geoPub24GPRG formatted GEOS file V1.0HPD4$eps24testgcP Շ ԇDA)Y/wr.postb36.7BLASTER'S CONVERTER V2.5GsPSPJacketScriptrvPublaser 1.8Drv9u` dAWrite Image V2.1geoWrite V2.1T-Grab Data V2.3Please Select Option:new documentexisting documentto deskTopFile exists  ` s888888888pMarch 2005 marked the 17th Anniversary of the first monthly club newsletter I produced with geoPublish (gP). After many complaints about my gP Dot Matrix printouts, I hooked a C-64 to a PostScript (PS) Laser Printer on October 26, 1988 and was amazed at what my Commodore and GEOS could produce. The complaints about the newsletter promptly stopped. 888888888DSince that day I have produced countless newsletters, 888888888flyers, posters and a book. I have written articles about gP and PS Printing for numerous publications and I wrote this Tutorial to help others get the best output from gP. 888888888DSo I must know everything there is to know about gP, 888888888right? 888888888DNot exactly. 888888888D @Feedback 888888888DWhen I published the Nov. 2003 UCUGA Commodore 888888888Digest as a favor to Dale Sidebottom he told me he was pleased with my work but there was one thing he wished I would do differently. If you look back at installments 8 and 9 (pages 17 - 19) in this Tutorial you may see what Dale was upset about. I haven't made the same error since. 888888888DDale didn't like my use of the apostrophe (SHIFTed 7) 888888888for the front and back single quote mark. Now, if you print your document on a Dot Matrix printer there isn't any difference. But, if we 'really' (wrong) look at a PS Printout we'll see that the `single quotes' (right) are different if created properly. Use the Commodore Key and @ to make the front quote. 888888888DI am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts in GEOS as they 888888888@really help speed up use of the system - even when you have a 20 MHz SuperCPU. The shortcut for the front single quote somehow escaped me all these years until Dale mentioned it. Have a look at the Keyboard Shortcuts in the manual [gP Pages 6-6 and 6-7] and get used to using them; all of them. They will speed up your work and can make your published efforts look better. RUN Magazine also published a list of shortcuts in the July/August 1991 issue. 888888888 @I Adore my 64 888888888@I Love my PS Printing 888888888DDale is a Laser Lover as well. So much so that he titled 888888888his commercial disk the Laser Lovers' Disk (LLD) and offered wisdom, insight, assistance and humor to anyone willing to spend $25. See my review of the LLD (with an early version of PostPrint (PP)) in Commodore World Issue #24. 888888888DThe LLD is the official source of the PP program written 88888ogram writte888888888willing to spend $25. See my review of the LLD (with an early version of PostPrint (PP)) in Commodore World Issue #24. 888888888DThe LLD is the official source of the PP program written 888888888@by Maurice Randall. PP is a real workhorse and makes it so easy to print your gP files and PP Projects. However, if you want to invest some time with the LLD and a couple of good PS books you can learn to create what Dale calls `Hybrid' Projects. Hybrids are created by printing your file to disk and then editing the PS code to add special effects. 888888888DDo you want to print your text in circles? How about 888888888adding drop shadows? Do you want to add a pattern to your text and have it clipped inside the outline of the letters? Do you want to be able to rotate your graphics in 1 degree increments? All of these effects plus many more can be used to spice up your gP masterpieces if you want to spend a little time learning how. 888888888DLike Jim Collette's @PS.Processor before it I will state 888888888here that Dale Sidebottom's Laser Lovers' Disk should be part of your GEOS software library if you are serious about your printing projects. 888888888 @Continued Evolution 888888888DTodd Elliott has done some amazing programming work 888888888@under GEOS. He helped create @geoZip, wrote a patch to create @geoWrite128V2.2, patched @geoCanvas and @geoList to work properly under Wheels, patched @Missile DefenCe to run with a SuperCPU under Wheels and, finally, he has now added some great new features to gP. 888888888tThe first thing you need to know about Todd's 888888888@geoPublish V1.1 is it requires memory. The reason for this is that it loads itself totally into RAM and runs from there. If you have used gP you know it can be sluggish at times when it has to load modules from disk. The waiting is all over now. Todd added a nice splash screen that is displayed while gP V1.1 loads into RAM. 888888888tThe next big improvement is that gP V1.1 now supports 8888888884 drives. This means that you can have gP V1.1 on Drive D and load it by double-clicking a file on Drive B. All of your geoWrite files must still be on the same disk as your geoPublish document but you aren't limited to using only Drives A and B now. 888888888tIf you look at the gP V1.1 `file' menu you will notice that 888888888there is no longer a `print' option. What is currently there are Todd's italicized initials - tse888888888are Todd's italicized initials - tse. This was done to re-inforce the fact that you @must use PP to print any document created with gP V1.1. 