General Guidelines

POM is pretty straight forward to use. It takes PostScript or Mac Scrapbook files, and makes slides of them. There are only a few things to remember:

• Use 100 ASA film. Everything in the slide maker is calibrated for 100 ASA film. In an emergency situation, if stuck with 200 ASA film, try reducing the brightness to 50%. However, this will most likely produce poor results.
• Please copy your image files (either PostScript or a scrapbook file) to the ``To Image'' directory on the Mariana. Please also remember to delete your files once you are done.
• Whether producing slides or prints, the device is always ``LFR Desktop''. If making prints, people are sometimes tempted to switch to the print making device G370. Don't be fooled, however. This device is for making prints on paper. We don't have one. Trying to use this device will make huge and useless files.
• Turn off the screen saver. Usually the screen saver is off, but if it is on, it will consume memory and CPU resources that should be devoted to imaging the slides. Your slide creation will take longer, unnecessarily.