Appointment Book Printing Features

Abstract

Capable 21C supports a number of features to enhance the appearance of the printed appointment book.  This article describes those features.

Underlying challenge

There are a few setup screens that will need to be visited to alter the settings that control the print out of the appointment book.  These are detailed in the resolution section, below:

Resolution

To alter the font size and style used in the appointment book print out:

  1. Go to Setup|Settings.
  2. Go to the Appointment Book tab.
  3. Choose the desired font, and font size.  Note that the choice of a non-existent font, or an invalid font size may produce an error message when the appointment book is printed.
  4. Click Apply and Close.

To print the appointment book in colour (or not):

  1. Go to Setup|Settings.
  2. Go to the Other tab.
  3. Click on the ApptBook system component.
  4. Click on the Print in Colour setting.
  5. Change its value to Yes or No accordingly.  Note that this setting is case sensitive.  If the setting is set with an invalid value, Capable 21C assumes No.
  6. Click Close (no need to apply).

To change the colour of the shaded areas on the printout:

  1. Go to Setup|Settings.
  2. Go to the Other tab.
  3. Click on the Appointment Book system component.
  4. Click on the Appt Book Print Fill Colour setting.
  5. Change its value accordingly.  Note that this value must be set to a number between 0 and 16777215.  If a non-numeric value is set, or the value falls outside the valid range, an error may occur when the appointment book is printed.  See below for more information about this value.
  6. Click Close (no need to apply).

Note that if the Print in Colour feature is enabled, and the shading is specified, only the border around the shaded area will have a colour that reflects the type of appointment.  The shading will continue to be as defined by the Appt Book Print Fill Colour setting.

Detailed Information

Colour values are defined as a 24bit numerical value defined in the RGB scale.  Effectively, the number is broken into three components, which specify the mix of red, green and blue to achieve the desired colour. Firstly, the amount of red is a number between 0 and 255, multipled by 65536 to produce a number somewhere between 0 and 16711680.  Secondly, the amount of green required is also a number between 0 and 255, but this time is multiplied by 256 to produce a number between 0 and 65280.  Finally, the amount blue is just a number between 0 and 255.  The three components are added together to produce the actual colour code. Some examples follow:

Black = 0
Grey = 8355711 (eg 127 x 65536 + 127 x 256 + 127)
Blue = 255 (eg 0 x 65536 + 0 x 256 + 255)
Red = 16711680 (eg 255 x 65536 + 0 x 256 + 0)
Green = 65280 (eg 0 x 65536 + 255 x 256 + 0)

This knowledge resource is designed for use on a Windows (tm) XP system operating at a screen resolution of 1024x768 or better. Windows Media Player must be installed for this training resource to operate correctly.

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