Here is a first try at a one-folder XyWrite4 setup that you can put anywhere, including a USB stick that you carry in your pocket. You don’t have to edit startup.int or settings.dfl to change filenames. It should work anywhere. Here’s a preliminary version for testing and, I hope, using:
It works like ordinary XyWrite 4, with these exceptions to printing - and printing relies on some AutoIt programs that I wrote for my WordPerfect systems. 1. If you print to LPT1 (the default), it tries to print to your current default Windows printer (after creating a PDF that it sends to the printer) 2. If you print to LPT2, it tries to send raw printer code to your current printer, which must be a PCL or PostScript printer to match the driver in XyWrite. (The system defaults to a PCL driver). 3. If you print to LPT3, it creates a PDF on your desktop with an arbitrary name. 4. If you print to LPT5, it opens a PDF in your default PDF reader. 5. If you print to LPT6, it lets you select a printer from a list of installed printers, and prints to it. LPT4 is reserved for the vDosPlus clipboard function. If you want to create a PDF file from the current document, in the same folder with that document, then run this command while the document is open on screen: RUN PDFPRINT.PM When running the command, you may need to add the path to the Xy4 folder if you’ve moved away from it. I haven’t tested this. Again, this XPL program was written by Carl, who was wonderfully generous with his time and expertise. Warming: Carl reports that he can’t make the system print: on his machine, running this system, vDosPlus gives an error message about pcl6 and gswin32 not being able to convert a file. I can’t reproduce this, but will be interested to see if anyone else experiences this. If you make ANY changes at all in the downloaded setup, it probably will stop working. So if you’re interested in trying it out, please try it as it is before changing it. When you first run it, if it seems to stall, Alt-Tab to a dialog box that may be behind the Xy window, where Windows may be asking for permission to run a program. Uncheck “Always ask when running this file” (or something similar), and expect to see a similar dialog a second time. This is the effect of loading Carl’s U2 system. Also, you may need to create an exception for this folder in Windows Defender so that Windows will let it run. If you don’t like it, just delete the whole folder. It leaves no traces on your system. P.S. I’m traveling with a Mac laptop until late Monday afternoon, so I won’t be able to try to solve problems until then. |
