use Write Selection for files accessed from a Desktop folder Jobs Forms Fonts Graphics or Documents icon use Reselect to highlight files with the same stem name and the same or different extensions in another folder Select All lt Ctrl gt lt A gt Highlight all files in a window Unselect All lt Ctrl gt lt A gt Deselect all highlighted files in a window Make Pubfile Copy highlighted drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR and subordinate directory form files to a diskette See the Additional Desktop features chapter for more information Archive Pubfile See Make Pubfile above The following figure shows the View menu and an ex ample of viewing files using the Show Actual option 2 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP BASICS Elsu Desktop Files in this folder 20 i T Diskatie a wie HEG7BL HOR HEG7BP HDR HE G7HL HDR HE O7HP HOR HE HEO70P HDR HE OSBL HOR HE GSBP HDR HE GSHL HDR HE HETIBLHOR HETIBP HOR HEIZOL HDR HEIZOP HOR HE HEV BR HDR HE24BL HOR HE248P HOR SVI2HLHDR SVI2HP HDR Aas SS oe ees Soothers Testis Figure 2 6 Show Actual example The View menu allows you to display files in a window in different ways The available options are Short Name Display files by name
221. rlay OVE ELIXIR FORMS OVEIN Page SEG ELIXIR PICS SEGIN segment Uploading files Note the following before uploading files from your PC to an MVS host Uploading with IBM 3270 or IRMA FT 3270 If your version of IBM 3270 and IRMA FT 3270 does not create host datasets as part of the file transfer procedure allocate a host dataset with the following DCB parameters RECFM VBM LRECL 8205 BLKSIZE 8209 Uploading with IRMA FT TSO IRMA FT TSO requires that your object format AFP files all except OGL files be fixed length record files To generate the correct fixed length record files se lect IRMA as the output format in the appropriate AFP Converter Options dialog box Once on the host 9 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE TRANSFER the files break up into VBM format using IEBGENER see the Using IRMA FT TSO section in this chapter Fonts If you have modified the bit maps of characters in a font and have not modified code page files or coded font files it is only necessary to upload the character set file to your host computer Output directory information The following table shows the directory to which each AFP file writes after conversion by the Elixir Desktop File type Extension Output directory Font any ELIXIR FONTS I380UT unbounded box fonts Font any ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT bounded box fonts AFPDS AFP ELIXIR DOCS AFPOUT Overlay OVE ELIX
222. rm the following font operations e convert AFP and double byte AFP fonts to Elixir format e convert Elixir fonts to HP PCL Windows and Screen formats e convert Contour outline fonts to Elixir HP PCL Windows and Screen formats e convert ATM and TrueType fonts to Elixir HP PCL and Screen formats e generate Elixir non Elixir and Screen fonts To convert all other fonts select and copy either the HDR font components from the Elixir Fonts folder or fonts from the Input Fonts folder to the Converter icon The Font Converter Options dialog box dis plays Font Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR Output _ Elixir Screen Windows HP PCL AFP Bounded AFP Unbounded 3800 ATM Type3 Figure 7 24 Font Converter Options dialog box The Font Converter Options dialog box contains the following options Input Format The format of the font selected for conversion 7 38 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Output The font s output format s Font requirements for an HP or compatible printer If you plan on proof printing your form using an HP or compatible printer you must have every font orienta tion X1 through X4 present on conversion The following explains how to create X1 through X4 fonts after converting a contour font from the Outline Fonts folder to Elixir screen or HP PCL font format To create every font orientation you must first convert the fo
223. rmat file to the format you want The converted file writes to the appropriate Output folder ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 3 3 ELIXIR FOLDERS 6 Open the Output folder and copy the converted file to the desired location The File conversions chapter in this guide describes this procedure in more detail The following sections describe the different Elixir In put and Output folders Changing folder display You can modify Elixir folder display and apply these changes to all folders global or only to the currently open local folder To change the global folder view 1 Select Global View from the Special menu The Global View dialog box displays Figu 2 Click on the button in the bottom of the dialog box until GLOBAL displays default is LOCAL 3 Select display characteristics then click on OK To change a local folder view 3 4 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS 1 Open the Elixir folder you want to change 2 Select Settings from the View menu The Local View dialog box displays Short _ Leng Name Figure 3 6 Local View dialog box 3 Select display characteristics then click on OK Forms folder The Desktop Forms folder corresponds to the drive ELIXIR FORMS directory and contains the Elixir Forms Input Forms and Output Forms folders shown in the following figure Elixir forms input
224. rocedures 7 94 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Prerequisite software levels VSE ESA APAR PL77851 in PTF UN06427 VSE SP V4 APAR PL76660 in PTF UL92181 VSE SP V3 APAR PL77268 in PTF UL89813 Using ELX2VSE You can run ELX2VSE e as a DOS command line utility e as a utility executed from the Elixir Dispatcher icon Running ELX2VSE as a DOS command line utility To execute type the following from the drive ELIXIR command prompt ELX2VSE_ full path name jfilename ext lt Enter gt Running ELX2VSE from the Elixir Dispatcher icon To set up a Dispatcher utility see the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter To execute select the resource s to convert drag them down to the Dispatcher icon and select the ELX2VSE utility Deleting converted input files After converting files the input files you copied to the Converter icon remain highlighted in the window To save disk space you may want to delete the high lighted file s ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 95 FILE CONVERSIONS Confirming file conversion ElixirDoc To confirm file conversion close the input folder in which you selected files to convert Open each Output folder in which the converted file s generate and check the contents of the folder You may find it easier to find the files you want if you display the contents of the window by date The most recently created files display at t
