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Service Hints & Tips |
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Aptiva - Tips for printing in Windows 95 or 98
Applicable to: World-Wide
A few suggestions to efficiently print applications in Windows. See also the file: printers.txt
on your Windows 95 or 98 preloaded system.
Preview your fonts.
Want to see what a font will look like either on screen or on the page before you use it in a document?
1.) First, click on the Start button on the task bar.
2.) Click on Settings, then choose the Control Panel folder.
3.) Double-click on the Fonts icon.
This will allow you to open a view that you can print, then you will be able to see how it looks when scaled to a number of
different sizes. You can also see how fonts compare by using the "List Fonts By Similarity" option under the 'View' menu in the
Fonts folder. The Fonts window will look like the one below.
Speed up print times.
If you spool to an EMF file, the new printing architecture in Windows 95 or 98 can print files almost twice as fast as Windows 3.1. To take advantage of this feature:
1.) Double-click on the My Computer from the desktop.
2.) Then double-click on Printers.
3.) Highlight your main printer, choose Properties (either from the File menu or by right mouse button clicking on the icon), and then click on the Spool Settings button in the Details tab. You can adjust a drop down menu showing the data format used.
Manage your fonts.
Font installation used to be a tedious process with too many buttons to click. In Windows 95, you install fonts simply by dragging any TrueType font, or a corresponding shortcut, to the Fonts folder. You remove them by dragging the icons to another folder or by deleting the icons. Note, however, that you can't install a font by merely copying it to the C:\WINDOWS\FONTS directory at the DOS command line; that won't work. To make the magic of drag-and-drop fonts a reality, Explorer treats the Fonts folder specially and does more than just copy the main font file when you drag and drop fonts.
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Printers, Windows 95, Windows 98 | |
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16-04-97 | |
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09-03-99 | |
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09-03-2000 | |
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IBM Aptiva | |
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Aptiva | |
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2134, 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2142, 2144, 2153, 2156, 2158, 2159, 2161, 2162, 2163, 2164, 2168, 2176 | |
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