The Muppet Calendar 1.0 -- README file
March 17, 1995
This file provides general troubleshooting information and
technical information about editing the POWERUP.INI file for
expert computer users. For general information about using the
program, consult The Muppet Calendar User's Guide or
the Muppet Screen Saver Supplement.
TROUBLESHOOTING
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Sample Calendars:
When loading one of the nine sample calendars provided with The Muppet
Calendar, open the workspace (.CCW) file and the necessary event list(s)
are automatically opened.
If the location of the associated picture files for a sample calendar
(or any calendar you create) has changed, a dialog box appears, simply
select the appropriate drive.
Printing:
If you are experiencing printing problems they may be related
to one of the following issues:
-3rd party printer drivers (i.e., those that came with your
printer) may cause problems. If you are experiencing
difficulties, install the corresponding printer driver
from your Microsoft Windows disk set.
-The generic HPIII printer driver may not print calendar text
correctly on some printers. Consult your printer manual for
emulations, and install the recommended printer driver.
-Laser printers with less than 1 megabyte of RAM memory may
experience problems printing multiple month calendars.
-If calendar output looks poor, try decreasing the number of DPIs
(dots per inch). Refer to your printer manual and to The Muppet
Calendar documentation.
-Also, try solving printing problems by exiting then restarting The
Muppet Calendar.
Screen Saver:
If you experience problems with the Muppet Screen Saver, be sure that it is
the only screen saver running. It is recommended that only one screen saver
be running on your system at one time. Please consult the Muppet Screen
Saver supplement to the User's Manual.
If you have the In Your Face screen saver installed and configured to run at
start up, you must remove the line: "load=sspath\face.exe" from win.ini
(where sspath is the path where In your face is installed) in order to run
the Muppet Screen Saver at startup. the In Your Face screen saver and
Muppet Screen Saver should not be run concurrently.
General:
On machines configured with 4MB of memory, you may experience low
memory errors when importing or displaying pictures. If this occurs,
try exiting and restarting The Muppet Calendar. If these messages still
appear, try removing some of the pictures or clipart from your calendar.
Also, make sure that you are only associating clipart with your events.
If you associate the photos (which are intended for use as "Big Pictures")
with events, you will quickly use up lots of memory. In general, we
recommend that The Muppet Calendar be run on machines with 8MB of memory
or more.
If PowerAlbum or any other SoftKey calendar product is installed on your
system, choose "Custom Install" and make sure that the paths are
as follows:
Path of Programs = "C:\MUPPET"
Path of Art = "C:\MUPPET\ART"
Path of Filters = "C:\MUPPET\FILTERS"
Once Installation of The Muppet Calendar is complete, be sure that
you only run one SoftKey calendar program at a time.
PowerAlbum 2.01, installed as part of The Muppet Calendar, contains
many enhancements over previous versions of PowerAlbum. Please run
the latest version of PowerAlbum.
If the pictures The Muppets appears poor when displayed, make sure
that you have an SVGA monitor, video card, and video driver installed that
handles 256 colors. Refer to your Windows manual or video card
documentation.
If you begin to experience sudden changes in the performance of the
program such as:
-missing information in menus or dialog boxes
-missing events
-intermittent printing problems
exit the program, try deleting the file $CCW_D02.CC$ found in C:WINDOWS\,
then restart Windows.
If you experience trouble changing fonts via the Font selection of the
Format pull down menu, try double clicking on the text you wish to modify
to bring up the Layout options. You can change the fonts from this dialog
box.
If errors occur when editing an event list that is sorted by date,
sort the event list by name and try making the same changes.
If you receive error #90 "Unable to paste event." Try keeping the
event list open when you execute the Paste command.
If calendars appear distorted when viewing a small calendar, try decreasing
the Zoom percentage.
If portions of the calendar seem blacked out, try exiting and restarting
The Muppet Calendar.
POWERUP.INI
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There are several options that you can set or add to your
POWERUP.INI file to optimize the performance of The Muppet Calendar.
This is recommended for advanced Windows users only.
The POWERUP.INI file is located in your Windows directory. Make
a backup copy of the file before you start editing it. Use a text
editor like Notepad to edit the file. Be sure to save your changes.
You must exit The Muppet Calendar and restart it for the
changes to take effect.
NOTE: The POWERUP.INI file is also used by other SoftKey products,
such as Express Publisher and PowerAlbum. You should leave
any entries for those programs alone, or you may affect their
performance.
The default values and descriptions are listed below. The
characters in brackets (e.g. [The Muppet Calendar])
define the section of the POWERUP.INI file where the entries are located.
