Xerox Elixir PageHandler User Guide

Elixir PageHandler

User Guide

Publication #720P62633

June 1999

Version 4.00

Elixir Technologies Corporation

P.O. Box 1559

Ojai, CA 93024

Copyright © 1999 by Elixir Technologies Corporation. All rights reserved. Prepared by Elixir Technologies Corporation for exclusive publication by Xerox Corporation.

Publication #720P62633

June 1999

Version 4.00

Printed in the United States of America

Xerox®, 2700, 3700, 4045, 4050, 4075, 4135, 4235, 4650, 4700, 4850, 4890, 8700, 8790, 9700, 9790, XES, UDK, FRM, FSL, VIPP and all Xerox products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Xerox Corporation.

Trademarks and Service Marks/Company:

Adobe Type Manager/Adobe Systems Incorporated Ami Pro/Lotus Development Corporation Elixir/Elixir Technologies, Inc.

HP, LaserJet II/Hewlett Packard Company

IBM, Personal Computer AT, PS/2, and all IBM products mentioned in this publication/International Business Machines

MS-DOS, MS-WORD, Windows/Microsoft 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 generated 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 errors will be corrected in subsequent editions.

Table of contents

1. Introduction					1-1
	PageHandler overview				1-1
			PageHandler options		1-1
			Font considerations		1-2
			Xerox control files		1-2
	Release notes				1-3
	Customer support				1-3
		Xerox customer support center			1-4
		Elixir customer support centers			1-4
			Elixir Web site support		1-5
	Who should use this guide				1-5
	Hardware and software requirements				1-5
		Hardware			1-6
			Tape drive configuration		1-6
		Software			1-8
	Conventions				1-8
		Display conventions			1-8
		Typographical conventions			1-8
		Mouse operations			1-9
	On-line Help				1-10
	Organization of this guide				1-11
	Before installing				1-12
	Product Registration				1-12
		Elixir Product Registration screen			1-13

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		Using the internet	1-14
		Registering as a new customer via
		the internet	1-14
		Downloading via the internet to a
		non-Elixir PC	1-15
		Contacting Elixir (no internet
		connection)	1-17
		Soft key customers running Win-
		dows for Workgroups 3.1 or 3.11		1-17
	Installation			1-18
		Installing Elixir applications		1-19
		Full installation		1-19
		Custom installation		1-20
		Adding applications		1-22
		Adding newly licensed applications		1-22
	Checking installation			1-22
	Starting Elixir applications			1-22
2. Elixir PageHandler options				2-1
	Accessing Elixir PageHandler options		2-1
		Metacode Converter Options dialog
		box options		2-2
		PrePrint Options dialog box		2-7
3. Sample output formats				3-1
	2-UP, rotate and sort output			3-2
	2-UP, rotate, and non-collated output			3-3
	2-UP, rotate, and collated output			3-4
	2-UP, tumble, and collated output			3-5
	2-UP, tumble, and non-collated output			3-6
	2-UP, tumble, and sorted output			3-7
Index				INDEX-1

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1. Introduction

Elixir PageHandler is used in conjunction with Elixir PrintDriver for Xerox to generate two-sided, two-up metacode documents for printing on Xerox 9700-series printers.

Xerox printers supported by Elixir PageHandler are the Xerox 9790, 9700, 8790, 8700, 4890, 4850, 4650 (300 dpi), 4090 and 4050 printers. As these printers are all compatible, throughout this manual they are referred to collectively as Xerox 9700 printers.

This user guide describes only the options provided with Elixir PageHandler. For options provided with Elixir PrintDriver for Xerox, see your Elixir PrintDriver for Xerox User Guide.

PageHandler overview

Elixir PageHandler provides additional options for use with Elixir PrintDriver for Xerox. These options allow you to generate two-sided, two-up metacode documents for printing on Xerox 9700-series printers. You can use these printing options to create high quality booklets such as this manual.

Elixir PageHandler also allows multiple impositions on a page and full control over the way in which duplex pages are printed.

PageHandler options

Elixir PageHandler allows you to choose from the following printing options:

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One-up portrait printing with rotate duplex printing

Two-up portrait printing with rotate duplex printing

One-up landscape printing with rotate duplex printing

Two-up landscape printing with rotate duplex printing

One-up portrait printing with tumble duplex printing

Two-up portrait printing with tumble duplex printing

One-up landscape printing with tumble duplex printing

Two-up landscape printing with tumble duplex printing.

Font considerations

Elixir PageHandler supports fonts generated by Elixir PrintDriver, including ATM or TrueType. To print booklet-type documents, you must also have inverse fonts. For information about generating these inverse fonts, see the "Elixir PageHandler options" chapter.

Xerox control files

The same JSL and JDL used for printing Windows applications through Elixir PrintDriver may be used for printing files produced by using Elixir PageHandler options.

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Release notes

Release notes appear at the beginning of the Elixir software install process, so that you can review each entry before performing the complete installation. Once the software is installed, release notes can be accessed from the Help menu of the application. Release notes are formatted for viewing in Notepad or Wordpad. They have a txt file extension and are found in the drive:\ELIXIR \RELNOTES directory.

Customer support

Elixir customer support centers provide telephone technical assistance for Elixir users during business hours.

If you have any problems running or using Elixir applications, call your customer support center telephone number in your area for help. When calling, you will be asked for the following information:

your name, organization, telephone number, and address

the name and version number of the Elixir application

a complete description of the problem, including any error messages displayed on your monitor or printed on your printer.

