Abstract for GDDM User's Guide

Preface

• Latest GDDM information
• GDDM publications

Summary of changes

Introduction to GDDM

• What GDDM is
• The GDDM family
• GDDM Base
• User Control
• Image Symbol Editor
• The Composite Document Print Utility (CDPU)
• GDDM-PCLK
• GDDM-OS/2 Link
• Other GDDM programs
• GDDM Image View Utility (GDDM-IVU)
• GDDM Presentation Graphics Facility (GDDM-PGF)
• Interactive Chart Utility
• Vector Symbol Editor
• Online Presentation System
• GDDM conversion utilities
• Converting GDDM objects and other files
• A few things you should know about GDDM
• GDDM data types
• Alphanumeric text
• Graphics (text and pictures)
• Images
• GDDM external defaults file (ADMDEFS)
• GDDM nicknames

Manipulating GDDM data

• Displaying data with GDDM
• Displaying CGM and ADMGDF data
• Displaying composite documents
• Displaying data using GDDM-PCLK
• Cursors
• Alphanumerics cursor
• Graphics cursor
• Image cursors
• Running User Control
• What you can do with User Control
• Starting User Control
• Moving between the User Control menus
• Hiding and restoring User Control menus
• Selecting and canceling User Control commands
• Using operator windows
• Making the next window active
• Scrolling up the active window
• Scrolling down the active window
• Maximizing the active window size
• Restoring the active window size
• Sizing the active window
• Moving the active window
• Using Scroll commands
• Using Picture commands
• Centering a picture
• Zooming in on a picture
• Zooming out of a picture
• Controlling the appearance of images
• Undoing changes to a picture
• Using the draft draw facility
• Using the Fast Path facility
• Saving displayed data
• Ending User Control
• Unexpected results in User Control

Printing and plotting GDDM data

• Print device families
• Primary and Secondary datastream
• How operating systems affect printing
• Printing and plotting under TSO
• Printing and plotting under CMS
• Printing and plotting under VSE
• Printing and plotting with GDDM-OS/2 Link
• Printing and plotting with GDDM-PCLK
• Immediate and deferred plotting
• Immediate and deferred printing
• Printing or plotting deferred files
• Formatting data for printing
• Printing and plotting with User Control
• 5080 users
• Output menu fields
• Printing and previewing with CDPU
• What CDPU does
• Using CDPU
• Previewing with CDPU
• Using CDPU on an IPDS printer
• Printing with the GDDM Image Print Utility
• What to do about errors

Giving yourself more control over GDDM

• Coding your own external defaults and nicknames
• Example of external-default statements
• Example of nickname statements

Appendix A. Transferring files between PC and host

• Copying files under CMS
• What the host needs
• What the workstation needs
• The SEND and RECEIVE commands
• Copying files under TSO
• What the host needs
• What the workstation needs
• The SEND and RECEIVE commands

Appendix B. Hardware notes

• Display screens and adapters
• CGA and EGA display screens
• Display adapter screen sizes
• Loading drivers
• Loading the 8514/A driver
• Loading the XGA driver
• Loading the Image Adaptor/A driver
• Display adapter character attributes
• Keyboards
• Supported keyboards
• Keyboard layouts
• Keyboard mapping
• Personal Computer AT and XT keyboards
• Notes
• Enhanced personal computer system keyboards
• Notes
• Plotters
• Controlling plotter pen colors
• PC printers
• PC printer paper widths and print resolutions
• Terminals
• Using cursors on the IBM 3179-G, 3192-G, and 3472-G
• Using cursors on 3270-PC/G and 3270-PC/GX
• Using a 3270-PC/G or 3270-PC/GX in local mode
• DEC terminals
• Workstations
• Using cursors on the IBM 5550, PC, and PS/2
• Using cursors on 3270-PC/G and 3270-PC/GX
• Using Draft Draw
• Using a 3270-PC/G or 3270-PC/GX in local mode
• 5080 and 6090 display screens
• The 5080 or 6090 modes of operation
• The Switch function on the 5080 or 6090
• The 5080 or 6090 and User Control Graphics functions
• Unattended plotting and printing
• Xstations

Appendix C. Special considerations for Japanese users

• Enabling translation between the two extended Japanese code pages
• Overwriting the device code page with Japanese (Katakana) Extended code page 290
• Using an extended Japanese code page as the application code page
• Displaying tagged GDDM objects on Japanese devices

Glossary

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