225. rting fonts to Xerox and HP formats The TrueType Fonts Attributes dialog box dis plays with the following options Selected Fonts Ee p Font Output Fonts 3 ex C Custom Name Auto Name Name P ba cm cy Sample text z Character set mapping TUVWXYZ Range lt TE DEC gt HEX ASC _ Map font Target XIDUANSI Windows _i00sNSI Orientation Portrait C Inv Portrait C Landscape C Inv Landscape DPI Hor f0 Style _ italic _ Bold _ findedined Bverstike Vert 0 vi Gren for Poou use Algerian Figure 7 33 TrueType Fonts Attributes dialog box Selected Fonts The name of the font you want to convert Size The point size for the converted file The Desktop does not output scaleable TrueType fonts so you must create all desired sizes 7 52 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Output Font Custom Name The font prefix as specified in the Custom Name text block If a font with the specified prefix exists the system prompts for a different prefix Output Font Auto Name The system generated name based upon the font name and point size The naming convention for half point sizes uses alpha characters in the third position of the name to represent the point size For example A 1 point B 2 points C 3 points through Z 26 points The auto name for an Arial 10 5 normal font is ARJSNP AR
226. rting forms to Elixir format the program marks the file with the value you select When reconverting from Elixir to another format you must specify the printer resolution for resizing as follows e f the Elixir file contains the resolution value to which you want to convert the file it does not resize e If the Elixir file contains a resolution value differ ent from the value to which you want to convert it resizes accordingly e Ifthe Elixir file contains no mark it resizes if the Resolution of AFP Printer value is other than 300 R Units When converting an Elixir form originally converted from AFP format specify 240 Pels to retain the size Format of output files Select the output format for AFP file s ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 81 FILE CONVERSIONS VBM creates AFP format files for uploading to MVS hosts using IBM 3270 IRMA FT 3270 or compatible file transfer packages AS400 creates AFP format files for uploading to AS400 hosts IRMA creates AFP format files for uploading to MVS hosts using the IRMA FTTSO and compatible file transfer packages OS 2 creates AFP format files for use with PSF 2 DOS VSE creates AFP format files for uploading to DOS VSE hosts Font Type When converting to Elixir format Universal X0 creates call outs to XO universal bounded box fonts in the Elixir form file Separate X1 X4 creates callouts that emulate un bounded box font
227. ry day at the time specified by Time Time When testing for passage of a specified time enter the hours minutes and seconds you want the Sched uler action processed Action to take Select Dispatch and enter the number of the Dis patcher command to process the Dispatcher com mand Usertool to process the user tool or BATch File to process the batch file specified in Name After action Delete Files deletes files after the Scheduler action Task processing OFF turns processing off after the action and None specifies that the Scheduler contin ues processing for further actions Please note the following Scheduler operation conditions e The Scheduler Desktop pauses during key strokes mouse clicks or movements menu pull down operations and dialog displays but ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 5 23 ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES DEL resumes polling after an allotted time delay once these actions end To operate the Scheduler with the DateTime op tion select the System Config option in the Sys tem menu and set the system clock on Clock On in the Desktop Configuration dialog box that displays To reset the Scheduler functions to defaults en ter the following command at the DOS prompt ELIXIR DESKTOP SYSTEM DISPATCH SRV lt Enter gt The Scheduler Desktop is single tasking and you should operate it on a dedicated workstation You can accomplish Full Scheduler operations wit
228. s 7 3 7 37 for Hybrid D 14 form list files to AFP 7 77 7 79 form to graphics 7 36 Formdef reources 7 92 forms 7 2 7 9 7 32 general 7 1 graphics to a font 7 72 HP PCL files 7 28 HP PCL fonts 7 46 HP PCL to AFP 7 53 images 7 71 images to from AFP 7 72 outline fonts 7 61 page segmenis 7 72 Pagedef resources 7 92 PDF 7 32 PostScript 7 28 procedures 7 8 setup parameters 7 4 to from AFP 7 9 to VB 9 9 to VBM 9 13 using DOSVSE 7 93 using ELX2VSE 7 94 copying files 5 11 8 12 Country Keyboard Map 4 4 7 61 D 5 country keyboard map 7 41 CPGID 7 37 creating a PUB file 5 17 character set 7 58 coded font 7 57 customer support 1 2 INDEX 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION INDEX customizing the Desk top 4 1 4 4 D Data Jobs Elixir folders 3 19 Date amp Time dialog b 4 3 DDNAMES 7 19 7 87 DEFAULT FAM 7 36 default code page D 9 deleting files 7 95 Desktop archival feature 5 17 basics 2 1 Clipboard 2 4 confirm file dele tions 4 5 customizing 4 1 4 4 DOS menu 2 12 8 24 C 10 exiting 1 10 features additional 5 1 File menu 5 1 C 1 folders 2 3 3 1 Help menu C 11 icons 2 2 keyboard shortcuts A 1 layout 2 1 menu bar 2 1 4 1 C 1 message area 2 1 resetting 4 15 Scheduler Desktop 5 21 Special menu 4 1 5 1 C 8 starting 1 9 system configura tion 4 2 System menu 4 1 5 1 C 6 toolsets 4 16 user privileg
229. s icon After confirming that the information in the User Application Setup dialog box is correct click on OK to start the scanner application See your scanner user manual for information on con figuring your system for your scanner Proof printing This section describes information required for print ing form files on local proof printers attached to your PC The local printer option uses the installed Windows print drivers To print a file copy it to the Printers icon on the Desktop select Print from the File menu or press lt Ctrl gt lt P gt The Elixir Desktop supports local printing as follows e You can print Elixir forms on a HP PCL printer connected to your PC and configured in Windows e When printing non Elixir non ASCII files you can either specify a binary copy operation to the printer port or specify a user defined print driver e You can print ASCII text files or formatted data streams if the proof printer connected to your PC can correctly interpret the files or data streams e You can print PostScript using either the Elixir PostScript converter or a Windows PostScript driver 6 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES e You can print highlight shading as different gray shades on Elixir forms that contain highlight color Printing Elixir forms You can add change or delete printer drivers for printing Elixir forms from the Windows Control Panel You can
