


The graphic building blocks

The sprite options come in handy when using
the construction sets. These are building
blocks with prefabricated elements, for
example for analogous and digital controls.
For these two applications the program disk
contains construction sets called "ANALOG.BS"
and "DIGITAL.BS".

Load "ANALOG.BS" and use it to construct the
circuit shown lower down. This is very
simple! Here are some pointers: Put both the
constuction set and the monitor on which the
circuit shall appear in one of the four
positions which you can obtain by keys 1 to 4.
Thus you can switch without scrolling or the
survey function. To get any object you switch
on construction set, first click on Get and
then the desired element, turn it if necessary
in the Sprite-Editor and place it in the exact
location on the final screen.

To get all the parts in the right positions,
so that the wires fit together without
twisting, there are two possibilities: display

of coordinates or screen of raster points.
The first one you already know. The raster

point grid you get to know now.

So click on the corresponding icon next to the
connection icon. Then an 8-point grid screen
covers the monitor (this corresponds to the
steps in scrolling). Its easiest to arrange
the elements so that wires run along the
raster lines (grid).

The grid, of course, does not appear in memory
or print; its not part of the picture. By
clicking again the screen icon the grid lines
disappear then.

Use the sponge!

When you click on the erase icon (the sponge),
the cursor turns into a sponge as big as the
sprite, which erases everthing that is passed
over while the button is pressed. With this
icon you can erase large areas quickly.

Now you are familiar with all possibilities of
Handyscan to erase. Here is a short survey:

For the finest corrections you use the pencil
(or better, the zoom function) and the fat
brush. Lines, rectangles and circles could be
erased by the corresponding functions (Shift
key with the first click), but it is very
difficult to match circles or diagonal lines.






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The sprite sponge is more convenient for those
things. But if the sponge is too big and the
fat brush too small, then you can erase with a
self defined brush in the Append niodus. How
is that? Very simple: invert the graphic by
the invert icon (the diagonally divided icon),
draw with the sprite brush and then invert the
graphic again. What you have drawn in the
inverted screen is erased when the screen is
turned again.


To erase forms of any size that are connected,
the fill function is recommended. When
dealing with the very complicate branched
areas it is possible that the fill function
doesnt manage it all at once. In this case
you have to click for the rest again.


Rectangular areas af any size are erased
quickest by the move option and Exor
connection. Mark the area to be erased (
upper left hand corner first, so that it
doesnt get reflected) click the Exor icon on
and then attach the transparency to the work
area by another mouse click. The whole screen
can be erased by the trashcan, the whole
graphic memory by clicking on the trashcan
twice.


What you have got in writing    

Last but not least its time for printing.
For a black and white program like Handyscan,
the most important function, of course.
Consequently Handyscan has a lot to offer: for
example, top notch quality through
Interpolation (increasing the density by
additional points).



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With 9- and 24-needle printers, multiple or
label printing. In addition the printing
routine is laid out in such way that it is
compatible with all Commodore printers and
almost all Epson compatible 9-needle printers
without complicated adaptions. But also the
adaption for 24-needle printers is quick and
easy.

As was the case with its predecessor Hi-Eddi
and Hi-Eddj+ Handyscan also permits the
loading of the print function from the program
disk. When it isnt available, Handyscan will
ask you to insert the appropriate program
disk. The printing routine (the File "HSCN+")
you can copy on your data disk, too, so you
dont have to change disks for printing.

If you have loaded a set of symbols, it will
be erased, since it uses the same place in
memory as the printing routine. The move and
pattern function also use this place. As long
as you dont use these two Options and dont
reload any disk character set, the printer
routine will stay in memory and doesnt have
to be reloaded each time. After loading the
printer menu appears, in which you can amend
in different ways. The possibilities are
listed in 6 lines, per line you can choose one
option by clicking on.













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Low Medium High Shinwa Mps
If you have an Epson-compatible 9-or 24-needle
printer, you can adjust the quality of the
print by clicking on one of the three first
options. As Epson compatible 9-needle printer
we consider printers whose control sequence is
equivalent to the Epson standard and which can
print up to 1920 points per line. All
9-needle printers of Epson, Star and quite a
few of compatible printers like Panasonic,
Fujitsu, Citizen a.s.f. qualify here.A
24-needle printer has to be adapted first by
the "PRINTSETUP" program. For this please read
on.