[The Muppet Calendar]
BackgroundMax=1900
This sets the maximum size, in dots, for background
pictures. If you experience problems when printing large
background pictures, you may want to set this option to a lower
number. Since the value is in dots, you may get a larger
background picture on the screen than you do when printing.
(Min=100, Max=2400)
BigPictureBorderMargin=5
This sets the distance, in 1/100 of an inch, between the edge of
a big picture and its border on all four sides. (Min=0, Max=100)
BigPictureDescMargin=2
This sets the distance, in 1/100 of an inch increments, between a
big picture (or its border, if selected) and a big picture
title. (Min=0, Max=100)
ClipboardFormats=2
This tells The Muppet Calendar which graphic
file format to use when you choose Edit | Copy Calendar to place
a calendar on the Clipboard. Some applications accept pictures pasted
from the Clipboard better if they are bitmaps, others prefer
metafiles. Enter 1 for Bitmap, 2 for Metafile, or 3 for both.
If you are using a high resolution, 256-color video driver, you
may experience problems with the bitmap format. In that
case, you must use setting 2.
ColumnWidthTestString=NNNNNN
Enter a number of characters to specify how much space must
exist to the side of small left- or right-justified event
pictures in order to place the event text next to the
picture. The Muppet Calendar uses the width
of the group of characters in the event's font and type size
to calculate the space. If you decrease the number of characters,
more event names will appear to the side of small graphics, but they are
likely to be heavily hyphenated. (Min=2 characters, Max=10 characters)
EventMarginX=1
EventMarginY=1
These control the line space between events and the margins
between events and the date box boundaries. The numbers are
in 1/100 of an inch. If you decrease the number, events will
appear closer together and closer to the date box boundary.
(Min=1, Max=20)
FooterMargin=5
This sets the distance, in 1/100 of an inch, between the
bottom of the calendar and the footer. (Min=0, Max=100)
HeaderMargin=5
This sets the distance, in 1/100 of an inch, between the
bottom of the largest header element (either title, subtitle,
title picture, or small calendar) and the top of the calendar.
(Min=0, Max=100)
Hebrew=Yes
Set this to No to turn off the display of the Hebrew &fields in
the &field dialog, and the Repeat Every Hebrew anniversary rules
on the Repeat dialog. This does not affect the translation or use
of Hebrew &fields and repeat rules that already exist in event
lists or workspaces.
HyphenZone=30
This is the size, in 1/100 of an inch, that the program leaves
at the end of a line without trying to hyphenate words to fit
in the space. If you decrease this number, The Muppet Calendar
will hyphenate more words. (Min=10, Max=100)
ImportExportDelimiter=,
This sets the delimiter used when importing or saving to comma
delimited files (CSV). You can set this to another character
(like a hyphen [-] or a period), if desired.
MidPointMargin=15
Used only for layouts with Big Picture on Top.
Specify in 1/100 of an inch how much margin to leave in the
middle of the page, below the big picture and above the
calendar. This affects how far down the calendar will appear
on the bottom half of the page, and how far up the big picture
and its title (if any) will appear on the top half of the page.
(Min=0, Max=100)
MinColumnWidth=100
This sets the minimum width, in 1/100 of an inch, of event columns
specified in the Layout Options/Event Display dialog. When using
either automatic mode or a user-specified number of columns, the
program will not make any columns smaller than this width.
NOTE: This may result in the number of actual columns displayed
being different from the number specified. (Min=0, Max=999)
MinDiskSpace=512
This sets the minimum disk space, in kilobytes, needed in your
Temp drive before The Muppet Calendar will start.
(Min=0, Max=64000)
MinFreeSpace=1024
This sets the minimum free memory, in kilobytes, needed before
The Muppet Calendar will start. (Min=0, Max=64000)
MinNoteHeight=14
This sets the minimum distance, in 1/100 of an inch, between
lines in the ToDo areas of the two-page month, week schedule, and
day layouts. The Muppet Calendar adjusts the
distance based on form size, but the distance will get no smaller
than this value. (Min=0, Max=99)
MinResourceSpace=5
This sets the minimum amount, expressed as a percentage, of
system resources that must be available before The Muppet
Calendar will start. (Min=0, Max=99)
MinWordLength=7
This is the minimum word length required under normal
circumstances to have The Muppet Calendar
hyphenate a word that does not fit on a line. If you decrease
the number, The Muppet Calendar will hyphenate
shorter words. (Min=3, Max=10)
NoteLines=40
This option determines the number of dashed lines to print
in the To Do areas of the 2-page month, work schedule, and
day layouts. The total available area is divided by this
number to yield the number of dashed lines. The distance
between lines can be no smaller than the MinNoteHeight.