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Xerox customer support center

If you have purchased your Elixir product directly from Xerox Corporation then you should contact the Xerox customer support center telephone number provided by Xerox.

For future reference, please record your Xerox customer support number below.

Xerox customer support center telephone

Elixir customer support centers

If you have purchased your Elixir product directly from Elixir Technologies then contact the support center for your region.

North and South America [phone] ext. 3

Asia Pacific

[phone]

Europe

[phone]

The U.S.A. Elixir Customer Support Center provides telephone technical assistance for Elixir users Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

You can contact Elixir support by accessing the Elixir World Wide Web page (and selecting [Contact Support]) at http://www.elixir.com. Please complete the question form.

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Elixir Web site support

The Elixir Web site at http://www.elixir.com offers the following resources:

Raise a question for Elixir Support.

Find answers in the list of Frequently Asked

Questions.

Review the latest Tips and Techniques for increasing productivity using Elixir software.

Download new releases and the latest patches.

View Release Notes for the latest available features.

Learn in the user newsgroup how others are using Elixir products.

Sign up for an Elixir Learning Program.

Who should use this guide

This guide is intended for users familiar with Windows and with Xerox printer and font management operations.

Users should be familiar with PC peripherals and have access to reference manuals for PC software and hardware and for the Xerox printer(s) used.

Hardware and software requirements

The following sections describe the hardware and software requirements for running Elixir PageHandler.

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Hardware

Recommended PC configuration: Pentium (or 100% compatible), with at least 133 MHz processor (or the fastest commercially available processor); 32 MB RAM, 500+ MB hard drive, one CD-ROM drive.

Additional requirements:

any monitor with driver software supporting Windows in VGA or SVGA.

any Windows compatible mouse.

Optional requirements:

One of the following for communicating with

Xerox printers:

Any PC-to-mainframe or communications board that supports binary file transfers (such as IBM PC3270, IRMA FT/3270, or AS/400 PC communications packages).

Any 9-track, 1600 or 6250 bpi tape drive (such as the Qualstar with the Overland TX-8 controller card).

For users with compatible PCs, the ElixiDisk utilities described in the "Stand-alone utilities" chapter also allow transferring files between your PC and Xerox production printers.

Due to hardware and BIOS differences, PS/2 systems and some IBM-compatible PCs do not support this function.

A Xerox production printer

Tape drive configuration

If you use a Qualstar tape unit, copy the TAPE_MT0.SYS file (and, if provided, the LDIMG.EXE file) from the driver diskette supplied by Qualstar to your root directory.

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Add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICE= TAPE_MT0.SYS 8

If LDIMG.EXE is included on the Qualstar driver diskette, add the following command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

LDIMG

To access Elixir stand-alone utilities from any DOS subdirectory, make sure you add \ELIXIR or your ElixiSys custom directory selected at installation, to the PATH= statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

For example, if your AUTOEXEC.BAT file contains the following line:

PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;D:\UTILS

Modify the PATH= statement as follows:

PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;D:\UTILS;drive:\ELIXIR

drive:

is the hard disk drive on which you install Elixir PageHandler (see the "Elixir PageHandler Installation" section in this chapter).

Use any text editor in non-document mode (to generate ASCII text) to add text to the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

Make sure you reboot your PC so that any changes in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files take effect.

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Software

Software requirements: Microsoft Windows 95, Wincows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 or later.

While we make every effort to ensure the proper operation of our software, some problems cannot be resolved due to differences in the operating systems.

At this time, we do not support OS/2.

Conventions

This section describes the following:

display conventions typographical conventions mouse operations.

Display conventions

Elixir PageHandler adheres to Microsoft Windows conventions for using menus, menu commands, dialog boxes, command buttons, icons, and a mouse. See your Windows manual for more information.

Typographical conventions

The following typographic conventions are used throughout this guide.

Keystrokes are shown enclosed in < > (angle brackets). For example, <Enter>.

Key combinations are denoted by a plus sign between keys. For example, <Shift> + <F1> indicates to simultaneously press the <Shift> and the <F1> keys.

Menu titles are shown in bold. Menu options are enclosed in [ ] (square brackets). For example,

Pull down the File menu and select [Print].

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Command buttons that you press are also enclosed in [ ] (square brackets). For example,

Click on [Job Print Ticket].

Commands, options, actions, and parameters that require description are shown in bold followed on the next line by the description. For example:

drive

Specify the output drive for the resources.

Steps in a procedure are shown in numbered bold paragraphs. For example:

1.Click on [Job Print Ticket] in the Main Setup dialog box.

Comments relating to a step (such as this paragraph) are shown in regular text following the bold paragraph.

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 <Enter>

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 mouse button.

The following mouse-related terms are used in this guide:

click

to momentarily press and release the left mouse button once.

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double-click

to click the left mouse button twice in rapid succession.

object

a selectable item on the screen.

open

to point and double-click on an object -- the effect of this operation depends on the object.

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.

On-line Help

Elixir software uses the Microsoft Windows Help program to provide on-line Help for Elixir PageHandler functions.

For more information about Windows Help, 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 include graphics which were 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 optimum graphics display, use a screen driver that uses large fonts.

Using on-line Help

You can access on-line Help by clicking on the [Help] button in a dialog box to view an associated Help topic. For Elixir PageHandler Help files, click on the [Mip Help] button in the Metacode Converter Options dialog box or in the PrePrint dialog box.

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