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1. 27 3 9 284 abe OTI S EECITI 29 Re MEIN Ge HOE UNG 29 P M RA 30 oo Drect NUE Om C SL ads oat ot ae ee atender 30 SP ORAT Ie MISSUS NIME T TT 30 2 7 Portrait and Landscape prifitiDn9 ooi coop I EE 33 EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 2 User Manual 1 0 Introduction Welcome to QSL Wizard the innovative QSL design and printing module of EasyLog 5 that will allow you to design superior looking QSL labels easily and avoid exhausting work sessions to find the best configuration for your printer and your label form QSL Wizard can use any printer that can be installed Windows and every label self adhesive form designed for Laser or Ink jet printer in sizes A4 Letter and Legal as well as direct printing on QSL cards To make use of the program easier QSL Wizard takes advantage of the most advanced visual designing techniques like WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get and Drag and Drop The software comes with a list of ready to use formats They can be used as they are be adapted to your own needs or you may design your own The user can create any kind of label by choosing macros from a wide list 1 e date in several formats time band mode etc and decorations like lines squares and also images Each macro can be placed and customized depending on your personal tas2. EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 28 User Manual 3 3 A4 label form setting Select 4 format Paper size A4 297 x 210 mm width E27 Height ies Leave the default unprintable margins click the Default Columns 2 Rows 8 Button if necessary m If your A4 label form has a margin frame measure and set Top U 12 Left 012 them see the section Margin setting Bottom 0 55 Right 01 2 Set column and rows properties H5 0 WS 0 Default values Apply 3 4 Other forms In the international market and especially in the US and North America market you can find label forms in Letter format they are wider and shorter than A4 and normally take account of the unprintable area they have margin frames where there are no labels As already mentioned for the A4 forms the presence of margin frames allows overcoming the problem of the unprintable area because the margin frame is usually wider than the unprintable margins Page setting Select the Letter format from the combobox Paper size ETT Margins setting Measure the margin frame of the form and enter in the margin setting panel Width 8 50 Columns Rows E Top mar gin Top D 12 Lett 012 Bottom 0 55 Right 012 H5 0 WS fo Default values ppl Right Label size The label size is automatically calculated taking margin into account the form margins previously set and
3. printable GDATESHORT EU eae ee area _ 5 MDATESHORT LIS FREQ 0 07 Left 0 12 GL T MODE Potem eus US MYCALL NAME Hs 0 9 0 NOTE E m iPQ Ww ER Default values Printing from label 1 Euren ecc Seal Layout AE Mut im Section Manage 2 macro levels 2 Design Area EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 8 User Manual 2 1 General philosophy QSL Wizard works together with EasyLog 5 to allow the users to design and print QSL labels Be sure you selected the right Log QSL Wizard defaults to the active EasyLog logbook Using EasyLog select into the QSL Buffer those QSOs for which you want to print QSL label Run QSL Wizard and open the QSL file format you want to use Print the QSL labels De I d 2 2 Opening an existing QSL file format QSL Wizard includes some ready to use QSL formats To use one of these formats be sure that the label form you are using 15 compatible with the characteristics of the QSL format form size number and dimension of labels When you open one of these formats the information will be entered into the Label forms properties area A complete customization of existing formats 1s possible not only the layout design but also every other parameter like form size and print options Once you have customized a QSL format you can save it with a different name for later use so that you preserve the ori
4. Style solid EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual User Manual x y Width Height Coordinates and dimensions of image expressed in pixels The x and y coordinates are the upper left corner of the image Image File name of the image file with full path used by the macro To select or change the image click the button The EasyLog mascot is the default image Keep proportions Clicking on this check button you can link width and height in order to maintain the proportions during resizing x y Width Height Coordinates and dimensions of image expressed in pixels The x and y coordinates are the upper left corner of the shape Internal color Default internal color of the macro To change color click the button This property 15 only applicable to the macros RECTANGLE and CIRCLE Line color This is the color used for the frame line To change the color click the button Style To select the line style used for the frame The possible selections are no line dotted and continuous Page 18 User Manual 2 7 Print Layout There are three different QSL layouts for each format file single QSO Multi QSO SWL Each layout has its own independent design area used by QSL Wizard to print QSL label appearance during preview and print The program performs the selection of the right layout automatically The single QSO layout QSL Wizard uses this layout when it detects only one QSO for a station in the QS