230. s printer drivers default or by selecting the Elixir HP print driver Using the Elixir HP print driver produces optimized output files that are significantly smaller than those produced by Windows drivers yet produce identical printer output For information on selecting the Elixir HP print driver as the default see the Peripheral de vices chapter Leave the Elixir HP print driver deselected to use the Windows HP PCL print driver Converting using the Elixir HP print driver To select the Elixir HP print driver as default 1 Right click on the Converter icon The Converter Properties dialog box displays Converter Properties Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFP PostScript Font Converters AFP_ Image Converters Figure 7 12 Converter Properties dialog box 2 Click on the Converter Properties button 7 24 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS The Converter Properties Dialog dialog box displays Figure 7 13 Converter Properties Dialog dialog box 3 Select Use Elixir HP PCL and PostScript converters then click on OK 4 Copy the Elixir form s to the Converter icon The Form Converter Options dialog box displays Form Converter Options Output Exi HP PCL PostScript PDF _ AFP Overlay _ LOG Figure 7 14 Form Converter Options dialog box 5 Select HP PCL then click on OK
231. s processed stops conversion after processing all files Message Reporting Displays the Message Options Dialog dialog box See the Converter properties section for more information Resetting System menu options The Reset to Defaults option resets the specifica tions selected in the System Config User Privi leges and Diagnostics options in the System menu to initial default values Refreshing the screen If closing a window does not completely remove it or leaves snow on the screen use the Refresh option in the System menu to refresh the screen 4 14 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Selecting toolsets When you install more than one version of the Desk top on a PC drive select the ToolSet option in the System menu to switch between versions The Desktop Toolsets dialog box displays and con tains the following options Desktop oolscts Full HYBAID Desktop AFP Desktop MetocHAL Color and BW AS77400 Desktop Xerox Distnibuted Punters aed Deo Figure 4 13 Desktop Toolsets dialog box Full HYBRID Desktop Allows conversion of all installed Desktop versions AFP Desktop Displays the AFP Desktop AS 400 Desktop Displays the AS 400 Desktop Distributed Desktop Displays the Elixir Forms Editor Desktop Xerox B amp W Allows all black and white Xerox conversions Xerox H L Color and B amp W Displays the Desktop for
232. s the form s Page Author information in the file conversion The author banner includes the author s name at the top of the form file See the Page Databasing Information defaults sub menu in your ElixirForm for AFP User s Guide for more information 7 86 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Keep Texts Boxed OGL only Writes boxed text on a form into OGL as a DRAWBOX WITHTEXT command during conver sion Boxed text with no visible border is written as DRAWBOX WITHTEXT xxPELS xxPELS 0 and justified text is always written as JUSTIFY LASTNO last line remains LEFT justified All justification in this mode is done INTERWORD only option the OGL compiler supports The BALANCE option is not supported Code Page Translation OGL only Writes OGL out to EBCDIC rather than ASCII format Include Description Text Converter generates a specialized comment for inclusion after the Author Banner in OGL or LOG source files The format for this comment is 1 InternalName LocallD MadeFor Short Page Description where 1 is used as a search string for host pro grams which produce listings of overlay source libraries and InternalName is the six character name of the OGL or LOG source See the Page Databasing dialog box in your Elix irForm for AFP User s Guide for information on the other options included in this comment Note that the Date Time Stamp and Long Page Com ments for a form are also include
233. screen driver installed If you have problems with graphics not displaying correctly or experience unpredictable video ef fects graphic or drawing elements not appearing as they should Elixir recommends that you in stall and use the Windows screen driver supplied with Windows with either 256 colors or 16 colors BWCC DLL file version Installing a BWCC DLL file in a directory other than drive WINDOWS SYSTEM may cause errors when you perform operations such as copying files from the User Files icon to Elixir folders Elixir installs a BWCC DLL file dated 1995 or later in your drive WINDOWS SYSTEM directory during installa tion Other programs may also install BWCC DLL files in different directories Remove these other ver sions of the BWCC DLL file from your system to pre vent errors Using the Desktop under Windows NT All current versions of Elixir software run in a Win dows NT version 3 51 and 4 0 environment Printing to HP printers Windows NT uses a different HP soft font handling ar chitecture than other operating systems To ensure true WYSIWYG printing capabilities new printing functions using raster fonts are implemented Due to the new printing functions you must regener ate all HP soft fonts from Elixir generic fonts or pro duction printer fonts before printing under Windows NT Elixir has successfully tested a number of HP and HP compatible printers and printer drivers However due to the number o
234. serTools icon The icon that links applications to files Utilities Special purpose applications with which you can perform functions from the DOS prompt Wildcard character A character in a file name usu ally an asterisk that specifies a matching set For example EXE represents all files that end with the EXE extension Window A rectangular area on your screen in which you view information such the contents of a folder All ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE GLOSSARY 7 GLOSSARY windows contain a window header Some windows have scroll bars along the right side Window header The top of a window that displays the DOS directory corresponding to the window con tents Some window headers also show a close box and a number of menu titles with pull down menus GLOSSARY 8 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION A access alternatives 4 8 AFP Font Related Con verter Options dialog box 7 54 7 56 AFP font components D 3 D 4 AFP Font Converter Op tions 7 43 D 7 AFP Font Converter Op tions dialog box 4 12 7 39 7 43 D 13 AFP Image Converter Options dialog box 4 12 7 73 AFP Page Converter Options 7 9 7 79 AFP Page Converter Options dialog box 4 12 7 10 AFP Settings dialog box 7 17 Appbuilder jobs database 7 92 application icons creating 8 2 ElixirForm 2 4 opening 5 3 Arguments to this Pro gram 8 14 Arguments to this pro gram dialog box 8 14 AS 400 file transfer 9 14 9
235. show ing the information previously specified for the application User Tools example The following example illustrates how to specify and run Ventura Publisher from the Desktop using the User Tools utility and how to create an icon for Elixir s Web site Creating an icon for Ventura Publisher To create an icon for Ventura Publisher 1 Open the User Tools icon The User Tools window displays 2 Select New Tool from the Tools menu The User Application Setup dialog box displays Figure 8 2 User Application Setup dialog box 8 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS 3 Type VP in the Command to Execute option 4 Type VENT in the Nickname for application option 5 Type Ventura Publisher in the Optional Long Name option 6 Select the Command is BAT file option Ventura Publisher runs from VP BAT a batch file 7 Do not select Prompt for parameters This starts Ventura Publisher without requiring you to enter a parameter 8 Do not select Pause after execution 9 Enter the directory path that specifies the location of your Ventura Publisher executable files For example if the Ventura Publisher batch BAT file is on the C root drive enter C 10 Click on OK The User Tools window shows a User Tools icon with a VENT XAP label Checking the properties of the Ventura Publisher icon