888888888 @A New Library 888888888DInstallments 4 and 5 of the geoPublish Tutorial dealt 888888888with Master Pages Mode and Page Graphics Mode and how to save time by saving your layouts into the Libraries that geoPublish has. 888888888DInstallment 16 introduced the Page Graphics Mode 888888888Drawing Tools and we laid out our basic graphic elements. We had to add our lines and shaded boxes to each and every page in the Tutorial in order to get the consistent look that we wanted. But, since we were adding these elements to each page separately, it was hard to make sure our Special Text was placed the same way on each page. 888888888DA major time-saving feature that gP V1.1 has is a 888888888Library function for Page Graphics Mode. Think how easy our Tutorial would be to put together now that this exists. We would place our lines and Title on one Right Page and one Left Page and save each of these to a Library. We would place our line, shaded box, splat and Title on one Right Page and one Left Page and save each of these to a Library. That is only 4 pages that we have to layout manually. You could likely do it with just two saved pages but there comes a point where the amount you have to remove would take longer than just saving another page. Add as much as you feel like to your saved layouts and then just delete what you don't need. For each of the other 50 or so pages we would just Open the appropriate saved Library and edit the Title to fit the current page. You still can't save Photo Scraps in the Library but Image Proxies (we'll look at those soon) can be saved; you just have to remember that the Layout has an Image Proxy and make sure the EPS/JPEG is on the disk when you Print the page. The rest of the new Library is the same as in the other two modes. 888888888 @Graphic Enhancements 888888888The next thing we'll look at are some additions to the 888888888graphic handling capabilities of geoPublish V1.1. These features are available in Page Graphics and Master Pages modes. 888888888If you want to include Photo Scraps you can do that just 888888888as easily as in the original gP. Click the Graphic Placement tool and, instead of just placing our graphic on the page, a Dialog Box (DB) comes up. If we want to paste a Photo Scrap we just press the Open button and it will be placed on the page. 888888888However, we no888888888However, we now have other options in case our 888888888graphic is not a Photo Scrap. Just above the CANCEL button there is a little Icon. By pressing the Icon the DB changes into a file selection box and we can choose EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files to paste in. Pressing the Open button will paste the selected EPS file into gP. 888888888There are many programs for many different computers 888888888that can create an EPS file. You can even create your own right from PP. The beauty of an EPS file is that it can be resized however you want and it doesn't lose any clarity because it contains PS commands to draw the object. 888888888We can also paste JPEG images into our gP files now. 888888888Press the little Icon again when it shows EPS and you will get a selection box listing the JPEG files on the disk. The Open button is used to paste the image onto the page. 888888888Once you have an EPS or JPEG on the screen, what 888888888does it look like? The image takes on the attributes of the rectangle or circle that you last used. If you have no frame or pattern set in the Attributes you won't see anything and just have to know where you placed the image. Select an image and then open the attributes box. This looks like a normal gP Attributes Box. However, instead of Opaque and Transparent options we now have Constrain and Scale. These make it easy to manipulate the image in ways we previously couldn't. 888888888DThe Attributes box also has an Edit button. If you click 888888888@the Edit button a DB opens and you will see the name of the image. On the left side of the DB it says `orientation' with a little icon beside it. If you click the icon it changes direction. This rotates the image in 90 degree increments just like we did with our gP Icons in geoPaint. 888888888DAnother way to get an image onto the page is by using 888888888what Todd calls `Image Proxies'. Draw a rectangle on the page, open the rectangle Attributes and choose Edit. This is an ordinary rectangle so it doesn't show an image name. If we press the Open button we'll get our Image DB and can choose an image to put into this rectangle. We can also do the same for a circle object. Further enhancements to PP are planned to crop the image in the shape of the circle. 888888888DYes, PostPrint does the processing of the images and 888888888@it handles the options differently. If you choose Constrain the Image may get centered in the Graphic Region by PostPrint to maintain the aspect ratio of the image. Scaling will cause the image to fill the entire Graphic Region. If you draw a Frame around a Constrained Image the Frame will be drawn around the Graphic Region and not directly around the Image. 