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From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Scalable Font DJ Driver
Message-ID: <4302@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 15 Mar 91 10:58:08 GMT
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fritsch@threonine.cs.unc.edu (Dan Fritsch) writes:

>I noticed someone has posted the LJ III scalable font driver
>on cica. I understand that there is also a similar driver
>for Deskjets (Plus and 500) that HP sent to DJ 500 owners.
>Could someone post this driver to cica, or email it to me
>and I'll post it?

I ordered this driver by sending 10 irish pound (~ DM 27 or $15) to
an address in Ireland, and got it a week ago. It containes
a notice which explicitely disallowes copying the driver.

The reason for the fact that the LJ III scalable font driver is freely
copyable and the scalable Deskjet driver is not, is probably
that HP already has payed Agfa for the scalable fonts built into
the LJ III, but hasn't done so for the DeskJet and DeskJet plus.

Wolfgang Strobl
#include <std.disclaimer.hpp> 

PS:

By the way, does anybody know why the new scalable Deskjet driver
refuses to print within 1.25 cm of the top of the page?

The DeskJet driver which comes with Windows 3.0 only needs a 0.76 cm
margin an the top. I have to rework most of my document templates
because of this unnecessary and undocumented new restriction.