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RPM Remote Print Manager® User Manual

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4. RPM version 2 5 Page 26 Using Help Provides general instructions on using help License Opens the BISI License Manager See page 27 About RPM Displays the exact version of RPM Help Topics Use this command to display the opening screen of Help From the opening screen you can jump to step by step instructions for using RPM and various types of reference information Once you open Help you can click the Contents button whenever you want to return to the opening screen Using Help Use this command for instructions about using Help License When you select License from the help menu RPM runs the BISI License Manager program BLicMgr exe This allows you to check the trial status register RPM contact the publisher and or reseller via their website or sending e mail and print your RPM license if in fact RPM is licensed About RPM This command displays the About dialog See page 32 for more information Control menu The Control menu is located at the upper left corner of the RPM main window Queue Status Restore Log or Print Status window and some of the other dialog boxes xu Size Minimize The Control menu offers some or all of the following commands C Masimize Command Action X Close Ctl F4 Restore Returns a window to an earlier size and position after minimizing or maximizing Next Ctrl FB Move Move the active windo
5. Print banner Insert none RPM will not insert and data prior to printing it Suppress banner nere Insert bytes RPM will insert a byte sequence that you create Insert file IRPM will insert the contents of a file Insert cows The default function is lt none gt meaning RPM will not insert any data into the print job before printing Edit Bytes Click this button to create or review the bytes that RPM will insert before a print job RPM uses the Edit Bytes dialog see page 35 This button is visible only when Insert Bytes is selected in the Insert function RPM version 2 5 Page 49 Browse Click this button to select a file for RPM to insert This button is visible only when Insert File is selected in the Insert function File Bytes A static control is also provided that displays the path to the file RPM will insert if you select the Insert file function or the bytes to be inserted if you select the Insert bytes function This is not visible until a file or sequence of bytes has been entered Print Banner This option provides the ability to configure the banner page option You can configure RPM to never print a banner page suppress banner to print when requested by the sending side when requested and to always print regardless of whether the client requests it always print Insert Location This option allows you to insert data either before or after the banner page
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7. Rule Access Host name or domain pattern 2 Deny 3 Allow _ shel nicoh com 4 Allow _ africa nicoh com The most general of these rules is 2 access is denied to each host at nicoh com Next we allow all hosts in shel nicoh com finally africa nicoh com is allowed What would have happened if we put Rule 2 after Rule 4 The host s 03 shel nicoh com would match shel nicoh com and the access would be allow But later it would match nicoh com and the access would now be deny That would probably go against the intent Styles Styles provide an easy way to store a queue setup and conveniently restore it on demand History The concept of styles grew out of a customer requirement One of our clients told us they need to support four distinct print setups We suggested that they create four queues but they had already done so Their problem was that each of their users had the same need for different print setups and the job of remote administration to create these queues on the Unix host 4 number of users was becoming unmanageable they preferred to have one queue per user Our client requested that we make an easy way to load a queue setup on demand RPM styles grew out of that How to Use Styles Create a queue see page 14 and set it up page 14 to work well with one of your applications Create a style page 12 give it a name that ties in with your applications e g Trans
8. Select Queue dialog This dialog automatically comes up if you try to change a queue state from the Queues menu without a particular queue being selected in either the Queue List or Queue Status windows Cancel Select a Queue This list shows all queues that are currently defined in RPM Highlight the queue you wish to modify and press the OK button Shortcut Double clicking on a queue is the same as highlighting a queue and clicking the OK button Note Click the Cancel button to dismiss the dialog without performing the requested operation Server Protocols dialog RPM allows you to use TCP IP printing protocols other than LPD It also Server Protocols 2 x allows you to listen for incoming LPD connections on other ports that the Current protocols 7 515 default telnet 9100 Cancel RPM supports the telnet printing protocol also referred to as reverse telnet or stream printing This protocol requires you to enter a TCP IP port number for RPM to bind to before data can be received RPM also requires Protocol type tenet x Setup that you select a queue to process incoming print requests Lose Port no Change Delete Note Specialized clients use the streams protocol If you are having problems printing in RPM consult the Common Printing Problems topic on page 4 before changing any of the settings in this dialog RPM allows you to define as many protocol
9. If this setting is on but Wrap lines is off RPM will truncate lines using the length specified Use CR to overwrite line Some hosts use the line feed LF character to mark the end of a printed line and the carriage return CR character to denote a line that is to be overprinted or printed on top the current line Select Use CR to overwrite line to cause RPM to recognize this convention Otherwise RPM treats LF CR and CR LF as line terminators Note This setting is forced when using the ASA carriage control Fortran setting in the Print Data Options dialog see page 48 RPM version 2 5 Page 58 Wrap lines RPM has the ability to wrap lines when the lines do not fit the page width The way RPM does this depends on whether the Maximum line length is set or not If the Fit columns per line setting is selected RPM uses the character count to determine if a line is too long taking tabs into account If Fit columns per line is unchecked then Windows calculates the length of the line using the current font and determines if the line will fit between the current left and right margins If needed RPM can use both white space such as space 0x20 or tab 0x9 and non word characters to find a place to break a line Word characters are to Z upper and lower case digits and some punctuation characters Dashes and hyphens are not included so these can break a word Remove control characters Our tests have shown that some s
10. 2 Selectthe type of access either Allow or Deny from the Access drop list 3 Click the Add button Hostname Access Add Change Remove Host Rules AIP Rules A Hosmames f 000 3 Cancel Change a Rule 1 Selecta rule in the Host rules list RPM version 2 5 Page 41 2 Change the value in the Hostname field and or change the selection in the Access drop list as appropriate 3 Click the Change button Change the Order of the Rules 1 Selecta rule in the Host rules list 2 Click the Raise button to have this rule evaluated sooner click the Lower button to have this rule evaluated later T Note The order in which the rules are applied can cause significant changes in whether the host is allowed or denied access Host Rules The Host Rules list shows the current rules in order with the first rule at the top Each rule contains the access control Allow or Deny and a host name or domain pattern Select a rule in the Host Rules list The host name and access appear below the list You can also use the Raise Lower or Remove buttons if you have selected a rule Host name The host name for the selected rule appears here If you are creating or changing a rule enter the host name here Note that if the Host name field contains an asterisk character that all characters to left of the asterisk will be removed when the rule is placed into the Host Rules list Access This drop down list show
11. Copyright Copyright c 1995 2000 Brooks Internet Software Inc ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The copyright for the RPM software including but not limited to the RPM executable the Brooks License Manager executable and the help files is owned by Brooks Internet Software Inc This software is not shareware or freeware It is licensed commercial software You are expressly prohibited from reproducing this software in any form including making the software available on a network except as allowed by the license agreement endorsed by Brooks Internet Software Inc Other copyrights Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation GhostScript is property of Aladdin Enterprises Adobe PostScript Acrobat and the Adobe logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions c 1987 1994 Adobe Systems Incorporated Berkeley and BSD are copyright The Regents of the University of California UNIX and System V is trademarked copyrighted and owned by UNIX Systems Labs or its current owner trademarks and symbols are property of their respective owners Disclaimer Neither Brooks Internet Software Inc nor its employees make any warranty express or implied or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy completeness or usefulness of any information apparatus product or process disclosed or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights RPM version 2 5 Page
12. Entering Support Expiration This step is required only when unlocking using an unlock key This date is required to know when the support contract expires This date is typically one year to the date of purchase it is shown on the invoice or can be obtained from Brooks If the support date is entered incorrectly the unlock request will be unsuccessful This date is automatically transmitted when unlocking using an order number and authentication code Edit Pressing this button displays a calendar which allows you to select the correct date that support expires If you are unsure of the correct date consult your sales receipt invoice for the purchase date Complete the Unlock Process This step is the final step in unlocking the software It is different depending on options chosen in previous steps most notably the step Determining Unlock Method Quantity Certain modules may require that a quantity be unlocked such as the RPM Printers module If you have purchased an updated number of printers enter the quantity here RPM version 2 5 Page 30 Unlock using an order number and authentication code Enter the order number and authentication code in the corresponding entry The sales receipt or invoice number is referred to as the order number There are also 3 choices corresponding to the automated way you prefer to unlock the software When you select Web Unlock License Manager will attempt to connect directly to our web ser
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14. 6 6 Fit lines per page When you select Fit lines per page and use a value in lines page RPM determines the vertical distance between the top and bottom margins and calculates the font size that best matches the settings This setting may produce a slightly different result that the User lines per inch setting Use characters per inch To use this setting check the Use characters per inch box and specify a value in chars inch field RPM will now generate a font of the appropriate width If you select both Use lines per inch and Use characters per inch lines per inch is reinforced by RPM and characters per inch may be reduced to accommodate your lines per inch settings How to calculate characters per inch The longest line in the file is 80 characters the paper setting is portrait and the page width is 8 5 inches The margins are 0 5 inches Left and Right CPI 80 8 5 0 5 0 5 10 66 Fit columns per line RPM allows you to set a maximum line length and specify whether or not it will be used RPM considers tabs when calculating line length When you select this option and specify a value in the Columns field RPM calculates the correct characters per inch using the horizontal distance between the left and right margins This setting works in conjunction with the Wrap lines setting When you check this box RPM turns on Wrap lines With Wrap Lines on and Maximum line length on RPM will wrap lines using the length specified
15. Hidden When RPM is minimized the application icon ge remains in the task tray rather than appearing on the taskbar Simply double click the task tray icon to re open RPM If you want RPM to execute completely hidden without the task tray icon simply right click on the RPM icon in the task tray and choose Hide You will be asked for confirmation Later if you decide to unhide RPM import the unhide reg file found in the RPM directory into the Windows registry then reboot the computer The next time RPM is started the task tray will have the RPM icon Log File Expiration RPM creates a new log file every day in the Logfiles folder directly beneath the RPM root To keep your disk drive from filling RPM will remove log files older than 7 days You can change this value in the RPM Settings dialog see page 52 Log File Timestamp RPM timestamps each log entry or other event it records RPM version 2 5 Page 5 Log Options By default RPM enables network print and queue logging but not high detail See Use logging options on page 16 for more information If your RPM installation is running smoothly you can turn off all the logging options RPM will do minimal logging but warnings and error messages are always logged If you are experiencing problems we advise you turn on all the logging options until the problem is identified and resolved Security In RPM security consists of performing basic checks on new
16. RPM will remove log files older than t days m Windows Print Manager Lo g fi le ration Pint Manager is said to handle only 100 RPM keeps a log file for each day RPM is run The default number of days RPM stops submitting at 300 jobs that RPM keeps each log file is seven After that RPM will automatically RPM starts submitting again at 10 jobs delete them You can change RPM to keep the log files between 1 and 366 IV Ignore settings always submit print jobs days or up to 1 year Automatically create queues on request cove RPM version 2 5 Page 52 Note Exercise caution with this setting as log files grow they require more disk space If you save numerous log files check the folder often to make sure your disk has enough space Windows Print Manager The dialog requires the user to enter a value in the high threshold that is greater than the value in the low threshold Both values must be between 1 and 30 000 If there is more jobs in the Windows print spooler RPM will not submit any more jobs Create Queues When this function is in use RPM will automatically create a queue if it gets request for one that is not already defined The queue is created in a suspended to give users the ability to modify queue settings before printing At this point you will need to change the options and printer selection for the queue before printing will resume This feature is on by default
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20. 199 104 251 2 By now you have probably noticed that host name rules are matched right to left and IP rules are matched left to right That is the Internet convention which RPM uses as well Default Access Rule RPM will use the default access rule if it cannot find a match in the IP rules or host name rules IP addresses and host names Each computer using a TCP IP network has a unique IP address These addresses are either assigned individually by your network administrator or automatically perhaps with a DHCP server Each IP address also has a name associated with it RPM is interested in the fully qualified domain name that is the complete path starting with the individual computer and ending with the domain Our recommendations for working with host names and IP addresses follow e tis much easier to work with host names and domain patterns unless you are the network administrator in which case you probably know all the IP addresses and how they are grouped in your organization e If you work with host names then your PC needs to know where the DNS is located This information will be part of your WinSock setup DNS stands for Domain Name Service it is the software and database that turns names to addresses and addresses to names RPM version 2 5 Page 11 Recommendation We recommend that you use the most general rules first followed by the more specific rules In our rule searching example above we included the following
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22. Existing queue names New queue name Enter a name for the queue RPM allows queue names to contain alphabetic characters A through 7 upper and lower case digits 0 through 9 dash and underscore White space characters such as space or tab are not allowed in a queue name Existing queue names RPM displays the names of existing queues As you type RPM uses your input to search the existing queue names If it finds a match it selects the queue from this list For instance if you type the letter l then the first queue in our example would have been highlighted RPM does this to help the user avoid entering a name for a queue that is already in use Continuing this example if you typed the letter 1 but followed it with a letter other than p RPM would realize that 1 is not the intended queue name and will deselect that queue in the list OK When you click OK RPM checks to make sure the queue name entered is not already defined If not RPM creates the new queue and displays the Edit Queue dialog If it is already used an error is displayed and the queue is not created Delete Queue dialog The Delete Queue dialog allows you to remove a queue all the jobs in the Delete Queue queue and the queue configuration information See the section Delete an Delete Queue Existing Queue on page 14 for more information How To Cancel Delete a Queue Queue information 1 Fro
23. a name into this field RPM searches the list of existing names and highlights a match if found Add Rename Delete Click the Add button to create a table the contents of the Table name field are used for the new name Click the Rename button to change the selected table to the name in the Table name field Click the Delete button to remove the currently selected table and the definitions in it Contents Click the Contents button to edit the contents of the currently selected table using the Character Translations dialog Use Job Data dialog The Use Job Data dialog is used for saving filenames with Available Used customizable names There are now many ways to name files for ease of recognizing where when or who actually sent the file to RPM This may allow for better tracking in your organization Available These are the options available for use in your filename that you have not already used There are a variety of things to DEDE VV MMDDHHMMSS 20000211134358 B choose For instance if you want to save your file based on who sent it and when they sent the file you would choose User Classob and Date time rumes Class Job RPM version 2 5 Page 60 Used This is the box showing which options you have chosen to use for your filename The order they are listed from top to bottom is the same order as the name will be saved from left to right This order can be customized tw
