1WP2FAX: 1st Wordplus-to-Fax Converter (c) Jan Willamowius, 1992 -------------------------------------- 1WP2FAX is shareware up to version 1.5. It may be copied freely but distribution together with commercial software or via commercially operated online-services requires prior written permission by the author. If you continue to use 1WP2FAX after an initial trial period you have to send DM 20,- to the author. (see below) In return you'll receive the most up-to-date version. (Don't forget to tell me your [email] address!) Versions 1.6 and up are reserved for registered user and may not be distributed. What does 1WP2FAX ? ------------------- Since no fax program available can send the most popular text format properly, I wrote my own driver. The 1st Wordplus document is converted into an IMG graphic that shows the text with all attributes. The graphic is exactly in fax resolution, so it can be sent with all available fax programs (e.g. ST-Fax, QFax, Junior/TeleOffice or STraight Fax!). 1WP2FAX has an integrated font that looks quite good in low resolution as well as in high resolution. The IMG is always in high resolution, but the fax software can easily convert it to low res since every 2 pixel lines are the same. The fax doesn't look better in high res, so if there are no other images that require high res, just use low res and save some time. The following 1st Wordplus text attributes are supported: - bold - underlined - light - italics - superscript - subscript The settings for page length and margins are observed to have the page breaks where 1st Wordplus would have them. One graphic image is produced for every page in the document. No line may contain more than 107 characters including margins; more characters are ignored. The default left margin is 12 characters, but it can be changed with the -R Option. Using 1WP2FAX: -------------- 1WP2FAX.TTP is given a commandline with one or more filenames of 1st Wordplus or ASCII documents. It creates a file named WPFAX_n.IMG in the current folder for every page in the document. (n being the page number) Using different fonts: (REGISTERED VERSION ONLY) ---------------------- When you write a text with 1st Wordplus, it is displayed with the ST's built-in font. What the font in the printed version looks like depends on the font that is built into your printer. You can use a printer with a different font to make it look differently. With 1WP2FAX you can change the file 1WP2FAX.DAT to get a different font. The folder FONTS contains some fonts that you can copy over the 1WP2FAX.DAT that's in place right now. For every font there is a IMG file with a text sample so you can see which font suits your needs. The fonts ANTIQUA.DAT and EGYPTIEN.DAT were created by Wolfram Roisch, Daertorfer Weg 8B, 2104 Hamburg 94, Germany. The others were provided by Hayo Schmidt, Grotiusweg 1, 2000 Hamburg 55, Germany. The folder FAXFONT and GDOS2FAX (also by Hayo Schmidt) each contain a converter to create your own fonts either from scratch or from GDOS fonts. Limitations of the current version: ----------------------------------- Always non-proportional Pica is used with a line spacing of 1. Footnotes are being ignored in this version. The future: ----------- Does anyone need footnotes in a fax document ? A fax driver for WordPerfect is under development. If you are interested, please contact me for further details. Please send me your bug reports and tell me how the program can be improved. If you have any inside information on the format of 1st Wordplus documents please let me know. Author: Jan Willamowius Bank: Hamburger Sparkasse (BLZ 200 505 50) Nienredder 6 Account: 1050751245 2000 Hamburg 54 Germany Please make all checks etc. payable in German Marks! When sending dollars add E-Mail: jan@janhh.hanse.de $10 to cover bank charges. Updates: -------- Version 1.0 initial release Version 1.1 more special characters Version 1.2 font completed; bugfixes Version 1.3 page header and footer supported; feedback what files are being written Version 1.4 On startup all WPFAX_*.BAK files are deleted and all WPFAX_*.IMG files are renamed to WPFAX_*.BAK. Version 1.5 The numbers for footnotes are included in the fax; the footnotes themselves are still being ignored. Conditional page breaks are done correctly now. Version 1.6 Pictures in the document appear now in the fax; there is a maximum of 10 _overlapping_ pictures. 2 new commandline options: -Q no screen output (for use by GEM shells) -Rn set left margin to n characters (no space between R and the number!) Version 1.7 Documents created with 1st Wordplus versions prior to 3.15 are now handled correctly. The following strings are replaced in the document: (as in ST-FAX II with LANGUAGE GERMAN or in TeleOffice) %SEITE / %PAGE %TAG / %DAY %TAGNAME / %DAYNAME %MONAT / %MONTH %MONATSNAME / %MONTHNAME %JAHR / %YEAR %ZEIT / %TIME %FORMFEED Even the undocumented symbols (& and $) in headings are supported. fixed reading of pictures Version 1.8 The default font is now part of the program and doesn't need to be loaded. You can still use other fonts by placing them as 1WP2FAX.DAT in the current folder. Page numbers set by 1st Mail are recognised. Version 1.9 Bugfix concerning headers and footers. The error message about too long lines is only displayed once per line. Version 1.91 Bugfix for including pictures that overlap a text line. Also fixed are headers/footers, that contain a date _and_ a page number. Version 1.92 optimized to run about 30% faster Version 1.93 only internal changes Version 1.94 New keyword: %FONT path A blank Line is created (in order to have the same page breaks) and the named font is loaded. Bugfix for %FORMFEED Version 1.95 Support add for condensed and double-size printing. New option: -Z 2-digit page number in name of output file Version 1.96 bugfix in output of %TIME The position of an underline depends now on the position of the underline character in the currently active font. A printer driver for Wordplus is included, so the size of IMG-graphics is the same as in the created fax. Version 1.97 bugfix for read-only IMG-graphic files 1WP2FAX now returns error codes when terminating UNDO terminates the conversion process after a page is written. New option. -A abort conversion on first error Version 1.98 bug removed that sometimes swallowed the last line in a document Version 1.99 Generation of small and wide characters completely rewritten. Now you can have up to 150 small characters per line (1st Wordplus doesn't allow for more) or up to 53 wide characters.