The Low setting uses only 640 points per line,
but its the quickest way of printing. With
Medium setting Handyscan prints 1920 points
per line, which, of course, is already slower
when using a serial Bus. High-Quality finally
produces the Highest quality, because here
each line is printed with 1920 points twice,
which means there is a density of 1920*1600
pixels in all. But this process takes the
most time.

With only partly compatible Epson-printers
(for example Star NL-10 with Commodore Modul,
MPS 1000) LOW wont work. Here you have to
switch to medium.

With 24-needle printers, there is no
difference in speed between the various
qualities. Then why is there such a thing as
Low and Medium? Because by interpolation
grids, as they appear in grey shade pictures
become too dark. Here Low can make sense.
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If you use a Shinwa CP-8o or compatible
printer, for example, BMC BX-80, Mannesmann
MT-8o or Commodore MPS 802 with Graphic-ROM II
then click on the Shinwa-Option. There are no
higher quality choices.

The Commodore printers MPS 801 and 803 and all
compatible ones you can address by clicking on
the last option. These printers can only
print 480 points per line, thus you cant use
the full width of the graphic memory.


Auto-Linefeed, Linefeed

Here you control, whether the printer pushes
the paper further on automatically after each
line, or expects the computer to give the
order. If the printer interrupts Hardcopy by
double spacing, you have to click
Auto-Linefeed, but if it pushes the entire
print out onto one line you better switch to
Linefeed.


Overall picture screen

Here you decide whether the whole graphic
memory is printed out or only the last chosen
screen.
Left, middle, right

This line is only important if you print a
screen. In this case you can select - by
clicking on the option wanted - the position
of the print out on paper.






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Standard length of paper

This item of the menu is only interesting for
multiple print out. By selecting Standard the
paper is pushed forward one full page between
print outs, usually 12". If you click on
paper length, you can load any length (in
lines) you wise, for example. 9 for the usual
1,5" labels. Just be careful that the text
actually fits on the label.


Start:	Single, multiple

Once you have chosen your options you can
start the print out in the last line. With
"simple" the printer starts immediately and
provides you one print out, with "multiple"
Handyscan first asks how many copies are
needed and will then print them automatically.

The printing process can be interrupted by
STOP; Handyscan will then ask you whether you
want to stop altogether or continue, which you
select by clicking.


Where is the printer plugged in?

A computer with Centronics entry is easiest
connected to the userport with an interface
cable. This is the cheapest, most reliable
and quickest way.









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But Handyscan also works with a printer which
is connected through a hardware interface, if
this has a linear channel under the secondary
address 1, or it can be set in such way that
the complete data is transmitted from the
computer to the printer. And the interface
has to be able to transmit lines of up to 1920
bytes, which Grlitz-Interfaces cannot. But
keep in mind: By using the serial bus the
print out is slower than with the userport; in
the high-quality-mode or with a 24-needle
printer it can easily amount to a factor 2,
depending on the speed of the printer.

Printer adapting

If you have a 24-needle printer or a printer
which is more or less Epson compatible, but
still isnt working with the pre-set included
in Handyscan, you can make your own adaptions.

So load the adapting program in Basic with
LOAD "PRINTSETUP",8 and start it with RUN.
This program now asks a series of data and
control sequences and stores them in file
PDATA on the program disk on which there may
be no wright protection.The file PDATA will be
loaded automatically at the start of the
program.
The adapting itself is not complicated at all.
The program PRINTSETup explains itself;
moreover with all questions it shows the
corresponding input for an Epson-compatible
printer, so that you can combine it by
pressing the RETURN key. That means: For the
adapting of an Epson- or NEC-compatible
24-needle printer you only have to answer the
question "24 needles?" with "Y", with all
other questions, you simply press the RETURN
key.


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Alls well that ends well

Once you have scanned or drawn enough and you
want to leave Handyscan, you simply click the
corresponding icon, the arrow pointing
outwards, and immediately you are in Basic.
If it has happened accidentally, you can start
Handyscan again and without loosing data by
loading it new and answering "N" to the
question "Erase".


Part 3: Handyfox

If you own the Pagefox, you will, of course,
want to use the additional memory capacitiy
for scanning. Handyfox program permits this.
Its a drawing program with integrated scanner
software, which to a large extend corresponds
to the graphic editor of the Pagefox.
Compared to this, some improvements have been
made: Lines, rectangles and circles may cover
the entire page, by move order a pixel exact
defined field can be enlarged or reduced
continously; the tabulator was extended and
Printfox symbol sets can be reloaded from disk
and there are tools for editing graphics that
were scanned or changed in size.