24. description of the button on the toolbar command you wish not to execute the command then release the mouse button while the pointer is off the button on the toolbar The right area of the status bar indicates the number of print jobs that Windows currently has queued This number will increase every time RPM finishes a print job or when another Windows application prints Likewise this number will decrease when the Windows Print Manager completes a print job You can also resize the RPM window on the right side of the status bar Scroll Bars Scroll bars are displayed at the right and bottom edges of the window The scroll boxes inside the scroll bars indicate your vertical and horizontal location in the document You can use the mouse to scroll to other parts of the window Queue List window The Queue List window is a split pane window allowing users to access queue and job specific operations easily This window replaces the legacy Queue Status window from previous RPM versions How To See Queues in Alphabetical Order Click the Queues column on the left window pane This sorts the queues in alphabetical order An up arrow A indicates the column is sorted alphabetically in ascending order a down arrow 7 indicates the row is sorted alphabetical in descending order Delete all jobs in a queue Highlight the queue On the right pane select the print job s you wish to delete Now do one of the following e Click the Delete Job but
25. field and adds one to the position and length fields Shor cuts RPM inserts an escape character ESC carriage return CR line feed LF or form feed FF character as if you had entered the bytes manually Edit Queues dialog Use the Edit Queue dialog to change queue settings Several other dialogs are invoked from this dialog including Print Data Options page 48 Printer Setup page 51 Text Setup page 56 Pass through Setup page 47 and Filter Setup page 38 Note If any of the above dialogs are opened and changes are made those changes are saved when that dialog is closed not when the Edit Queues Edit Queues dialog is closed Select a queue OK est x Cancel OW to Queue types Print text allows font selection page setup Select a printer Pass data directly to the printer raw Click the Printer Setup button This presents the standard Windows Print Setup dialog Select a printer and any other options and click OK RPM saves the printer information and optional settings for all future printing to the General Setup selected queue Printer Setup Printer Canon LBP 460 LPT1 Run a local filter program on the file Queue Setup Change queue settings Enable this queue to receive requests Select the appropriate queue type from the Queue types group Then click the Iv Resume processing on queue suspend if off Queue Setup button Hold print job
26. filter program is temporarily unavailable it makes sense to suspend the queue Note if you suspend a queue take care not to let your disk become too full Holding or Not Holding Description When a queue is holding all jobs sent to that queue will be held until manually released via the Operator Job Control dialog see page 46 If a queue is not holding then jobs are still subject to the restrictions of Enabled or Suspended as discussed above When to use If you want to start jobs printing on a page other than the first or if you wish to supervise the printing then consider holding the queue Description When to Use Accept incoming requests Normal mode for operation incoming requests When performing backups etc Process incoming data Normal mode for operation Do not process incoming data When printer is disabled for a period of time Send print jobs to printer Normal mode for operation Don t send jobs to printer Start printing on different page or control printing How to Determine the Queue State The Queue List window The Queue List window shows the current states for each queue A checkbox for each state is provided The Queue Status window The Queue Status window shows the current states for each queue The Queues menu If the Queue Status window is open and a queue is selected then the checkmarks next to Enabled Processing and Holding in the Queues menu show the current s
27. find fonts that support this language Note If you select wide character set such as Japanese RPM has the following restrictions It will not wrap lines It will not print line segments Use CR to overwrite lines It will not remove control characters It will not translate EBCDIC to ASCII do SCS conversion remove PCL codes or use custom translation tables Font The text on the button face shows the name and size of the font selected for this queue If the user does not select a font RPM uses the default Courier New 12 Press this button to change the font face style and or size Margins RPM provides the option to set margins for the printed page RPM supports a number of widely used units for setting fonts including Inches Millimeters Points and Picas If your industry uses a unit other than these please send email to support brooksnet com describing your needs When you change the unit of measure for the margins RPM automatically converts the margin settings Select margin units from the Margin Units drop list Set your top left bottom and right margins in the fields provided RPM attempts to use true margins taking into account the physical page size and non printing area at the top and left of the page according to Windows RPM supplies 1 2 inch as a default margin for the top bottom left and right edges of the page but you should change these settings to suit your needs Note The smalle
28. following situations e f you print PostScript files but use local PostScript rendering tool like GhostScript as an alternative to a PostScript printer e f you send word processing files to RPM for local printing you could use your local word processing program to print the file to your Windows printer e f you send a file to your computer to perform some function other than printing for example updating a database or spreadsheet Queue States RPM provides several operating modes for queues that control how they accept and process requests These modes are referred to as states If it helps you can think of a state as something that stays the way it is until you change it Enabled or Disabled Description When a queue is enabled it accepts requests from remote print clients When a queue is disabled RPM will tell the remote print client that the queue is not defined When to use A good way to take a queue off line is to disable it For instance if you are performing a full backup of your disk or if RPM is spooling to a network drive and that network is currently not available it may make sense to disable the queue temporarily RPM version 2 5 Page 8 Processing or Suspended Description When a queue is suspended RPM will not check it for ready print jobs Print requests will remain in the queue until it is resumed When a queue is processing RPM checks it for ready print jobs as usual When to use If a printer or
29. ii Acknowledgments Brooks Internet Software Inc would like to acknowledge the support and assistance of the following individuals who directly or indirectly helped make RPM version 2 4 possible including Gary L Meikle Holden Kidwell Hahn and Crapo Hans F hles Triaton GmbH Joe Courts Entex Information Services Professor Josh Lerner Harvard Business School Kevin Grimes Grimes amp Reese LLC Professor Paul Gompers Harvard Business School Steve Bryan Language Vision Terri Gazdik CPA Cooper Norman and Co Wolf Laudien Korbitec Operations Inc and the many others who have written to express an interest in RPM Thank you very much Contact We invite you to contact us with your questions or comments on this manual or our software products Brooks Internet Software Inc 1820 E 17th St Suite 330 Idaho Falls ID 83404 6400 USA Phone 800 523 9175 or 208 523 6970 Fax 208 523 9482 Email support brooksnet com Web page http www brooksnet com RPM version 2 5 Page iii Table of Contents Copiright asos ii Other copyrights tst e eae e en I e e EE e e Re eG ee ii Bim ii Acktiowledgments eie a a ae Dee e due CIR t e dete e Ee PR Ee ee elit iii I iii jn
30. in the Queue Status Window 2 Use the Delete key on the keyboard or click the Delete button on the toolbar or select Delete from the Queues menu See page 24 for more information on the Queues menu 3 RPM opens the Delete Queue dialog highlighting the queue you selected See page 34 for more information on the Delete Queues dialog 4 Ifthere are no active print jobs or print requests still in transit you may click the OK button to remove the queue Note RPM will ask you for confirmation before you do this RPM cannot recover deleted queue since it actually removes files and the registry keys If you do not have the Queue Status window open 1 Open the Delete Queue dialog as shown in 2 above 2 Selecta queue in the list of queues RPM shows you the status of the jobs in that queue if any RPM version 2 5 Page 14 3 If there are no active print jobs or print requests still in transit you may click the OK button to remove the queue Note After you click the OK button RPM checks the status of jobs in the queue again so that it doesn t remove active jobs Rename an Existing Queue When you rename a queue you change the name by which the queue is known to print clients and the name used in RPM To rename a queue If the Queue Status window is open select a queue by highlighting the line From the Queues menu select Rename Select any queue in the Existing queue names list Type a new queue name in
31. is an EBCDIC based markup language found on IBM mainframes and AS 400 midrange systems Select this setting to translate SCS markup commands If you are using a text queue then RPM reproduces the original formatting for many SCS commands Otherwise RPM performs a simpler translation If you select this function RPM assumes that it will also be doing EBCDIC translation and will use the selected language setting as described below EBCDIC Select this setting to translate EBCDIC into ASCII using the selected language setting as described below Use language IBM has defined extensions to EBCDIC for many locales RPM currently supports these extensions for a variety of European languages Examples of extensions include but are not limited to accented characters and diacritics While RPM directly supports only characters found in ISO 8859 1 planned enhancements will provide support for a much broader range RPM attempts to match the EBCDIC language extension to your computer s locale However you can select any language setting Use code page in non text queues If this box is checked RPM will translate the data to the selected code page Otherwise RPM will not use the code page and not translate the data when using raw or filter type queues RPM version 2 5 Page 48 Code Page This drop down list contains all available code pages you have installed on your computer If you wish to print in a different language and you do not h
32. its own unique name Queue names cannot contain white space that is spaces or tabs This would violate the LPD Protocol specification which describes how information is passed between print clients and servers RPM treats queue names as case insensitive that means upper or lower case does not matter For instance you can define the queue Ip and clients can use queue LP or Lp or these letter combinations all refer to the same queue Root directory The root directory plays two roles in RPM First it contains the spool directory Second it is the directory that contains the log files directory Future versions of RPM may create other directories in the root directory Sequence number RPM assigns a sequence number to each print job based on information found in the queue ini file in the queue directory You may notice this number in the Queue Status window see page 9 in the far left column RPM version 2 5 Page 63 ASCII Codes ANSI Character Set Character Codes 0 255 Dec Hex Char Codet 47 2F 95 SF 0 00 NUL 48 30 0 96 60 i 1 01 SOH 49 31 1 97 61 a 2 02 STX 50 32 2 98 62 b 3 03 ETX 51 33 3 99 63 c 4 04 EOT 52 34 4 100 64 d 5 05 ENQ 53 35 5 101 65 e 6 06 ACK 54 36 6 102 66 f 7 07 BEL 55 37 7 103 67 g 8 08 BS 56 38 8 104 68 h 9 09 HT 57 39 9 105 69 i 10 0A LF 58 3A 2 106 6A 11 OB VT 59 3B 107 6B k 12 0C FF 60 3C 108 6C 13 0 61 3D 109 6D m 14 OE SO 62 3E gt 110 6E n 15 SI 63 3F
33. landscape provides detail on using the actual dialog T New name for queue Existing queue This field shows the current name of the queue you are assigning a new name to It is blank unless you selected a queue in the Queue Status window prior to opening the dialog or until you select a queue in the Existing queue names list Existing queue names New name for queue Fill in the new name you wish to use for the selected queue RPM treats upper and lower case the same for queue name comparisons so you need not rename a queue from Ip to LP for example Existing queue names This list provides the names of the currently defined queues As you type the queue name RPM attempts to verify that the name is not already in use RPM may highlight a name in this list if it matches what you have typed This is only meant to inform the user of possible name conflicts OK The Rename Queue dialog will attempt to rename the queue from the existing name to the new name after filtering out invalid characters such as space and verifying that the new name is not already used for a queue RPM Settings dialog LE m Log file expiration The Settings menu option invokes the Settings dialog The meaning of these RPM keeps a log file for each day currently in items are explained in Configuring RPM on page 5 Below we offer C PROGRAM FILES BROOKS INTERNE LogFiles guidelines for using this dialog
34. name field to the defined styles in the Styles list Click the Rename button to rename the selected style to the name entered in the Style name field Finally click the Remove button to remove the selected style Copy This button copies attributes of a queue to the selected style Select a queue from the drop list when you click the Copy button this queue will be the one whose attributes are copied Be sure you have a style selected Telnet Setup dialog Use the Telnet Setup dialog to determine how RPM will print data sent to a telnet port See the Server Protocols dialog on page 53 for more information on telnet ports e Telnet Setup to Co nfi 5 et Port Setup for protocol telnet 9100 e You must select a queue from the Submit jobs to queue drop list Submit jobs to queue This is required and there is no default e Ifyou doing text printing we recommend that you fill in the user name and title fields User ID e field Queue pages before printing determines whether RPM will print while connected or wait until the connection is closed Tite e Use the remainder of this topic to help determine whether to fill in T Use width 80 Copies the additional fields or leave them blank Print type Setup for protocol 0 Queue pages before printing This field contains the protocol and port being configured Print pages when quiet Cancel Submit jobs to que
35. send a form feed so your printer will eject the page after printing the job This option can be used in these situations RPM version 2 5 Page 47 Page Separator button By default RPM uses the form feed character hex OC as a page separator Click this button to define your own page separator string using the Edit Bytes dialog see page 35 Print Data Options dialog The Print Data Options dialog allows you to make changes to your print data before printing These advanced features are available with all three queue types text raw and filter For a description of queue types see page 8 Transform Tab Queue filter Remove PCL codes Remove PCL codes RPM can remove PCL HPGL and PJL codes from incoming data ASA carriage control Fortran leaving plain text These codes were developed by Hewlett Packard Convert SCS to ASCII for use in printers plotters and other output devices Note that RPM EBCDIC English United States strips codes automatically for text type queues Code page us ANSI Windows 3 1 7 Transform Translate Insert Append Other f Cancel ASA carriage control Fortran When this feature is enabled RPM will translate data that is formatted with FORTRAN or ASA carriage control codes RPM will translate automatically when this box is unchecked if the LPR requested so using the standard Unix r option Convert SCS to ASCII SCS
36. status window see page 22 Log Shows or hides the Log window see page 20 Toolbar Use this command to display and hide the Toolbar which includes buttons for some of the most common commands in RPM A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Toolbar is displayed See page 17 for help on using the toolbar Status Bar Use this command to display and hide the Status Bar A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Status Bar is displayed See page 18 for help on using the status bar RPM version 2 5 Page 25 Workbook RPM arranges windows as if they were separate pages with a row of tabs at the bottom of the RPM window This design resembles a workbook You can return RPM to the traditional multiple window arrangement by selecting View Workbook then select it again to return to the workbook Queue Status Use this command to display and hide the Queue status window which shows the names and status of the queues currently defined in RPM as well as status of any jobs A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Queue status window is displayed See page 9 for help on using the Queue status window Print Status Use this command to display and hide the Print status window which shows detailed status information for the current or most recent print job A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Print status window is displayed See page 22 for help on using the Print st
37. the field marked New name for queue Click OK when you are done or press the Enter key cnp Note RPM follows the same rules for queue names described in Create a New Queue There is more detail available for the Rename Queue dialog on page 52 Report Problems Our goal at Brooks Internet Software Inc is for you to receive the maximum benefit from our software products Sometimes you may require assistance even after you have reviewed the documentation If this is the case please contact us via email at support brooksnet com If you are researching a feature and the documentation is unclear we ask that you explain what it is you are looking for and how the documentation does not seem to help If you have a suggestion on how it can be improved please pass it along Thanks in advance for your insight If RPM does not seem to do what you expect please tell us what you think it should do and why We try to make the software easy to use If RPM experiences a software failure we ask that you do the following e From the Options menu select Log e the checkboxes on e Rerun your print job or go through whatever steps are required to reproduce the problem e Email the log file located in the RPM Logfiles folder along with a description of your problem to support brooksnet com e Please be ready to send us further information if it is required to research the problem and find the correct solution
38. the next byte will be inserted The Length field shows the length in bytes of the current bytes RPM version 2 5 Page 35 Left Right amp Del The Left button moves the position marker one byte to the left If the position marker is at the beginning of the current bytes the Left button has no effect The Right button moves the position marker one byte to the Right If the position marker is at the end of the current bytes the Right button has no effect The Del button deletes the byte to the right of the position marker If the position marker is at the end of the current bytes the Del button has no effect Enter an ASCII character Enter any character that you can normally type into a text field RPM empties this field inserts the byte in the current byte just after the position marker displays it in the Current Bytes field and adds one to the position and length fields Enter two hexadecimal characters Use this field to enter bytes The characters must be hexadecimal either digits O through 9 or letters A through F You can enter lower case a through f if you wish and RPM will translate If you enter anything else RPM will display a dialog showing you which characters to enter and will remove any characters in this field The current bytes are unaffected Once you have entered two hexadecimal bytes RPM empties this field inserts the byte in the current byte just after the position marker displays it in the Current Bytes