236. specify Diskette Access To format a diskette select Perform FORMAT for the Diskette Access option then select the format type for the Diskette Type option When you format a diskette the following options apply DOS User Defined Formats the diskette using the DOS FORMAT command DOS Elixir Formats the diskette using the DOS FORMAT com mand and creates an ELIXIR subdirectory on the diskette 6 2 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PERIPHERAL DEVICES When you copy files to and from a diskette the follow ing options also apply Directory on Diskette to open The diskette directory you want to access The default is A Diskette Access Perform FORMAT formats a diskette see above For READing displays a window showing a list of files and directories on the diskette For WRITing applicable only when you copy files from the hard disk copies the hard disk files to the diskette Scanner device D Scanners Configuration You can access any scanning device connected to your PC through the Desktop Scanners icon when you have the appropriate scanner software installed that can create a TIF or PCX file Before using your scanner configure the Desktop as described in the following section You can run only one scanner from the Desktop To use your scanner from the Desktop first select the scanner specifications as follows Select the Scanners icon and press lt F2 gt or sele
237. stination for example to a high speed printer As an example of a Scheduler setup e You can print an application document to a file on a Network Scheduler e The Scheduler Desktop detects the file and con verts it from its native format to a high speed printer format e The Scheduler then automatically sends the file to the printer for processing Scheduler setup E User Files To execute operations from the Scheduler Desktop follow these steps First install the Scheduler Desktop on a dedicated PC attached to the network If you want to specify automated file conversions fol low steps 1 through 4 If you want to specify actions other than file conversions such as executing batch files go to step 5 1 Open the User Files icon and specify the Network Scheduler directory to which the files print to disk see the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more information ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES 2 Install the appropriate converter on the Network Scheduler drive or set its input and output paths to the Network Scheduler drive 3 Right click on the Dispatcher icon and set up the Dispatcher to run the files for conversion through a DOS batch file see the Accessing DOS files and applications chapter for more information 4 Click on Setup in the Dispatcher Commands dialog box and in the displayed User Application Setup dialog box click o
238. such as logos to ensure that the special characters are viewable when the file is distrib uted Because the actual raster graphics of the char acters are embedded in the file PDF files are fairly large Use Font Mapping Uses a mapping table to control on a font by font ba sis the PDF file s font format Allows the Converter to use a combination of Multiple Master Adobe Type 3 raster fonts and Adobe Type 1 PostScript name mappings for the fonts The name entry box allows you to specify the mapping file The default file is drive ELIXIR PSSTASH PSFONTS MAP Use this option when form character mappings do not match standard Windows character mappings When you select this option the Converter scans the specified file and compares the Elixir font names in the form with the names found in the file see example below If a match for a font is not found a Multiple Master instance is generated If a match is found the Converter looks at the right half of the entry to deter mine whether to rasterize as a Type 3 font or call the font out by a Type 1 name ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 35 FILE CONVERSIONS The mapping file is an editable text file with a simple equivalence table The syntax for entries is font name RASTERIZE TYPE1fontname weight point size For Example TR11NP Times Roman 11 TR12NP Times Roman 12 HEO7BP Helvetica Bold 7 CH14SP ZapfChancery Mediumlitalic1 4 SIGFNT RASTERIZE If you s
239. t Ctrl gt lt C gt then click on destination icon e Select Copy from the File menu then click on the destination icon Copying files to Elixir folders You copy files to Elixir folders when you convert files to different formats However before conversion make sure the files have the correct extension See the Elixir folders chapter for more information Copying files to a DOS directory fs User Files This section describes how to use the Desktop to copy files from one DOS hard disk to another To copy file s in a window to another hard disk direc tory select the files and drag and drop them on the User Files icon The User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box displays and contains the follow ing options Figure 5 7 User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dia log box ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES To specify the target directories maximum 12 per form one of the following e Enter the directory into which you want to copy files e When the directory you want to copy files to dis plays select highlight it e Select any line that shows a path and edit it If the directory you enter does not exist a dialog box displays requesting confirmation to create a new di rectory Select Yes to create the new directory An empty w
240. t use Adds an entry in the PSFONT MAP file for each font generated and for each font s corresponding PostScript font for printing Converting HP PCL fonts to Elixir and AFP formats When you convert a HP PCL font to Elixir format the conversion is automatic and no further dialog boxes display When you convert a HP PCL font to AFP or 3800 AFP format the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box displays The available non grayed options depend on the type of conversion See the AFP Font Con verter Options dialog box section in this chapter for a description of the options that apply to your conver sion type Converting Elixir fonts to AFP format To convert Elixir fonts to AFP use one of the following procedures Creating a full AFP font from an Elixir coded font To generate a full AFP font code page coded font and character set from an Elixir font 7 54 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS 1 From the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder select Show Coded Fonts 2 Copy the Elixir font from the Elixir Fonts folder to the Converter icon and select AFP Bounded or AFP Unbounded 3800 as the output format for bounded box and unbounded box fonts respectively Note that you can convert Elixir bounded box fonts to either AFP bounded or unbounded box fonts 3 In the displayed AFP Font Converter Options dialog box select the following the printer resolution normally 240 Pels for