5. UTC Band Frequency etc All the macros have a name similar to BAND and except the graphic elements they are expanded during the preview and printing of the QSL EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 5 User Manual 1 3 Main features This paragraph lists the main features of QSL Wizard that will be explained in details later in this manual Drag and Drop Graphic elements Macro customization Print preview Level philosophy Double units of measure Page format Page orientation Unlimited number of QSL format Automating detecting of unprintable area Automatic printing of single multi and SWL QSL on the same sheet EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual This 1s a technique to make label designing easier and intuitive dragging and dropping a macro from the macro listbox area into the design area The rulers around the design area allow placing the macro accurately and exactly where it will appear during printing It is possible to place special decorating macros 1 the label such as lines circles frames and 1mages Each macro can be customized by changing the main visual characteristics size colors font etc The preview shows the final result of printing with all the macros expanded Each macro 15 in a different level To control the macro overlapping appearance QSL Wizard level feature allows the user to freely move a macro up and down through the levels QSL wizard automa
6. formatting is used Take care with the order of the macros because QSL Wizard will expand the macros following the level order The program will move to the next QSO with the same station when it finds a QDATE macro So it is very important that the macros are in the right order and are not mixed between different rows The Macro of one row following the DATE macro must be consecutive in the level order If you have doubts please analyze an existing format and adapt it to your preferences If the automatic multi QSO printing 1s enabled see paragraph 2 7 and the QSL buffer contains more than one QSO with the same call sign the multi QSO layout will be used If for example the multi QSO layout has been designed to expand three QSOs and two QSOs with the same call sign are detected the third row will be left blank If the QSOs with the same call sign are more than the capacity of the layout one full multi QSO layout will be printed followed by other multi or single layout depending on the number of QSOs found For example if there are three QSOs in the layout and five QSOs with the same station in the QSL buffer one full multi layout label with three QSOs and one partial multi layout label with two QSOs will be printed However if there are only four QSOs with the same station in the QSL buffer one full multi layout label with three QSOs and one single layout label with the fourth QSO will be printed EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Ma
7. can be placed only inside the red margins For this reason a QSL format designed for one printer and transported to another one having different characteristics can appear different The influence of the margins can cause alterations in macro positions because all the macros are forced to be inside the printable area Due to the influence of the printer unprintable margins the printable label area of an A4 form without margin frames can be considerably reduced respect the theoretic one The real horizontal printable area of an individual label is the difference between the width of the label and the sum of left and right printer unprintable margins the real vertical printable area 1s the difference between height of the label and the sum of top and bottom unprintable margins This reduction of the vertical space can be considerable especially with use of ink jet printers that have a wide bottom unprintable margin A practical example will explain this concept better Let us suppose we would like to use an A4 label form divided in 2 columns by 8 rows of labels like the one shown in the figure at paragraph 3 1 on a ink jet printer with the following unprintable margins top 3mm 0 12 inches bottom 14mm 0 55 left 3mm 0 12 right 3mm 0 12 For the reasons explained above the real available space for the printer on the labels 1s horizontally 105 3 3 99mm 3 80 inches vertically 37 3 14 20mm 0 78 inches Vertically alm
