Microsoft KB Archive/64111

Multiplan: Printing Legal Landscape Manual Feed, HP Series II PSS ID Number: Q64111 Article last modified on 10-22-1991 PSS database name: D_MPlan

4.20

MS-DOS

Summary:

A modification to the printer driver must be made to enable successful landscape printing using manual feed of legal-sized paper.

Multiplan version 4.20 is supplied with a program called MAKEPRD that facilitates the modification of a printer driver. This program is located on the Utilities disk. MAKEPRD will create a text file based on the contents of a binary printer driver file. The text file can be modified and saved with a word processor or line editor. MAKEPRD can then be used to create a binary printer driver file based on the edited and saved contents of the text file.

More Information:

The following are the steps necessary to create the new manual-feed printer driver for Multiplan 4.20:

  Run the MAKEPRD utility from the Multiplan subdirectory. When the program prompts for a printer driver name, type HPLASLAN.PRD. When the program prompts for a text file name, type HPLASLAN.TXT. Select T at the next prompt to have MAKEPRD convert from PRD to text.   In a word processor or line editor, open the ASCII text file generated by the MAKEPRD utility.   Search for the line beginning with “byte:0” (without the quotation marks). Change byte:0 mod:0 “[&l1o6D[&k12H” to read as follows: byte:0 mod:0 “[&l3a1o2h6D[&k12H”   Search for the line beginning with “byte:8” (without the quotation marks). Change byte:8 mod:4 magic:0 value:0 “^[&l” to read as follows: byte:8 mod:1 magic:0 value:0   Save the modifications to the printer driver and exit the word processor or editor.   Run the MAKEPRD utility from the Multiplan subdirectory. When the program prompts for a printer driver name, type HPLEGMAN.PRD. When the program prompts for a text file name, type HPLASLAN.TXT. Select P at the next prompt to have MAKEPRD convert from text to PRD.   The new driver created is used exclusively for legal landscape printing using manual feed. HPLASLAN is used for letter-sized landscape printing.   Run Multiplan and go into Print Setup. In the “printer:” field, press the RIGHT ARROW key to get a list of available drivers. Select the new HPLEGMAN driver. </li></ol>

As a side effect of this procedure, the top margin set with the Print Margins command will be off by 0.5 inch. To obtain a top margin of 0.5 inch, set the Print Margins “top:” field to 0 (zero). For a top margin of 1 inch, set the field to .5 inch.

The recommended settings for the smallest top and bottom margins are as follows:

Top margin: 0 inch Bottom margin: 1 inch

These settings give a top and bottom margin of 0.5 inch.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.