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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Need HP soft font proportional spacing data for LJII
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.041739.12897@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11064@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 90 04:17:39 GMT

In article <11064@life.ai.mit.edu> mbeck@ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) writes:
>I have two HP proportional soft fonts for the LJII (AD and AF).  The
>editing software in use needs the proportional spacing data...
>I *know* the width data must be buried in that pile of binary
>somewhere...

Sort of.  You won't like it.  For some reason, HP's widths specify setting
its proportional fonts ridiculously loose.  (The ones I've looked at do
this, anyway.)

>On a similiar note... I don't see a reverse data channel from the
>printer to the computer...

There is none.  Even when it physically exists, i.e. serial lines, the
only characters the printers will ever send are XON and XOFF.  Talk
about brain damage (in the designers, not the printers :-)).
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