8. listbox shows the levels in order from the lowest at the top of the list box to the highest at the bottom of the list box In our example the text macro 1s at a lower level than the rectangle by clicking the arrow the situation will be reversed and the result will be HRECTANGLE TEXT EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 23 User Manual Now the text macro can be moved inside the rectangle macro The final result will be DATE Locating a macro When clicking on the level list box the macro is highlighted in the design area and vice versa This feature can be used to locate a macro totally covered by other macro s and not visible The macro is highlighted with a blinking frame 2 9 Resizing a macro A macro can be resized with the mouse by dragging the bottom and or the right border A special cursor will confirm that the resizing 1s active vertical resizing horizontal resizing Another method of resizing a macro is to use the property editor changing the Width and Height properties This method 15 especially useful for micrometric adjustments taking in account that the unit of measure is pixel and not inches or millimeters Try increasing or decreasing the size of some macros until you will find the perfect desired dimensions 2 10 Deleting a macro A selected macro can be deleted by clicking on the button Ae of the toolbar or pressing the delete key on your keyboar
9. page 15 usually larger than the unprintable area at the top This can cause you not to be able to use the bottom row of labels A QSL Wizard exclusive feature minimizes this problem allowing printing a user defined number of the label rows The rest of unused labels can be used later by just turning the sheet upside down Custom award macro Selecting Add custom macros from the menu Settings it is possible to add the macro for the installed custom awards The macro will be added at the bottom of the macro list box If you are using a QSL file format containing custom award macros and the active Log does not have that custom award installed the macro of missing custom awards will not be expanded EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 7 User Manual 2 0 Using QSL Wizard This is the opening window for QSL Wizard Notice the Selected Macro Properties area is blank This will be filled in when a QSL format is selected or a new design is started and a macro 15 placed in the design area Label forms Selected Macro Active log 4 Properties EasyLog5 OSL wizard 5 1051 1 451 Max Tool Bar D m ise CO COMBOALL ail JL h 0 EB List of ilte maces ET i zem available CALL Paper size 44 8 2 11 58 macros E TS M DATELITERAL 31 Width 8 27 Height 11 58 a ODATELOPD EL osse 22 9
10. qu Columns Rows fDATELOUNG US Margins ant Ana m Fao Te seer ROS ESRB E O12 Left 012 wf T tc Transparen Bottom 0 55 Right 0 12 MODE Background color fou YEAL nn H Y A POWER 28 Default values Printing from label 1 Single TEXT BAND TEXT MODE TERT AST vl 18425 LITERAL IGTEXT cop Y CALL HHLIME macros EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 11 User Manual 2 3 Creating a new file format Choose New from the File menu lit FasyLog5 OSL wizard File Settings t New 5 Save Save as Info Exit V mami TOE ORGS Cll or click the related speed button on the Tool bar mJ By creating a new format file you can design a completely new QSL label format The design areas of the three QSL layouts are empty and ready for the new design Create the appearance of the three layouts and customize the other print parameters depending on your own needs The next sections will describe in detail the designing process of a new QSL format and the meaning of each print options EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 12 User Manual 2 4 Layout design To design the appearance of your labels simply drag ands drop the macros from the Macro List i
11. L buffer The program always uses this layout if the user disabled the automatic multi QSO printing option enabled by default Multi 050 automatic printing enabled button pressed zu LJ ES BS Multi 050 automatic printing disabled button unpressed The multi QSO layout If more than one QSO with the same call sign has been selected in the QSL buffer and the automatic multi QSO printing option 15 active this layout will be used The number of QSOs that will be printed on the multi label depends on the way the layout design It is virtually possible to place as many QSOs as you want but in practice this depends on how big the label area 1s and the macro font used If for some reason you do not want to use the multi QSO layout simply disable the automatic multi QSO printing as shown in the figure In this way also if the QSL buffer contains multiple QSOs with the same station they will be printed using the single QSO layout The SWL layout This layout will be used when QSL Wizard detects an SWL report confirmation in the QSL buffer SWL report can be logged EasyLog as a normal QSO typing the SWL call sign in the CALL field and the call sign of the station with which you were in QSO in the NOTE field Please refer to the EasyLog 5 manual for additional information Selecting a layout Click on the tab as shown in the figure to change the active layout Each layout 1s independent and uses the same co
