ENVELOGO COPYRIGHT 1991 JOHN PEDERSEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

			ENVELOGO (Rev. 1.1)
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                  John Pedersen     CompuServe 76547,357
                  RR #2,
                  Orangeville, Ontario
                  Canada
                  L9W 2Y9

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                            NOTE !!!

ENVELOGO is a descendant of a program called Laser 'Loper.  It
has a number of enhancements and uses the Windows Help engine. At
the present time, I am not asking for payment for ENVELOGO.
Instead, I need feedback on:
                     
   1. ANY problems.
   2. Installation on your system: easy/hard
   3. Your system: printer, Word Processor, etc.
   4. Your understanding how it works:  easy/hard
   5. Degree of usefulness to you: very/not very
   6. Any other suggestions?

If you get in touch with me, and give me info on ANY or ALL of
the 6 questions above, it will be much appreciated, AND I will
be able to update you on any bugs that turn up, and enhancements
added, or new products that are developed.

Send message to John Pedersen, CompuServe 76547,357.

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			ENVELOGO DOCUMENTATION
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                          Table of Contents
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1.0  Introduction

2.0  Installing ENVELOGO
     2.1  Packing List (in the ZIP file)
     2.2  Installation
 
3.0  Getting Started
     3.1  Notes about ENVELOGO
     3.2  Starting up ENVELOGO

4.0  The Template(s)
     4.1  Overview
     4.2  Designing an Envelope
     4.3  Using the Windows Control Panel
     4.4  Printing to a file

5.0  Using a Word Processor Macro
     5.1  Purpose of the macro
     5.2  The WinWord Macro

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1.0  Introduction:
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     With much loading and clicking, Pagemaker (or equivalent) teamed
     with your Laser printer, can produce an excellent addressed
     envelope with a fancy-logo return address.  But when you just
     need to kick out an envelope and put a stamp on it, this envelope
     printer starts printing in seconds.  Using template files, it lets
     you select any of your fancy-artwork/logo envelope types (personal,
     business, spouse...), and it can paste in the send-to address from
     the Windows clipboard, or from your word processor.  It runs under
     Windows 3, and needs VBRUN100.DLL.

     It inhales the envelope within a few seconds after you click the
     "PRINT" button. It takes care of switching the printer into
     manual mode (so it waits for you if your envelope is not yet
     inserted), and landscape, so you can just shove in an envelope,
     print it up, and go right back to writing your next letter.  The
     program will automatically convert itself to an icon at the
     bottom of the screen when printing is finished, or exit (terminate
     itself), or sit there waiting to do another envelope; you choose
     the mode.

     The program relies on having a template file on disk that it can
     quickly dump out to the printer, only inserting the desired
     address.  The user can select from a number of templates, so
     there can be specific envelopes for yourself personally, and
     for your dog-washing business, your spouse, and so on.  A test
     template called DEMOPRNT.BIN (intended for the LaserJet Series II
     printer) is included with this program.

     The address (destination) to be spliced onto the envelope template
     can be automatically set up by your word processing program when
     you typed the letter, or transferred via the clipboard from, for
     instance, the "Windows Cardfile" program, or, heaven forbid, the
     address lines can even be typed in by hand.

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2.0  Installing ENVELOGO
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2.1  Packing List (Files contained in the ZIP file)

     1. ENVLGO.EXE
        Executable file (needs VBRUN100.DLL in Windows directory).

     2. ENVLGO.HLP
        Windows-style help file.

     3. ENVDEMO.BIN
        Example envelope template file for LaserJet II printer.

     4. DEMOLETR.DOT
        WinWord Example Document Template File with fixed AUTONEW MACRO.

     5. README.TXT
        Documentation

2.2  Installation
     
     Create a directory on your disk.  Copy the zipped file to this
     directory.  Use PKUNZIP to expand the zipped file into its basic
     file components.  (Probably you will already have done this, if
     you are reading this file.)  PKZIP/PKUNZIP is shareware by
     PKWARE, Inc. of Glendale, WI.
     
