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Mac
OS Requirements
Windows Requirements
Mac
OS Installation
Print2Pict
Quick Install
Windows Installation
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This
section is intended to be used as a quick quide to installation and should cover most bases. If you run into trouble installing Print2Pict on the Mac there are more details available in
the Installation
Section.
Requirements
Mac®
OS Requirements
- 64 Megs of RAM (128 recommended)
- PowerPC-based Macintosh
-
MacOS 8.6 or higher is required.
Brushfire
requires FileMaker Pro 5.x (or higher) and does not run on FileMaker Pro 2.x, 3.x or 4.x!
- Internet Explorer 5.X or higher is required.
- 30 or more Megs of hard disk space, depending on your reporting requirements.
Windows®
Requirements
- 64 Megs of RAM (128 recommended)
- Pentium or Pentium II processor
- Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
- 30 or more Megs of hard disk space, depending on your reporting requirements.
Mac OS Installation
Download
Brushfire
from the
Brushfire
web site,
to your Hard
Drive,
then expand (decompress) the file. Ensure that the
decompressed folder is located in your
Hard
Drive
folder (NOT
the Desktop folder).
Print2Pict Quick Install
In
the Brushfire
folder is a file named Print2Pict 3.7.1ƒ.sit
.
This file contains Print2Pict
3.7.1,
which is the latest version. Print2Pict
is
a shareware program that is required by
Brushfire
to process your FileMaker script information. If you
don’t already have Print2Pict
3.7.1
installed, you will need to install it by decompressing the
Print2Pict 3.7.1ƒ.sit
archive.
In
the Print2Pict folder is a sub-folder named "Docsƒ". Inside Docsƒ is the Print2Pict
README $$
file containing the shareware information for
Print2Pict.
We encourage users to support the fine work of the
developer of Print2Pict
.
Make
sure to move the P2P Extensionsƒ
folder
( with nine Print2Pict extensions), and the
Print2Pict
extension file to the
HardDrive:System:Extensions
folder.
Print2Pict
is a special Chooser extension that allows applications
to print to non-printer destinations.
Print2Pict
will be used to convert the FileMaker™ Pro scripts to
text for analysis.
Print2Pict
has several items that must be configured properly to create
usable output by Brushfire
.
Typically, this configuration needs only to be done once, as
Print2Pict
remembers the configuration settings between print
jobs.
To configure
Print2Pict
follow these simple steps:
- Select Print2Pict from the Chooser.
- Select Page Setup from the File Menu. You will get the Print2Pict
Page Setup dialog box. (Don't worry if the mouse cursor shows as a wristwatch, just proceed anyway.)
- Click on "Options" to open a panel with several tabs on the left and a window for changing settings on the right.
- Click on the "Extensions" icon in the left-hand frame, fourth from the top.
Print2Pict
needs you to tell it where its Extensions folder is.
Click on the "Select" button, and navigate to the "Extensions" folder inside the "System Folder".
Once you are inside the "Extensions" folder, click on the "P2P Extensionsƒ" folder.
The name will appear on a button at the bottom of the dialog box. Click on this button to select the P2P Extensions folder.
- Select the "General" option tab on the left. In the "Register As" area, make sure the "Printer:" is set to "Undefined" and change "Color:" from "When possible" to "Never".
- Now click Done and then click OK in the Page Setup Dialog to save your changes. (You have to do this BEFORE you can set the Disposition.)
- Choose Page Setup again. Set the Disposition to "Print to Text".
- Close the Page Setup Dialog to complete the initial configuration!
Note: the
key Print2Pict
items that must be configured (one time) are:
- Print2Pict
Extensions
folder should be set to the location where you have the
Print2Pict
extensions: HardDrive:System:Extensions
folder.
- Print2Pict
output disposition must be set to: Print
To Text.
- Print2Pict
Options
for General settings should be set shown in the
Dialog Box below.
Click
Image To Enlarge
- Print2Pict
Folder
setting should not be to the desktop. If the FileMaker
Print dialog is not set to Print All
Scripts, and instead is set to Print All
Records, or the Print2Pict
Disposition
is not set to Print To Text the
desktop could be populated with a few thousand files, a
major drag. We recommend using the Brushfire Script Output folder included in the
Brushfire
folder for this purpose.
The
key items that must be configured each time script
information is processed by Print2Pict
are:
- Select
Print2Pict
from the Chooser to be the printer.