12. User Manual QSL Wizard User Manual For Version 5 0 0 17 All rights reserved 1989 2009 Microware Software Rev 1 0 4 October 4 2009 EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page User Manual Table of Contents LO botes antis E SM EM uM M 3 bea e ge ur 4 INDE CIT CUI 5 6 20 Usmo OSL W 8 2 1 X3eneral phrlosopHy 9 2 2 Openmne amexisHmp Osis le TO Ma snae tem mb 9 2 3X d mew ile Tornai sus cop aen etn ee erik vun a WB udo eet acus dus 12 PAM eii C H 13 2 5 LASEOF AV ATA DIC THACEOS duis ve Me cant i debut got ubt da iui 14 2 0 MaCrO PrOD TE Sas 16 v OB t ap ttu nba Mtt M nba 19 0 WORKING WLM PERI 23 24 ZA ONDE let DE 24 Ve TIC LO edic Uomo Iona eae ek eae er ME 25 SUE EINIGE Ce 9 TTE Dom 26 eoi ae one ad nudus 26 3 2 Influence of unprintable area 4 label 1
13. abel offset option allows specifying the initial label of form that will be printed In the example of the next figure the first 4 missing labels will be skipped The effect of this option 1s applied only to the first page of the forms the following label sheets then must be complete sheets with all the labels As is shown in the figure QSL Wizard will print the labels from the top to the bottom and from the left column to the right one until all the labels and columns are printed EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 31 User Manual If you have some partially used label sheets as a result of previous QSL Wizard label printing sessions put one as the first page on the printer followed by complete label sheets and specify the first label offset At the end of the print session you will probably have a new partially used label form that you will recover with the same technique the next time you have to print labels Paper size A4 297 x 210 mm wWidth 8 27 Height T1 70 Columns 0 24 Left L 28 Bottom 0 30 Aight 0 26 Default values Apply Printing fram label 5 The use of use all vertical dimension and first page offset options make it possible with a simple and practical method to achieve at the same time use of maximum vertical area and to avoid wasting unused label in the partially used forms The following example helps you to better understand the method and repr
14. d The deleted macro will disappear from the level listbox and from the design area EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 24 User Manual 2 11 Duplicating a macro Sometime it is more convenient to duplicate a macro instead of creating it new In this way all the properties of the original macro are duplicated If for example you are designing a multi QSO layout the QSO rows macros are just clones and for this reason is much more practical and faster to duplicate the macros than to create them new To duplicate first select the macro then click the copy button of the Then click the Paste button and a new macro exactly the same as the original will appear in the top left corner of the design area Then move the macro to the destination position and customize its properties 1f necessary EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 25 User Manual 3 0 Print forms The choice of a print form 15 often dictated by its availability on the market In the following sections we will discuss in detail the configuration of print forms and the advanced print features 3 1 A4 label forms The A4 print forms are very common Europe and when they leave off the margin frame as shown in figure they can give some problems in configuration some A4 label forms have the disadvantage of having no margin around the label area The producers simply ignore that the printers are not able to print the entire sheet surface and simply divi
15. de all the sheet area into labels see the figure In general due to the different printing technologies laser printers have a smaller unprintable area than ink jet printers do Ink jet printers in particular have a wide bottom margin typically 14 15 millimeters 0 5 0 6 inches This causes some practical problems in using these forms because the available space 1s reduced for the printer unprintable area The influence of having no margin frame around the form reflects on all labels of the form as explained in the next sections OSL Wizard however includes powerful and exclusive features to minimize this problem to use at maximum the label printing area A4 label form with margin frame Some international label firms produce 4 label forms that include margin frames The use of these kinds of forms 15 preferred because the presence of the margin frame reduces the problem of unprintable area and more of the label area can be used The unprintable area is absorbed by the form margins In the next sections we will discuss the correct setting procedure to use these forms EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 26 User Manual 3 2 Influence of unprintable area in A4 label forms A4 label forms that do not take into account the printer unprintable area appear to be a simple uniform division of the form surface QSL Wizard automatically detects the unprintable margins displaying them in the design area of the label as red lines The macro
