User`s guide

Chapter 3:Software and Hardware Installation

20 - ScanShop User’s Guide

VVNET enables ScanShop to access the manuals via the internet.

Setting this variable (e.g. assigning it the value 1) activates linking to the

completeScanShop documentation in HTML via Netscape (version 3.0

or later), and switches On-line Help to use HTML ﬁles within Netscape

as well.

VVPRE_FILTER is similar to the VVP_FILTER, but different in that it

is applied before any of the usual ﬁle format readers (or VVP_FILTER

for that matter) are applied. Any designated ﬁlter needs to either process

or pass-through any data intended to be read by ScanShop. The value set

should be the path to an external ﬁlter and any command-line options it

requires. The ﬁlter must take stdin and output the results via stdout. The

default setting is “none”.

Setting the Environment Variables

You can set the appropriate environment variable(s) in your .cshrc or .proﬁle ﬁle.

When the next C or Bourne shell is started, its environment will be automatically

conﬁgured for Vividata's environment variables.

You can also add the name of the directory that contains PostShop to the PATH

environment variable assignment in your .cshrc or .proﬁle ﬁle. This will allow

you to launch the user-level vvlpr and postshop gui applications from any

directory.

After modifying your .cshrc or .proﬁle ﬁle, logout from the system and then login

again to start your session with the modiﬁed initialization ﬁles.

If you are running in a networked environment and you want to have only one

license manager daemon running, make sure that each user's shell environment

assigns the name of the host running the license server to the variable Printer

Interface Script

Once you have conﬁgured PostShop to work with the Unix lp system, each print

job you submit via postshop, vvlpr, lp, or lpr, will cause the Unix lp system to

execute the appropriate printer interface script to properly conﬁgure the

environment for calling PostShop's vvprint command-line driver. If you used

ps_install to conﬁgure your printer, the interface script should already be

conﬁgured properly. However, there may be instances where you need to

customize a particular setting. You will ﬁnd the printer interface script in one of

the following directories: