Choosing Printer Options

Choose Printer... from the Options menu to change printer features such as the printing destination. DECterm displays a dialog box.

From the Printer Options dialog box, you can choose the following printing features:

Queued Printer

From the Queued Printer Options... menu, you can select the following printer options.

• The Number of Copies option prints one copy of a job. For additional copies, type the number of copies to be printed.
• The Page Range From__ To__ option prints the complete job. To print part of a job or a specific page, type the page number.
• By default, the Print Format option prints a job in text format. Choosing Line Printer or Terminal changes the print format for the specified printer.
• The Printer option lists the available print queues.
• By default, the Orientation option prints characters parallel to the short edge of the paper (portrait). Choosing the Landscape option prints characters parallel to the long edge of the paper.
• By default, the Print After option submits a print queue at a specified time.
• The Delete File When Printed option deletes files after the job is printed.

For detailed information on these options and on advanced print settings, refer to Using DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS.

Printer Port

By default, the Printer Port option specifies the local printer port. To choose another port, enter the device name in the text entry box.

File

By default, information printed on the screen does not create a file. Choosing the File option saves the printed output to a file.

None

By default, the None option discards the queued job.

Normal Print Mode

By default, received characters are not printed. To print characters use the Print Screen key or use escape sequences.

Auto Print Mode

By default, a line of information is printed if the cursor leaves that line because of a line feed, vertical tab, form feed, or autowrap.

Printer Controller Mode

By default, each character is printed as it is received. If you do not choose this option, the character is displayed.

Print Full Page

The information on the display is printed. The information saved in the transcript or status line is not printed.

Print Full Page + Transcript

The information in the transcript, followed by the information on the display, is printed.

Print Scroll Region Only

The information stored in the scrolling region of the display is printed.

Print Selection Only

The information in the selected region of the display and transcript is printed.

Print National Characters Only

Only national characters are printed (for example, ASCII characters). Other characters are either converted to the corresponding national characters, or the characters are not printed.

Print National + Line Drawing

National characters and line drawing characters are printed (for example, special graphic characters).

Print All Characters

All characters are printed, including multinational and technical characters.

Form Feed Terminator

By default, a form feed is added at the end of each page. Optionally, an escape sequence can be used.

Printer To Host

By default, any character that is read on the printer port is sent back to the host application. This option is available only when the print destination is a printer port device rather than a print queue or a file.

Graphics Printing

By default, graphics (bitmap) and text are printed.

Background Printing

By default, the graphics background color is printed. Omitting the background color saves ink and toner and increases printing speed.

Level 1 Sixel Graphics

By default, a sixel introducer that omits the macro parameter is used. This option does not use the Sixel Set Attributes command to set the aspect ratio and the horizontal grid size. As a result, the sixel aspect ratio is 2 to 1 and the horizontal grid size is approximately 188 x 0.025 mm (7.5 x 0.001 inches).

Level 2 Sixel Graphics

By default, a sixel aspect ratio of 1 to 1 with a variable grid size is printed using the Sixel Set Attributes command (available with Level 2 printers).

LA210 Sixel Graphics

By default, a sixel introducer with a 9-macro parameter is used. The result is a sixel aspect ratio of 1.02 to 1.

Compressed Graphics Printing

By default, a compressed graphics image is printed. In Portrait mode, the output fits on a 5- x 8-inch page.

Expanded Graphics Printing

By default, an expanded image is printed. In Portrait mode, the image fits on a 13-inch page.

Rotated Graphics Printing

By default, an expanded image, rotated 90 degrees, is printed. The output fits on a 8- x 5-inch page.

Monochrome Printing

By default, the Monochrome Printing option prints in black.

Color Printing

By default, the Color Printing option prints color output. DECterm includes a color map in virtual memory to allow color printing from a monochrome system.

7-Bit Printer

By default, DECterm allows the use of 8-bit characters for printing. Some printers, particularly older ones, cannot interpret 8-bit characters.