16. er forms that can withstand these conditions Using forms not designed for laser printing can produce serious damage to the mechanical parts of the printer For example the labels could detach or become warped during the printing process or stick inside the printer mechanism e Label forms Use standard good quality commercial self adhesive forms of A4 Legal or Letter size The use of self made forms 15 not recommended Thanks to the high flexibility of QSL Wizard every variety of label is supported and can be easily configured Example of supported forms td E JL JL EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 4 1 2 Glossary Layout Label form Printing form Format QSL format Macro User Manual When referring to the QSL means the final appearance of the QSL Label after printing The self adhesive label form sheet used for label printing When referring to a label form this means its size 1 e A4 Legal Letter The file with qsl extension that contains all the physical characteristics of a label form such as page size margin frame format A4 Letter Legal QSL Single number of label per sheet etc and the layout of the single multi and SWL QSL An element used to design the layout of a QSL A macro can be text a graphic decorative element like a line a frame a bitmap or one of the Log fields like Date
17. esents also a possible operative suggestion as a starting point to establish your own printing label strategy Let s suppose we want to use the A4 label forms 8 rows x 2 columns We will use the use all vertical space to use more space to design our label Then we have to decide how many rows of the form to print We have to decide not to print at least the last row of labels This can give us some problems in recovery of the partially used sheets now with only one row of labels still on the form The recovery if possible would be not very practical The solution 1s to print just the half of the rows of the label form that is 4 rows In this way what will remain after the printing sessions are some sheets with the half of the labels and the final sheet with some of the half part still on the form The next figure shows the result of a printing session of 26 QSL labels Three label sheets have used just half of the labels and the last one used just two EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 32 User Manual The final sheet can be used the next printing session as first page using the printing offset option set to 3 while the other 3 sheets can be used upside down since only the first 4 rows will be printed then all the labels will be printed By default the print 15 portrait mode Clicking on the Landscape button of the tool bar causes the 3 7 Portrait and Landscape printing printer to print horizontally that 1s parallel
18. ginal file format To open an existing file format click on the option of File menu l amp EasyLog5 OSL wizard File Settings a Mew Save Save as Info 3 Exit mm wd md m m z mon m mm Uum im s mem om mom cmi m um rr el gm or click the related speed button in the tool bar After you click Open a selection window will open that looks like the following EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 9 User Manual a 5x4 bw gsl 1 5x4 color gal 8X2 8 8x3 bw qsl 8 8x3 color qsl Files of type EasyLog5 051 files Cancel When opening an existing file format all the parameters of the format are loaded in QSL Wizard page settings margins layout and all the other parameters Be sure that the file format characteristics are compatible with your printer characteristics After you open a qsl file the Selected Macro Properties Manage macro levels and Design areas will be filled with the information pertaining to the qls file that you opened The picture below shows the window after opening the 8 3 color qs file that is supplied with EasyLog 5 EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 10 User Manual IEE FasyLog5 OSL wizard C EL5 OSL 8x3_color qst File 85 a aee EE Paper size A4 8 27 x 11 68 DATEAMSI NU t E CDE TETERE Ms T Width 8 27 Height 11 taDATELON G EL POM 28 DATESHORT EU width 54
19. ht 3 Font Aral Transparent Background color m Alignment Lett bi User Manual The Macro Property Editor panel shows in the upper part the selected macro name EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Text This field 15 editable only for the macro TEXT for all the other macros it is read only and just contains the macro name x y Width Height Position and dimension of the macro expressed in pixels These fields are useful to perform micrometric adjustment of positions and sizes The x and y positions are the top left corner of the macro Font Displays the Font used by the Macro Click the button to select a font and characteristics of the macro text Transparent All the macros are transparent by default Disabling the transparency by clicking the check button allows the user to assign a background color to the macro Background color Shows the background color used by the macro when the transparency is disabled Click the button to change the color Alignment To select the macro text alignment inside the macro frame The figure shows the effect of the three possible alignments respectively left right and centered Page 17 Image macro type 24 D 25 Width 41 Height 38 Image printed with easylog5 b Keep proportions Shape macro type RECTANGLE x 24 HE Width 50 Height 50 Internal color Ej Line calor
