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Wilcom Manual
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"Wilcom V9_Portable (XP)":
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There is a few issues with this portable version of Wilc
om V9.
It is fully portable and so should be very handy for a l
ot of people.
Hopefully despite a few glitches you will find it to be
very welcome.
Portable version of wilcom ES V9
(Thinapp application)
Runs on Windows XP
(it will NOT run NATIVELY on Win 7)
- But has been TESTED (and works, running) on virtual XP installations:
(On win 7 64bit)
- Virtual box, (&)
- Windows vitual PC
No Installation Required.(As it is a portable app)
- Runs straight from the file "Wilcom9 Portable.exe"
- Can be copied, moved or run from a USB stick.
This app is basically just 3 items ONLY!:
(2 ".exe" files and 1 working system folder called "sandbox".)
1)
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|Wilcom9 Portable.exe
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(This single file IS the whole application, no installation requ
ired,
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it just runs straight from clicking on this file, the whole orig
inal installation
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of the app with all its folders and registry entries etc...
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are all contained inside this one file.)
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2)
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|Design Explorer.exe
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This is a short cut file to execute Design explorer directly.
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It will not work if seperated from the file "Wilcom9 Portable.ex
e".
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Its only purpose is so that you can access Design Explorer direc
tly,
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its program files are actually inside the file "Wilcom9 Portable
.exe".
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(which is the "container file" for the whole app.)
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3)
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|"Sandbox" (Folder)
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This is a working folder for the application (made portable with
thin app).
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It is a system folder that contains settings, data and working f
iles for the program, |
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(so don't mess with it.)
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Also do not try to paste files from windows (like fonts), direct
ly into here as they
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will not be visible from wilcom anyway, that doesn't work!
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If you delete this folder:
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- it will be re-created by the application anyway when y
ou run the application |
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again and you will loose all settings and changes made t
o the application...
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I.E> It will return to default settings.
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(So generally its best not to mess with this folder at a
ll.)
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- Only try deleting this folder if for some reason wilco
m stops working
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altogether as deleting it voids all customization & sett
ings.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION (Some Issues relating to this Portable version of wilcom v
9)
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***VERY IMPORTANT*** (with this portable version)
WHEN YOU CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT ALWAYS ENSURE THE "Wilcom program window" IS MAXI
MISED FIRST!!!
|There is a small bug associated with this version that causes the displ
ay to get squeezed for
|any new doc,that is opened when the program window in not maximized.
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|If you do not do this,
|(creating a document when the wilcom program window is not maximised),
|the height/width ratio of this new document (The whole window) will be
distorted slightly.
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|(i.e stretched, and out of proportion).
SCREEN CALIBRATION:
|When you first copy this portable version of ES v9 to YOUR machine (and
run it):
|you will have to first calibrate the screen in Wilcom so that the grid
is exactly square and that it
|is to scale on your monitor.
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|You will only have to do this once when you start using it on a new mon
itor or new machine etc.
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|*** THIS SHOULD ONLY BE DONE WHEN THE WILCOM APPLICATION SCREEN IS MAXI
MISED (FULL SCREEN) ***
|(I.E. When the wilcom program window is taking up the whole screen, for
reasons already mentioned).
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|In Wilcom, to do this:
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|screen calibration: (First maximise the Wilcom program window!)
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|THEN go to: (on the menu bar up top)
|->Special
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->Hardware setup ->(in the dropdown box) choose "display
monitor"
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-> Click the "Values" button.
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|A screen calibration box will open up w
hich will ask you to actually
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|PHYSICALLY MEASURE IT.
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|(i.e up on the screen with a ruler).
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|(i.E PHYSICALLY get a ruler and hold it
up to the screen and
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|carefully measure the height & width of
this window...)
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|Do this as accurately as possible, ente
ring these exact measurements
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|(*** IMPORTANT ***)
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|1) A transparent cursor. . .
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|because I noticed that with this portable version of wilcom v9:
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|that whist digitizing often the busy cursor,
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|(the hour glass in windows XP which appears when it is "thinkin
g")
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|TENDS TO GETs STUCK WHILST DIGITIZING (i.e it will fail to disa
pear, obscuring your artwork).
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|When this happened (to me) it was very annoying as it tended to
obscure the artwork I was
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|trying to digitize to.
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|To prevent this issue simply re-define the busy cursor in XP to
this new
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|transparent cross cursor.
