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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Apr 20, 2000 3:59 pm Subject: Let's Start With Creating PDF of SGN files | |
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Dear SignWriting List: I sent this entire message to the SignWriting List earlier today, and I attached the file "email.sgn" to help everyone. But the message has not posted to the SignWriting List yet. I am concerned that our Archives are not working properly. The problem seems to be connected with attachments...any messages that include attachments either don't make it to the List at all, or are very very late arriving to the List. So I will write to Paul Cowley and the technicians at E-groups to get this solved. Meanwhile, here is the message again without the attached file. Thanks for your help everyone! Val ;-) --------------------- SignWriting List April 20, 2000 Dear SignWriting List! I am grateful that some of you are willing to learn how to create PDF files from SignWriter documents and dictionaries. Let us take this slowly step by step. Let us start, by trying to create a PDF file of an existing SGN file, in the 6 different Print Formats. You will find different .SGN files in your SW directory. For example, there is one named "email.sgn". We could try to convert that file to PDF first.... There are two different printing setups in the SignWriter Computer Program... 1. Printing documents (SGN files) 2. Printing dictionaries (DIC and DIN files) Please keep these instructions for reference. TO PRINT DOCUMENTS (SGN) Start Signwriter, then.... Setting Up Your Printer 1. Type Alt-S (Setup command). 2. Type P for Printing. 3. Type P again for Printer. 4. Choose P for Postscript. 5. You have now set-up your printer. Setting Up The Interface 1. Type Alt-S (Setup command). 2. Type P for Printing. 3. Type I for Interface. 4. This appears: 1-COM1 2-COM2 3-LPT1 4-LPT2 5. You must choose one of these. This is your computer's connection with your printer. COM stands for "serial interface". LPT stands for "parallel interface". I am not sure which one you should choose for PDF...Help Angus!! Printing Formats There are 7 printing formats for printing files. (Note: These are not dictionary files.) To print a document: 1. Type Alt-S (Setup command). 2. Type P for Printing. 3. Type F for Format. 4. The six commonly-used formats are: Format 1 - Type will be 24pt size, printed tall. Format 2 - Type will be 18pt size, printed tall. Format 3 - Type will be 18pt size, printed wide. Format 4 - Type will be 10pt size (very small), printed tall. Format 5 - Type will be 10pt size (very small), printed wide. Format 6 - Type will be 32pt size (very large), printed wide. 5. If you wish Format 4, type 4. Press Return. Printing Page Numbers 1. Type Alt-S (Setup command). 2. Type P for Printing. 3. Type N for Numbers. 4. Print page numbers? Type Y for yes. 5. This prompt will appear: Starting page number is 1. New number: 6. If you want the page numbers to begin with page 1, press Escape. 7. If you want the page numbers to begin with another number such as 45, then type 45. Press Return. Printing Lines Per Page The printing formats are setup with an automatic number of lines per page. Once you have chosen a page format, it is usually not necessary to change the number of lines. However, if you want to create a special print-out that has fewer lines per page, you can do this. 1. Type Alt-S (Setup command). 2. Type P for Printing. 3. Type L for Lines. 4. This prompt will appear: Number of lines per page is _______. New number: 5. If you are happy with the number of lines, then press Escape. 6. If you wish to change the number of lines, then type in a new number, and press Return. 7. You may have to experiment a little by printing it out, to see if the result is what you want. OK....now you have setup SignWriter to print Postscript, and you have chosen a Print Format. Now the question is...how do we create the PDF file? smile If someone succeeds, please send us the attached PDF file to see if we can open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader! Also, try all 6 Print Formats of the same file... Plus give us step by step instructions - ha! Not a small job, but we will get there! Val ;-) |
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