39. translation table 2 Create a table let s call it CRLF Swap without quotes Click the Contents button to create our translations 3 Put your cursor on the field Translate from Enter hexadecimal characters Click the CR button Now click the LF button That s our first translation 4 Now click the LF button followed by the CR button That s the second translation 5 Click OK in the Character Translations dialog then OK until all dialog windows are closed 6 Touse this translation go to the Edit Queues dialog click Print Data Options select CRLF Swap from the Translation table drop down list then select Use Translation From now on any queue that uses this translation will swap the CR and LF characters Translate unused ASCII characters to accented characters For example you may want to translate certain characters to accented ASCII characters using the following data Char From code hex code hex New bb c4 AE 7b 4 bc d6 OB 7c f6 oe od dc UE 7d fc ue 7e df sz 40 a7 8 paragraph To perform this translation create a translation table as described above you many want to name it German Now go to the Character Translations dialog put the cursor in the Translate from Enter hexadecimal characters field and type the following 5bc47be45cd67cf65ddc7dfc7edf40a7 Note Those are the to and from hex code
40. when quiet When this function is selected RPM will print data it has received if the connection is quiet for ten seconds or more When this function is not in use RPM prints data only when the connection is closed When to use this setting This selection should be ON if your connection remains open for a long period of time and you wish to print when the network activity stops temporarily Text Setup dialog Use this dialog to edit settings used by text type queues see page 8 Please Text Setup HE note that there are many options and that some options work differently depending on other values Also note that additional dialogs that are accessed US ANSI Windows 31 Windows 3 1 from the Text Setup dialog save their changes when closed not when the Text Setup dialog is closed Courier New 12 Margin units Inches X H OW to Page margins Top 05 Left 05 Bottom 5 Right ps 1 i 5 lines inch Fitlines per page po lines page Use characters per inch 32 chars inch Fit columns per line 0 columns Use CR to overwrite line Stop Printer Control Codes from Printing E v Remove control characters Make Long Lines Shrink to Fit 1 Select a font if you have not already selected one 2 Select Use characters per inch and or Use lines per inch and input the appropriate lines inch and chars inch Formulas for calculating these values are provided bel
41. 0 208 DO 171 209 DI N 172 AC 210 D2 173 AD 211 174 AE 212 D4 175 213 D5 176 BO 214 D6 177 215 D7 x 178 B2 2 216 D8 0 179 B3 3 217 D9 180 B4 2 218 DA U Indicates that this character is not supported by Windows Indicates that this character is available only in TrueType fonts T The Code column is meaningful only for characters 1 31 RPM version 2 5 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 237 238 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 STA gt Or MAH a MOO B px B BA US CU C C Page 65
42. 111 6F 16 10 SLE 64 40 112 70 p 17 11 CSI 65 41 113 72 q 18 12 DC2 66 42 B 114 72 r 19 13 DC3 67 43 C 115 73 5 20 14 DC4 68 44 D 116 74 t 21 15 NAK 69 45 E 117 75 u 22 16 SYN 70 46 F 118 76 23 17 71 47 G 119 TI 24 18 72 48 H 120 78 25 19 73 49 121 79 26 1 SIB 74 4A J 122 7 7 27 1B ESC 75 4B K 123 7B 28 1C FS 76 4 L 124 JC 29 1 GS TI 4D M 125 7D 30 1 RS 78 4E N 126 TE 31 1F US 79 4F O 127 TF 32 20 space 80 50 P 128 80 33 21 81 51 Q 129 81 34 22 82 52 R 130 82 35 23 83 53 S 131 83 36 24 84 54 T 132 84 T 37 25 85 55 U 133 85 38 26 amp 86 56 V 134 86 T 39 27 i 87 57 W 135 87 t 40 28 88 58 X 136 88 41 29 89 59 137 89 42 2 90 5 7 138 8 43 2 91 5 139 8B 44 2 92 5 140 8C E 45 2D 93 5D 141 8D 46 2E 94 5E A 142 8E 7 RPM version 2 5 Page 64 143 8F 181 B5 u 144 90 182 B6 q 145 91 183 B7 146 92 i 184 B8 147 93 185 B9 1 148 94 186 2 149 95 187 150 96 188 1 4 151 97 189 1 2 152 98 190 3 4 153 99 191 i 154 9A 5 192 CO 155 9B 193 1 156 9C ce 194 C2 157 9 195 158 9 196 4 159 9F Y 197 C5 160 0 198 C6 161 Al i 199 C7 C 162 A2 200 C8 E 163 A3 201 C9 164 A4 n 202 CA 165 5 203 166 6 204 I 167 AT 8 205 CD 168 8 T 206 CE 169 9 207 17
43. 5 for more information Future versions of RPM may support a wider variety of protocols Brooks Internet Software does not currently have access to all the varieties of systems our customers print from Based on our experience we can offer the following guidelines to help you pick the right buzzwords if you need to select a protocol If you see a choice for LPD pick that one If you see a choice for remote Berkeley or remote BSD pick that one If you see a choice to emulate an LPR client pick that one If you have a Berkeley compatible UNIX system consult the printcap man pages for assistance If you have a System V compatible UNIX system do not use lp use Berkeley compatible You will need to consult your documentation or a local system administrator for details Order of Control File vs Data File Some LPD servers expect the control file to follow the data file s others may expect it to come first RPM receives files whether the control file comes first or last User ID RPM does not currently require the user to supply an ID Client Port and TCP IP Protocol Certain clients may not follow the TCP IP server conventions By default RPM relaxes these conventions so a wide variety of systems can print to RPM with little configuration modifications See LPD Options Dialog on page 45 for more information Common Printing Problems To facilitate solving problems RPM maintains a log and provides a window to view it The window is o
44. Determine Current RPM Activity The easiest way to see what RPM is currently doing is to open the Queue List see page 18 and Log see page 20 windows and watch them as RPM receives and prints incoming data You can also see a greater level of detail when printing with the Print Status window see page 22 The highest level of detail is available in the Log window By setting logging options see below you can see several levels of detail for network activity commands and events related to queues and for printing RPM version 2 5 Page 15 Use Logging Options Select Log from the Options menu see page 25 to see the Log Options dialog For more information on what is logged please see the Log window see page 20 The Log Options dialog shows three categories of logging network print and queue logging It also shows two levels of detail on off and high detail When all logging is turned off RPM logs startup information including the date and time and RPM version number Also any errors that RPM encounters are logged What happens when I turn on all logging RPM runs a little slower due to the extra logging and uses more disk space for the log Does this make RPM work better Differently Yes and no Yes because if there is a problem then the detailed log helps our support staff to identify what is happening and either make a recommendation to you or fix the problem in RPM No is also true because RPM perform
45. If you right click on either of these two lines a context menu will appear The menu contains Open four items Open Enabled Processing Hold queue The graphic shows a picture of the menu If V you choose Open you will be taken to the Edit Queues dialog found on page 36 where you v Processing can modify the settings for the queue The other three choices change the Queue States More Hold queue information on Queue States can be found on page 8 Following the command could be one or more jobs if any jobs are present in the queue The information is displayed in columns for ease of reading with one job per line Similarly if you right click on one of the jobs you will be presented with a context menu which contains three items The items are Open Holding and Delete From this menu you can open the Operator Job RPM version 2 5 Page 19 Control dialog found on page 46 You can also delete the job and hold or un hold the job There is a check mark next to Holding if the job is holding From left to right the columns are Sequence number see the Glossary which starts on page 63 User ID Host name Job title Activity You will see either Xfer Print or Wait Detail Display will show Control when receiving the control file Data when receiving the data file Start when beginning to print Banner when printing the banner or Page n when printing page n Percent from zero t
46. Inc may ask for a sample of the control file captured with this method You can also set the folder where RPM saves the control files This is done in the Print Data Options dialog which is discussed further on page Error Bookmark not defined RPM version 2 5 Page 16 User Guide This section explains the windows menus and dialogs used by RPM For quick help on performing a particular function in RPM check the How To section that starts on page Error Bookmark not defined Main RPM window The main RPM window resembles a typical Windows application Starting from the top it contains a title bar menus toolbar an area containing one or more smaller windows and a status bar The smaller windows may have scroll bars Title Bar RPM 2 5 9x Queue List ioj x The title bar is located along the top of a window It contains the name of the application and the currently displayed window To move the window drag the title bar Note that you can also move dialog boxes by dragging their title bars A title bar may contain the following elements e Application Control menu button Document Control menu button Maximize button Minimize button Name of the application Title of the active window Restore button Toolbar D 3 amp OR The toolbar is displayed across the top of the application window below the menu bar The toolbar provides quick mouse access to many tools used in RPM Furthermore RPM d
47. M uses the IP address to search for a host name It first looks in the IP addresses you enter in the Host Names dialog then in the IP addresses for which WinSock has returned host names in the current RPM session If RPM does not find the IP address and a matching host name in its records then it makes a WinSock request to retrieve the host name You may need to have reverse DNS lookup enabled at your site contact your network administrator s for more information If WinSock successfully finds a host name for this IP address then RPM stores that association for later use in this session 4 Use Host name rules Assuming RPM has found a host name for the print client it searches the host name rules you entered in the Host Rules dialog If a match is found then RPM uses the access control value for this connection request as with the IP Rules match 5 Use Default access rule If no match is found in either the IP rules or Host rules RPM uses the default access rule either allow or deny for this connection attempt Rules RPM uses a series of rules that you create to determine whether or not a remote host has access These rules consist of host names domain name patterns and IP addresses RPM version 2 5 Page 10 Rule Searching RPM uses two sets of rules you create IP rules and Host rules In each case RPM starts with the first rule and attempts to match each rule in order RPM then uses the access value of the last rule matched For
48. M will save the control files to This folder should be checked often to avoid problems with the disk filling up Print Setup dialog Pin Soup OES Properties The following options allow you to select the destination printer and its connection Name Status Default printer Ready Type Canon LBP 460 Pr inter Where LPT1 Comment Canon LBP 460 Select the printer you want to use Choose the Default Printer or choose the specific printer you wish this queue to print to using the Name drop down list Se x uu p gt Note You install printers and configure ports using the Windows Control Panel C Landscape Cancel Orientation Choose Portrait or Landscape Paper Size Select the size of paper that the document is to be printed on RPM version 2 5 Page 51 Paper Source Some printers offer multiple trays for different paper sources Specify the tray here Properties Displays a dialog box where you can make additional choices about printing specific to the type of printer you have selected Note Print driver properties orientation and page source are not available in raw type queues For a description of queue types see page 8 Rename Queue dialog The Rename Queue dialog changes the name of a queue in RPM The topic pue Uurin Rename an existing queue on page 15 discusses this further This topic Existing queue name
49. Note This option is disabled unless both insert function and print banner are in use Append Tab RPM can append either a sequence of bytes or the contents of a file at the end of a print job Queue filler Append function Append function k none Ie From this drop list select the append function you wish RPM to perform Values are Append Function Description none RPM will not append data prior to printing it Append bytes IRPM will append a sequence of bytes Append file will append the contents of a file het Append Ober The default function is lt gt meaning RPM will not append any data before printing Edit Bytes Click this button to create or review the bytes that RPM will append to a print job RPM uses the Edit Bytes dialog see page 35 This button is visible only when Append Bytes is selected in the Append function Browse Click this button to select a file for RPM to append This button is available when Append File is selected in the Append function File Bytes A static control is also provided that displays the path for the file RPM will append if you have selected the Append file function or the bytes to be appended if you have selected the Append bytes function This is not visible until a file or sequence of bytes has been entered RPM version 2 5 Page 50 Other Tab The Other tab provides further optional capabilit
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51. an print to any available Windows printer just as other applications do When pressing this button the standard Print Setup dialog is displayed allowing the user to select the printer and change the properties Note This button is available only after the software has been unlocked Copy This button is used to copy the license information to the clipboard Users can then paste the information into another application for storing license information on disk rather than printing it Note This button is available only after the software has been unlocked License Pressing this button invokes the Application Unlock Wizard which allows the license to be updated After the initial licensing this is used to update the support expiration date or change the registered username Module Status Tab This tab contains a grid that displays modules that have been installed in easy to read columns This list shows the modules the license status of the module the quantity if applicable and a description of the module License Module This button allows the user to unlock or update modules that are currently installed The Application Unlock Wizard must be completed prior to unlocking installed modules RPM version 2 5 Page 29 Publisher This tab provides information about the publisher of the software Included here is the address city state postal code and country Phone and fax numbers are listed and links to contact t
52. anumeric amp Hexadecimal 35 n LO NAM E 35 Length ER des 35 Left Right amp aea e re E RE LER 36 Enter an NIBIEUCTHTW AEn 36 Ent r two hexadecimal characters iia aas etr reed Ferne ree e HEP Pete ESSE EP 36 TE 36 RPM version 2 5 Page v POW AE 36 SelectidqUeWe os e DEP RE RR ERE E ERROR E RR ER E ORIS 37 37 QueueSetup e E eoe EE IR EE REPERI RU ER ERR repr case bo ET 37 Print Options a c e o Dia re E ER RED RU ERR i bed 37 Printer Setup su do iei dae UR E ERE PERO IESUS E PRU E ED Re RU ERR EE E Res 37 Ira MEL 37 Enable this Queue to Receive Requests eese eee enne kE otsaga rennen 37 Suspend Printing on QUEUE 1 2 s nisi e e it sede be e ge ete eget par trae odas 37 Hold print jobs operator controlled iieis eian ariei ee eene teen etre eene tenente teet trennen trennen rennen 38 Filter Setup dialog C
53. ation of the following terms in the topic How to Use Logging Options on page 16 Log Options x Enable network logg ng Enable network logging If this setting is on RPM will log network events High detail Enable print logging High detail network logging High detail If this setting and Enable network logging are both on RPM will log Enable queue logging network events in significant detail High detail Save control file from host Enable queue logging If this setting is on RPM will log events for RPM queues High detail queue logging If this setting and Enable queue logging are both on RPM will log queue events in significant detail Enable print logging If this setting is on RPM will log printing events High detail print logging If this setting and Enable print logging are both on RPM will log print events in significant detail Save Control File If this box is checked RPM will save the control file to the disk along with the data file The name RPM will use for the control file will resemble the data file name but it will have a TXT extension LPD Options dialog LPD Options menu option invokes LPD Options dialog These options 2 involve LPD protocol a fairly esoteric topic RPM can also allow and deny These options allow you to relax access based on the host name or IP address of the remote computer See the 52 restrictions and may alo
54. atus window Log Use this command to display and hide the Log window A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Log window is displayed See page 20 for help on using the Log window Window menu The Window menu offers the following commands which enable you to arrange multiple views of multiple documents in the application window Command Action Cascade Arranges windows in an overlapped fashion Tile Arranges windows in non overlapped tiles Arrange Icons Arranges icons of closed windows Window 1 2 Goes to specified window Cascade Use the Cascade command to arrange multiple opened windows in an overlapped fashion Tile Use this command to arrange multiple opened windows in a non overlapped fashion Arrange Icons Use this command to arrange the icons for minimized windows at the bottom of the main window If there is an open window at the bottom of the main window then some or all of the icons may not be visible because they will be underneath this window Window 1 2 RPM displays a list of currently open windows at the bottom of the Window menu A check mark appears in front of the document name of the active window Choose an item from this list to make its window active Help menu The Help menu offers the following commands which provide you assistance with this application Command Action Help Topics Offers you an index to topics on which you can get help
55. ave the code page available on your system you cannot use that language Microsoft will supply support for different languages Translate Tab RPM can perform character by character translations see the Translations topic for more information were Use translation Translation table Edit Translation Translation Tables Use translation Put a check in this box if you want RPM to perform translations The translation table must also be selected for this to be in effect Translation table The Translation Table drop down list contains the names of the currently defined translation tables The selected table will be used for this queue Transform A Translate Insert A Append A Other Translation Tables Cancel Click this button for a shortcut to the Translation Tables dialog This way you can edit the contents of the translation table that RPM will use for this queue Note If you do not have table selected in the Translation Table drop down list it brings up the Edit Translations dialog instead Edit Translations Click this button to bring up the Edit Translations dialog Insert Tab This function provides the ability to insert either a sequence of bytes or a file at the beginning of a print job Queue hier Insert function Insert function From this drop list select the insert function you wish RPM to perform Values are Insert Function Description