PictureBorder=4
This sets the distance, in 1/100 of an inch, between event
pictures and the cell borders or adjacent event text.
(Min=0, Max=30)
PrintFontsInBlack=Yes
For black and white (non-color) printers only.
This option controls how colored fonts print on black and white
printers when the Print In Black And White checkbox in the
Print dialog box is turned OFF (blank).
If this option is set to Yes, all nonwhite fonts will print
in black. If the option is set to No, then nonwhite fonts
will be dithered by the printer driver which may result in their
appearing very light or disappearing.
PrintPreview=0
This controls the display of text in the small print preview
calendars that appear in the Printing dialog box. The default
setting of 0 turns off the display of text, showing only
pictures and lines. A setting of 1 displays the text along with
the pictures and lines. If you are using video drivers that were
not supplied with Windows, you should leave this setting at 0 to
avoid possible problems. Otherwise, you can use a setting of 1
to display the text.
SecondLineIndentPercent=8
This tells the program to indent the second and subsequent lines
of event names by the specified percentage of the column width.
Decrease the number to leave a smaller indent. (Min=0, Max=50)
SecondLineIndentMax=15
This sets the maximum distance, in 1/100 of an inch, that the
program can indent second and subsequent lines of event names.
The indent is controlled by the SecondLineIndentPercent discussed
above. (Min=0, Max=50)
[The Muppet Calendar Print Options]
FudgeX=0
FudgeY=0
These adjust the printed output on each page to allow for minor
printer adjustments and form alignment. You can enter a positive
or negative integer to move the output in the X and/or Y
direction in 1/100 of an inch. FudgeX moves the output left and
right across the page; FudgeY moves the output up and down the
page. Note that the paper width is defined on the Page Setup
dialog box in The Muppet Calendar. (Min=-100, Max=100)
[SHOWPICT]
KodakPCDSizes=192,128,384,256,20000,20000,1536,1024,3072,2048
You normally should never have to change this setting.
Kodak CD's contain each image in five different resolutions.
The Muppet Calendar uses this INI setting to
determine which resolution to use. This depends on the picture
size needed on the calendar, and the resolution of your screen or
printer.
The numbers are pairs of x and y sizes (in pixels) that define
the boundaries of each resolution. The Muppet Calendar
uses the pair that is one size larger than the image requires. For
example, if an image were 180 pixels across by 100 pixels down,
the program would use resolution pair number 1 (192, 128).
BigTif=No
This option limits the size of the TIFF files that can be
displayed or printed in The Muppet Calendar. If
the setting is No, you cannot read in TIFF files larger than 1 Mb.
Changing the setting to Yes allows you to read in larger TIFF files,
but it may cause problems with some video drivers. If you want to use
larger TIFFs and experience problems, try rerunning Windows Setup
and choosing a lower resolution setting for Display.
[Aliases]
Roman=TimesNewRomanPS
Modern=Arial MT
These aliases are used to assign the fonts when you choose
Workspace/New or open one of the event lists that ships with
The Muppet Calendar. The aliases are only
used when the program cannot find an alias for the Roman or
Modern fonts in WIN.INI (when using TrueType) or ATM.INI (when using ATM).
[Calendar Paper Stocks]
Stock0=Letter - 8.5 x 11,C,P,0.00,0.00,11.00,8.50,1, 1,11.00,8.50,0.75,0.50,0.75,0.50,I
Stock1=Legal - 8.5 x 14,C,P,0.00,0.00,14.00,8.50,1, 1,14.00,8.50,0.50,0.50,0.75,0.50,I
Stock2=Wide - 14 x 11,T,P,0.00,0.00,11.00,14.00,1, 1,11.00,14.00,0.50,0.50,0.75,0.50,I