888888888pAs you have seen there are two methods to use to include JPEG888888888pAs you have seen there are two methods to use to 888888888@include JPEG and EPS files in your gP documents. We could still add the images with PP but you can't really see how they fit onto the page. PostPrint also has a lower limit than gP V1.1. In PP we can place 16 objects onto a single page and the geoWrite or gP page counts as one object. In gP V1.1 we can place 104 JPEG and/or EPS files onto a Page Graphics Mode page and 8 such objects onto a Master Pages Mode page. Todd says these limits may change as development continues but I think you will agree they are likely higher than most projects would need. 888888888DThere are a couple of other points about these images we 888888888@have been pasting on the screen. In the Attributes we can still use the Frame Width and Pattern settings. Frame Width does what you would expect. The Pattern setting can be used to set a pattern for the Frame. If you have a color PS printer you can accentuate your images with color frames. 888888888D @Practice Session 888888888DIn keeping with the format of the rest of this Tutorial we 888888888@are going to run through an example using one of the new features of gP V1.1. If you have been creating PostPrint Projects to add JPEG images to the printouts of your gP documents you will find the process is much simpler, and more accurate, when you place JPEGs with gP V1.1 for the simple reason that you can see the other elements on the page when you position the JPEG. If you don't have gP V1.1 yet, now is the time to order it from Todd. In the meantime you can place the JPEG with PostPrint if you have to. 888888888DOpen the Poster file with gP V1.1, change to page 10 and 888888888@create a new page. Create a text region from 5"X to 10"Z and import AppIndexD. Change to Page Graphics Mode, select the Rectangle Tool and draw a box (Square, No Frame, Transparent, 7 clicks up from blank) from 5" and 7" to 10" and 8". Draw another rectangle (Square, Narrow Frame, Opaque, Black) from 2 1/2" and 2" to 4" and 7". Turn Ratchet off, select the Text Tool (LW_Roma, 60, White, Center, Across, Bold), place the crosshairs at 2 7/8" and 2" and enter "@Appendix D" for the text. Select the text with the Pointer and re-size the text box to the width of the black box and expand it down a bit. 888888888@ Create 3 new pages so that you are on Page 14. Open the Lf2ColLrg Page Layout from the saved Library (with a saved Layout library you don't need the Master Page guidelines). Import the AboutAuthor file into the left and then right text regions. Change to Page Graphics mode, select the Text Tool (LW_Cal, 30 points, Center, Bold) and place "About the Author" in the usual Title location. Draw a 8j` Lctice"zn!zn zu؅`y LpLLVLTLvVL`ULULTLcTLMLYLT J(LK(L9K(NMRK (MtK8LK8MK86MK 8M888888888line under the title. Place our end of article splat (`X', LW_Shattuck, 12 points, Left, Across) to the right of the last line of text. All of what we have just done is standard gP practice. 888888888HSelect the, now inappropriately named, Bitmap Place- 888888888@ment Tool, position your Pointer at 5 1/2" down and 4 1/4" across and click to place the graphic. When the selection box opens click the Graphic Selection Icon which is just above the CANCEL Button. The first click of this Icon changes the box from pasting Photo Scraps (P.S.) to a selection box where you can select EPS files on the disk. Press the Icon a second time and you will be able to select from the JPEG images you have on the disk. You should see "BRUCE.JPG" in the selection box so click on it and then click the Open button. This places the JPEG on the page and now we have to resize it. Your selection is saved so the next time you want to paste a graphic the JPEG selection box opens first. 888888888HSelect the Pointer Tool and click on the area where we 888888888@placed the JPEG (it may or may not be visible depending on whether you last drew a rectangle with a pattern or not). The usual bounding box should now be visible so click on the lower right Resize box and move the lower right corner of the image to 9 1/2" down and 7 1/4" across. Click to place the image and then set the Attributes (Square, No Frame, Constrain (more life-like picture), No Pattern). 888888888H @Loose Ends 888888888HYou will find that the new Index article is too long for 888888888@the region we had created for it. Open the TutorialCover file, change to page 7, stretch the region down to 10 1/2" and set the top gutter to zero. In Page Graphics mode move the center bar and slogan down an appropriate amount as well. 888888888@ Next, I created a new PostPrint Project file called Extras and pasted in the Poster gP file. Then I went to page 14, created a new page and pasted in the postnewsb36 file. I used this Project file to print the Thumbnail page I need for AppendixB. 888888888DThe Tutorial is now finished. Return to the format24 888888888@article, finish creating the PostPrint Project and print it. 888888888DThanks to everyone for their feedback during this 888888888@project. I hope you enjoyed following along as much as I enGEOyed writing this and that you find it to be a reference you want to keep handy as you use geoPublish. guidelines). Import the AboutAuthor file into the left and then right text regions. Change to Page Graphics mode, select the Text Tool (LW_jj