07-25-95 *** Surfer(tm) for Windows Notes V6 *** *** (c) Copyright Golden Software Incorporated, 1993-95 This file contains important information concerning Surfer for Windows version 6.xx. Please remember to send in your registration card! This card must be on file to receive Surfer for Windows technical support. Here is a sequential list of topics included in this readme file. You may quickly jump to the desired topic by searching on the keyword. DIRECTORY KEYWORD ------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACTING CONTACT INSTALLATION INSTALL NETWORK INSTALLATION NETWORK EXAMPLE FILES EXAMPLE GOLDEN SOFTWARE TYPEFACES TYPEFACES GS SCRIPTER SCRIPTER LASERJET, DESKJET PRINTER INFORMATION LASERJET VIDEO PROBLEMS VIDEO REMOVING Surfer FROM YOUR SYSTEM REMOVING TROUBLE SHOOTING TROUBLE Contacting Golden Software -------------------------- Problems and suggestions may be reported by calling Golden Software: Voice: 303-279-1021 Fax: 303-279-0909 BBS: 303-279-0910 Internet: support@golden.com Installation ------------ o If the installation fails for some reason, the Setup program leaves a WSSETUP.LOG file in your Windows directory, which may contain information useful to you and/or our Tech Support staff in determining the cause of the problem. o Surfer will automatically detect which Windows platform you are running and pick the appropriate setup option. If it detects Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups, it will attempt to install the 16-bit version. If it detects Windows NT or Windows 95 it will attempt to install the 32-bit version. You can install the 16-bit version in either Windows NT or Windows 95, however, you cannot install the 32-bit version in Win 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups. In any case the default directory will be C:\SURFER6. o If the 32-bit version was installed, then you will have a SURFER32.INI. If you have the 16-bit version, then there will be a SURFER16.INI. If you install Surfer into a directory already containing Surfer for Windows, your SURFER??.INI file will be automatically renamed to SURFER??.BAK. If desired, you can manually replace all or part of SURFER??.INI file with portions of your old file. o If you already have a Surfer icon in your "Golden Software" program group when you install Surfer, a second Surfer icon will be created instead of the first one being replaced. Manually remove the first one by clicking it once to select it and then pressing the "Del" key to delete it. Network Installation -------------------- Surfer can be installed to operate on networked computers in one of several ways: 1. Locally on a workstation's hard drive for exclusive use by that workstation. When Setup asks for a destination directory, choose one on a local hard drive. 2. The Surfer program files can reside remotely on a file server network drive. The network administrator should first log onto the file server. When Setup asks for a destination directory, choose one on the file server. Setup will then ask if you want to install Surfer in the file server directory for exclusive use by this computer or for shared access. Exclusive use is just like stand-alone use, except the file server network drive is used instead of the workstation's local drive. No other action is needed. However, the workstation must be logged onto the file server before running Surfer. If shared use is chosen, Setup will copy all the Surfer files, plus the Setup program and its associated files to the file server drive. When Setup has completed, the installation diskettes are no longer needed. It is highly recommended the administrator now flag the server directory read-only. From each workstation that will be running Surfer off the file server, someone must log onto the server, start Windows and run the copy of Setup (SETUP.EXE) that's in the server directory. When Setup asks for a destination directory, choose one on a local hard drive. Setup then allows two types of workstation installation: a) Surfer can be installed on the workstation's local hard drive for stand-alone use later (user does not have to be logged onto the server). This is just like item #1 above. When Setup asks for a destin- ation directory, choose one on a local hard drive. b) A few small Surfer files are copied from the server to the workstation, while the bulk of the Surfer files stay on the server. This allows many such workstations to share a single copy of Surfer without having the files duplicated on each computer. *** ATTENTION: Using Surfer on more than one computer *** requires appropriate network or multiuser licenses! Example Files ------------- SAMPLE1 BAS Sample Macro file SAMPLE2 BAS Sample Macro file SAMPLE3 BAS Sample Macro file BLUSTEEL CLR Sample Color Map File LANDSEA CLR Sample Color Map File RAINBOW CLR Sample Color Map File RAINBOW2 CLR Sample Color Map File DEMOGRID DAT Sample data file for DEMOGRID.GRD SAMPLE3 DAT Sample data TUTORWS DAT Used in Lesson 1 and 4 of the Tutorial TUTORWS2 DAT Used in Lesson 4 of the Tutorial DEMOGRID GRD Sample Grid file HELENS2 GRD Sample Grid file from a DEM. CA GSB California Golden Software boundary file NV GSB Nevada Golden Software boundary file SAMPLE1 SRF