| HOW TO GET LANDSCAPE WITHOUT CONTROL BLOCKS IN 4.x WPS-PLUS
Greetings:
One of the more common print problems being reported to the CSC in Atlanta
is, "How can I get landscape without using control blocks?" This is im-
mediately followed by, "Oh, I also want 16 pitch!"
The following steps will allow you to set this up in v 4.x of WPS-PLUS.
1) Create a new printer attribute table using the new and improved
Printer Table Utility. If you are using LN03's and DEClasers, you
will probably want to create specific tables for each calling them
LN03LAND.PRA, LN06LAND.PRA, etc. Add all escape sequences shown
below to the end of the line.
2.a) In the Print Settings (PS) option, modify the Initialization Se-
quence and add the following:
For LN03, add <ESC>[?21 J
For DEClasers, add <ESC>[2 z
2.b) Modify the Termination sequence as follows:
For Ln03, add <ESC>[?20 J
For DEClasers, add <ESC>[0 z<ESC>[0 x<ESC>[0;0;2550;3300 {<ESC>[1!v
(This will force PORTRAIT, SIMPLEX, print area and TOP TRAY).
2.c) Modify the Maximum Page Size value as follows:
For 6 lines/inch vertical, set value to 2325
For 8 lines/inch vertical, set value to 3054
3) If you want to print in something other than 6 lines per inch
vertical by default, then you need to do the following otherwise
got to Step 4 below.
3.a) If you want to print in 8 lines/inch vertical, set the Default
Vertical Pitch setting to 8 and change the Resolution setting
to 283.
3.b) Hit the NEXT SCREEN key and blank out all vertical pitch settings
other than the one for 8 lines per inch.
4) If you want to print in something other than 10 characters per
inch horizontal by default, then you need to do the following
otherwise go to Step 5 below.
4.a) Change the Default Horizontal Pitch setting to the desired pitch
(usually 12, 15 or 16).
4.b) Hit the NEXT SCREEN key and blank out all horizontal pitch settings
other than the one you specified as the Default Horizontal Pitch in
the above step.
5.) If you modified the Default Horizontal Pitch in step 4 or if you
want to use a different font when printing, then you need to do the
following otherwise go to Step 6 below.
5.a) In the Fonts (FO) area, down arrow to the desired font and then
press the S key to select the font as the default font.
6.) Save the table by doing SC to Save Changes. This will write the
modified table into a subdirectory of your ALL-IN-1 or WPS-PLUS
directory called [.tables]. This allows you to use the table
locally without adversely affecting others in order to test and
debug.
7.) If you are not using ALL-IN-1, go to Step 8.
7.a) In the ALL-IN-1 manager account, go into SM MFP MPR PT and Create
a new Printer Type entry for LN03LAND, LN06LAND, etc. Set the
Printer Device field to point to your .PRA file (i.e. LN03LAND).
On the third screen, set the Print Form Value to OA$HLS_80. Make
other changes as desired. Save the record(s).
7.b) Modify your existing Site Printer entry to point to the new Printer
Type entry you created (or modified) in the step above.
NOTE that when you do this, others using this Document Destination
will get a .PRA file not found message if they try to print because
they do not have access to your modified table yet. If you are do-
ing this with users on the system, you may want to create a new
Site Printer entry temporarily to do your testing and THEN modify
the existing entry when you are satisfied that the new .PRA file
is working as desired.
8.) Print using the new printer table. In ALL-IN-1, specify the Site
Printer entry you either created or modified in step 7.b In WPS-
PLUS/VMS, specify the new .PRA file on the Format Style field.
9.) If the table works the way you want, you need to copy it to the
system area so that everybody can benefit. To do this, issue the
following VMS command from within ALL-IN-1 or WPS-PLUS:
$ copy [.tables]LN??LAND.PRA wpl$prt/prot=w:re
where the ?? will be either 03, 06 or whatever.
10.) If you created a new Site Printer entry in step 7.b above in order
to not affect existing users, modify the existing site printer en-
try to point to the modified or new Printer Type entry. Your test
Site Printer entry can then be deleted.
11.) If you are using WPS-PLUS/VMS, you are done. If you are using
ALL-IN-1 and you want non-WPS-PLUS documents to also print using
the modification made above, you have one more thing to do.
11.a) In the ALL-IN-1 manager account, go into SM MFP MFT and select the
ASCII EDT record. Edit the record and, on the second screen, change
the WPS-PLUS formatting field to a Y. Save the record. You may
want to make the same change to the ASCII WPS record if you have
users that use the WPS editor.
Thats all there is to it. Hope this helps.
Bruce Burnaman
CSC/Atlanta
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Hi,
Re. .3 I have just set this up and it all works fine - however I think
the step 4.b now means that I can ONLY have the pitch I've defaulted
to. What I really would like is a style that defaulted to 13 CPI, but
that the users could modify to print 16,18 etc if they want to. I tried
missing out step 4.b, but it then defaulted to 16 CPI ll the time. Am I
missing something...???
Regards
Caroline
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