241. the Resolution of AFP Printer value is other than 300 R Units 7 74 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS When converting an AFP page segment to Elixir for mat specify 240 pels When converting Elixir image files originally converted from AFP format specify 240 pels to retain the size When converting Elixir images not converted from AFP format specify 300 R Units to resize the image however for producing higher quality images use Elixirlmage for resizing Format of output files Output format for AFP fonts VBM creates files for uploading to MVS hosts using IBM 3270 IRMA FT 3270 or compatible file transfer packages AS400 creates files for uploading to AS 400 hosts IRMA creates files for uploading to MVS hosts us ing the IRMA FTTSO and compatible file transfer packages and OS 2 creates files for use with PSF 2 DOS VSE creates AFP format files for uploading to DOS VSE hosts Rotate Images The degree the output image rotates 0 90 180 or 270 For PSEG to Elixir conversions if a page segment is rotated beyond 0 degrees you must rotate it on input to Elixir format for it to display correctly For example a page segment with a 90 degree rota tion should be further rotated 270 degrees during the conversion to display correctly upright in a portrait form Preferred Color Color to apply to black and white image or to change a highlight color images to during
242. the Elixir HighLight Option and Plus products Allows color and black and white Xerox conversions if you installed both versions for users running both B amp W and color monitors and Xerox 4850 and other printers Xerox Distributed Printers Displays the 4235 XES Desktop Desktops differ in icon appearances and allowed file conversions which display in the Converter icon dialog boxes See the File conversions chapter for more in formation about file conversions and the tabbed ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 15 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION printer sections for more information about different Desktop versions 4 16 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 5 Additional Desktop features This chapter describes additional operations you can perform using the Desktop icons and menu bar File System and Special menus You can perform most of these operations using keyboard shortcuts as de scribed in the Keyboard shortcuts appendix The following figure shows the Desktop menu bar Ce Figure 5 1 Desktop menu bar Operations described in this chapter include e opening icons e setting icon properties e displaying deleting different formats of a file e displaying a logo at start up e copying files e using the Scheduler Desktop e viewing files If you are just starting to use the Desktop you may want to read the Desktop basics chapter first to be come more familiar with general Deskt
243. the default generates for subse quent conversions The generated AFP fonts are e When converting to a bounded box font CO num character set where num denotes the printer resolution X0 coded font and T1 code page in drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT e When converting to an unbounded box font C1 num C4 num X1 X4 and T1 in drive ELIXIR FONTS I38O0UT Creating individual font components You can create an individual character set code page or coded font using one of the following procedures ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 57 FILE CONVERSIONS Creating a coded font file You can create a new coded font file for use in the fol lowing procedures by setting the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder to Show Coded Fonts and then pressing lt Alt gt lt N gt or selecting New from the File menu An AFP Font Related Converter Options dialog box displays and allows you to enter the character set coded font and code page names Only XO or X1 X4 prefixes are permissible for the coded font name Converting a coded font If you modified an Elixir coded font by changing the code page or character set or have created a new coded font and want to upload it to your host 1 From the Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder select Show Coded Fonts 2 Copy the Elixir font from the Elixir Fonts folder to the Converter icon and select AFP Bounded or AFP Unbounded 3800 as the output format
244. time i e if you did not originally convert the Elixir font from an AFP font After converting an AFP Code Page a required component of the AFP font generates The Default Code Page you select at installation will be the default when you run the Elixir Desktop You can change the default to another one as described in the Desktop configuration chapter The program uses the Default Code Page in conjunction with the Country Keyboard Map to translate PC ASCII charac ters to EBCDIC characters when you convert overlays to or from Elixir format You can also download an existing AFP Code Page from your host computer to the appropriate directory convert it to Elixir format and use it as a default see the File transfer chapter for information about down loading AFP resources and the File conversions chapter for information about converting AFP Code Pages to Elixir Code Pages ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE D 9 AFP FONT CONVERSION CONSIDERATIONS Editing an Elixir Code Page You can edit an Elixir Code Page using ElixirFont for AFP Display the Code Pages in the Elixir Fonts folder pull down the Filter menu in the window header and select Show Code Pages and open it to load the Code Page in ElixirFont See the ElixirFont for AFP User Guide for more information You can also use any ASCII editor like DOS EDIT to edit the Elixir Code Page file as follows 1 Open the Dispatcher icon and specify EDIT 1 as
245. tline font parameters only valid for Adobe Type 1 or True Type fonts You must set up font fam ily name references in your AFP font mapping file before selecting this option If no font matches are found the character set and code page names are used To set up font family name references open your font mapping file default is drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS DEFAULT FAM then follow the instructions in the Font Family Descriptors section FGID Converter writes all font references using the previously specified Global Resource Identifier GRID The GRID includes the Font Typeface Global Identifier FGID Graphic Character Set Global Identifier GCSGID and the Code Page Global Identifier CPGID mappings Character Mapping File Name Path and name of your AFP font mapping file which provides the Converter with output overlay and document font mapping information Default is drive ELIXIR FONTS MAPS DEFAULT FAM 7 16 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS AFP Displays the AFP Settings dialog box which con tains the following options AFP Settings Target Environment YSE VM MYS Record Format Variable Variable Fixed IRMA Block Length Record Length y Sequence Numbers DocuT ag for AFP Converter Options Page Bottom Marker Auto Tag attribute file S Setto 0 Figure 7 9 AFP Settings dialog box This dialog box allows you to select your target environm
