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From: U39648@uicvm.uic.edu (Darius Vaskelis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: LaserJet to DeskJet Soft Fonts
Message-ID: <90303.185526U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 00:55:26 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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I have a program that I got from the SIMTEL20 archives called DJFONT, by
Charles Tyson, version 0.3, that converts LaserJet to DeskJet Soft Fonts.

It seems to work in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and a couple of other programs
I've tried... except... (gasp!)... Microsoft Windows 3.0.

I'm using the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet Family Printer Driver version A.03.01,
with my DeskJet 500 with 256K configured as a DeskJet PLUS with 256K.  The
driver thinks all my converted fonts are 0 points high.  I can still use them,
and even manually type in the correct point size in any application, and they
work.  But, sticky things happen if I have 12pt Helvetica and 10pt Helvetica
and Windows thinks they are both 0pt Helvetica.

Does anyone know of a newer version of DJFONT?  Or any other program, public
domain, shareware, or commercial, that will convert LaserJet fonts to DeskJet
format in such a way that Windows properly supports them?

- Darius
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