56. aximize Use this command to enlarge the active window to fill the available space Shortcuts Mouse Click the maximize button on the title bar or double click the title bar Keys CTRL F10 enlarges a document window Close Use the Close command to close the active window or dialog box Double clicking a Control menu box is the same as choosing the Close command Shortcuts Mouse Click the close button on the title bar Keys CTRL F4 closes a window within RPM ALT F4 exits RPM or closes a dialog box Next Use the Next command to toggle between open windows in RPM Possible open windows could be the Queue Status Log and Print Status windows Shortcuts Keys CTRL F6 displays the next open window Task Tray Menu RPM supports a Windows task tray icon When you place the mouse cursor over the task tray 2 icon RPM shows the name of the product or status if jobs have been received or printed If Use style you minimize RPM it will hide itself Hide Ext You can restore RPM by double clicking the task tray icon If you right click the task tray icon RPM opens a menu This menu allows you to open the program window see the About dialog use a style hide or exit the program Use style will be unavailable when no styles have been defined RPM version 2 5 Page 28 Brooks License Manager The Brooks License Manager provides license management functions for software developed by Brook
57. ch RPM will use to convert IP addresses to host names Otherwise RPM will use the network to look up a host name This topic describes the overall host access security scheme Also note our recommendation for structuring your rules Access RPM optionally performs an access check for each connection it receives Connections include print requests queue status requests and others RPM is able to allow or deny access based on the identity of the remote computer If access is allowed then the request proceeds without the print client being aware that a check has taken place If the access is denied RPM returns the text Permission denied then closes the connection effectively shutting off the request Steps RPM uses when checking access 1 Access checking enabled RPM uses a setting labeled Enable host access checking to determine whether or not to perform the access check If this setting is off RPM does not perform the check Enable host access checking is off by default so that you do not have to create access rules to use RPM 2 Getthe Connection IP Address Use IP Address rules Whenever another program connects to RPM WinSock provides to RPM the Internet address or IP address of the remote computer RPM uses this information to search the IP rules you created If a match is found RPM uses the access control value allow or deny with this connection attempt 3 Search for host name If no match is found in the IP Address rules RP
58. cripts Copy the queue setup to this style To use this style use the task tray menu page 28 and select Use Styles page 24 iu Ru Translations RPM is able to perform character by character translations of your print data prior to printing This translation is independent of the queue type in other words you can translate text data pass through data and data going to another program For more information on the Translation Tables dialog see page 59 for more information on the Character Translations dialog see page 32 Note if you are translating pass through data we strongly recommend that you test your results Some printers do not support the complete Windows character set What can you do with translations Swap line feed and carriage return Most host applications generate a line feed or carriage return followed by line feed for a line terminator Windows printers generally need both a carriage return and a line feed to signal the end of the line We have also seen a line feed followed by a carriage return Your printer may understand this but the RPM text handling sees an extra blank line You can make RPM do the swap by following these steps RPM version 2 5 Page 12 1 Goto the Translation Tables dialog you can get there from the Options menu by selecting Translations then Tables or go to the Edit Queues dialog click Print Data Options then Edit Translations The help topic shows you how to create a
59. data RPM version 2 5 Page 32 Changing a Translation Do one of the following e Re enter the translation as described above using the same from character and the desired to character e Select the translation from the list and enter a new to character Removing a Translation Select the translation in the From To list and then click the button labeled Remove Translation tables This drop list contains the names of currently defined translation tables The contents of the selected table are shown in the From To list You can edit another translation table by selecting it in the Translation tables drop down list If any changes have been made to the current table RPM will save those changes From To This list contains the current translations RPM attempts to show each character as a printable value e g a or symbolic value e g 5 otherwise it will use the hexadecimal value Select a translation in this list to edit or remove it Translate from The Translate from area of the dialog contains two fields one for entering an ASCII character the other for entering two hexadecimal characters If you put the cursor in the ASCII field and enter a character RPM accepts that character and moves the cursor to the ASCII field in the Translate to area If you put the cursor in the hexadecimal field and enter two hex characters RPM accepts them as a single character and moves the cursor to the hexadecimal field in
60. dows 3 1 and Windows for Workgroups 3 11 RPM allows print clients to send print requests directly to a PC over a network RPM supports the LPD Protocol for Internet printing and the associated UNIX print commands lpr pr 1 Iprm and Ipstat RPM was designed to run after initial setup without manual intervention RPM supports multiple named queues It allows you to choose any printer available from Windows and stores any print setup selected for a specific queue It also supports fonts margins line wrap and many other text features RPM will pass print data directly to a printer without modification open the data in a program or save the data to disk instead of printing RPM has been tested extensively with all the major PC network software including the Microsoft Windows for Workgroups TCP IP Novell and Trumpet RPM accepts requests from mainframes running MVS CMS and CICS from UNIX workstations and from PC clients with a supported LPR application RPM is a fully featured and supported product and is the only professional LPD server available separately from bundled networking suites We believe it is the best LPD server available anywhere What is LPR LPD LPR LPD is the printing method most commonly used in TCP IP networks LPR LPD is used extensively on university and business campuses where UNIX systems have been in place for a while the new generation of operating systems for both mainframe and desktop now sup
61. dress in the Hostnames list 2 Change the host name in the Hostname field at the bottom of the dialog 3 Click the Change button Hostnames The Hostnames list shows the current collection of IP addresses with corresponding host names Select an item in this list to modify or remove it IP Address The IP address for the selected rule appears here If you are creating or changing a rule enter the IP address Note The IP address is divided into four fields much like the address itself Each field accepts three numeric characters and automatically shifts focus to the next field The last field shifts focus to the Access drop down list Unlike the Rules dialog this dialog interprets each part of the IP address as a decimal number The asterisk wildcard is not supported Host name The host name corresponding to the IP address should be entered in this field It is recommended that a fully qualified domain name is used when possible Add Click this button to add the current IP address and host name to the Hostnames list Change Click this button to remove the currently selected IP address and host name and replace them with the fields entered above Remove Click this button to remove the currently selected IP address and host name pair RPM version 2 5 Page 44 Log Options dialog Use the Log Options dialog to set RPM logging options You can find a description of the RPM logging facility including an explan
62. e Operator Job Control dialog see page 46 Holding Toggles the job between holding and not holding job states Delete Deletes the currently selected job Options menu The Options menu offers the following commands Command Action Settings Modify miscellaneous settings for RPM see page 52 Log Modify logging options levels of detail see page 45 Host Access Manage settings to allow and restrict access from other computers see page 10 Translations Invokes the Translations menu see below LPD Options Modify LPD protocol settings for RPM see page 45 Protocols Manage protocol ports and settings see page 53 Printer Limits Review or change printer limits The Translations menu offers the following commands Command Action Tables Create named translation tables see page 59 Contents Edit the contents of a translation table see page 32 Note These options are discussed further Consult the listed pages View menu The View menu offers the following commands Command Action Toolbar Shows or hides the toolbar see page 17 Status Bar Shows or hides the status bar see page 18 Workbook Control whether RPM shows pages as a workbook see page 17 Queue List Shows or hides the Queue List window see page 18 Queue status Shows or hides the Queue status window see page 19 Print status Shows or hides the Print
63. e the font you selected for that queue The font size may also be dependent on other queue settings Host Access dialog The Host Access dialog allows you to restrict access to RPM based on the IP address or DNS hostname of the system requesting to print By default host access checking is disabled allowing all hosts the ability to print through RPM We recommend during initial configuration and testing that you retain the default settings Once RPM is functioning as expected host access checking should be enabled and custom rules applied Enable host access checking Check this box to make RPM check access on each connection attempt Uncheck the box to have RPM ignore access control Default access rule Use the drop down list to set the default access to Allow or Deny The Host Access topic describes how the Default access rule is used Note For detailed description of host access and how to configure custom rules see page 10 Host Rules Tab Enable host access checking The Host Rules tab allows you to create and modify the host rules for Default access rule all access control as described in the Host Access topic on page 10 You can also change the setting that toggles whether host access checking is enabled and what the default access rule is configured for Host rules Raise Lower How to Add a Rule 1 Enter a host name or domain name pattern in the Hostname field
64. ement is one of the key features that sets RPM apart from other Windows based LPD servers and from hardware print servers 2 Understanding queues is vital to getting the most value from RPM Queue Types The current version of RPM supports three types of queues The following discussion will help you understand what these types can do for you and will help you select the right queue for your needs Text queues Description Text queues offer a wide variety of printing options including the ability to set fonts margins line wrap maximum page length and many others When to use If you want RPM to read your text and render it using Windows features then you should use a Text queue Pass through queues Description Pass through queues send print files directly to the printer without interpretation These queues still use the Windows Print Manager as Microsoft recommends When to use If you print files with special control codes or files meant for a specific printer including PCL or PostScript files then you should use a pass through queue Filter queues Description Filter queues execute a program on your computer or local network in the case of file sharing rather than sending the print job directly to the printer When to use If you have special processing needs which are best met by using another program in conjunction with RPM then you should use a Filter queue For instance you might use a Filter queue in one of the
65. ent access either Allow or Deny Raise Lower Click the Raise button to raise the priority of the selected rule or cause it to be evaluated sooner You cannot raise the first rule Click the Lower button to lower the priority of the selected rule or cause it to be evaluated later You cannot lower the last rule Add Click this button to add the host name or domain pattern and selected access to the list of Host Rules The new rule will appear at the bottom of the list Change Click this button to change the selected rule The new rule will use the text in the Host name field and the selected access in the Access drop down list Remove Click this button to remove the selected rule RPM version 2 5 Page 43 Hostnames Tab The Host Names dialog allows you to build a local host table for reverse name lookups RPM looks for an IP address and wants to find a corresponding host name Enable host access checking Default access rule Allow all T Note Hostname and IP address patterns are not allowed in this dialog Hostnames How to Add an IP Address and Hostname 1 Enter an IP address in the ZP address field These fields accept leading zeros and automatically move to the next field when you have entered three characters 2 Entera host name in the Hostname field 3 Click the OK button Hostname Iu Add Change Remove Change the Hostname for an IP Address 1 Select the IP ad
66. etup Jor E wy 55 Submit jobs to QUEUE 55 55 Job iname User ID Title een ek mee TOO e ERAT PRONTA E eb 55 roD m EEE OO E 56 COPIES p E S 56 PUNE DY DO oe RR RR REESE RH o I RO Re EE RES HE e int SIN 56 Queue Pages before Printing t e RUE HE HEP Hee eerte eis 56 Printpages when quiet teinte te d E t e UO eerte 56 Text Setup aote teretes teen o rnt etas ent etus Dess ease tu unsere iaoa rssi 56 FLOW 10 c Hr P 56 Code PARC DASH ror HARE Ee RU 57 FONG e o RE ais bens ERE EE RU RERO BA EFE Ma ae PEERS abstain HEURE NER EEUU UE 57 ode ase D RO E CROIRE HORE IEEE NR RIO NEUE EE CH 57 Horizontal and vertical sp cification espone a e etiquette emp eie ttes 57 HINES ICM ME R 58 Fit lines per Dag ao e c ere e EO ERREUR RE PR GU ER GRE
67. example let s assume the following set of rules Rule Access Host name or domain pattern 1 Allow brooksnet com nicoh com 2 3 Allow shel nicoh com 4 Allow jafrica nicoh com If we print from dave dev brooksnet com RPM finds a match in Rule 1 but continues to search the rules No other rules match If we print from s 03 shel nicoh com RPM has the following results Rule Match Y N Access 1 2 Y Deny 3 Y Allow 4 N Allow The result of this rule search is allow Rule Matching Both host names and IP addresses come in parts separated by a period for example the host name s 03 shel nicoh com contains four parts s 03 shel nicoh and com RPM doesn t care how many parts there are Similarly the IP address 199 104 19 3 contains four parts namely 199 104 19 and 3 For the purpose of pattern matching RPM does not care how many parts there are in the name The asterisk character has long been used in the Internet as a wildcard for matching one or more parts of names or IP addresses For instance The domain pattern brooksnet com matches both dave dev brooksnet com and hpl tech brooksnet com The asterisk matches dave dev in the first example and hpl tech in the second example Similarly the IP address pattern 199 104 19 matches 199 104 19 3 and the pattern 199 104 matches both 199 104 19 7 and
68. formation will be removed from the Operator display Move a Job from One Queue to Another Highlight the job in the Queue Status or Queue List windows and click the Operator toolbar button shown above The Operator Job Control dialog shows the job sequence number and other identifying information Select the queue you wish to move the job to in the Queue drop list then click the Move Job button Queue The Queue drop down list contains the names of the currently defined queues When you select a queue RPM puts the unique sequence number for all jobs in that queue in the Jobs list Jobs The Jobs list contains the unique sequence number for all jobs in the queue selected in the Queues list When you select a job RPM displays identifying information for that job RPM version 2 5 Page 46 Item User Host Title Status These fields contain information describing the selected job Starting Ending page RPM is able to start printing on a page other than the first and finish printing before the last page Enter a numeric value greater than 1 for the starting page if you want to skip pages If Ending page is set to 0 then RPM will not finish until the job is completely printed T Notes For Text printing RPM uses the values you enter in the Text Setup dialog page 56 to count pages However for pass through printing RPM relies on page separators and your results may not be what you expect If you choose a starting page greate
69. gs can be obtained from your network administrator RPM version 2 5 Page 31 Dialogs The following pages describe RPM dialogs In most cases we include shortcuts that answer how to questions About dialog The About dialog is accessed by selecting About RPM from the About RPM RPMI RPM Remote Print Manager 2 5 9x wy Help menu or by clicking on the About button aR on the R E toolbar Use this command to display the copyright notice and Copyright 1995 2002 Brooks Internet Software Inc version number of your copy of RPM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED This dialog box shows the user name and serial number for this Trial user Remote Print User copy of RPM Both are contained in read only edit controls Company name Brooks Internet Software Inc which allows you to select and copy them to the Windows clipboard You will also find the contact information such as the Serial number 1234 567 1890 email address for technical support and phone and fax numbers For RPM support please contact for Brooks Internet Software Inc Tore Ape qd tena NEP e Email support brooksnet com B i Phone 208 523 6970 G Note Before submit a problem report please see one Reporting Problems on page 15 Fax 208 523 9482 Character Translations dialog The Character Translations dialog allows you to create and edit character Character Transintsons Tx translations for a single translation table at a time See page 12 for
70. hat you run one filter program at a time This will help ensure that your PC does not become overloaded if a number of filter jobs are sent at once Note If this setting is off RPM does not remove temporary files because it does not track the existence of the programs it executes Translate LF to CR LF Your host system may use only a line feed LF character to return to the next line If this is the case select this option to insert a carriage return CR before each LF Most Windows printers and applications require both characters to represent the end of line When used separately they usually represent other scenarios Font dialog SIE Use the Font dialog to select a font for your print jobs This fist 5 is the standard Windows font dialog for the selected printer Courier New Regular Cancel ize 8 Courier New Italic 3 i i i T Garamond Bold 10 Note Only the fonts that your print driver supports will be displayed in this dialog For instance your printer may El Helvetica support the lineprinter font but not all print drivers allow zi gt access to this font Sample Font AaBbYyzz This list shows the fonts that are currently available If a font d is not listed the print driver does not support it M estem Each font in this dialog is represented by an icon Each icon is re py zare fon wa