Stock3=Pocket - 3.75 x 6.75,C,P,0.00,0.00,6.75,3.75,1, 1,6.75,3.75,0.50,0.35,0.63,0.35,I
Stock4=Organizer - 5.5 x 8.5,C,P,0.00,0.00,8.50,5.50,1, 1,8.50,5.50,0.50,0.35,0.63,0.35,I
Stock5=Two/page - 8.5 x 5.5,C,P,0.00,0.00,5.50,8.50,1, 2,11.00,8.50,0.35,0.63,0.35,0.25,I
Stock6=Three/page - 6.75 x 3.66,C,P,0.00,0.00,3.66,6.75,1, 3,11.00,8.50,0.41,0.35,0.35,0.35,I
Stock7=Four/page - 4.25 x 5.5,C,P,0.00,0.00,5.50,4.25,2, 2,11.00,8.50,0.41,0.35,0.41,0.35,I
Stock8=InstaBook - 2/page,C,P,0.00,0.00,5.50,8.50,1, 2,11.00,8.50,0.35,0.63,0.35,0.35,I
Stock9=InstaBook - 4/page,C,P,0.00,0.00,5.50,4.25,2, 2,11.00,8.50,0.35,0.50,0.35,0.35,I
Stock10=InstaBook - 12/page,C,P,0.00,0.00,3.66,2.12,4, 3,11.00,8.50,0.35,0.40,0.35,0.35,I
Stock11=A3 - 29.7 x 42 cm,C,P,0.00,0.00,42.00,29.70,1, 1,42.00,29.70,1.20,1.20,1.60,1.20,M
Stock12=A4 - 21 x 29.7 cm,C,P,0.00,0.00,29.70,21.00,1, 1,29.70,21.00,1.20,1.20,1.60,1.20,M
Stock13=A5 - 14.8 x 21 cm,C,P,0.00,0.00,21.00,14.80,1, 1,21.00,14.80,1.20,1.20,1.60,1.20,M
Stock14=A4 InstaBook - 2/page,C,P,0.00,0.00,14.85,21.00,1, 2,29.70,21.00,0.75,1.00,0.75,0.75,M
Stock15=A4 InstaBook - 4/page,C,P,0.00,0.00,14.85,10.48,2, 2,29.70,21.00,0.75,1.00,0.75,0.75,M
Stock16=A4 InstaBook - 12/page,C,P,0.00,0.00,9.90,5.23,4, 3,29.70,21.00,0.75,1.00,0.75,0.75,M
Stock17=Power Up M0030 - 8.5 x 5.5,C,P,0.00,0.00,5.50,8.50,1, 2,11.00,8.50,0.35,0.35,0.35,0.35,I
Stock18=Power Up M0040 - 2.5 x 4.5,C,P,0.00,0.00,4.50,2.50,3, 2,11.00,8.50,0.35,0.35,0.35,0.35,I
Stock19=Power Up M0401 - 3.75 x 6.75,T,P,0.88,0.00,6.75,3.75,1, 1,8.50,3.75,0.50,0.35,0.56,0.35,I
Stock20=Power Up M0402 - 5.5 x 8.5,T,P,0.00,0.00,8.50,5.50,1, 1,8.50,5.50,0.50,0.35,0.66,0.35,I
Stock21=Power Up M0701 - 3.75 x 6.75,C,P,0.00,0.00,6.75,3.75,2, 1,11.00,8.50,0.50,0.35,0.56,0.35,I
Stock22=Power Up M0702 - 5.5 x 8.5,C,P,0.00,0.00,8.50,5.50,1, 1,11.00,8.50,0.50,0.35,0.66,0.35,I
Stock23=DiscoverSoft - 5.5 x 8.5,C,P,0.00,1.50,8.50,5.50,1, 1,11.00,8.50,0.50,0.35,0.63,0.35,I
Stock24=3 across test,C,P,0.00,0.00,3.66,8.50,1, 3,11.00,8.50,0.41,0.35,0.35,0.35,I
Stock25=3 across test 2,C,P,0.00,0.00,3.66,8.50,1, 3,11.00,8.50,0.41,0.35,0.35,0.35,I
These entries define your default paper stocks. If you have
deleted or changed entries in the Page Setup dialog box in
The Muppet Calendar and want to reset the values to the
original ones, you can either copy the values from this file
or delete all the Stock entries in your POWERUP.INI and reinstall
The Muppet Calendar.
You should not attempt to edit these values in the POWERUP.INI
file. Choose Modify in the Page Setup dialog box to change the
dimensions of a selected paper stock.
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
==================
The following options may be added to the POWERUP.INI file. They
introduce the features described below:
Day1-Day7
Change these to rename the day names. Day1 defines the first
day name, Day7 defines the last day name. New day names can
consist of up to 20 characters.
Example:
Day1=Rest Day
Day7=Play Day
The above redefines the following:
Sunday becomes "Rest Day"
Saturday becomes "Play Day"
HebrewMonth1-HebrewMonth13
Change these to rename the Hebrew month names. HebrewMonth1
defines the first Hebrew month name, HebrewMonth13 defines the last
Hebrew month name. New month names can consist of up to 25 characters.
Example:
HebrewMonth5=MiddleMonth
The above redefines the following:
The fifth Hebrew month becomes "MiddleMonth"
Month1-Month12
Change these to rename the month names. Month1 defines the
first month name, Month12 defines the last month name. New
month names can consist of up to 25 characters.
Example:
Month2=Cold Weather
Month4=Springtime
The above redefines the following:
February becomes "Cold Weather"
April becomes "Springtime"
We hope you enjoy using The Muppet Calendar!!!