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For each FileMaker File in the solution, perform a Print... command choosing, choosing the Disposition: Print to Text,
and the Print All Scripts setting. The script text output will be saved to disk
into the folder selected when
Print2Pict
was configured.
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Also, be sure to move or trash the old script text output files of prior analyses before creating new script text output files.
Print2Pict
DOES NOT delete or overwrite old files.
Windows Installation
Download and decompress
the "Brushfire.zip"
file from the Brushfire
web site,
to your Hard
Drive.
Brushfire
uses Script Output Files you create by printing all scripts to disk using a Generic/Text printer driver.
To create such a driver, please follow these steps, making sure to click on the Apply button whenever you make a change on any screen.
Please note that while there are a number of steps, the entire process generally only takes a minute or two to perform, and that you only need to do this once!
Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Quit FileMaker and all other open applications
- Go to Start:Settings:Printers
- Double Click on Add Printer
- On the Welcome Screen, click Next
- Select Local Printer, leave the "Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play Printer" unchecked, and click Next
- Select FILE: as the port; click Next
- In the next panel will be a list of manufacturers on the left, and Printers on the right. In the Manufacturers list scroll down and select Generic.
On the right select Generic/Text Only. Then click Next
- If you see a Use Existing Driver panel, indicating that a driver is already installed for this printer, then select the Keep existing driver (recommended) option; click Next
- Name the printer #Generic / Text Only so it sorts to the top of your printer list; select YES to make this your default printer if you want, otherwise NO (unless this is the first printer you are defining for your computer, in which case the printer will become the default automatically); click Next
- Do not share the printer; click Next
- Don't bother printing a test page; click Next
- Click Finish
- Now open the Print Server Properties window by selecting Server Properties from the File menu
- Click on the Drivers tab
- Locate and highlight your newly created Print Driver named in step (7) above, and click on the Update button.
This will connect you to Microsoft's update service and will automatically copy any new versions of the print driver to your computer.
(Obviously, if you are not connected to the internet this will not work and you'll need to ensure you have up to date driver software through manual means.)
- Click on Close to close the Print Server Properties window
- Now double click on the printer icon to get into the Printer Manager window.
- Select Properties from the Printer menu.
- On the General tab, click the Printing Preferences... button
- Click on the Paper/Quality tab
- Set the Paper Source by choosing the Cont. Feed - with Break option from the pop-up menu
- Click the Apply button - Then click OK
- Select the Advanced tab
- Click the Print Processor... button near the bottom of the window
- On the left you should see the Print Processor selected is WinPrint. On the right, select the RAW (FF appended) option. Then click OK to close the Print Processor window.
- Click Apply if available. Then click OK to close the Properities window. Then close the Printer Manager window.
- Close the Printers window. We recommend you re-open the Printer Manager and re-visit each of the option areas configured above to ensure all changes were properly saved.
It is easy to forget to press the Apply button at each step of the way, so double checking now can save you time later.
Windows NT
- Quit FileMaker and all other open applications
- Go to Start:Settings:Printers
- Click on Add Printer to open the Add Printer Wizard
- Select My Computer click Next
- Scroll down and put a checkmark next to FILE:, Local Port, Generic/Text as the port; leave Enable Printer Pooling unchecked. Click Next
- In the next panel will be a list of manufacturers on the left, and Printers on the right. In the Manufacturers list scroll down and select Generic.
On the right select Generic/Text Only. Then click Next
- Name the printer something like "#GenericTextPrinter" so it sorts to the top of your printer list; select YES to make this your default printer if you want; click Next
- Do not share the printer; click Next
- Don't bother printing a test page
- Click Finished
- Now double click on the printer icon to get into the Printer Manager window.
- Select Properties from the Printer menu.
- Click the Print Processor... button near the bottom of the General tab
- On the left you should see the Print Processor selected is WinPrint. On the right, select the RAW (FF appended) option. Then click OK to close the Print Processor window.
- Click OK to close the Properities window. Then close the Printer Manager window, and the Printers window.
Congratulations! This completes the installation of Brushfire.
As you can see from the details above, the critical settings for the Generic/Text printer driver are:
- Using the latest Generic/Text print driver software
- Configuring the driver to use Cont. Feed - With Break as the default
- Ensuring that the print processor uses the RAW (FF appended) setting.
- If you print script output manually, be sure to select Continuous with Break or Continous - Page Break as the paper source
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