71. he configuration into any other computer This function can be used for backup purposes moving configuration from one computer to another or simply replicating queue configuration on each RPM installation Import The import function allows a previously exported configuration to be imported into the Windows registry RPM will update the display after the registry import is completed Exit Use this command to end your RPM session You can also use the Close command on the RPM Control menu RPM cancels current transactions but does not immediately abort a printing job Shortcuts Mouse Double click the Control menu button Click the Close X button on the far right side of the RPM title bar Keys ALT F4 For more information see Exiting RPM on page 7 RPM version 2 5 Page 23 Edit menu The Edit menu offers the following commands Copies the contents of the active RPM window to the clipboard Delete Deletes a job or queue from your RPM configuration Copy Use the Copy command to copy the contents of the active RPM window to the Windows Clipboard Copying data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there Shortcuts Toolbar E Keys CTRL C Delete Use this command to remove a queue Use the Operator Job Control command to delete a job See page 46 for more information RPM initially presents the Delete Queue dialog see page 34 then p
72. he publisher via email or the website are also provided Reseller Tab This tab provides information about the reseller of the software Included here is the address city state postal code and country Phone and fax numbers are listed and links to contact the publisher via email or the website are also provided if available Note This tab is available when downloading the software from some resellers About Tab This tab provides information about the Brooks License Manager Version and copyright information are displayed and links are provided to email and visit the publisher s website License Wizard The Application Unlock Wizard guides you through the steps of unlocking or updating the software license Each step is simple to follow users provide information and the software is unlocked if all information is entered correctly This wizard is accessed from the License Status tab of the Brooks License Manager application Collecting Information This step is where you enter the user and company that the software is licensed to A unique username is required for each license If the username is not unique the web unlock function will notify you Determining Unlock Method The second step in unlocking the software is to determine whether to unlock using an unlock key or an order number and authentication code Note A connection to the Internet is required when unlocking using the order number and authentication code
73. ies that are not categorized as transforming translating inserting or appending Queue Remove bytes at the start of the data Remove bytes at the start of the data When this setting is ON then RPM will remove bytes from the beginning of a print job Do this if your remote host is sending text data that starts with some number of non text characters o Number of bytes to remove Browse Place control files in this directory Number of bytes to remove Enter the number of bytes for RPM to remove Transform Translate Insert A Append Other Place control files in this directory The control file is information sent by the client that describes information about the print job and how it should be formatted for printing Typical items found in the control file are e job name source file or title to be printed on the banner page e Print format which includes preformatted postscript and others e Number of copies an option not native to the LPR LPD protocol but included in some LPR client implementations e The DNS hostname of the client and the username who submitted it Control files are not typically saved to disk You can force RPM to save the control file to disk with a setting in the Log Options dialog found on page 45 Here you can specify a folder to save files to other than the default which is the RPM Spool folder Browse Press this button to find a folder that RP
74. isplays tool tips or fly by help when you leave the mouse cursor over a button on the toolbar for more than a few seconds To hide or display the Toolbar choose Toolbar from the View menu ALT V T Q 5 Create new queue see page 14 Edit an existing queue RPM displays the Edit Queue dialog box in which you can locate and edit the desired queue see page 36 the contents of the active window to the clipboard see page 24 Show the Operator Job Control dialog to give fine control over a print job see page 46 Remove a job or queue see page 14 Check all queues for jobs ready to be printed see page 23 Display version and copyright information for your copy of RPM see page 27 Invokes the Brooks License Manager see page 29 This allows users to view license status and license the software REE aD RPM version 2 5 Page 17 nable the user to get help any button on the toolbar menu item indow or dialog Status Bar For Help press F1 Z The status bar is displayed at the bottom of the RPM window To display or hide the status bar use the Status Bar command in the View menu The left area of the status bar describes actions of menu items as you use the arrow keys to navigate through menus This area similarly shows messages that describe the actions of button on the toolbars as you depress them before releasing them If after viewing the
75. ith filter queues this column may display the filter program or if no program is in use the function RPM is using such as copy Port The Port column is filled in with the Windows port that this printer is configured for If the resource is not a printer this column is left blank Driver The Driver column displays further information about the printer resource It is blank when the resource is something other than a printer Status The Status column displays an icon representing the current status of the resource The icons and their respective meaning are shown in the table Icon Representation n The status is unknown meaning it has yet to be tested The resource has an error that was detected The resource is busy or is currently being executed The resource is up and ready to receive data eo Printed The printed column shows the number of print jobs processed by this resource since the user interface was opened This information is reset when the RPM window is closed or the computer is restarted Waiting The waiting column shows the number of print documents waiting to be printed These are documents that have been processed by RPM and sent to the Resource Scheduler but have not yet completed This information is reset when the RPM window is closed or the computer is restarted Queues The queues column indicates the number of RPM queues that are submitting print data to the res
76. l ba used on balh explained in the following table These are true and open type fonts that are rendered from line and curve commands These fonts scale well Tr and can be easily stretched both horizontally and vertically These fonts are clean even when the size is very large These are raster or vector fonts that are rendered using bitmaps or drawn in an arrangement of line segments Many of these types of fonts are provided only for legacy applications and output devices As these fonts get larger they may appear with jagged lines and look worse than true type fonts Font Style You can select that the font be regular italicized bold or bold and italicized RPM version 2 5 Page 40 Size This option allows you to choose what size font to print RPM may ignore the font size when scaling the font to a particular width and height such as when Error Reference source not found is selected in the Text Setup dialog page 56 Sample The sample shows what the font settings you have selected looks like as it is printed or displayed including the size and style selected Script The script lists the available language scripts for your chosen font You will not necessarily be able to select the same script with a different font If you wish to use a particular script then the font you select must also support it Note RPM stores the font information for each queue each time you print RPM will us
77. l shortcuts to commonly used files Change this name if needed and click Next to continue 5 RPM will now be installed You will see a progress bar which shows the percentage completed and messages that describe the various components Setup then adds an RPM program group to the Start menu copy of the End User License Agreement is installed along with RPM program and help files 6 RPM is now installed To begin using RPM click the RPM program icon by default it is titled RPM Each time you run RPM it Checks for a valid license If the product license is unlocked or if it is in the trial period then RPM continues If the license is expired then RPM displays a message and opens the Brooks License Manager e calculates the number of currently defined queues If there are no queues RPM presents the New Queue dialog and the Edit Queues dialog repeatedly until you click the Cancel button in the New Queue dialog When you are finished defining queues click Cancel in the New Queue dialog RPM is now operational You should remove any previously installed versions You can also place a shortcut in the Startup program group so that RPM starts automatically when a user logs on Configuring Remote Clients for RPM Minimum requirements The minimum information you need to supply to your remote print client is the host name of your PC and a queue name For more information on these terms see the Glossary in the back of this b
78. leave the suspend and hold settings turned off Filter Setup dialog Use this dialog to edit settings for Filter queues See page 8 for more information How do I get RPM to leave the data file in a directory on my computer without doing anything else to it 1 Specify an extension for the file e g or PS 2 Specify an existing directory to copy the files to 3 Leave the command line empty Filename tab Use long filename RPM creates a filename for each incoming request Click this radio button if you would like to use RPM s default filename Queue iter The long filename begins with followed by a sequence number ending with the DNS hostname of the sending side if available Use long filename C Use short filename Use job sequence number File prefix Pad digits o Append to file Browse Use filename from remote host Use print job data Configure 4 4 gt EL Fite name A path Execute Cancel Use short filename In certain instances you may want to provide your filter program with a short filename Clicking this button forces RPM to shorten the default filename discussed above into a short filename Short filenames use the DOS 8 3 naming convention where you have an 8 letter filename and a 3 letter extension Use job sequence number Setting this option allows you to create your own filename for the filter An example of a customized file
79. line does not contain 905 RPM appends a space and the path of the data file to the command line before executing the filter program Adapting our earlier example let s say that the program command line is C WINDOWS NOTEPAD EXE Also assume the data file path C WINDOWS TEMP DF12 TXT RPM will execute the following command C WWINDOWS NOTEPAD EXE C WINDOWS TEMP DF12 TXT As before RPM will then execute this command line and will report any problems to the user Show filter When a Windows program is executed typically it is shown on the screen Many users find it distracting to have application windows suddenly appear on the screen RPM version 2 5 Page 39 RPM gives you the option to show the filter program as an icon a normal sized window a full screen window maximized or not to show it at all hidden Delete temp files If RPM copies the data file to another location it will optionally remove the new file after the filter program exits We recommend that you leave this setting on unless you have a need to keep these files If this setting is turned off verify your disk space often to avoid running out of room Note When RPM exits it attempts to check the status of the filter program If the filter program is still running at that time RPM will not delete the temp file and will not check later You may need to perform your own temp file checks from time to time Run one filter program We recommend t
80. m the Queues menu choose Delete Queue contains 0 job s 0 transferring 0 printing 2 Highlight the queue you wish to delete 3 Press the Delete Queue button The queue is deleted and the dialog is dismissed Note that you can select only a single queue to delete each time the dialog is invoked If any jobs currently in the queue are active that is printing or being transferred RPM will not allow the queue to be deleted Note RPM does not provide Undo operation Once the queue is deleted it cannot be retrieved RPM version 2 5 Page 34 Edit Bytes dialog This dialog will assist you in creating a custom byte sequence RPM uses this dialog to prepare bytes to insert before a print job append to a print job and as a page separator Edit Byt How to M Insert bytes before print data Current bytes 6 Alphanumeric Hexadecimal Enter a typable character In the Current bytes field RPM will display a position marker that looks like a plus sign over a minus sign The position marker is shown in the dialog Position 0 i Move the cursor to the field labeled Enter an ASCII character and type a pe 0 _ Rin NN character The character you type appears where the marker was and the Enter an ASCII character marker moves right Enter two hexadecimal characters cA F rr Enter a character using hex codes ros Esse Tem Rs o Locate the position marker in the Current bytes field Now move the cu
81. more TE 3k information on RPM character translations Reverse LF CR x E Cancel From To Shortcuts Translating Typable Characters In the Translate from enter an ASCII character you wish to translate At this Translate from Translate to point the cursor moves automatically to the Translate to field Enter an Enter an ASCII Enter an ASCII ASCII character here also The translation is added or updated and the dialog character character is reset ready to add another translation enter two enter two hexadecimal hexadecimal characters characters Translating Characters Using Characters EE EY In the Translate from enter a 2 digit hexadecimal number for the character you wish to translate in the appropriate field The cursor will automatically move to the Translate to field Now enter the 2 digit hexadecimal number that you want the character to be When finished the translation is added and the dialog is reset RPM automatically adds the translation to the table and moves the cursor back to the Translate from field An ASCII table is included in this manual for convenience and can be found on page 64 Note RPM attempts to make the character entry easy You simply type the ASCII character or two digit hexadecimal character RPM inserts or updates the translation It also moves between the Translate from and Translate to fields automatically after entering the
82. n e Warning Denotes something needing your attention e Error Indicates a serious situation The following graphic is a segment of an actual log file Note the timestamp and the startup information The following is a summary of the warning and errors that appear in the Log with an explanation ext generated in RPM log Description of Problem Cannot load printer driver The driver for this printer may have become corrupted Cannot run filter Windows 95 error running filter program Can t go to log dir IRPM couldn t find the logfiles directory Can t go to queue dir IRPM can t find the directory defined for a queue Can t start document printing Windows returned an error when starting a text print job Could not locate queue RPM can t find the queue you are renaming RPM version 2 5 Page 20 Creating directory RPM can t create the root directory Creating file IRPM can t create a data file Creating queue dir RPM can t create a queue directory Error accepting new connection WinSock returned an error on a new request Error on queue queue directory dir can t find a queue directory Error running Windows returned an error when executing a filter command line Error writing data file File error writing data received from remote host Failed command RPM has detected an apparent LPD protocol error Failed subcommand RPM has detected an apparent LPD pr
83. name is df0001 txt In this example the filter filename is df there are 4 pad digits and the file extension is txt this is set under the File path tab discussed below Use filename from remote host The filename from the remote host may be used to identify the file This name is sent over in the control file and can only be customized on the sending side Append to file By selecting this option you can append the contents of the incoming data file to an existing file Click the browse button to select the file to append to If the file does not already exist RPM will create a new file Use Print Job Data This allows you to use information in the control file to save your data You can use such things as user remote host date and time etc for the name of the file See the Use Job Data dialog on page 60 for more information RPM version 2 5 Page 38 Filepath tab Queue filter Directory path to copy files to Directory path to copy files to RPM provides the ability to copy incoming data to a specified folder This may be useful when archiving the data or when a Use fie entension custom application is configured to watch a specific location for new files Use the Browse button to locate a folder Use File Extension Your filter program may expect a certain file extension To use the file extension place a check in this box and specify the extension Note RPM is looking for the character
84. nd numeric data in Windows using the regional settings Only one RPM session runs at a time under Windows 9x RPM saves the size and location of the main window RPM does not need to be visible to operate The child windows are for display purposes only and they do not need to be open for RPM to operate RPM supports context sensitive help You can get help for every window menu item and dialog by pressing the F1 key or using the Context Help button on the toolbar Support RPM includes a number of features to facilitate problem solving including copying window contents to the clipboard and the extensive logging options Our policy is to resolve problems to the best of our ability and to cooperate with other vendors We are very interested in your impressions of RPM If there is anything we can do to make RPM more useful for you please don t hesitate to contact us See page iii for contact information Requirements What does your computer need in order to run RPM If it runs Microsoft Windows and is installed it will also run RPM Other requirements are needed depending on the usage of RPM Intel compatible computer 4865 Minimum Pentium recommended Microsoft Windows 95 98 or Millennium Edition Windows Sockets version 1 1 or later compatible network software Your system must have the file winsock dll or RPM will not install Minimum RAM 8 megabytes we recommend at least 32 megabytes depending on utilization