20. mposition rules treated in section 2 4 Single SwL e EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 19 Single QSL layout sample User Manual As an example the figure shows a single QSL layout as it appears in the design area zr 1 emp rere L E CUP Preview print This 1s the result of preview and printing three QSOs Confirming Q50 with Date 13 03 09 UTC 05 19 Band 160m 2x RST 599 Pse OSL T3 de WIRYA piris with ES Confirming 0500 with ES 1V MN Date 08 04 08 UTC 04 24 Band 30m 2 CW RST 599 Fse OSL fade W5RYA Mia ES TAX mined wr EB Confirming with Date 3112 06 UTC 05 53 Band 160m 2 CW RST 599 Pse 051 73 de WERY A EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 20 User Manual QSL multi layout sample As an example the figure shows a multi QSL layout as it appears in the design area Preview print This 1s the result of preview and printing The user can decide how many QSOs are to be printed on the same label The smaller the font 15 the more QSOs can be placed on the label The number of QSOs that will be printed on a multi QSO label depends on how many macros are placed on the design area As shown in the example there are three identical rows of macros QSL Wizard detects how many QSO can be placed on the multi label counting how many times the DATE macro occurs It does not matter which DATE macro
21. nto the Design Area Or you can double click a macro to place in the Design Area Once a macro 15 placed in the Design Area of a layout it can be moved around the label design to any position you desire Using the macro property editor in the area labeled Properties you can customize all the visual characteristics et FasyLog5 QSL wizard C EL5 QSL format qst File Settings QsLWizard ey ER a 3 g Log LAKEQRO Available macros r 251 MARK rat a le GMBE Fape XS eut KORHAN UTC END Mein Height 38 Macro List Macro Properties Font Arial HIMAGE Transparent HHLIME Background color uae 2 HRECTANGLE Alignment Lett 4 Single Muti AMGA Macros in Design Design Area EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 13 User Manual To Drag and Drop a macro to the Design Area In the Macro Listbox select the macro you want to place in the Design Area by highlighting it with a mouse click and keeping the left mouse button pressed drag it in the design area When the cursor is inside the design area and inside the red margins the macro can be dropped in the desired position After dropping the macro you can move it in another position by simply dragging it again around the label area and dropping it in the new position The
22. nual Page 21 User Manual SWL layout sample As an example the figure shows a SWL QSL layout as it appears in the design area To CALL Confirming SWL report for QSO with NOTE Preview print This is the result of preview and printing TO 11 928 TO Confirming SL report for QS0 with IKZOFWIIHS DATE UTC BAND 14 Aug 1993 1002 73 1 2 Tnx for QSL EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 22 User Manual 2 8 Working with levels When a macro 15 partially or totally covered by other macros it 1s possible to use the level listbox to modify the overlapping order of the macros The top macro in the list box is placed in the layout first and 15 called the lowest level The bottom macro in the list box 15 placed in the layout last and 1s called the highest level A higher level macro can overlap and obscure a lower level macro Let us suppose for example as shown in figure we want to create a title bar using a colored rectangle with a text macro inside If the macro is created before the ZRECTANGLLE the text macro will have a lower level that means once overlapped the text macro will be covered by the RECTANGLE Select the macro you wish to move Then click the up arrow or the down arrow to move the macro in that direction in the listbox Each click moves it one level In our example this will make it possible to place the text on a higher level than the colored rectangle The level
23. of the form will be printed for the reason described at paragraph 3 2 the real printable area depends on the unprintable area margins Print all the labels Use all verticalspace The option use all vertical dimension allows you to use more vertical space of the label recovering the bottom margin space This can be done because not all the rows of the label form will be printed Thus avoiding the printing clipping at the bottom of the form explained at paragraph 3 2 The choice of this option will reflect on the design area with the missing of the bottom margin see the next figure Design area without the use of use all vertical dimension option EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 30 User Manual As you can see in the figure above the recovered vertical space 1s considerable It is still necessary to take in account the left right and top unprintable margins but they have much less influence on the printing area You can decide how many label rows will be printed The proposed default is the number of rows of the form minus 1 The form preview always visible in the right upper part of QSL Wizard main window helps you to understand the effect of these options What to do with the partially used label forms Simply use them again by turning them upside down Another feature allows deciding at which label QSL Wizard will start wy The Print l