Example 3-D wire mesh SAMPLE2 SRF Example rotated stacked surface SAMPLE3 SRF Filled contour SAMPLE4 SRF Filled contour (Grand Canyon) SAMPLE5 SRF Image map (Colorado) SAMPLE6 SRF Image map (Mt. St. Helens) TUTORIAL SRF Used in Lesson 4 of the Tutorial Golden Software Typefaces ------------------------- Users of Golden Software's DOS Surfer product will probably recognize these 25 typeface names that appear in the Surfer for Windows Text Dialog: GS SET1 GS SET2 GS SET3 GS SET4 GS SET5 GS SET6 GS SET7 GS SET8 GS SET9 GS SET10 GS SET11 GS SET12 GS SET13 GS SET14 GS SET15 GS SET16 GS SET1FS GS SET4FS GS SET6FS GS SET10FS GS SET11FS GS SET1INT GS SET10INT GS CENTERED GS DEFAULT They correspond EXACTLY to the 24 DOS Surfer Symbol Sets described in Appendix B of the DOS Surfer Reference Manual. They are stroked faces provided for the convenience of those who either have DOS Surfer files they wish to use unmodified with Surfer for Windows, or for ex-DOS Surfer users who want to continue working with them. There are three additional Golden Software Symbol faces: GS Helv GS Roman GS Symbol each of which contains all 256 characters defined in the standard Windows ANSI character set. GS Roman is a serif face (analogous to Tms Rmn or Times), GS Helv is a san-serif face (analogous to Helv or Arial) and GS Symbol corresponds to the Windows (or Postscript) Symbol, which contains Greek letters and various math symbols. These faces are more useful to the user who doesn't care about DOS Surfer files or just needs a stroked face (maybe for use with plotters) that is laid-out like a "normal" Windows fonts. You may disable one or more of these faces by manually editing the SURFER??.INI file and placing a semi-colon (;) at the beginning of the line containing the face's name. You will need to restart Surfer for the change to take effect. They can be enabled later by just deleting the semi-colon. GS Scripter ----------- GS Scripter uses a BASIC-like scripting language to automate Surfer for Windows. It can be run by double clicking the GS Scripter icon in Program Manager. After starting it, use File Open to load one of the included sample scripts. To execute the script use the Run Start command. For more help on the scripting language and the Surfer script commands, see the Surfer help file. In Windows NT version 3.5x the explicit path name must be used to locate and store files. The sample script files included have been modified to work this way. Removing Surfer from your system -------------------------------- The Surfer installation adds the following section to your WIN.INI file: [Surfer] SURFER_??=X:\XXXXX where "X:\XXXXXX" is the drive and directory Surfer was installed into. If you ever need to remove Surfer from your system, just delete all the files from this directory and (optionally) remove this section from your WIN.INI file. Also remove any Surfer-related icons from the "Golden Software" Program Manager group. LASERJET, DESKJET PRINTER INFORMATION ------------------------------------- LaserJet 4 problems. A problem can arise when printing on a LaserJet 4 (or 4M non-PostScript). TrueType text blocks can be wider than requested or character spacing can be grossly incorrect. This has been fixed in version 31.V1.35 of the LaserJet 4 driver. You can get this driver from CompuServe or from HP at 303-339-7009. If you are unable to get the new driver we recommend using the LaserJet III driver if you experience the problem. LaserJet Series II and III problems. On HP LaserJet II and LaserJet III printers, single characters in the axis labels, axis titles, and text blocks do not print. In Printer Setup Options: Turn on [x] Print TrueType as Graphics. Use the Control Panel (Printers) to access the setup for your LaserJet printer. DeskJet problems. On HP DeskJet printers, the last character in any text string does not print. Un-remark the following lines in the SURFER??.INI file by removing the semi-colon: [GSIMAGE] Windows Picture:Printer:Text=0x8000 VIDEO PROBLEMS -------------- On some video cards (ATI & Trident), the last character in text blocks is not displayed; however, printing does not seem to be affected. Solution 1 ---------- Un-remark the following lines in the SURFER??.INI file by removing the semi-colon: [GSIMAGE] Windows Picture:Window:Text=0x8000 Solution 2 ---------- Change video driver to use "plain" VGA. TROUBLE SHOOTING ---------------- Surfer has an error logging facility that will help to solve your problems. To initialize this feature exit Surfer and at the Program Manager click once on the Surfer icon. Then press "ALT+ENTER"; this will bring up the File Properties for Surfer. Click on the line that says Command Line. Change this line from "C:\SURFER6\SURFER??.EXE" to "C:\SURFER6\SURFER??.EXE /L". Now when you click OK and go back to the Program Manager you can start Surfer. Next try to duplicate your problem. After your Surfer session there will be an ASCII file in your Surfer directory called "SURFER??.MSG". You can upload this file to us on our BBS or send it in on a floppy disk. Please include a description of your problem and include the file(s) necessary to duplicate the problem with your message file. End of Readme.txt