85. net protocols before it can accept input from telnet clients Note LPD setup is global not specific to the port number Therefore no LPD setup is necessary Add Change and Delete buttons Click the Add button to add a protocol definition to the Current Protocols list Click the Change button to change the selected protocol to use the Protocol type and TCP IP port values Click the Delete button to remove the definition for the selected protocol Styles dialog This dialog allows you to copy settings from an RPM queue and store those settings in a named style You can create rename and delete styles using this dialog How to Create a Style Styles 1 Enter a name in the Style Name field Cancel 2 Click the Add button Copy Settings from a Queue OO 1 Selecta style in the Styles list 2 Selecta queue in the drop down list labeled Copy attributes of queue E Bee to selected style Copy attributes of queue to selected style 3 Click the Copy button m Copy Rename a Style 1 Selecta style in the Styles list RPM version 2 5 Page 54 2 Enteranew name in the Style name field 3 Click the Rename button Styles The Styles list contains the names of the currently defined styles Note that style names can contain spaces and other non filename characters Style name The Style name field allows you to enter a style name Add Rename or Remove Click the Add button to add the name in the Style
86. nges The Cancel button closes the dialog without saving the changes except if you have changed the font in which case that change has already been saved Note that the Font dialog saves its own changes independent of the Text Setup dialog Translation Tables dialog The Translation Tables dialog allows you to create and manage translation Welle mE tables See the Translations topic on page 12 for more information on RPM Existing tables OK translations German x Cancel Table name How to RPM version 2 5 Page 59 Add a Table 1 Enter a table name in the Table name field Use a name that does not already exist 2 Click the Add button 3 Click the Contents button to define a set of translations See the Character Translations topic on page 32 for more information Rename a Table 1 Entera new name in the Table name field 2 Selecta table name in the Existing tables drop list 3 Click the Rename button Edit the Contents of a Table 1 Select a table name in the Existing tables drop list 2 Click the Contents button The Character Translations dialog appears with your table selected Note If you do not define any contents for a table RPM will not be saved Existing tables The Existing tables drop list contains the names of translation tables already defined in RPM This list is empty if none are defined Table name The Table name field allows you to enter new and changed table names As you type
87. o 10046 or Done e Date The date and time of the data file or the start of printing Log window The Log window displays messages logged by RPM This topic describes both the window and log messages the topic Use Logging Options on page 16 describes how to control what is logged The Log window is a scrollable list One message appears on each line of the window Each message has a time stamp severity and a message Some may also contain a source 13 58 55 860 Information Starting RPM 2 3 9x version 2 3 0 29 13 58 55 910 Information WinSock 1 1 startup is successful 13 58 55 910 Information WinSock vendor info Microsoft wsock32 dll ver2 2 32bit of Apr 28 13 58 55 910 Information WinSock status 95 13 58 55 910 7 Printer limit 24 13 58 56 020 Information Starting queue cleanup 13 58 56 410 Information Finished queue cleanup 13 58 56 850 Information Registered to Test RPM Brooks Internet Software serial number Note that the title of the Log window is a filename containing the current date This file is stored in a logfiles directory beneath the RPM directory The file is updated whenever a message is logged You can copy the entire 3 contents of the Log window to the clipboard by selecting Copy from the Edit menu or clicking the Copy button on the toolbar There are three categories of log messages e Information Provides diagnostic informatio
88. o ways 1 Click and hold a value in this list and drag it either up or down in the priority 2 Remove all options below where you want a new stored then insert them in the correct order Add Remove These buttons allow you to add available job data or remove used job data Separator This is the character you want separating your data in the filename For instance you can make your filename dave www brooksnet com txt or dave www brooksnet com txt It just depends on what you want separating the data Date Time This is where you would choose the format for the date You can choose a 2 digit or 4 digit year whether you want the year coming first or last etc Use Style dialog The Use Style dialog allows you to copy the queue settings saved in a style back to a queue This way you can easily change the behavior of an RPM queue Use Style L2 x Use Style How to Copy a Style to a Queue 1 Select a style from the Use style drop down list Portrait 7 2 Select a queue from the Queue drop down list m Cancel n est 3 Click the OK button Use Style Click the Use Style drop down list to select which style you want your queue to use In Queue Click the n Queue drop list to select which queue to copy the style contents to RPM version 2 5 Page 61 New In This Version Version 2 5 New features Resource Scheduler e Provides faster turnaround for all printing tasks e Uses res
89. of computer or other operating system requirements 3 0 MB for installed executables and other files Adequate disk space for incoming print requests recommended minimum 2 MB RPM version 2 5 Page 2 e Optional One or more printers configured to work with Windows Printers are optional because RPM save files to disk or open them using a local program on your computer Installing RPM RPM is distributed with a Windows setup program which installs the RPM software on your computer The setup program installs the RPM software in its own Program group but you can move those icons to any other location without affecting RPM Here s the step by step install process 1 If you have RPM on disk insert the disk in your computer Go to the Windows Start menu select run Type x Wetup exe substituting your drive letter for x and press OK Or you can install from the Add Remove programs option in the control panel If you have the downloaded RPM executable simply double click the file to begin the installation 2 Take note of the End User License Agreement Please review it to make sure the terms are understood Click either Yes or No to represent your acceptance of these terms The setup program will continue only if you accept 3 Setup presents a suggested path for the RPM install folder Change this path as needed and click Next to continue with the installation 4 Setup then suggests a program folder to instal
90. ook Note there is default queue in RPM You must create at least one queue When RPM is started the first time the Create a Queue dialog is displayed See page 34 for more information What to Name your RPM Queue When a print client makes a request for a queue that is not defined RPM automatically creates a queue with the appropriate name You can turn off this Auto Create feature in the Settings Dialog If auto create is turned off and RPM receives a request for an undefined queue a warning is logged It is not always easy to see the warning that RPM returns To determine which queue name the client is using RPM version 2 5 Page 3 Open the Log window if it is not already open by selecting Log from the View menu or clicking the Log tab at the bottom of the main RPM window e On your remote system rerun the command e At the bottom of the RPM log window check for a message similar to this Warning Queue test is not defined In this example test is the name of the queue the remote client is using You should either reconfigure your remote client create a queue page 14 in RPM with the same name or rename an existing queue page 15 You can also enable the auto create feature in RPM page 53 Choosing the Right Protocol for Your Client RPM currently supports the LPR LPD protocol sometimes known as the Berkeley remote printing protocol RPM also supports streams or reverse telnet see page 5
91. os Ra eae Sha es tee 60 Used zou A E tbe t e NOE Obst 61 Remoyern i os te e t o et etes Bae 61 RM RU DE AER SERE ERU RE A IER RR RB P E RE RUE RITE RENE 61 Date Time CERES US ERE E O 61 05 5 1 dialo 61 How t Copy a Style to a Queue iei ce e idee Eget E ESETERE NC aE eto 61 UV EE 61 TN QUOUE E 61 New In This Versio 62 62 N wfedlutes ae ELS Pee e TENE eo n 62 55 qu 63 ASCH 5 T 64 ANSI Character Set Character Codes 0 255 ccssssscssssssccsssssccsssssccssssccscssssccscssccccessecccessscccscssseccessacccessssececssssecees 64 RPM version 2 5 Page viii Introduction What is RPM RPM Remote Print Manager is a TCP IP print server for Microsoft Windows 95 98 and Millennium Edition platforms using native TCP IP networking There are also versions available for Microsoft Windows NT 2000 XP Win
92. otocol error Failed to change to drive RPM can t change to another drive Failed to create print status window RPM can t create the Print Status window Failed to create queue status window RPM can t create the Queue Status window Opening append file IRPM couldn t open the file specified for appending Opening file for copy File error on filter Opening insert file couldn t open the file specified for inserting Port is not defined by Windows The printer port returned by Windows is no longer defined Print error ending document Windows printing error Print error ending page Windows printing error Printer is not defined by Windows The configured printer is no longer defined Printing error Windows has returned an error status on finishing a page Printing data file can t read the data file for a text print job Printing data file is empty the data file for a print job is empty Printing reading control file can t read the control file which defines a print job Problem resolving IP address Couldn t initiate call to WinSock to resolve IP address Queue not defined for protocol Go to Server Protocols and select a queue for this protocol Read error on Unexpected WinSock error getting data from remote host IResolveHost failed host name lookup Unexpected error contact Brooks support Spool error Windows p
93. ource Print Status window The Print Status shows a higher level of detail on print jobs than you can find in the other status windows including The queue name The sequence number next to the text Item The user ID The host name The title The printer or the path to the filter program Detail which includes the current page number or the banner Percent Date the date and time at the start of the print job You can copy the entire contents of the Print Status window to the clipboard by selecting Copy from the Edit menu or clicking the Copy ie button on the toolbar RPM version 2 5 Page 22 Menus File Menu The File menu offers the following commands Command Action New queue Creates a new queue Print Jobs Checks each job to see if it is ready to print Export Exports existing queue configuration to a file Import Imports a previously exported configuration from a file Exit Exits RPM New Queue Use this command to create a new queue in RPM Shortcuts Toolbar Lil Keys CTRL N Print Jobs Use this command to print any ready jobs Normally RPM does this automatically if you have made changes to existing jobs that RPM is not aware of then use this function Shortcuts Toolbar Keys CTRL P Export The export function allows you to save the existing queue configuration to a file The file is saved as a reg file that allows you to import t
94. ources with greater efficiency e Includes new Resource Status window Print Error Recovery e Printing resumes automatically when an error is resolved Brooks License Manager License Wizard enhances ease of use Supports advanced products and features Enhanced support for license reinstallation Web unlock can connect through a proxy server firewall User Interface Displays long job names Updated default settings Added support for importing and exporting configuration Changed Resume to Suspend Enhanced support for specifying control file destination Help file updated Filter queue disables printer selection Supports banner page for all queue types Improved file handling Updated default settings Allows insertion of bytes or files before or after banner page Issues Resolved Resolved issue with opening and closing queue display Resolved issue where dialogs were not using correct system colors Resolved issue with blank page handling Fixed memory leak in filter queue processing RPM version 2 5 Resolved issues in data with imbedded null characters including ASA translations Batch files are now displayed by default when browsing for programs to execute Resolved issue with overwrite filename handler to overwrite with the correct name Fixed issue where disabled queues were created again when a print job was requested to that queue name Page 62 Glossary Host name A host name is the name assigned to a host com
95. ow This ability is possible only in certain circumstances First RPM removes PCL codes automatically Here are some guidelines in configuring RPM to not print garbage data Never print the banner page e Try configuring your print client to use a PCL driver RPM v Suppress blank pages automatically removes these codes without additional effort e Trysetting Remove control characters e Try configuring your print client to not use a print driver at all or configure it to use a plain text driver Use maximum lines per page RPM version 2 5 Page 56 Stop Printing the Banner Page You can stop RPM from generating a banner page by selecting Never print the banner page If your remote host is generating a banner page then we recommend that you hold the queue and use the Operator Job Control dialog to begin printing on page 2 Make 60 Lines Fit on a Page Select the setting Fit lines per page Enter 60 in the lines page field See What Physical Margins My Printer is Using From the Options menu select Log turn on the Enable print logging and high detail options The RPM log window will show the physical printer margins when you send a job to that printer Code Page List RPM queries Windows for the code pages installed on your system For instance if your computer has Japanese language support installed Japanese will be included in this list When you select a code page RPM displays the Font dialog and instructs it to
96. ow to change a rule IP address rules Raise Lower Use a rule sooner or later 1 Selecta rule in the IP Address rules list 2 Click the Raise button to have this rule evaluated sooner click the Lower button to have this rule evaluated later IP Address Rules The IP Address Rules list shows the current rules in order with the first rule at the top Each rule contains the access control Allow or Deny and an IP address or address pattern IP Address Access Add Change Remove Select a rule in the IP Address Rules list The IP address and access appear below the list You can also use the Raise Lower or Remove Cancel buttons if you have selected a rule IP Address The IP address for the selected rule appears here If you are creating or changing a rule enter the IP address here Shortcuts Note that the address fields are divided into four boxes much like the address itself Each field accepts up to three numeric characters and automatically shifts focus to the next field The last field shifts focus to the Access drop list When you type an asterisk in any of the fields the remaining fields those to the right are emptied and focus shifts to the Access drop list Note If any part of the IP address contains an asterisk character all characters to right of the asterisk will be removed when the rule is placed into the IP Address Rules list Access This drop down list shows you the curr
97. p dialog all print jobs sent to this queue will come out in landscape Even when you shut down RPM or restart your computer jobs from this queue will still be printed in landscape orientation Note The print setup is only used for a Text type queue in RPM If you are using a Pass through raw type queue these options have no effect Printer The name of the Windows printer filter command or destination folder is shown here When a queue is first created the Windows default printer is used Use the Printer Setup button to select a different printer or change the queue type to Filter and use the Queue Setup dialog to select a filter program Note When a filter queue is selected the Print Setup button is disabled If your data should be printed use a raw or a text type queue Enable this Queue to Receive Requests Queues can be enabled or disabled See Enable Disable on page 8 for further information Suspend Printing on Queue Queues can be suspended or resumed Please Resume Suspend on page 9 for more information RPM version 2 5 Page 37 Hold print jobs operator controlled Jobs can be held until manually released If the queue is set to Hold then all jobs sent to it will be automatically held and vice versa See Operator Job Control on page 46 for more information T Note Queue states are discussed in greater detail on page 8 The default for incoming print data to be processed is to enable the queue and
98. pen by default to access it click the date stamped tab at the bottom of the RPM window If it is not open select Log from the View menu This window will contain a number of entries from RPM startup including version information for RPM and Windows Sockets This section refers frequently to Edit Queues which is the Edit Queues dialog discussed on page 36 If you are experiencing trouble first increase the level of detail logged from the Log Options dialog page 45 Is your print client connecting to RPM Whenever RPM is contacted for any reason a log entry is created similar to Information Request from x x x x where x x x x is the IP address of the computer that contacted RPM If you don t RPM version 2 5 Page 4 see an entry like this your print client is not getting through to the PC Contact your network administrator for assistance Does the print request arrive and sit in the RPM queue without printing Each queue in RPM has three different states Each state describes the current status of the queue Verify that the queue states are enabled processing and not holding If these states are set RPM is in normal operating mode and should print each and every document that is received The log file says Failed subcommand followed by other text See 2 We have had it reported to us that rebuilding the etc printcap file under Unix can solve this Your results may vary The log file shows Error Unable to print to lt prin
99. port TCP IP and LPD as well It is a computer to computer printing method rather than PC to PC LPR stands for Line Printer Request it s the part that submits the print request LPD stands for Line Printer Daemon it s the part that receives and processes the request A daemon is a server or agent The LPD Protocol Specification is documented in RFC 1179 Line Printer Daemon Protocol dated August 1990 edited by L McLaughlin III RFC stands for Request for Comments The RFCs document Internet protocols practices and proposed standards They are available via anonymous FTP at http www ietf org rfc RPM Features Named queues RPM supports multiple named queues see Queues on page 8 There is no fixed limit to the number of queues Each queue has its own setup information Queues operate independently of each other Each queue has its own printer setup page 51 and queue type page 8 You can configure separate queues for the same printer each with different characteristics Queue types page 8 include text queues which support many print options pass through queues which send data directly to the printer and filter queues which run a program on your PC rather than printing directly At any time in RPM you can create a queue page 14 rename a queue page 15 delete a queue page 14 or jobs in the queue page 24 and edit the settings in an existing queue page 14 RPM version 2 5 Page 1 Print Options RPM support
