Pixel Print PLUS!

Desktop publishing program, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

The download now also holds the parts of the PLUS! release that were missing from this tape. “Pixel Print PLUS! original tape loader” is a copy of the original 1988 tape from an Oliger disk: the loader that shows the two title screens, the Chancery fonts (PP 3.1 F and the 16-pixel PP 3.1 G) and a sample column (PP 3.1 H), followed by the same main program and a PP M/C that differs from this tape’s in four bytes. The other files come from Pixel Print PLUS Larken version 1.1, Stan Lemke’s April 1989 public-domain release prepared on three disks by G.F. Chambers for the TTSUC library (#10). It adds the Greeting Card version (PIXELC) and the Mailing Label version (PIXELM, which saves 2,048-byte label columns and prints single or continuous 1-inch labels). Both were converted back to tape: the drive prompts and disk catalogues were removed, the LOAD and SAVE lines take a full tape name (press ENTER for the next file), and a GO TO that should have been GO SUB in the card version’s icon loader was fixed. The release’s data comes as separate TAPs: the tutorial and the ten-column manual (page1L–page5R, with the printer codes), six of Lemke’s columns written for Time Designs (edit6 is incomplete on the disk), 38 fonts with the two font-sample columns, and the illumi and icon2 icon libraries with four single icons. Lemke’s public-domain notice (street addresses removed, as in the new programs’ REMs) and the TTSUC help file are included as text. The mastheads, border fonts, keys and mini-icons on the same disks are already in Pixel Print Graphics. The converted programs, columns, fonts and icons were tested in ZEsarUX.