Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!obelix.cs.uoregon.edu!akm From: akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows not auto-downloading softfonts Summary: fonts cannot be anything but permanent on a DJ Keywords: Deskjet, soft fonts Message-ID: <1991Jun5.002728.25228@cs.uoregon.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 00:27:28 GMT References: <1991Jun3.210027.118@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon Lines: 34 In article <1991Jun3.210027.118@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mdcg7180@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael David Carr) writes: >Has anyone had problems getting Windows to automatically download >temporary softfonts to a Deskjet, like the manual says is supposed >to happen when an application calls for a particular soft font? > >I've followed the directions to the tee, but when I go to print >using any [not previously loaded] soft font, I get the printer's >built in font (Courier). This happens whether I'm using a Windows >app or not. This might be something for the FAQ. The Windows documentation is wrong/misleading regarding soft fonts and the deskjet. Apparently the DJ is incapable of having fonts loaded temporarily. The only way that it can load fonts is permanently. I got into an electronic conversation wit{ some folks from HP about a year ago about this very thing, and that is what they told me. They claimed that they had made this clear when they gave the driver and its documentation to MS, but MS changed it before releasing the driver. The whole thing left me very irritated, but unable to have fonts downloaded temporarily... The solution is to use ATM or the HP Scalable fonts driver. The latter is not recommended for the original DJ. kartik -- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Research Assistant, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-3989 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202