     If you use program manager:
     a) put up the program manager window, and select (click on)
        the group that you will want ENVELOGO to be in.
     b) Select "File" from the top menu bar, and select "New"
        from the submenu.
     c) A "New Program Item" dialog box will appear.  Make sure that
        "Program Item" is selected, and press the "OK" button.
     d) A "Program Item Properties" dialog box will appear.  Type
        "Envelogo" on the Description line, and enter the full path
        name of the ENVLGO.EXE file on the Command line.  Then click
        the "OK" button.
     e) The ENVELOGO icon will now be in the group you selected.  You
        may have to open (maximize) the group window and re-arrange
        your icons.

Note: If you have been using a version of ENVELOGO earlier than
      Revision 1.1, you should delete the file ENV.INI in your
      Windows directory, and go through the setup procedure again
      after installing ENVELOGO.

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3.0  Getting Started
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3.1  Notes about ENVELOGO

     a) The program expects the envelope template filenames to end
        with a .BIN extension.
     b) The program expects the macro output filename to end with
        a .TXT extension.
     c) The program places an ENV.INI file in your Windows directory.
     d) The printer is expected to be connected to, and is accessed
        by dumping a binary file directly to, LPT1, or LPT2.

3.2  Starting up ENVELOGO

     The first time you start up ENVELOGO (for instance, by double-
     clicking on its icon in Program Manager), it will fail to find
     its initialization file (ENV.INI) in the Windows directory, and
     it will ask if it should create one.  You should reply YES.

     Then, the next order of business is to tell ENVELOGO where it
     can find at least one envelope template file.  If you have a
     LaserJet II printer, or compatible, you can try the file
     ENVDEMO.BIN which was included in the ZIPPED file package.

     Otherwise, you must now create a template file for your printer,
     in the manner described in Section 4.0 The Template(s), below.
     You may then come back and follow the procedure below to print
     your first envelope.

     Printing your first envelope:
     Having started ENVELOGO, and being at the main window, select
     "FILE" from the menu bar, and "Change Setup" from the submenu.
     This gives the Files Setup window.  Select "Envelope Type" from
     the menu bar, and "Add New Type" from the submenu.  Now you will
     get a screen to allow you to enter a name for this envelope type,
     such as "Stupid Demo Envelope", and you will be able to select
     the drive, directory, and file name of the template file (eg.
     ENVDEMO.BIN).  Return to the main window, and check that the
     correct Printer Port is selected.  If you change your printer
     port and want ENVELOGO to remember this setting for future
     sessions, select "File" and "Save Changes" from the menu bar.
     You should be able to type in an address, and print your first
     envelope.

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4.0 The Template(s)
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4.1 Overview

    This is the factor that makes this method very quick, because no
    manipulation of graphics is required--the entire template file is
    sitting there, ready to go.  However, you DO have to get this file
    in place to begin with.

    Basically, before using ENVELOGO, it is necessary that you be able
    to print an envelope from some desktop publishing or word processing
    program.  This will involve setting paper size, selecting landscape
    mode, placing graphics, etc., in accordance with the instructions
    for your desktop publishing program.

    When everything is satisfactory, and you are pleased with the
    appearance of your printed envelope, you are ready for the last
    step.  You must print the envelope one more time, except that this
    time, instead of directing the output to the printer port, you must
    use the Windows Control Panel, and send the output to a file on
    disk.

4.2 Designing an envelope

    These instructions relate to Pagemaker, outputing to an
    HP LaserJet II, but it should be possible to handle other
    combinations in a similar manner.  Even with the same combination
    of hardware and software, there are probably many ways to accomplish
    the same results, but the following worked well for me.
 
    1. Compose an envelope on Pagemaker (importing a logo created with
    Corel, Designer, or whatever), and get it looking the way you want.
    On my page setup, I used a custom paper size of 9.5" x 4.125",
    with orientation set to "Wide".

    2. On the envelope, put a destination address of 6 lines, each
    line being "aaa" (no quotes, just the three lowercase letters).
    I made sure that the font was one which was built into the
    printer (Courier 12).