The instructions on hand refer only to these
expansions. In other words, we assume you
have already read the instructions for
Pagefox.









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Program loading and starting

To start Handyf ox, insert the Pagefox modul
into the computer. But dont forget to first
switch off the computer. Then you leave the
Pagefox (icon on the lower right in the layout
menu or C=Q) put the Handyscanner program disk
(to be exact: a copy of it) in the disk drive
and type in: LOAD "HANDYF0X",8 (then press
RETURN) and then: RUN (and RETURN again).

After the start Handyf ox will ask you, if you
want to erase the graphic memory. Normally,
here you enter "Y" (and RETURN) for yes, so
that you can draw on a clean sheet of paper.
But if you have left the program by mistake
or by Reset and want to start again without
loosing your laborious drawing, then type "N"
here.


Mouse and Joystick

Handyf ox uses a Scanntronik mouse (Commodore
1351) or NCE-mouse in Control Port 1. For the
NCE, you have to plug the Scanntronik mouse
interface in between, otherwise the keyboard
gets blocked. And for the same reason the
mouse should be ready before the computer is
switched on. If this is not observed and the
keyboard and the mouse get blocked you can
eliminate it by pressing the RESTORE or the
mouse keys.

If you dont have a mouse you can also use a
joystick in Port 2. The fire-button of the
joystick corresponds to the right hand mouse
key. The left hand mouse key helps to change
the menu and to turn over the pages of the
directory.

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The mouse software of the Pagefox was improved
compared to the one of Handyfox. The
occasional trembling of the cursor with
Commodore 1351 is suppressed and, when drawing
free hand using the draw order (pencil icon)
an uninterrupted line without holes is
possible. The mouse keys can be changed to
serve different functions so that they
correspond to usual arrangement in a number of
computers and programs. For this, please hold
the left mouse key and at the same time press
RESTORE. From then on the left mouse key is
the fire button and the right one will enable
you to switch into the menu. For technical
reasons this only works with the 1351, but not
with the NCE-mouse. There the left key blocks
the movement questioning, so that no free hand
drawing is possible.

The instructions refer (in the following text)
the regular use, that means, when the right
key is mentioned, this is then the main key.


Handyfox and Pagefox

You can switch directly from Handyf ox to
Pagefox. For this you will find in the
Handyfox menu the icon with the two columns,
which also stands in the graphic editor. If
you click on this icon, you go directly into
the Pagefox without loosing the graphic.

By this method, Handyfox will get thrown out
of the computer, because the memory which
Handyf ox occupies is used by Pagefox for
layout and text. But Handyf ox doesnt
dissapear entirely from the memory; some
enlargements will stay in the Pagefox:



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1. The complete printer setting of Handyfox
remains unchanged in Pagefox, above all the
24-needle printer routine. Also in Pagefox
you use a 24-needle printer without the
special PIN 24-software.

2. The new improved mouse software is also
taken up by Pagefox and with it the
possibility to work with changed mouse key
set.

3. The possibility to alter the address of the
disk drive and to use two drives in Pagefox
just like in Handyfox continues to exist.

4. If you click the icon below right in the
layout menu, with which you normally leave
Pagefox, you have the option to either
enter Basic or go back again into Handyf ox.
If you opt for Handyfox, it is reloaded
(insert program disk) and started. Be
careful: Here layout and text data get lost
because Handyfox needs the memory space.
But the graphic remains untouched.


The menu

There is hardly any alteration on the menus
compared to Pagefox. The only difference:
Instead of the icon to get into the text
editor, there is now the eye icon to activate
the scanner.The corresponding keyboard command
is C=F1. Besides that there is the keyboard
command ShiftQ with which you leave Handyf ox
and enter Basic directly. If this happens to
you by mistake, you can restart Handyfox
without loss of data by reloading the program
and answering the question "Erase" with "N"
for no.


