After installing Calamus on a hard drive as described above, you can now make some settings in the program. For this you must start Calamus first of all.
Inadvertent Calamus starts are interruptible by [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Shift] on Windows keyboards (or the equivalent [Control]+[Alternate]+[Shift] spelt out fully on original Atari keyboards.)
Now you will see the Calamus work area:
Here you can make some settings in order to adapt the operation of
the program to your wishes. The most important of these concern the
search paths. Select in the Options menu the item System paths
.
Thereupon you will see a dialog into which you can enter where Calamus
should search for its files. Please set the search paths according to
the following figure:
The next step is the checking of and if necessary the selection of the correct printer driver.
Calamus is pre-installed so that in the Calamus WindowsPack the universal printer driver WinPrint is loaded automatically, which permits access to all the Windows original printer drivers installed on the machine under Windows. Under MagicMac (Apple) usually MacPrint is preset so that you have access to all installed Apple printer drivers in the Chooser.
Since the same installation (the Calamus TOS-Pack) is used for both Apple/MagicMac and TOS computers, calling the menu item "Print" on TOS systems from the File menu will give an error message, because MacPrint expects an available Mac OS. In this case you must change the printer driver.
Use the Print
menu entry in the File menu to open the Print
dialog and click on the field next to Printer:
. Now you will
see the file selector dialog. Double-click on the name of the required
printer driver. If you do not know which printer to choose here, then
please ask your dealer or an experienced acquaintance. The Calamus
distribution still contains a muliplicity of printer drivers, though
these have become less important with the advent of the universal
printer drivers WinPrint, MacPrint and VDIPrint. On TOS systems we
recommend using a printer that NVDI supports, and load the VDIPrint
printer driver.
The last step consists of saving the new settings. Do this with
the button Save
, which gives direct access to the same dialog
box as the menu item Save system settings
in the Options menu.
In this dialog box you simply click on [OK]. Now you will find with
each start of Calamus the set search paths, printer driver and other
values again.