246. to substitute a DOS filename and 2 to substitute a file stem name Lister This option is not supported for the PComm option 9 22 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 10 Transformations This chapter describes transformation operations you can perform using the Transformer which applies Elixir utilities to modify Elixir format form and image files These modifications change the file header informa tion to make the files compatible with operations such as uploading files to a host or sending files through a network To transform an Elixir format file you copy it to the Transformer icon and select the appropriate option as described in the following sections Transformer setup Transformer To set up the Transformer properties follow these steps 1 Right click on the Transformer icon The Transformer Properties dialog box displays Transformer Properties Figure 10 1 Transformer Properties dialog box 2 Click on the Transformer Properties button ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 10 1 TRANSFORMATIONS The Transformer Properties Dialog dialog box displays and contains the following options Figure 10 2 Transformer Properties Dialog dialog box Working Directory The directory in which temporary read writes take place during file transformations The default is the root directory You can specify a RAM disk for faster transformations Con
247. treated as a PIC and you can move or delete it as such When you proof print the form the print utility looks in the GEN IMAGE directory and downloads the genned im age to the printer If you convert the form back to OVE format the genned image is automatically re embedded in the form If you delete the form the genned im age file also deletes If you convert the form to OGL format the gen ned images convert to patterns in the OGL file see your OGL 370 manual for more information If you reconvert this OGL file to Elixir format the pattern translates back into a genned image The Embed Page Segments option in the AFP Page Converter Options dialog box has no effect on this type of image AFP Page Converter Options dialog box Options in this dialog box may or may not display de pending on your selections in the Form Converter Op tions dialog box Elixir Pages in Source directory for Elixir forms default is drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR Text Justification Applicable for conversions to OVE and OGL The de fault Inter Word justifies text by adding or deleting spaces between words This option reduces the com plexity of your form so the form prints faster Inter Character justifies text by adding or deleting spaces between characters This option makes the form more readable but extends printing time ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 11 FILE CONVERSIONS Rotate Pages Rotates the screen version of
248. types in the Elixir form file based on the following text direction Across X1 is called out text direction Down X2 is called out text direction Back X3 is called out text direction Up X4 is called out When converting AFP and OVE format forms to Elixir format if the form contains call outs for XO fonts the Separate X1 X4 option is not effective Font call outs in the Elixir form remain XO call outs regardless of the font type option selected When outputting fonts to AFP or OVE and back to Elixir format if fonts in your form are all one direction and or you do not want the two digit AFP prefix ad ded select No AFP Prefix Deselect No AFP Prefix if you have mixed directional fonts in your form and plan on proof printing See the Font requirements for an HP compatible printer sec tion for an example 7 82 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Units Units for horizontal or vertical offset in pels inches or millimeters Remove Image Whitespace Not applicable to form conversions Embed Page Segments Includes converted Page Segments within the data stream when converting to OVE Deselecting this op tion includes only a reference to the Page Segment Note that the Page Segment must exist in your host Page Segment library Floating Offsets Horizontal is applicable for converting to AFP format Shifts output right for portrait orientation and shifts output down for a landscape
249. ur PC View Config SYS Displays the contents of the CONFIG SYS Creating a directory Select the Directory option in the System menu to create a directory in the entered path The Enter Path of Directory to Create dialog box displays and con tains the following options Figure 4 8 Enter Path of Directory to Create dialog box Enter the name and path of any directory you want to create then click on OK to create the directory If you do not enter a full path for a directory name e f a window is open the directory you enter be comes subordinate to the directory corresponding to the window e f the Desktop does not display any open win dows the directory becomes subordinate to the root directory on the drive on which you loaded Elixir software 4 10 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Converter properties Select the Converter Props option in the System menu to select enter initial setup options for convert ing files The Converters Properties dialog box displays and contains the following options Converter Properties Figure 4 9 Converters Properties dialog box Converter Property Sheets Form Converters AFP Displays the AFP Page Converter Options dialog box for setting AFP page conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Form Converters PostScript Displays the PostScript Converter Options dialog bo
250. utton to display the contents of the directory one level closer to the root directory Re peatedly clicking on the backup button eventually dis plays a window showing the active drives on your PC For example if you have the C TYPESET LETTERS window displayed and you repeatedly click on the backup button the following windows display after each click C TYPESET C the root directory Active drive letters C A etc To change directories further from the root click on any folder icon lt Dir gt to display the contents of the folder directory ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ACCESSING DOS FILES AND APPLICATIONS Copying files between subdirectories To copy one or more files to another subdirectory 1 Select and drag the file s to the User Files icon The User Files Directory Paths and Tool Links dialog box displays with the path for your speci fied file s selected 2 Enter the full path of the directory to copy the file s or select a displaying path then click on OK The file s you selected copy to the directory you specified Linking files to applications When you establish a link between an application and a file double clicking on the file icon starts the appli cation and loads the file as a parameter to the applica tion command you can link only one application to one or more files in a directory The Tools menu accessed from the header of any open window displayed throug