If your printer does not support 8-bit characters, click on 7-Bit Character. DECterm will now modify the text to be compatible with your printer.

8-Bit Printer

By default, DECterm uses 8-bit characters for printing. If your printer cannot interpret 8-bit characters, choose the 7-Bit Printer option.

HLS Color Syntax

By default, the HLS Color Syntax option specifies hue, lightness, and saturation.

RGB Color Syntax

By default, the RGB Color Syntax option uses a red, green, and blue format when printed.

Saving and Restoring Options

Once you modify DECterm settings, you can save your changes. When you save your changes, DECterm uses these settings each time you create a DECterm window. If you change your mind and want to use the settings that came with your system, you can restore the system defaults.

To save the options:

• Choose Save Options to save current options.
• Choose Save Named Options... when you want to save the current options with a new or different file name. DECterm displays a dialog box.

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  The dialog box prompts you for the name of the file you want to use to save your features. The file list box displays the names of any files in the current directory that contain features. By default, these files have a file type of DAT.
  To use a file name that is not listed, enter the name of that file in the Selection text entry box and click on the OK button.

To restore options:

• Choose Restore Options to restore an existing file.
• Choose Restore System Options to restore the system defaults.
• Choose Restore Named Options... to restore previously saved settings. DECterm displays a dialog box.

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  The dialog box prompts you for the name of the file in which you want to save your features. The file list box displays the names of any files in the current directory that contain features. By default, these files have the type DAT. Double click on the file name you want to use.
  Alternatively, use the File Filter entry box to list a subset of files from which you can then choose. To display all files in another directory with the file type DAT, type the complete directory specification, for example, [JONES.OPTIONS]*.DAT, in the File Filter entry box and click on the Filter button. Then double click on the name of the file you want to use.

Copying Information

Choose the Edit menu to copy information from within or between DECterm windows.

To copy information:

1. Select the information you want to copy by pressing and holding MB1, dragging the pointer over the information, and releasing MB1. Or, choose the Select All menu item from the Edit menu to copy the entire display.
   The selected area is highlighted.
2. Choose the Copy menu item from the Edit menu to store the copied information.

3. Click on the area where you want to place the information.
4. Choose the Paste menu item from the Edit menu.

The selected information is copied to the new location.

Clearing and Resizing Windows

You can clear and resize the DECterm window from the Commands menu.

Clear Lines Off Top

You can erase information stored in the transcript by choosing the Clear Lines Off Top option. The transcript is an area of memory that contains the last saved lines of your screen display (use the Display dialog box to change the size of the transcript). You can read the information stored in the transcript by using the scroll bars. The transcript exists as long as the Record Lines Off Top option in the Window dialog box is in effect. By default, Record Lines Off Top is enabled.

Clear Display

You can clear all information displayed in a DECterm window by choosing the Clear Display menu item.

Resize Window

Choose the Resize Window option to resize the window to match the size (number of rows and columns) of the DECterm display area.

Clear Communications

Choose the Clear Communications option to reset the communications buffers. This causes DECterm to read data to the host system even when DECterm has received an XOFF signal.

Reset Terminal

Clicking on Reset Terminal causes a Soft Terminal Reset (STR). Reset Terminal also restores the default color map. On a 4-plane system, such as the VS2000/GPX, displaying ReGIS or sixel graphics causes DECterm to create and load its own hardware color map, so that other windows do not display in their true colors when the DECterm window has input focus.

To restore the default hardware color map, first erase the graphics from the window by choosing the Clear Display option from the Control menu, and then reset the terminal with the Reset Terminal menu item.

By default, DECterm emulates only two planes of graphics on a 4-plane system; therefore, DECterm usually does not create a color map.

Printing Information

Choose the Print menu to print information.

From the Printer menu, you can choose the following printing options:

Print Text Page

The Print Text Page option prints terminal lines 1 through 24 as text.

Print Selected Text

The Print Selected Text option prints the selected information.