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|In WIN XP, to do this:
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|Customize the "Busy Cursor"
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|(Copy the "Trans-crosshair.cur" file to your C drive (o
r somewhere out of the way)...
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|then...)
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Go to:
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->Start Menu
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->control Panel
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->(Double Click) "Mouse"
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->(Click on the) "Pointe
rs" Tab.
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In the customize area be
low find the "Busy" icon.
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Select the "Busy" cursor (by clicking it) and click
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the "Browse" button belo
w.
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Navigate to your new tra
nsparent cursor.. select it...
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CLICK ->"Apply" -->"OK"....
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|2) A wilcom icon. . .
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|(just in case you want to assign this icon to the folder you in
tend to run wilcom out of
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|(just to look nice),
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|for instances where you are not needing to move this folder aro
und)...
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IMPERIAL OR METRIC (Inches or MMs):
|In Wilcom: weather you perfer Inches or MMs for you measurements and fo
r the on screen rulers etc...
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Setting this can ONLY be done from windows itself. (This is hand
led from windows not wilcom!)
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|To set the measurement format for wilcom (in Win XP)
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|Go to:
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|->Start Menu
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->control Panel
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->(Double Click) Regional and Language Options
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->Select the "Regional Options" tab (if
it is not already).
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->use the drop down list here to
select your country or region.
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CLICK -->"Apply" -->"OK"
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|This is how you set wilcom to the measurement standard you are used to.
|Changing this will change all the measurements inside wilcom.
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INSTALLING FONTS (and related issues about the "internal file system" of a virtu
alized application):
|Normally with Wilcom:
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|to install new fonts you simply copy them (the ".esa" font file
s)
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|to the folder "ESWin\WLETTER" and restart Wilcom.
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|("ESwin" is the default install folder for wilcom and "WLETTER"
is the user font folder.)
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|However these folders actually don't exist (as far as windows in concer
ned) because this version
|actually runs out of a single file and has "virtual program folders" th
at only Wilcom can see.
|(as virtualized apps are all bundled together into one container file.)
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|SO.... even though these program folders don't exist for windows...
|they actually do exist for the Wilcom Program...
|i.e... You obviously will not see these program folders when navigating
the file system from windows,
|(as you didn't actually install anything), but if you navigate from Wil
com YOU WILL see them!!!!!!!!
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|TO INSTALL A FONT:
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(From windows) Select the fonts you want to install & (R
ight click) on the selection.
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->"copy" (them to the clip board).
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THEN:
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(From wilcom, from the menus at the top)
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-> (Click) File
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->Open...
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From the open dialog box...
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(Click) the "up one level" icon
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(a small folder with an return arrow on
it),
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MULTIPLE TIMES. . .
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(Keep clicking it) until the "My Compute
r" icon appears.
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-> (double click) "My Computer"...
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->(double click)"(C:) Local Disk
"
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->(double click)"ESWin"
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->(double click)
"WLETTER"
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To see t
he fonts already installed
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change t
he "Files of type:" Drop down
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to "All
Files".
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ADDITION
AL USER ADDED FONTS ARE SHOWN.
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|*** If you delete any of these, fonts will be uninstalled. ***
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|*** Any fonts you paste here they will be installed and become
visible after a restart ***
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-> (Righ
t Click)
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(insi
de the box showing the fonts)
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And then
(Click) "Paste"
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(To past
e the fonts into this folder.)
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The new font/s will become active after you restart Wilc
om.
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RUNNING THIS VERSION OF WILCOM v9 ON WIN 7 AND OTHER OS's
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If you want to run this portable version of Wilcom V9 on a more modern O
perating system (not XP),
like Windows 7 for example then you can still do so by using an XP virtu
al machine (emulator).
i.e. this is a software emulation of XP that will run as an application
(in a window) on Win 7.
I have already tested this version of Wilcom on: (2 different XP emmulat
ors on Win 7 64 bit)
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|It worked fine but with a few hastles: (I opted to use
"virtual box" instead.)
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|With "Windows virtual PC": on start I got the message:
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|"This application cannot be run as a Terminal Services
Client".
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|I found you can easily get around this (In Windows Viru
al PC) by,
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|diabling integration features, starting wilcom and then
enabling them again
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|after the application has started.
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|In WIN XP, to do this:
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|Starting "Wilcom9 Portable" on "Windows virtual
PC"
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|(With the window minimised, so the top tool-bar
appears):
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Tools->Disable Intergration Features...
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(it may ask for your network log
in password)
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