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Publisher's Powerpak Used With WordPerfect
DocumentID: 645530
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:07 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: Publisher's Powerpak is an add-on printer enhancement program designed to improve the quality of your printed documents with dot-matrix or laser printers. Using Publisher's Powerpak, you can add over 89,000 font combinations to WordPerfect. Fonts can be made in almost any size and style to best match your desired outcome.

Powerpak is a TSR (Terminate-Stay Resident) or memory resident program which allows WordPerfect to use its fonts with the .PRS file that it creates. The way that the program is created does not allow a print queue of more than one job to be sent at a time. It will lock the computer while it sends your print job, not allowing anything else to be done until the job has left the RAM of the computer.

Powerpak will only work on a system which has a hard drive. It will not work on a system with only disk drives. You must have WordPerfect version 5.0 or higher with an .EXE dated 11/15/88 or later.

When Powerpak is installed on your hard drive, you must enter WordPerfect with WPP. Powerpak sets up a new file when installed with your WordPerfect so WPP must be used to enable the TSR that operates Powerpak and WordPerfect to work correctly together. When using Powerpak fonts, if users do not start WP with WPP, print jobs sent from WP will not arrive at the printer even though they leave WP. Also, no error will display to alert the users of a problem.

The port has to be changed in WordPerfect to QPRT or the printout will not be printed as it was set up. When a document is printed, output is sent to the file QPRT. Powerpak then intercepts this file, formats the document, and sends it to your printer.

If a document is created for another user and they do not have Powerpak on their computer, they can print to disk. When the print to disk option is used, change the port from QPRT to a filename. At the DOS prompt, move to the Powerpak directory and type the command HPEM filename. The filename must include the path of the WordPerfect file being printed.

Publisher's Powerpak provides three startup options for entering WordPerfect, -T, -P, and -N. The -T option lets you specify a RAM disk for storing the temporary Powerpak file. Using the -T option can improve program performance. If you plan to use this option, you must have at least 300K of memory available on the destination disk/path.

To use the -T option, type WPP -T Pathname to load the program instead of the loading instructions provided above. Make sure you leave a space between the WPP, the -T, and the path you want to use. The -T option tells the program that you want to place the temporary program files in the path location. For example, if you wish to store the temporary files in D:\TEMP, you would type WPP -T D:\TEMP to load Powerpak and WordPerfect.

The -P option specifies the path where your WordPerfect program files are located. This is used if you wish to execute Powerpak from a different path than the location of your WordPerfect program files. It follows the format WPP -P Pathname.

For example, if your WordPerfect program files are located on D:\WP51 directory and you wish to be in a different directory when you type WPP, you would enter the command WPP -P D:\WP51.

The -N option allows you to ask for multiple copies of whatever document you print from within WordPerfect using Powerpak. The multiple copy command prints numerous copies of a document faster than if specified from within WordPerfect. To print ten copies of a document, enter WPP -N 10. Once inside WordPerfect you can load your document and send it to print, requesting only one copy. The -N option used to enter WordPerfect will take care of printing the multiple copies.

When selecting your printer in Powerpak you are asked for the printer output device and the options you have to choose from are:

LPT1 -      Parallel printer connected to the first printer port on the computer.

LPT2      -      Parallel printer connected to the second printer port on the computer.

OUT1 -      Parallel printer connected to a monochrome video board configured as LPT1.

OUT2 -      Parallel printer connected to the motherboard configured as LPT1.

OUT3 -      Parallel printer configured as LPT2.

PRN -      Current assigned device.

The OUT settings (e.g. OUT1) are recommended since these options send data directly to the printer port which means less printing time.

PRN sends data to the currently assigned device. If a serial port such as COM1 is being used, the dos mode command will re-direct printer output to the current port - MODE LPT1;=COM1.

The two most important things to remember when using Publisher's Powerpak is the WPP to start up WordPerfect and the QPRT to redirect the port through Powerpak.

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