Print All Text

The Print All Text option prints the information in the display and transcript as text.

Print Graphics

The Print Graphics option prints the contents of the display in sixel format.

Finish Printing

The Finish Printing option completes a print job depending on the print destination. If queued to a printer, the job is submitted. If submitted to a dedicated printer port, the job is canceled. If written to a file, the file is closed. This option is used with Auto Print mode or Printer Controller mode.

Cancel Printing

The Cancel Printing option stops the print request.

Composing Characters

Use compose sequences to create special characters. A compose sequence is a series of keystrokes that creates characters that do not exist as standard keys on your keyboard. You can create any character from the character set DECterm is currently using. (For more information about choosing a character set, see Choosing Options.)

For more information about composing characters, see Appendix A.

Exiting DECterm

To exit DECterm and close the DECterm window, choose Exit from the File menu or enter the DCL command LOGOUT.

LinkWorks Manager allows you to control your hyperinformation environment. With LinkWorks Manager, you can set defaults for certain hyperapplication features; create linknet lists, linknets, path lists, and paths in one or more hyperinformation linkbases; and copy objects from linkbases into your hyperinformation environment.

LinkWorks Manager, represented by the ship's wheel icon, helps you to navigate your hyperinformation environment.

This chapter assumes that you are familiar with the concepts and techniques described in the Using Hyperapplications chapter of Using DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS.

This chapter describes how to

• Start LinkWorks Manager
• Use the Environment window to control your hyperinformation environment and to open Linkbase windows
• Use the Linkbase window to create and modify objects in a linkbase
• Copy objects from a linkbase into your hyperinformation environment
• Record steps in a path and follow a path
• Exit LinkWorks Manager

Starting LinkWorks Manager

To start LinkWorks Manager, choose LinkWorks Manager from the Session Manager's Applications menu. If you want to have LinkWorks Manager start automatically when you begin a DECwindows session, choose the Automatic Startup... item on the Session Manager's Options menu and add LinkWorks Manager to the automatic startup list.

Using the Environment Window

The Environment window is the main LinkWorks Manager window. It does the following:

• Displays information about objects in your hyperinformation environment
• Lets you add objects to and remove them from your hyperinformation environment
  These objects exist in one or more linkbases. You can copy objects into the Environment window to include them in your hyperinformation environment, and you can delete them from the Environment window to remove them from your hyperinformation environment.
• Lets you set defaults for hyperapplication features for all hyperapplications
• Lets you open one or more Linkbase windows

Before you use the Environment window, you should understand the relationship between it and the Linkbase window.

Relationship Between Environment and Linkbase Windows

The Environment window shows the linknets and paths in your hyperinformation environment, and it groups them under the appropriate linknet lists and path lists (if you have created any such lists and included them in the environment). The Linkbase window, which you can open from the Environment window, shows the linknets, paths, linknet lists, and path lists in a specific linkbase. If you have access to multiple linkbases, you can open multiple Linkbase windows; however, you can have only one Environment window.

The following figure shows an Environment window and a Linkbase window. The windows are shown as they might appear after many objects have been created and copied, not as they appear the first time you use LinkWorks Manager. These windows are discussed in detail in later sections.

The first time the LinkWorks Setup application (separate from LinkWorks Manager) starts up, it creates your default linkbase and a default linknet called Personal Links in that linkbase, and adds the Personal Links linknet to your LinkWorks environment. You must use the LinkWorks Manager Linkbase window to create additional linknets, linknet lists, paths, or path lists, or to perform any editing operations on these objects. After you have created or modified an object in a linkbase, you must copy it into the Environment window in order to make it available in your hyperinformation environment (see Copying Objects into Your Hyperinformation Environment later in this chapter).

Environment Window Layout

The left side of the Environment window lists the linknet lists, linknets, path lists, and paths in your hyperinformation environment.