251. ve 2 Select the PUB file from the Elixir Forms window 3 From the Selection menu select Archive Pubfile Alternatively copy the PUB file to the Disk ette icon All directories and related files required for each ele ment of the PUB file copy to the diskette If a PUB file with the same name exists on the diskette the program prompts you to confirm overwriting it Your confirmation also overwrites any component files with the same stem name Restoring a PUB file from a diskette or Diskette To copy a PUB file and all associated graphics font and form files from a diskette to your hard disk follow these steps 1 Insert the diskette into your diskette drive 2 Open the Diskette icon and select DOS Elixir to display a window with the diskette contents 3 Displays the drive ELIXIR FORMS ELIXIR or subordinate directory window that contains the PUB file 4 Copy the PUB file icon to the Desktop Forms icon 5 Click on the Elixir Forms folder in the displayed window The PUB file and all associated files copy to the ap propriate Elixir folders If a PUB file with the same ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ADDITIONAL DESKTOP FEATURES name exists in the Elixir Forms folder the program prompts you to confirm overwriting it Your confirma tion also overwrites any existing component files with the same stem name If you restore a PUB file to a PC with a different moni tor than
252. verted Jobs folder The Jobs folder corresponds to the DOS ELIXIR JOBS directory and contains a number of subordinate folders as illustrated in the following figure Elixir Docs Jobs Elixir Data Jobs input Jobs Output Jobs Figure 3 19 Jobs folder 3 18 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ELIXIR FOLDERS The Jobs folder subordinate folders correspond to the following DOS subdirectories Job folder DOS subdirectory and file extension Elixir Docs Jobs ELIXIR DOCS DOCLIST DAT Elixir Data Jobs ELIXIR JOBS ELIXIR SYSTEM Input Jobs ELIXIR JOBS PPFAIN ELIXIR DOCS AFPIN Output Jobs ELIXIR JOBS PPFAOUT ELIXIR JOBSS AFPOUT Elixir Docs Jobs The Elixir Docs Jobs folder corresponds to the drive ELIXIR DOCS DOCLIST directory and displays a list of Elixir jobs DAT files Each Elixir job is an ASCII file that contains a list of Elixir form files and print ticket information for the individual form files Elixir Data Jobs The Elixir Data Jobs folder displays files in the drive ELIXIR WJOBS ELIXIR SYSTEM directory These are job files created using Elixir AppBuilder Note that the DOS file names in drive ELIXIR JOBS ELIXIR SYSTEM are not the same as those in the Elixir Data Jobs folder rather the displayed names are extracted from the DOS files Input Jobs The Input Jobs folder contains folder icons as shown in the following figure EL
253. x for setting PostScript conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Font Converters AFP Displays the AFP Font Converter Options dialog box for setting AFP font conversion parameters Converter Property Sheets Font Converters Outline Displays the Outline to raster font generator dialog box for setting outline font conversion parameters ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 11 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Converter Property Sheets Image Converters AFP Displays the AFP Image Converter Options dialog box for setting AFP image conversion parameters Converter Properties Displays the Converter Properties Dialog dialog box described in the Usage Switches section Message Reporting Displays the Message Options dialog box which con tains the following options Wuite Mesceqes lo LUGE MELEXIRDESE TOPASYS TEM MESSAGE LOG Figure 4 10 Message Options Dialog dialog box Message Reporting Show messages after process Displays any error messages on screen after processing Message Reporting Write Messages to LOG file Writes any error messages to the file LOG en tered in the text box New Messages Overwrite LOG file Overwrites the previously created LOG file after processing New Messages Append to LOG file New error messages add tot he end of the previously created LOG file A maximum of 64 KB of text displays in the mes sage log window If message text exceeds this t
254. xir format form files The icons representing both do not display on the Desktop if you do not select this option ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 4 7 DESKTOP CONFIGURATION Access Fonts Allows access to ElixiFont or Elixir format font files The icons representing both do not display on the Desktop if you do not select this option Access Images Allows access to Elixirlmage or Elixir format image files The icons representing both do not display on the Desktop if you do not select this option Access Documents Allows access to non Elixir files The User Files icon does not display on the Desktop if you do not select this option Access Userfiles Allows access to non Elixir applications The User Tools icon does not display on the Desktop if you do not select this option Access Usertools Allows access to the User Tools icon The icon does not display if you do not select this option Access Scan Allows access to the ElixirScan icon The icon does not display if you do not select this option Access Dispatcher Allows access to the Dispatcher icon The Dispatcher icon does not display on the Desktop if you do not se lect this option Access Transformer Allows access to the Transformer icon The icon does not display if you do not select this option Access Converters Allows access to the Converter icon The icon does not display if you do not select this option Perform Reset to Default Enables resettin
255. y The generated AFP fonts are e When converting to a bounded box font CO n character set where n denotes the printer reso lution in pels in drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT e When converting to an unbounded box font C1 n C4 n where n denotes the printer resolu tion in pels in drive ELIXIR FONTS I38OUT If you want to create a screen version of the new or modified Elixir character set select its Coded Font CDF file component copy it to the Converter icon and select the Screen option The PC mapped file regenerates with the modifications you made If you convert only the character set HDR file to screen format the screen font that generates does not prop erly map for the keyboard Creating a code page If you created a new code page or modified an exist ing code page follow these steps ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 59 FILE CONVERSIONS 1 From Filter menu in the Elixir Fonts folder select Show CodePage 2 Copy the Elixir code page from the Elixir Fonts folder to the Converter icon and select AFP Bounded or AFP Unbounded 3800 as the output format for bounded box and unbounded box fonts respectively 3 In the displayed AFP Font Converter Options dialog box select the output format The generated AFP fonts are e When converting to a bounded box font T1 code page in drive ELIXIR FONTS AFPOUT e When converting to an unbounded box font T1 in drive ELIXIR FONTS I380UT
