Lasergraphics Windows BLL Generator Manuale utente
Windows BLL Generator
User Guide
Windows BLL Generator User Guide V1.10, last modification January 26, 1999
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Acknowledgements 3
Acknowledgements
The combined effort of many people is required to make a quality software product. This is an
undoubtedly incomplete list of dealers, customers, coworkers and friends who have been helpful in one
way or another in making Windows BLL Generator into what it is today.
Hanspeter Andermatt, Wolfgang Beaugrand, Xavier Bengoechea, Tim Bochnak, Murray Bowman, Dr.
Ralf Brandes, Tony Brown, Falah Chebbo, Larry Cole, David Davies, Mike DeLucca, Dr. Stefan
Demetrescu, Jo Elliot, Jon Elion, LtCol Dr. Doug Erickson, David Hard, Wenxin He, Ron Herman, Jack
Hobbs, Andreas Hölling, Thomas Hofmeister, Genie Jacobsen, Dr. Jürgen Krüger, Bill Kruki, Jörg Kunz,
Klaus-Norbert Laroche, Beat Lechmann, Wai-Hung Lee, Adrian Martin, Bob McCormack, Rod Miller,
Martin Müller, Rick Narveson, Chris Olsen, Doris Rusch, Doug Schafer, Steffen Seeber and Bill
Smithson.
Thank you all.
This software is based in part on the ZLIB compression library written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark
Adler.
Thank you for providing incredibly useful code.
Contents 5
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................................9
What You Need...............................................................................................10
Required Hardware...............................................................................10
Required Software.................................................................................10
About this Guide..............................................................................................11
What’s new......................................................................................................12
Windows BLL Generator Features..................................................................13
Various Output Types............................................................................13
High-Resolution.....................................................................................13
True Color .............................................................................................14
Easy to Use and Highly Compatible......................................................14
Chapter 2: Express Setup....................................................................................15
Installing Windows BLL Generator..................................................................16
Installing BLL Generator from the Web Site .........................................16
Installing Windows BLL Generator using Windows BLL Generator installation
disks......................................................................................................16
Chapter 3: Software Installation..........................................................................17
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Running setup..................................................................................................18
Adding a BLL-Generator..................................................................................19
Chapter 4: Printing your first image ................................................................... 21
Printing from an Application.............................................................................22
Viewing a BLL..................................................................................................26
Chapter 5: Principle of Operation .......................................................................27
Introduction......................................................................................................27
Printing from Windows on a PC without Film Recorder........................29
Important Concepts .........................................................................................31
Resolution..............................................................................................31
Color Fidelity..........................................................................................32
Bitmaps and Objects .............................................................................33
Graphics......................................................................................33
Text .............................................................................................33
Which Applications Create Bitmaps or Objects ..........................34
Chapter 6: Reference ........................................................................................... 35
Printer Settings................................................................................................35
Resolution..............................................................................................35
Orientation and Paper Size...................................................................36
Film Type...............................................................................................37
Non-LFC based Film Types........................................................37
LFC-based Film Types................................................................38
Background Color..................................................................................39
Scaling...................................................................................................39
Minimum Exposure Time.......................................................................39
Color Balance........................................................................................39
Contrast Gamma...................................................................................40
Using the Windows 95/98 driver......................................................................41
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Printer settings in Windows 95/98.........................................................41
Color balance and gamma correction...................................................44
Miscellaneous options...........................................................................45
Changing the Default Printer Settings in Windows 95/98.....................47
Using the Windows NT driver..........................................................................48
Printer settings in Windows NT.............................................................48
Storing Changed Settings...........................................................51
Changing the Default Printer Settings in Windows NT .........................52
Managing BLL-Generators..............................................................................53
Adding a BLL-Generator.............................................................53
Changing Destination Path.........................................................54
Deleting a BLL-Generator...........................................................54
Modifying Driver Options.......................................................................55
Chapter 7: Uninstalling.........................................................................................57
When to use the Uninstaller ............................................................................57
How to use the Uninstaller...............................................................................58
Chapter 8: Tips and Tricks...................................................................................59
Specific Applications........................................................................................60
Adobe Type Manager (ATM).................................................................60
Arts & Letters.........................................................................................60
Corel Draw ............................................................................................60
Corel Draw 7 .........................................................................................60
CorelDRAW 8........................................................................................61
Freelance Graphics for Windows Ver 1.0 .............................................61
Freelance Graphics 97..........................................................................61
Persuasion ............................................................................................61
PhotoStyler............................................................................................62
Word, Write ...........................................................................................62
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Appendix A: Specifications................................................................................. 63
Glossary 67
Index 71
Introduction 9
Chapter 1: Introduction
This is the user manual for the Windows BLL Generator. This product is used to generate platform and
application independent BLL files that can be used for imaging on remote Lasergraphics film recorders.
Windows BLL Generator supports PCs running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and
Windows NT 5.0.
This chapter explains the features of the Windows BLL Generator.
10 Introduction
What You Need
You need the following hardware and software to run Windows BLL Generator:
Required Hardware
•Any IBM®PC compatible machine with a 486 processor or better, Pentium or better
recommended.
•16 MB of memory when running Windows 95/98 and 32 MB when running Windows NT. More
memory may be required for complex images or images that contain large bitmaps.
•Minimum 4 megabytes of disk space for Windows BLL Generator programs plus additional
storage for images. The amount of additional storage required depends on the type of images.
Simple presentation slides will take between 100 kilobytes to 2 megabytes, complex and high-
resolution slides run from 5 megabytes up to 630 megabytes for a true color uncompressible
16000 line resolution image. Generally, 100 megabytes free disk space will be plenty.
Required Software
•Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT 5.0 operating system.
•A Windows application that can print to a Windows printer driver.
About this Guide 11
About this Guide
This guide explains how to set up and use Windows BLL Generator.
This guide assumes that you already know how to use Microsoft Windows. If you are new to Windows,
review your
Microsoft Windows User’s Guide
before proceeding.
Screen illustrations in this guide are meant to be representative, not necessarily exact duplicates of
screens that appear on your display.
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