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Installation

This chapter provides a brief guide to installing Fireworkz on your computer.

Installing Fireworkz on RISC OS

Fireworkz may be installed on any version of RISC OS 3.1 or later.

If you have a RISC OS 3, 4 or 6 system, you may need to update your !System with 32-bit support modules before running !Fireworkz; please see the Release Notes for instructions on how to do this.

The easiest way to obtain and install Fireworkz for RISC OS is using !PackMan. You will most likely find this application in your Apps.Admin directory.

It is recommended that you select the following set of packages for installation:

Fireworkz: The !Fireworkz application will be installed into your Apps.Documents directory.

Fireworkz-Examples: The associated example files for Fireworkz will be installed into your Apps.Documents directory.

Fireworkz-Manuals: The Getting Started Guide and the User Guide for Fireworkz will be installed into your Manuals directory.

Installing Fireworkz Pro on RISC OS

Fireworkz Pro for RISC OS may be purchased from R-Comp.

Please follow the instructions supplied with Fireworkz Pro.

Printer drivers

Before you can print from Fireworkz you will need to have a printer driver loaded. This is a standard piece of system software which your computer uses to handle printing for all applications which use fonts or pictures.

The first time you use a printer driver you may need to configure it for your particular printer. Please pay particular attention to the page size settings, which often default to American paper sizes, and check that they are appropriate for your printer and the paper you wish to use most frequently.

If the page size settings are wrong in the printer driver, in particular if they are too big, it is almost certain that when you print from Fireworkz, you will have problems with either your text being cropped (missing lines of text or characters from the top, bottom or sides of the page) or find that your printer keeps feeding through blank pages. Spending a little extra time at the start ensuring your printer driver is set up corrrectly may save you many frustrating hours of incorrect printing later on.