256. y overwrite existing files This option is applicable only when transforming form and LGO files to Elixir format Show properties before transformation Specifies default dialog box setup options for each file transformation type Pause after transformation Pauses after each transformation Stop process after Select when to stop processing Error stops a conversion when an error occurs All files processed stops conversion after processing all files 4 6 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION DESKTOP CONFIGURATION User privileges Select the User Privileges option in the System menu to select the level of control over certain Desk top operations for the Elixir Desktop user Figure 4 6 User Privileges dialog box For example you can choose whether or not to allow a user to access an Elixir application from the Desk top If you choose not to allow access the icons rep resenting the Elixir application and its associated folder do not display Delete Files Users cannot delete files Change file properties Users can enter the file name in a Properties dialog box Backup beyond default directories In the Elixir file structure backs up directories to the specified drive When not selected backs up to the default directory for the Elixir Forms Fonts Graphics and Documents folders only recommended Access Forms Allows access to ElixirForm for AFP or Eli
257. y with the software version you are using Extensions of num 240 pels and 300 R Units denote the resolution you select in the Resolution of AFP printer option Generated code pages and coded fonts have no file extensions For information on the files generated when you con vert AFP fonts to Elixir format see the AFP font con version considerations appendix 7 44 ELIXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION FILE CONVERSIONS Converting double byte AFP fonts to Elixir format To convert double byte AFP fonts to Elixir format 1 Copy the coded font XOxxxxxx file to the Converter icon The Font Converter Options dialog box displays Font Converter Options Input Format ELIXIR Output ERs _ Screen _ Windows _ HP PCL _ AFP Bounded _ AFP Unbounded 3800 _ ATM Type3 Figure 7 27 Font Converter Options dialog box 2 Select Elixir then click on OK The AFP Font Converter Options dialog box dis plays Sse Ga Sees ad o y Screen Fonts iy CVE LEXIR PONTGO SCREENSDEMOS Resolution of AFP Printer gt 240 Pels SOO R Unis Pomol of output Hes gt VEM Figure 7 28 AFP Font Converter Options dialog box ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 45 FILE CONVERSIONS 3 Select Full AFP Font deselect Keep ASCII Mapped Font then click on OK until all dialog boxes close Character set sections display as COxxxxxx HDR filles and code
258. y QTY 2 Downloading files To download files with FT TSO follow these steps 1 Change the current directory to the directory which contains the FT TSO file transfer software 2 At the DOS prompt type FT TSO lt Enter gt ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 9 9 FILE TRANSFER At the PC file name prompt enter the name of a PC file to which you want to download the host file and press lt Tab gt Optionally precede the name of the file with the DOS directory path for the appropriate Elixir input directory for the type of AFP file you are downloading At the dataset name prompt enter the name of the host dataset you want to download and press lt Tab gt Enter the appropriate transfer type The transfer type you specify depends on whether you are transferring AFP object format files like page segment images or OVE format forms or text files like OGL forms Note A transfer type is a collection of file transfer parameters that you can store and name For de tails see your FT TSO documentation Press lt F3 gt to download a file from the host to the PC Uploading files with FT TSO FT TSO cannot transfer variable length record files in binary mode To upload a variable length file follow these steps 1 Create the file as a fixed blocked FB format file by selecting IRMA as the output format in the AFP Converter Options dialog box Upload the file Convert the uploaded file to VBM format
259. ys Print Driver Dialog PostScript Printer Orientation Page Shift Portrait xshit 0 gt Landscape yshit 0 Copies 1 Print Fonts _ as Graphic Figure 7 21 Print Driver Dialog dialog box 3 Select your print options then click on OK The Print Driver Dialog dialog box contains the follow ing options ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP USER GUIDE 7 31 FILE CONVERSIONS Orientation The orientation of the printed page Landscape or Portrait Page Shift The number of dots you want the printed page shifted to the right Xshift or down Yshift Negative values are permissible Copies The number of copies of the printed page Print Fonts as Graphic When selected rasterizes fonts as graphics This op tion also requires less printer memory and may speed up printing time Load Fonts Always includes in the output data stream every font used on every form you convert Once includes every font the first time that the Desktop session en countered it Never does not include fonts in the out put data stream this option assumes that all required PostScript fonts reside on the printer Setup Allows you to specify Windows setup parameters for your printer You must use the Efont Factory to generate the screen fonts used on forms that to convert to Post Script format See the Generating fonts from out lines section for more information After conversion one pag
260. ze an image 1 Select Resize enter a file name in the Destination File option and click on OK 2 In the Resize dialog box enter the Horizontal or Vertical percentages and click on OK Note that if you are upsizing an image you must have enough space to the right and below the im age so that the image stays in the image area Reverse This option changes all black dots in an image area to white and all white dots in the image area to black This option does not require you to set options in any other dialog box Select Reverse enter a file name in the Destination File option and click on OK Shift This option allows you to move an image area or the whole image with respect to its borders with precision To shift an image 1 Select Shift enter a file name in the Destination File option and click on OK 2 In the Shift dialog box select a direction to shift Up Down Left or Right 3 Set the number of Pels pixels you want the image to shift 4 Specify whether you want circular shift and click on OK The Shift Circular option replaces the area that is moved with a new version of the image ELIXIR DESKTOP FOR AFP 10 9 TRANSFORMATIONS Rotate This option allows you to rotate an image on the page by degrees To rotate an image 1 Select Rotate enter a file name in the Destination File option and click on OK 2 In the Rotate dialog box enter the

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