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Regarding the commands which can be only
entered from the keyboard, there are some
changes. Therefore here is a complete
listing:


Fl/F2:	Construction Set
F3/F4:	Screen- and background colour
F5/F6:	File and plane
F7/F8:	Graphic tabulator search/set
H/V : Tabulator horizontal/vertical
O	: Set neutral point for display of
coordinates
1 - 8: Choose one of the eight screens
ShiftP:	Select new pattern
ShiftQ:	Leave Handyfox






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Lines, rectangles and ellipses

The drawing of lines, rectangles and ellipses
is not limited to the visible screen. Select
the line drawing function and define by a
mouse click the start point of a line, but not
yet the endpoint. Now scroll the screen a few
steps by clicking on one of the arrow icons.
The line rubber band will disappear first, but
as soon as you move the cursor into the
drawing field again, the rubber band
reappears. You will notice, that the start
point of the line scrolled along with it.

Now you can scroll further until the start
point disappears out of the visible screen.
The selction of another screen by full page
function or 1 - 8 is also possible, the rubber
band will still be displayed. With the second
mouse click the line will be finally drawn.

The same is valid for rectangles and ellipses.
The latter can extend beyond the visible
screen without scrolling. However, the
limitation, that the radius may have 255
points at the most remains in force.Larger
circles or ellipses are not possible with
Handyfox.

Caution is necessary in respect of the Undo
function: Because of capacity limits. Undo
can bring back only the visible screen
consequently, this function doesnt work with
all lines, rectangles and ellipses
which extend beyond the visible screen.








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In some cases, especially with ellipses, you
dont necessarily want the ellipse extending
the visible screen. In this case, you press,
the asterisk key* instead of giving the mouse
a second click. Then only the visible part of
the line or rectangle or circle will be drawn.
The Undo function remains fully effective.

Another peculiarity relates to the
line-drawing function: Due to the pixel basis
of the graphic reproduction a diagonal line is
more or less always in steps. Handyfox
attempts to smooth these steps toward the
ideal line, by making all such steps the same
length except for the first and the last one,
which have to have half this length.
But the ideal line has a disadvantage too,
when it doesnt fit on the screen. If you
want to draw a horizontal or vertical line
over seeveral screens, it can happen, that an
unwanted step is created outside of the
visible screen. To avoid this, Handyf ox moves
the steps quite near to the cursor, when it
has extending rubber band lines, to make the
first new steps much smaller. As a result no
step is hidden beyond the visible cursor
anymore. When the line is fixed by the second
press on the button, Handyfox draws an ideal
line again.













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Tabulator


The beginning point of a line, the first point
of a rectangle or the centre-point of a circle
will be stored as tabulator. When you press
the function key F7 you will be positioned at
the stored point. This will help with drawing
of vectors or concentric circles. With F8 you
can define a tabulator yourself, to which you
can return by F7

Whereas with pagefox this tabulator only works
within the screen, Handyfox, however, it can
be used for the whole page. In contrast to
Pagefox, with Handyfox the beginning point of
a line can be well outside the visible screen.
New for Handyfox are the seperate tabulators
for horizontal and vertical. While F7 moves
the cursor either horizontally or vertically
until it reaches the tabulated position, H
moves the cursor only horizontally (till the
tabulated X-value is reached) and V only
vertically (till the respective Y-value is
reached). This is very usefull, to put a
frame with the right size around a graphic
(with rectangle-or move command).















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The Move-command

This command has become some improvements,
with respect to pagefox. The desired sector
can now be marked to the exact pixel. If you
hold the mouse key or the joystick button down
at the second click, you can enlarge or reduce
this sector infinitely. New is also the
function of the trashcan and of the patterns
together with Move.

Altogether this move command corresponds
exactly to the Handyscan. You will find,
therefore an exact description in the second
part of these instructions for use.


File and plane

You have certainly noticed, that each
alteration of the size done by the move
command causes a loss of quallity. When you
reduce, details get lost, when you enlarge the
graphics become rough and edged. By scanning
with a big enlargement factor the graphics
become ultimately rough and pimply.















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Therefore, Handyscan provides two tools to
smooth or round pimples and rough edges.

These functions you select with F5 ("file")
and F6 ("plane"). Outside of a move command
these two tools always effect the whole
visible screen. During a move operation,
however, it effects only the transparency.

The file (F5) is the more careful tool of
these two. It removes above all the pimples,
which are caused by scanning. Perhaps you
have to use the file several times, till all
the pimples have disappeared. Of course, some
fine details become lost through file use.
The file can erase even thin diagonal lines,
but generally the advantages of smoothness
outweigh the loss of details.