24. ost half of the printable area 1s lost EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 27 User Manual For a better comprehension of the reason for this problem let us see what could happen if we do not take into account the printer s unprintable area In the next figure you can see the result of an attempt to print horizontally and vertically trying to use all the form area The text printed before the unprintable margins 1s not visible and appears clipped at left top right and bottom of form It is clear now that these unprintable areas can not be used and must be deducted from the horizontal and vertical printable area V I I DATE UTC BAND 2X RST DATE UTC BAND 2X RST 18 Apr 1993 12 15 20m SSB 59 18 1993 12 58 20 SSB 59 3 de IK1TZO Pse QSL 13 1 20 Pse QSL DATE UTC BAND 2X RST i DATE UTC BAND 2X RST 18 1993 12 28 20m SSB 59 18 1993 12 59 20 SSB 59 3de IK1TZO Tnx for QSL 73 IK1TZO Tnx for OSL MKOMEY ee TOME EE eene WE UTC BAND 2X RST ore 2 26 pae GOR DATE ay JTC v DATE UTC BAND 7 18 1993 18 1993 12 58 20 SSB 59 3de IK1TZO Pse QSL 13 1 20 Pse QSL 2161 QQ e H HTO HIK2 EB DATE UTC BAND 2X RST DATE UTC BAND 2X RST 18 Apr 1993 12 28 20m SSB 59 18 1993 12 59 20 SSB 59 720 44 tifa Tv FX Teese 44 HATIA Ta E
25. priety option in LABEL EasyLog 5 ANAME Expands the NAME field LABEL Expands the NOTE field LABEL Expands the POWER field LABEL Expands the QTH field LABEL Expands the QSL field in the format Tnx for QSL Pse QSL LABEL 0051 MARK YES 2051 MARK OQSL Expands the QSL field in the format Tnx Pse LABEL ARST Expands RST SND field LABEL ASAT Expands the SAT field LABEL ATEXT Expands a user defined text LABEL AUTC Expands the TIME INP field LABEL QUIC END Expands the TIME END field LABEL EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 14 User Manual OMGR Expands the MANAGER field LABEL The macro tags that begin with the character are macros that will be expanded All the expanding macros are relative to QSL buffer field except for the macros TEXT and MYCALL The expansion is made during the preview and printing this means that in the design area the macro 1s shown using its tag name 1 e CALL The expansion of the macro means that the macro is replaced by the content of its field For example the macro QMODE will be expanded to print CW SSB etc The macro tags that begin with the character are decorative elements To obtain brief descriptions of the function of any macro click on the desired macro in the Macro Listbox and wait without moving the mou
26. red margins indicate the printable area of the label based on your default printer properties Placing a macro with a double click If you double click a macro in the Macro Listbox it will be placed in the upper left corner of the design area of the active layout Then move it to the desired position with the drag and drop technique During a drag and drop process the status bar of QSL Wizard shows the position of the upper left corner of the macro expressed in the active units of measure inches or millimeters This position is relative to the upper left corner of the label design area The maximum number of macros that can be placed in each layout is 100 2 5 List of available macros OBAND Expands the BAND field of QSL buffer LABEL OCALL Expands the CALL field LABEL ODATEANSI Expands the DATE field in ANSI format LABEL ODATELITERAL Expands the DATE field in the literal format 1 e 21 Jan 2003 LABEL QQDATELONG EU Expands the DATE field using the European dd mm yyyy format LABEL MDATESHORT EU Expands The DATE field using the format dd mm yy LABEL ODATELONG US Expands the DATE field in the long US format mm dd yyyy LABEL Expands the DATE field in the short US format mm dd yy LABEL MFREQ Expands the FREQUENCY field LABEL ALOCAT Expands the LOCATOR field LABEL Expands the MODE field LABEL MYCALL Expand en own CALL if configured in the Log pro
27. se Selecting Add custom macros from the menu Settings it is possible to add the macro for the installed custom awards These macros behave exactly like the other macros of LABEL type For more details please refer to the section 1 3 EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 15 User Manual 2 6 Macro properties Depending on the type the macros have different properties To modify them select the macro in the design area with a mouse click and use the property editor the selected macro 1s highlighted with a blinking frame amp DATELONG US Won Se ee ne Paper size Letter 8 5 117 M eg CLA Liz Macro Property width 880 Height 11 00 Editor Panel 25 wid 110 Height 13 Columns Rows B el Font Arial ay Viii ad 0 07 Left 0 25 Transparent Bottom 0 46 Right D 25 Background color E DS 4 Se Alignment Left g E i E E ee mx xa To modify a property click on the edit box and type a new value the field changes color to yellow and exit from the field by pressing the Tab key to apply the modification EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 16 Label macro type DATELONG US Text DA TELONG US x 104 width 111 weds Heig