100. print request it receives multiple parts The first part is called a control file This control file contains information describing the print request including the title the user ID and instructions for printing it The other part s of the request are the data file s to be printed Data files are stored in the spool directory located in the directory where RPM is installed The data file name is specified by LPD protocol Usually it is df followed by a letter a series of digits and the name of the host that sent the file RPM will not overwrite files in the case of duplicate filename rather it adds 1 2 etc The user can specify that control files from the host be saved In this case RPM saves the control data in a filename similar to the data file beginning with a cf and using a txt extension This file is written to the spool folder but this location can be customized Files Used by RPM Unlike earlier versions of RPM the current version of RPM does not create or maintain initialization ini files Instead RPM uses the Windows registry Note We strongly recommend that you do not change the Windows registry without first making backup of the current registry contents You may damage your Windows system or make your system unbootable RPM version 2 5 Page 7 Queues This section is devoted to giving you a better understanding of queues This is an important topic for two reasons 1 Queue manag
101. puter on a TCP IP network It must be unique on the network that is something your network staff usually takes care of Every computer on your network has its own name from the mainframe to the PCs Sometimes it is a one part name for instance ws48 has only one part At other times you might need to use a fully qualified name such as ws48 brooksnet com this example is multipart Your network staff can advise you on this Often you can substitute the IP address for a host name Ask your network staff for assistance with this Print job RPM can receive several kinds of requests One of these requests actually results in printing so it is referred to as a print job The other requests RPM might receive result in RPM returning status information and sometimes performing an action on a queue or one or more jobs RPM spends most of its time dealing with print jobs First it receives a print job each of which contains several parts see Files created by RPM on page 7 Then RPM stores it in a queue and later processes it Finally RPM removes the job Queue In RPM a queue is a list of print jobs each with a common destination RPM queues are uniquely identified by their name Each queue has characteristics that you can set in the Edit Queues dialog see page 36 For instance two queues might use the same Windows printer but each queue might use different fonts or one might use portrait and the other landscape Queue name Each queue has
102. r than the last page RPM encounters when printing it holds the job and alerts you with a dialog box Hold set ON to print job later This checkbox is marked ON if the job is held In this case click the checkbox to immediately release the job for printing Move job Click this button to move the current job to the queue you have selected in the to queue drop down list Delete job Click this button to remove the current job Pass through Setup dialog Sometimes with raw data you may want RPM to make slight alternations Pass through Setup This should be done with plain text or text with escape sequences Queue Ip Translate LF to Add page separator Page Separator It is not recommend using these options with binary files such as HPGL the language of Hewlett Packard plotters nor should they be needed with PostScript However you can experiment to see what works best in your situation Translate LF to CR LF When printing from a Unix operating systems or another systems that use a single character line terminator you should select this option as most Windows printers may not print the data correctly Try selecting this option if you see a only a single line at the top of the page or a stair step effect as shown This is line one This is line two This is line three Add page separator In some situations users may want to separate print documents with a separator page or
103. referable but RPM supports longer names as well We recommend that the name be less than 64 characters 1 Select New Queue from the Queues menu or click the New Queue button Li on the toolbar For more information on the Create a Queue dialog see page 34 2 the name for your new queue in the Create a Queue dialog and click OK 3 RPM now presents the Edit Queues dialog and shows the default settings for your new queue You can change the queue type printer and other settings from this dialog Note If you need to change the operating characteristics of a queue see the next topic Change Queue Characteristics The easiest way to change queue characteristics is to double click on a queue in the Queue Status window RPM opens the Edit Queues dialog for that queue You can also change some of the characteristics from the Queues menu If no queue is selected in the Queue Status window you will be presented with the Select Queue dialog Choose a queue click OK and your work is done MP gt Note You can invoke the Edit Queues dialog from the Queues menu the Edit Queue toolbar button or the queue type button in the Queue List window which is represented by one of the following images Button Representation Text Queue Pass through Queue Filter Queue Delete an Existing Queue If you have the Queue Status window open 1 Selecta queue
104. requests as advised in the LPD Protocol Specification or commonly implemented in the UNIX LPD server Some print clients are not able to meet these requirements however The LPD Options dialog discussed on page 45 will advise you on how you can tell if you need to adjust these settings RPM can also restrict access using Host Access which is discussed on page 41 Windows Print Manager In Windows 3 1 a limit in the number of print jobs was enforced by the print manager No more than 100 print jobs were allowed The Windows 95 98 and Millennium Edition print manager does not have this limitation RPM allows the user to control how many print jobs are sent from RPM to the Windows Spooler Normally this limitation is not needed The current version of RPM by default has the upper threshold of 900 and a low threshold of 10 meaning RPM will submit jobs until there are 900 print jobs in the Windows Spooler and then not submit jobs after that until the number of spooled jobs falls under 10 You can also select the box to ignore these settings and always submit jobs RPM version 2 5 Page 6 Operations Guide This section goes beyond menus and dialogs The intent is to show you what happens to your system when RPM runs what files are created and how RPM uses them Starting RPM RPM performs a number of functions every time you start it Several of these functions are mentioned in the topic Installing RPM and they are referred to here as installa
105. rinting error on pass through print job Spooling file Windows 95 printing error on pass through print job Unable to interpret extra text IRPM has detected an apparent LPD protocol error Unable to open file IRPM can t open a data file for a print job Unable to open printer Windows 95 returned an error when printing a raw print job Unable to print to can t print to this printer Unable to spool file Windows returned an error when starting a pass through print job Windows has no default printer You need to use the Windows Setup to configure a default printer WinSock error resolving IP address Can t start WinSock There is one Abort message The DNS server address is set properly in Windows Sockets RPM cannot connect to WinSock Many of these messages are self explanatory and some may require assistance from your local system administrator or networking staff Resource Status Window The Resource Status view shows a list of all resources that various queues are configured output data to This includes all local and network printers and folders as well as filter programs that RPM may execute This window shows a grid view similar to spreadsheet applications and has seven columns The following list provides an explanation of each column RPM version 2 5 Resource Name The Resource Name column displays the name of a printer with text or raw type queues W
106. rovides you the opportunity to remove a queue If you first selected a queue in the Queue Status see page 9 or Queue List see page 18 windows RPM highlights that queue in the Delete Queue dialog Shortcuts Toolbar Keys Delete Queues menu The Queues menu offers the following commands Command Action INew queue Add a queue to your RPM configuration see page 14 Edit queues Change the settings for a queue see page 14 Styles Invokes the Styles menu see below perator Operator Job Control interface for selected job see page 46 Delete Delete a queue see page 14 Rename Change the name of a queue see page 14 Enable Disable Enable or disable a queue see page 8 IResume Suspend Resume or suspend processing for a queue see page 9 Holding Specifies whether or not a queue or job is holding see page 9 The Styles menu offers the following commands Command Action Manage Styles Create styles and use queue settings in style see page 54 Use Styles style settings to a queue see page 61 Note These options are discussed further on the pages listed RPM version 2 5 Page 24 Jobs menu The functions in the Jobs menu are available when viewing the Queue List window only From the Jobs menu you can perform job specific functions The Jobs menu contains the following commands Command Action Open Access th
107. rsor to the field labeled Enter two hexadecimal characters and type your 2 digit hexadecimal number The position marker moves right and character appears where it was Move the insert point left or right The Left and Right buttons move the position marker left and right respectively Remove a character Move the position marker to the left of the character you wish to delete Click the Del button The position marker keeps its position the deleted character disappears and the remaining characters to the right of the deleted character move left Enter special characters Position the cursor to the left of where you want the character to go click the Escape CR or LF button These buttons are for the Escape key on the keyboard a carriage return Enter on the keyboard and line feed which tells the printer to start on the next line Alphanumeric amp Hexadecimal These settings control whether RPM tries to show characters by their symbolic value or the hexadecimal value Current bytes This field shows you the current byte sequence in hexadecimal notation RPM supplies a position marker that should resemble an arrow pointing down to a line When RPM inserts a byte into the current bytes it places it to the left of the position marker Note You cannot change the bytes with this field it is for display purposes only Position and Length The Position field shows the location of the position marker after which
108. s operator controlled RPM version 2 5 Page 36 Get advanced features If you would like more advanced features of RPM such as transforming data inserting or appending bytes and character translations click the Print Data Options button Select a queue This drop list contains the names of all configured queues If RPM can make an intelligent guess about which queue you want to edit it will display it here otherwise select it from the list Use the drop list to select a different queue to edit If you edit a queue with this dialog and then select another queue with this drop down list all settings for the first queue are automatically saved Queue types RPM supports several types of queues Text Pass through and Filter queues Please see page 8 for a discussion of queue types Queue Setup Click the Queue setup button to get a setup dialog appropriate for the current queue type Print Data Options This button invokes the Print Data Options dialog which is discussed on page 48 These data options affect how RPM modifies the data before printing Printer Setup RPM offers the standard Windows Print Setup dialog to allow the user to select printer settings for each queue RPM supports any options provided by the print driver RPM stores these options whenever a print job is received in this queue the options you select are used For instance if you selected landscape printing rather than portrait in the Print Setu
109. s Internet Software Inc The license management software is provided with each application obtained from Brooks When the software is installed a 21 day trial period is initialized Accompanying each purchase instructions on unlocking the software are provided The Brooks License Manager is used for monitoring and unlocking the application The Brooks License Manager software is used to perform the following functions During a trial period users can determine the number of days remaining before the trial period ends View the installed modules if any and provide a way to license them After the software is licensed users may view and print the license information Users can also view information about Brooks or the reseller which includes contact information Version number and copyright information for the license manager can be viewed in the About tab License Status Tab During the trial period this tab shows information about the license including the product product version serial number and number of days remaining until the trial license expires After the application is licensed through the License Wizard information about the license is shown This includes the registered username and company product and version licensed date when the support contract expires and the serial number Print License Pressing this button allows license manager to print the license information to a printer License manager c
110. s all the print options available through standard Windows Print Setup dialog Each queue uses its own print options so you could create a number of RPM print queues each with separate print options to fully support your printing needs RPM supports both local and network printers for text and pass through queues If Windows supports your printer then RPM can print to it RPM prints the optional banner page RPM also allows you to suppress printing banner pages for a queue RPM supports pr style printing using the optional page headers RPM has many features requested by mainframe users including suppressing trailing blank pages removing null characters from a printout line wrap options lines per inch and characters per inch overprinting and scaling the font down to support a given line length dd Interface UI RPM displays comprehensive information on queues see Queue Status window on page 18 active jobs in queues jobs waiting in queues print jobs see Print Status Window on page 22 and all logged events see Log window on page 20 in separate independent windows Queue operations are available through the menus but are hot wired into the Queue Status window for convenience windows support Copy page 24 to clipboard RPM supports a wide range of logging options page 16 RPM uses a workbook interface rather than cascading windows Both the Queue Status and Log windows are always open RPM displays dates a
111. s as you like and it will attempt to monitor all of them Restrictions are enforced so users cannot create different protocols listening on the same port number How to Create a Telnet Port 1 Select a protocol from the Protocol type list This will almost always be telnet 2 Entera port in the TCP IP port field For example a typical port might be 100 Do not enter a port that is already in use RPM version 2 5 Page 53 3 Click the Setup button for more required configuration Current protocols This list contains the currently defined protocols Each protocol consists of a name and a port number Names are either LPD or telnet other names will be added if RPM supports additional protocols The port number describes how TCP IP finds a server along with the IP address and other protocol information The default port number for the LPD protocol is 515 known print clients expect to contact LPD print servers e g RPM on port 515 Protocol type When you define a new protocol select the protocol type from this list Chances are that most or all of your new protocols will be telnet and not LPD TCP IP port Enter a port number greater than zero 0 and less than 65 536 For telnet protocols consult your network administrator or the person responsible for the streams print clients Setup Click this button to get the Telnet Setup dialog see page 55 for the selected protocol RPM requires certain setup information for tel
112. s shown You do not need to click any buttons RPM automatically enters the translations When finished save the table by clicking OK then configure your queue to use the German translation table also described above Translation tables RPM stores translation information in named translation tables created by the Translation Tables dialog This dialog allows you to create tables rename existing tables and delete tables You can also edit the contents of the selected table Character Translations RPM can also perform single character translations You specify a character to translate what character to translate it to then RPM will replace all instances of the first character with the second RPM does not attempt to do multiple translations For instance let s say you want to change all A s to B s and all B s to C s RPM will do exactly that it will not change all A s to C s In other words for each character in your print data RPM performs exactly one translation and then moves on to the next character in the data The Character Translations dialog discussed on page 32 allows you to define these translations RPM version 2 5 Page 13 How To This section is a quick reference dedicated to helping you use RPM in a hurry We summarize a variety of topics that are explained in more detail else where in this manual Create a New Queue Choose a name for the queue This name should be short eight characters or less is p
113. s that follow the period and will remove the period and anything that comes before it For instance txt becomes txt If the filter is in the Windows directory or system directory RPM uses the TEMP or TMP environment variables for the folder That way critical system files are not affected Execute Tab Program command line with arguments Click the Browse button to locate the program you wish RPM to 5 Program command line with arguments Browse open when print data is received If the entire path is not specified verify that the path to your executable can be found in the DOS f PATH or RPM may suspend the queue Shower icon Z To specify the appropriate command line arguments first consult the documentation for your filter program v Run one fiter program at a time Translate LF to How RPM handles the filename To make RPM insert the filename inside a command line use the string 905 For example the command line CNWINDOWSWNNOTEPAD EXBE 96s will cause the Windows notepad utility to open the file print it and exit Let s assume that RPM copies the data file from your print request to the path C WINDOWS TEMP DF12 TXT RPM will create the following command line for Windows C WINDOWS NOTEPAD EXE p C WWINDOWS TEMP DF12 TXT RPM will then execute this command line and will log any problems encountered to the Log window If the program command
114. s the same actions whether it is logging or not Network logging When network logging is turned on you will see e WinSock status information when RPM starts e The clients IP address for each request e Warning messages when print clients violate security settings see LPD Security Dialog on page 45 e WinSock errors When high detail for network logging is turned on you will also see e Status for incoming data e More detail on the LPD protocol Print logging When print logging is turned on you will see e Messages when queues are deleted or renamed e When queue cleanup takes place during RPM startup see page 7 e Incoming queue requests from remote clients When high detail for print logging is turned on you will see settings that RPM determines for you print job such as e Font name and size Line and page length e Physical margins and line wrap etc Queue logging When queue logging in high detail is turned on you will see e Messages at the start and end of print jobs e A message when a filter command is run e message on which printer is used for a queue whenever that information is accessed for instance during printer setup and font setup as well as when printing Save control file from host This setting if selected forces RPM to save the control file which comes as part of the LPD print request It will be automatically removed when the print job is complete Support personnel from Brooks Internet Software