With planing (F6) the shavings fly round.
ts above all suitable for smoothing the
rough edges, which are caused by enlargement.
Several applications of the plane are hardly
necessary, because it will shave more and more
with every new use, until there is only a thin
skeleton left. The file doesnt remove
anything else, once it has taken all the
pimpels away.

If you use this function for the whole screen,
Undo works only for the last use. With the
move command, however, Undo is effective
during the whole operation, so that you undo
even a repeated use of file and plane.








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Text-function

The Handyfox can, in contrast to the Pagefox,
load beside the twelve modul character sets
any Printfox character sets from the disk for
I
its text-functions. Simply click on the
load-icon and in the directory the wanted

character set is on. The question: "Load -
Mix" you may answer as you like, because there
are no differences with character sets. After
loading the character set for the
text-function is available, till you click on
by CTRL-Z one of the modul character sets.
You know the storage capacity in the C 64
(even with additional modul) is limited and
therefore the drawing set is in the part of
the memory that will be used by the pattern
function and the move- and save commands as
well. If you use one of these commands
perhaps an additionally loaded disk drawing
set will be erased and have to be reloaded if
necessary.

By entering CTRL-arrow left and a number from
-9 to 9 you can alter the spacing of the
signs.


Erasing of the whole page

The trashcan serves to erase the screen,
during the overlay phase to erase the
background behind the overlay and to fix it.
But it also has a new function compared to
Pagefox: If you click it on twice, it erases
the whole graphic memory. But be careful:
This function cant be undone by Undo.





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To alter floppy address

By entering an 8 or 9 instead of a disk
command (after clicking on the right disk
icon), the floppy address of Handyscan will be
altered, so that the use of two disk drives is
possible.


Picture patchwork?

If you want to scan a copy, which is wider
than 60 mm, you have to patch up. Its not
bery easy, but with a little bit of practice
you can get results where you cant see
anymore the dividing lines.

First you have to take care, that the
individual sectors are really straight and
parallel scanned. The best result can be
achieved by moving the scanner along a
straight edge, whose position you mark first
(if available, a drawing board would be
better). From sector to sector you should
move the straight edge 60 -62 mm at the most,
to get ov erlapping areas, which are wide
enough for patchwork.

The enlargement factor for two sectors can be
at the most 150% and with three sectors 100%,
to get all stripes side by side in the
graphic memory. So the width you can scan is
12 or 18 cm.

And now the method: First you scan and save
single sectors. When saving you should choose
the sector, so that a small overlapped part
still exists, but that disturbing edges -
which result by the less brightness of the
edges - dont get saved.


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Then you load the first, that means the left
hand stripe, again in the storage, like
normal. For the second you click on the
option "patch up" in the menu line after
selecting it from the directory. First you
will see the whole page survey, in which you
set the graphic - marked by two flashing
arrows - round about in the right position.
For an exact placement the program switches
now to the move modus: A clipping of the
graphic what shall be loaded - its the upper
left hand corner - appears as overlay and can
be placed by the move command like usual.
That means, you can move the background with
the help of arrow symbols or cursor keys and
you also can move the transparency after
clicking on the "8"- or "1" icon. But there
is not much free room to move the
transparency, because it already fills almost
the visible screen. That means, you have to
find the exact place more or less by moving
the background. The transparency itself place
then by 1-pixel steps.

If there are no characteristics on the
transparency, which allow an exact patching up
(for example because there is an empty space),
you can push down this section by clicking on
the load icon. As long as you hold the mouse
key pressed the visible transparency will be
scrolled upwards out of the screen, while
further down lines will be hanged on out of
the picture, which should be loaded with the
disk. At the same time the visible screen
will be pushed downwards, which means that you
scroll along a dividing line. But be careful:
This can only be done downwards but not
backwards, because you cant read a disk file
backwards.



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When the transparency is well placed, there
are, like with the move, two possibilities, to
set them. By a mouse click within the drawing
area the graphic becomes overlayed with the
latest connections, by clicking on the
trashcan, it coveres the background. This is
to be recommended above all with grey-tone
pictures. Otherwise the grey-tones become too
dark in the part of where the segments
overlap.

The patchwork action can be interrupted by
Undo at any time.

Here another tip: Since it is difficult to
match on grey-tone pictures in the smooth
transition area, it is recommended to mark the
overlapping stripes on the upper edge of the
copy with a cross. Then it is easy to match
the different pieces.