    3. Print it out on the LaserJet, to make sure it is exactly what
    you want.  Remember, on the Printer Setup, put "Paper Source" to
    "Manual", and "Orientation" to "Landscape".

    4. After you make sure that it prints out exactly the way you want,
    go back to the Control Panel in the Windows Program Manager, and
    change the printer connection from LPT1: to FILE:.  (see next
    section)

4.3 Using the WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL (to set up for printing to a file)

    Select the Windows "Control Panel" (from Program Manager, if you are
    using it), then, from the screen that results, select (double-click)
    "Printers".

    Now a "Printers" window appears.  The printer you have been using
    will already be selected as the active printer.  Select the
    "Configure" button.

    A "Printers-Configure" dialog window appears.  Take note of the
    selection in the "Ports" list box (most commonly LPT1:), so that
    you will be able to restore the setting after this exercise.

    Scroll down the "Ports" list box until you can select "FILE:".  Select
    it and click the "OK" button.

    You will return to the "Printers" window, where you must click the
    "OK" button again.

    Now, when you print, you will be prompted to provide a file
    name, and output will go, not to your printer port, but to the
    file that you specify.

4.4 Printing (an envelope template) to a file

    To create an envelope template for ENVELOGO, make sure the
    printer is still set up for "Landscape" mode, and "Manual Feed".
    Then print the envelope once again.  This time you will be
    prompted to supply a destination file name, and it will print
    (ie. send a binary file) to the filename that you will specify.
    Make sure the file name you specify ends with the extension ".BIN".

    When you first use ENVELOGO, you will have to tell the program the
    name of the file (using the Files Setup procedure), and that's it.

    Don't forget to restore your previous printer settings with the
    Windows Control Panel.

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5.0  Using a Word Processor Macro

5.1  Purpose of the macro

     To obtain the destination address to print on an envelope,
     ENVELOGO has the ability to import the contents of a designated
     simple text (ASCII) file (whose name must end in .TXT).  ENVELOGO
     doesn't care how the text in the file got there; it just expects
     to find a few address lines and nothing else.

     This simple method of importing an address is provided to allow
     an uncomplicated interface, for those who wish to implement it,
     to a number of word processors, or other programs. 

5.2  The WinWord Macro

     This section is about setting up a macro with WinWord, to write
     into a "macro output file".  No doubt there are many ways, and
     many word-processing programs that can do the same thing.

     Although we refer to a WinWord Macro output file (ie a file
     created by a macro that is set up in Word for Windows), in fact
     this program will just print whatever address it finds in a
     certain file, and doesn't care how it got there.
  
     It is very handy to create a macro such that every time you write
     a letter, using a .DOT document template that puts the date and
     your logo on the letterhead, etc., that the address is
     automatically written into a certain file, replacing whatever
     was there previously.  This will be the address you can choose
     to import into the Envelogo program.  You don't need to print
     your envelope right away, or while your word processor is running.
     The address information will remain until you write another
     letter.

     The following will give you an idea on how this macro is set up
     in WinWord.  You open your template file (.DOT extension, MS
     provides examples with WinWord), presumably in the TMPLATES
     directory.  From the menu, select Macro/Edit, then select
     Template (not Global), and then select AutoNew from the choices
     presented.  Assuming you use input boxes to get the address from
     the user, just add a few lines of Basic (WordBasic) to open a
     file for output, and print the address lines to the file.

     The file DEMOLETR.DOT, in the ZIPPED package, is an example
     WinWord Document Template.  It is simply an altered copy of
     an example document template that is provided with WinWord.
     A few lines have been added in the AUTONEW macro to output the
     address lines to a text file.

     If you put this DEMOLETR.DOT file in your Winword /TMPLATES
     directory, you can try it, by selecting File/New in WinWord,
     and specifying this template.  You can also take a look at the
     lines added to the macro, by selecting File/Open in WinWord, and
     selecting DEMOLETR.DOT as the file to edit.  Then select Macro/
     Edit, and look at the Document macro called AUTONEW.


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