115. s you the current access either Allow or Deny Raise Lower Click the Raise button to raise the priority of the selected rule or cause it to be evaluated sooner You cannot raise the first rule Click the Lower button to lower the priority of the selected rule or cause it to be evaluated later You cannot lower the last rule Add Click this button to add the host name or domain pattern and selected access to the list of Host Rules The new rule will appear at the bottom of the list Change Click this button to change the selected rule The new rule will use the text in the Host name field and the selected access in the Access drop down list Remove Click this button to remove the selected rule IP Rules Tab The Rules tab allows you to create and modify the IP address rules for access control as described the Host Access topic on page 10 You can also change the setting that toggles whether host access checking is enabled and the setting for the default access rule How to Add a rule 1 Enter an IP address or pattern in the Address fields RPM version 2 5 Page 42 2 Select the type of access from the Access drop list 3 Click the Add button Enable host access checking 1 Selecta rule in the ZP Address rules list Default access rule alow a F 2 Change the values in the Address fields and or change the selection in the Access drop list as appropriate 3 Click the Change button H
116. st margin your printer supports may be larger than the setting in RPM If this is the case either the text will be cut off or the physical margins will be used this is dependent on the print driver Horizontal and vertical specifications RPM supports two ways each to specify horizontal and vertical sizes You can Use lines per inch or Fit lines per page not both Similarly you can Use characters per inch or Fit columns per line but not both The font height and width RPM version 2 5 Page 57 are independent if you specify both the width and height RPM will stretch or compress the font If you specify only the width or height RPM preserves the normal shape of the font Note RPM will use your selected font size only if the height is smaller than the font scaled height For example if you select an 8 point font and 6 lines per inch RPM will use the smaller 8 point size and place the lines as you specify Use lines per inch To use this function check Use lines per inch and type a value in lines inch setting this forces RPM to print a specific number of lines per inch RPM reduces the font size automatically if necessary If the current font size is already small enough that font size will be used How to calculate lines per inch On each page I want to print contains 66 lines The paper setting is portrait and the page height is 11 inches The margins are set to 0 5 inches on both the top and bottom LPI 66 11 0 5 0 5
117. tate The Edit Queue dialog Select a queue in the Edit Queues dialog The checkboxes in the General Setup group show the current states How to Modify the Queue State The Queue List window A checkbox for each state is provided and when the box is toggled the queue state changes immediately The Queues menu If a queue is selected in the Queue Status window then the Enabled Processing and Holding items appear possibly with checkmarks next to them Select the item to change the setting RPM version 2 5 Page 9 Otherwise the Enable Disable Resume Suspend and Holding items appear Select these items to change the setting via the Select Queue dialog see page 53 The Edit Queues dialog In the General Setup section of the Edit Queues dialog are the controls for the queue states You can change the queue states for the selected queue by checking and un checking these boxes Host Access RPM is able to allow or deny access to other computers by using their Internet host name or address and a set of rules that you supply These rules and accompanying data are managed by the Host Access dialogs Host Access is a tabbed dialog that gives access to three windows e Host Rules see page 41 allows you to enter hostnames and domain name patterns and access control e Rules see page 42 allows you to enter IP addresses and patterns and access control e Host Names see page 44 allows you to enter a local host table whi
118. ter gt The most likely causes are that the printer or port definition is wrong or that the print driver can t be loaded Also Windows may temporarily be unable to talk to the printer Check the log since we continue to add diagnostic capabilities to RPM For now we suggest going to Edit Queues and running Printer Setup checking the definition of your printer and possibly selecting another printer Other Printing Problems Boxes and odd characters appear at the top of the first page or in the printout Your print application is sending printer specific data to RPM Go to the Edit Queues dialog near the top you will see three queue types The first is Print text allows font selection page setup This is selected by default You want to use the second type Pass data directly to the printer raw I send PostScript files and they print as PostScript code See 1 I ve selected Pass through but one line appears at the top of each page Go to Edit Queues click Queue Setup then click Translate LF to CR LF There is no page between print jobs in my raw queue Go to Edit Queues click Queue Setup then click Add Page Separator I do not want a banner page to print Go to Edit Queues change the queue type to Text click Queue Setup then select the setting Never print the banner page Configuring RPM This topic provides a summary of the settings you can change in RPM with pointers to the appropriate dialog Help topics
119. the Translate to area Translate to The Translate to area of the dialog contains two fields one for entering an ASCII character the other for entering two hexadecimal characters If you put the cursor in the ASCII field and enter a character RPM accepts that character and adds or updates the translation If you put the cursor in the hexadecimal field and enter two hex characters RPM accepts that as a single character and adds or updates the translation Note If you enter anything but hexadecimal characters in the Translate from or to that is 0 through 9 and through F RPM beeps and refuses the character Shortcuts These buttons are shortcuts to entering a tab escape character carriage return line feed or form feed If the cursor is in the Translate from area the appropriate hex codes are inserted and the cursor is automatically moved to the Translate to area If the cursor is in the Translate to area the appropriate translation is added to the list RPM version 2 5 Page 33 Remove Click this button to remove the currently selected translation This button will be disabled if a translation is not currently highlighted in the From To list Create a Queue dialog Use the Create a Queue dialog to create queues After you have entered the EE queue name and clicked the OK button RPM opens the Edit Queues dialog New queue name see page 36 so queue characteristics can be configured
120. tion functions Each time you run RPM it does the following e Jt executes the installation functions to make sure RPM is installed properly and ready to run e It loads a number of settings from the Windows registry e It attempts to connect to WinSock and register itself as a print server If it cannot it displays an error and exits soon after e t prompts you to create queues if you haven t already this installation function is executed after the network setup e If you have queues RPM performs a queue cleanup in case of a system crash partially transmitted jobs are removed and jobs that were printing are held so that they can be printed later e windows that were opened when RPM was closed last are restored If no windows were open or if this is the first time RPM has been run on your computer the Queue List and Log windows are opened e Finally RPM checks for jobs ready to print and begins printing any waiting jobs Exiting RPM When you exit RPM the following actions take place e All the current transfers and requests are canceled and incomplete jobs are removed e network is informed that RPM will no longer be a print server The current size location open windows and show status icon normal etc of RPM is saved e Finally the main RPM window is closed Files Created by RPM T Note For a discussion of files that are more or less permanent please see Files used by RPM below When RPM receives a
121. title of the document provided in the control file by the client Activity Can be either Xfer Print Wait or Hold Detail Display will show Control Data Start Banner or Page n Percent Can be anywhere from zero to 10096 or Done Date The date and time of the data file or the start of printing Queue Status window The Queue Status window is a scrolling list that displays the queue names see page 63 their current states page 8 the last command received for the queue and any jobs RPM updates this display dynamically without user intervention The title of the Queue Status window includes the number of queues currently defined in RPM Selecting a queue in this window can accelerate virtually every function in RPM that uses a queue name Note If you double click in the Queue Status window RPM opens the Edit Queues dialog and displays the queue you selected You can copy the entire contents of the Queue Status window to the clipboard by selecting Copy from the Edit menu see page 24 or clicking the Copy button on the toolbar Following is a sample queue Queue Ip Enabled Processing Not Holding Status Printer HP LaserJet 5 is defined The first line contains the text Queue and the name of the queue followed by the current states The second line is the status of the queue it contains the text Status followed by the command Whenever RPM receives a request for a queue this line is updated
122. ton on the toolbar e Click the Delete keyboard button e Choose Delete from the Jobs menu Select more than one job Highlight the queue to see a list of jobs currently in the queue On the right pane select the print job s you wish to delete hold or unhold Press Ctrl A to select all print jobs or use the Ctrl Click with the left mouse button to select more than one Queue List Left Pane On the left pane each queue is listed by name how many print jobs have been received since the user interface was opened and the number of print jobs currently in the queue such as print jobs that are held or waiting for another task to finish RPM version 2 5 Page 18 Queue List Right Pane The right pane is also split into two sections The top of the pane shows the selected queue name the status and last operation performed on each queue It also provides access to easily open the Edit Queues dialog page 36 the Print Setup dialog and modify the queue states page 8 The lower portion of the pane includes a scrollable list of print jobs in the currently selected queue The information is displayed in columns for ease of reading with one job per line From left to right the columns are Column Description Job A sequence number kept internally by RPM for each queue User ID The username sent in the control file from the client Host name The hostname of the client provided by TCP IP Job title The
123. ue Select a queue from this drop list RPM will not accept data sent to this protocol without a queue to send it to Print banner page RPM will suppress the text banner page if this setting is off The banner page applies only to Text printing Job name User ID Title The Job name field specifies a value for data that is typically sent by a print client The User ID field specifies a value for data that is typically sent by the client The Title field specifies a value for data that is typically sent by the client RPM uses it during text printing and in various other features RPM version 2 5 Page 55 Use width The Use width field controls whether RPM will use the value in the Width field An LPD print client sometimes sends width information otherwise this setting or the maximum width setting in the Text Setup dialog see page 56 is used Copies A print client may specify that RPM should print more than one copy of a print job This field has the same effect Print type A LPD print client typically specifies a print type Choose a print type from this drop list Queue pages before printing If the setting in Queue pages is zero RPM will submit data received to be printed when the telnet connection is closed If the setting in Queue pages is greater than zero RPM will submit data to be printed when the number of pages it has received reaches or exceeds the setting without waiting for the telnet connection to close Print pages
124. ver and transmit the encrypted license information to our server When you select either of the email options your default mail client is opened and populated with the information needed by Brooks to provide and unlock key Verify that the mail format is plain text so the server can correctly provide an unlock key This process is automated and can be used outside normal business hours Unlock using an unlock key Enter the appropriate unlock key and the software will be unlocked This key is provided by Brooks either automatically from this wizard or by contacting Brooks directly Contact information is provided in the main License Manager window Web Unlock Web Unlock requires the license manager to connect directly to our web server over the Internet License manager provides the ability to specify alternate proxy server settings The first time license manager is accessed it reads the proxy server settings directly from Internet Explorer settings and populates the fields with this configuration Users have the ability to specify alternate proxy server settings if Internet Explorer is not installed or not currently configured Use HTIP proxy simply tells license manager that a proxy server is in use The Address and Port entries then become available and you can configure proxy settings here Reset causes license manager to synchronize with the current Internet Explorer proxy server settings if available Note Proxy Server settin
125. w or dialog box Size Resize the active window Minimize Reduces the current window to an icon Maximize Increases the size of the current window to fill the display Close Closes the active window or dialog box INext Toggles open windows You open the queue status log and print status Restore Use this command to return the active window to its size and position before you chose the Maximize or Minimize command Move Use this command to display a four headed arrow e so you can move the active window or dialog box with the arrow keys Note This command is unavailable if you maximize the window You can also move the window by dragging the Title Bar Shortcut Mouse Drag the title bar at the top of the window RPM version 2 5 Page 27 Size Use this command to display a four headed arrow e you can size the active window with the arrow keys After the pointer changes to the four headed arrow 1 Press one of the DIRECTION keys left right up or down arrow key to move the pointer to the border you want to move 2 Pressa DIRECTION key to move the border 3 Press ENTER when the window is the size you want Note This command is unavailable if you maximize the window Shortcut Mouse Drag the size bars at the corners or edges of the window Minimize Use this command to reduce the RPM window to an icon Shortcuts Mouse Click the minimize button on the title bar Keys ALT F9 M
126. w vou o use some print clients Check the p Host Access topic on page 10 for more information log file to see if you should set these Relax the requirement Relax the AF INET requirement Relax the port in range requirement This option relaxes the requirement that the print client use a certain typical T sero length e option in they way they connect to RPM If this requirement is necessary the following message will be entered in the log Client protocol AF INET is expected When this message appears the client was prevented from making its request to RPM This message is uncommon and is most likely due to a error in the client Relax the port in range requirement This relaxes the requirement that the client use a port in the reserved range from zero to 1023 If this option needs turned on you will see the following message in the Log window RPM version 2 5 Page 45 Client port n is out of range When this message appears the client was prevented from making its request to RPM The problem is most likely due to a program not following the RFC 1179 specifications Operator Job Control dialog The Operator Job Control dialog allows you to delete a job move a job to a different queue specify a range of pages to print and hold or release a job RPM does not allow a job to be deleted while it is being received or while it is printing Operator Job Control 21
127. x How to Queue sz Delete a Print Job Item 4 Jobs can be deleted when the Queue Status page 9 or Queue List page 18 User leroy windows are open RPM displays the current window in the application title Host www brooksnet com bar Title testdir 1 page Status Holding To delete a job first highlight the job you wish to delete Click the Operator Ststingpage fi Endingpage D Hold set ON to print job later button A on the toolbar then press the Delete Job button Move Job to queue x If the queue is not suspended or the job is not holding it may be processed _Detete Job before the delete operation is completed You should first suspend the queue see page 9 or make sure the job is held If the job is not in transit or being printed the job will be deleted Note There is no Undo operation Once the job is deleted it cannot be retrieved except by printing it again to RPM RPM also removes the control file and all associated data files Release a Held Job Highlight the job in the Queue Status or Queue List windows and click the Operator toolbar button shown above The Operator Job Control dialog shows the job sequence number and other identifying information If the job is held then the Hold set ON to print job later checkbox is selected uncheck it to release the job If other queue states are configured for normal operation the job will be immediately printed and the job in
128. ystems insert NULL characters that is a character with the ASCII value zero into a print job before sending it to RPM Apparently some printers ignore these characters but Windows does not RPM gives you the ability to strip control characters from the file before printing In this context control characters are defined as characters with ASCII value less than the space 0x20 excluding carriage return OxOD line feed 0x0A and form feed Use maximum lines per page RPM allows you to set the maximum number of lines to print on a page RPM will pick the lesser of this value if you specify it and the value determined by the font page size and top and bottom margins RPM uses the lines page value from Fit lines per page Note In most situations Fit lines per page supercedes this function Never print the banner page The LPD protocol specification says that the banner is printed by default and the print client must suppress the banner for each job However RPM allows you to suppress the banner for a queue whether the print client does or not Suppress blank pages If this setting is on then RPM will not print a new page following a form feed or blank lines exceeding the page height until it sees data on the new page Note that this setting is on by default This should help RPM accommodate many mainframe based systems and save on paper costs OK Cancel The OK button closes the Text Setup dialog and saves cha

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