28. tes and needs font color size Each format can be saved for re use in the future QSL Wizard makes available three different and independent layouts for each format the single QSO one QSO confirmation per label multi QSO several QSO confirmations to the same station on the same label and SWL confirmation of Short Wave Listener report Enjoy QSL Wizard EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 3 User Manual 1 1 System requirements This paragraph describes the main recommendations to follow in using QSL Wizard OSL Wizard requires that at least one printer is installed on the system locally or available on a network e Use a Laser or an Ink Jet printer with updated Windows drivers Be sure you are using an updated printer driver designed for the installed version of Windows The Windows 98 driver is different from the Windows XP or Windows 2000 drivers To install a driver designed for a different Windows version can cause unpredictable results that usually means strange behavior of the printer and problems during printing The driver on the CD included in the box when you bought the printer 1s usually out of date For this reason we always recommend that you download the latest available version of the printer driver from the manufacturer s web site e Useonly label forms expressly designed for your laser or ink jet printer Laser printers reach high temperatures during printing thus they requires special self adhesive pap
29. the number Left of labels on the form that can be set as columns number of horizontal labels and rows number of vertical labels Bottom mar gin EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 29 User Manual Horizontal and vertical spacing between labels You can set horizontal and vertical spacing between the labels of a label form 3 5 Direct printing on QSL cards QSL Wizard also supports direct printing QSL cards Set the page size to Single QSL proposed default dimensions 140 x 90 mm 5 5 x 3 50 but can be modified to fit your own needs Leave the default margins as they are click the Default button 1f necessary Set Columns 1 Rows 1 Set the QSL cards in the printer IMPORTANT Be sure that the dimensions and the paper characteristics of the QSL cards are compatible with your printer There is a minimum dimension under which the printer is not able to load the cards The procedure to load custom cards 1s different from printer to printer Please refer to the printer documentation for additional details 3 6 Advanced features In order to offer a solution to the disadvantages caused by the use of A4 label forms without margin frames and the large bottom unprintable area of ink jet printers QSL Wizard is equipped with special features to increase at the maximum the printable area of the labels The option print all the labels is the default condition the labels
30. tically detects the user s unit of measure based on the system settings You can change the default setting to either inches or millimeters Rulers and macro positions in labels are expressed in units of the active selection Four different page formats are supported A4 Letter Legal and a customizable one Both portrait and landscape printing mode are supported The user can create as many QSL file formats as he wants There 15 an unprintable area the margins of the paper where text and figures cannot be printed QSL Wizard automatically detects the unprintable margins of the user s printer that will be excluded in the design area On each format it 1s possible to design three different label print layouts single one QSO per label multi more than one QSO with the same station on the same label and SWL print of a confirmation of an SWL listening report QSL Wizard Page 6 User Manual automatically detects which of the three layouts 1s to be printed Initial label offset In order to recover label sheets partially used you can specify which label of the sheet where printing will begin skipping the missing used label positions Use of all vertical space label forms do not have a margin around the sheet This of label forms means that the printer s unprintable area influences and restricts the label design area available to the macros Even if they do have a margin the unprintable area at the bottom of a
31. with the long side of the paper iS Full height rows a Portrait Landscape This option will change the design area and the margin characteristics so they will appear rotated by 90 degrees The meaning of the margins will change consequently On ink jet printers where the bottom EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 33 User Manual unprintable margin 1s wider than in laser printers we will find the right margin the same size that the bottom was the new bottom margin will be the same as the left was and so on This option is useful to use print label forms where the labels are oriented with the long side of the form and to print to single label form that covers the entire form surface These forms are useful to create a customized label size that does not exist on the market for special purposes After printing the labels can be cut manually EasyLog 5 QSL Wizard User Manual Page 34
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