John Rickman RISC OS Notes

Ovation  EasiWrite  Publisher
Install Impression Publisher
  No, the timestamp of !CCShared has never been used. Some very old
  versions used the timestamp of !System. For your version it should be
  enough to copy !CCShared and !System.CMYKPal across. Timestamps should
  not matter. MW

# Master pages Imp+ 
  To change a master page or add a new one:-
  open a new document, Untitled

  [save the Untitled document
  in case you want to revert the changes to Default]

  menu> View> Master Pages...
  work on the "Untitled Master Page"
  select the page you want to alter
  menu> Edit> Alter Master Page
  or
  menu> Edit> New Master Page
  Close Master Page window
  now using the still open new document...
  menu> Utilities> Save as default
  this will save to ..!Publish+.Auto.!Default



# EW 
  doc docx use file type msword and mswordx

  'P' stands for plain, so if you want to remove any text
  styles from your new paragraph, or just start the new
  paragraph with its default style, highlight the whole
  paragraph (check that in the box in the top row of buttons,
  to the right of the red dot, it says 'Paragraph') and then
  press the 'P' button.



# Interchange between OP, EW, Pub+
OP   to Pub+ - use RTF (need to change l/r margins in EW)
  OP   to EW   - use RTF
  Pub+ to OP   - use text with styles and change to filetype DDF
  Pub+ to EW   - use DDF or RTF
                 EW handles DDF format regardless of the filetype
                 but, drop on ib-icon not into open document or
                 font instructions are ignored.
                 EW only recognizes RTF if the filetype is set.

  EW   to Pub+   use RTF
  EW   to OP     use RTF or MSWord


# easter egg
EW menu to the icon bar info window;
watch and wait...
after 5 seconds the Author window contents start to scroll.

# Columns
EW  - for two columns use menu on icon bar >stationery>index pad

OP  - use the frame tool to draw multiple frames
      use the link tool to flow the text

# New page
EW  -

# OP Applets
copy applet to !OvnPro.Applets then re-run Ovation Pro.
  enable/dissable by double-clicking. When disabled Applet name is
  suffixed with a '-'.
  Ovation Pro must be re-run after enabling/disabling any Applets.

 # OP Filters
   These must be booted to make them work
   put line in boot to to boot filters eg :-

    IfThere .^.OvnFilters Then
      Repeat Filer_Boot .^.OvnFilters -Applications

  [***** causes Iyo to stiff - investigate ****]

  !Ovn-HTML
      Convert Ovation to HTML   Dave Holden version 1.27
     I modified this to help with the song book printing
     Use by running  - puts icon on icon bar
     click opens window to drop DDL file on.

  !OvnHTML
     run - then it adds an option to output html to file menu

  !MakeRTF is similar to !OvnHTML ie must be run
     It's actually not an applet but an app, which sits beside OPro,
     and when run adds the "Save as RTF" option to the save window.

  26 bit filters - removed 16.03.11

# Pub+ filters

   ...!Publish+.Auto.LoadCSV+
   ...!Publish+.Auto.LoadRTF
   ...!Publish+.Auto.SaveRTF

The Save RTF appears on the menu  >>File >Save Text Story >As RTF...
It sets the file type to DOS not RTF

There are others in ADFS::HardDisc5.$.DOCZ.Publisher.Extensions
but they are of not much use.


# odd message from PrivateEye " FGG died
  when you drop a DDF file onto OP ib_icon above msg issued
  file loads into OP when dialogue is dismissed


# Pub+ and DDF(&707) format
  "Save text with styles" menu option saves files in DDF format.
  this will create a file with filetype "text".
  This can be dropped back into Pub+ and will be converted back to .doc.
  However, to import it into OP you have to set the filetype to DDF.
  Curiously, Imp+ does not recognize filetype DDF!