The right side of this window has columns marked Active, Record, and Linkbase. You can double click to enable (represented by a check mark) or disable the Active and Record status for each object. (Double clicking is a shortcut for selecting the object and using the Control menu's Activate/Deactivate and Start/Stop Recording items.)

• An active linknet is one whose links are enabled; that is, you can see its links if highlighting is enabled, and you can follow its links. If a linknet is not active, you cannot see or follow its links.
  You can have multiple active linknets. The sequence of the linknets in the window is not significant.
• The recording linknet (check mark in Record column) is the one in which any links you make are stored.
  You can have no more than one recording linknet. You cannot store links in two or more linknets simultaneously. If you have no recording linknet, you cannot make any links.
• An active path is one whose steps are followed when you use the Step Forward item on the Link menu.
  You can have multiple active paths. The sequence of active paths is significant because the Step Forward menu item uses this sequence; if you are at the last link in a path, Step Forward takes you to the first link in the next active path. If you have no active path, the Step Forward item is disabled.
• The recording path (check mark in Record column) is the one in which your Visit and Go To operations are stored (one step for each operation). After you have created the path by storing navigation operations in it, you and other users can follow the path by making it active and stepping forward through it.
  You can have no more than one recording path. You cannot store steps in two or more paths simultaneously. If you have no recording path, your navigation operations are not stored in any path.

The Linkbase column identifies the linkbase that contains each item. You can double click on the linkbase name to display the Linkbase window, which you can use to view and edit the contents of that linkbase. (Double clicking is a shortcut for selecting the Linkbase name and then choosing the File menu's Open... item.)

Customizing LinkWorks Manager and Your Hyperinformation Environment

The Options menu allows you to customize LinkWorks Manager, that is, to set defaults for the LinkWorks Manager startup state and for your hyperinformation environment.

The Manager... menu item displays a dialog box in which you can specify whether LinkWorks Manager should start up as a window or as an icon.

The Environment... menu item displays a dialog box in which you can display and modify the following hyperinformation environment attributes:

• Highlight Defaults
• Link Defaults
• Go To/Visit Defaults

These defaults apply to all hyperapplications, but you can override the defaults for any specific hyperapplication by making appropriate Link menu choices and dialog box entries in that hyperapplication.

The following figure shows the Environment Options dialog box.

The Highlight Defaults buttons affect:

• Whether or not highlighting is enabled (Highlight button). If highlighting is enabled, linked objects are highlighted by their hyperapplications.
• Which types of objects are to be highlighted (object type buttons).

You can override these values for any hyperapplication by using the Turn Highlight On/Off and Highlight... menu items in the application's Link menu.

The Link Defaults entries establish defaults for each link that you make.

• The Retain Source check button determines whether or not the source remains pending (selected as the source for the next link) after a link is created.
• The Relationship entry box describes the relationship between the source and target objects. The default is "Is Linked To," and you should keep that unless you have text that is more suitable for most of the links that you plan to create.
  For each link that you create, you can edit the Relationship text for each link by using the Show More... dialog box when you create the link. For example, you can document links that you expect other users to follow.

The Go To/Visit Defaults entries determine the defaults for Go To and Visit operations.

• Select Destination determines whether or not the destination object is already selected when it is displayed.
• Destination Operation is a pop-up menu that lets you set a default operation to be performed on the destination object. The available choices are Default (performs the default operation as defined by the object's hyperapplication), View, Edit, and Activate.

The Save Settings item on the Options menu saves:

• Any changes you have made to the LinkWorks Manager or Environment options
• The current position and size of any active LinkWorks Manager windows

The Restore Settings menu item restores the options and the window positions and sizes to what they were at the last save operation. The Restore System Settings item restores the default values for all options and the window positions and sizes.

Using the Linkbase Window

The Linkbase window displays the contents of a specific linkbase. To display this window, use the Environment window and do one of the following:

• Double click on the linkbase name.
• Choose Open Linkbase... from the File menu and specify the linkbase in the dialog box that appears.

The following figure shows the Linkbase window.