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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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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:

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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 in-

creasing 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 us-

ing Elixir products.
Sign up for an Elixir Learning Program.

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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:

cows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 or later.
While we make every effort to ensure the proper op-

eration 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

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.

Microsoft Windows 95, Win-

display conventions
typographical conventions
mouse operations.

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
enclosed in [ ] (square brackets). For example,

Pull down the

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menu and select [Print].

File

Menu options are

bold.

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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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On-line Help

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.

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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