Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!p4tustin!carl From: carl@point4.com (Carl W. Bergerson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Print Postscript font on 9-pin printer program wanted Message-ID: <4879@p4tustin.UUCP> Date: 20 Jun 91 14:59:02 GMT References: <1991Jun13.125305.22403@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Organization: POINT 4 Data Corporation, Tustin, CA Lines: 54 In article <2811@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> tsuming@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (Tsu-Ming Huang) writes: >I am tired to go out to use Mac and make a laser copy each time I want to >modify my document. I heard from my friend that there is some program which >can print documents on ordinal 9/24-pin dot matrix printer which has >similiar quality as a laser copy, do you folks know where can I get such >program? > >-Scott Chu Seven or so years ago I bought and used a program called Fancy Font. This program could print on my 9 pin Citizen MSP-20 (an Epson FX-80 enhanced clone) at something like 212x244 dpi. This program was (is?) distributed by a company named Softcraft in, if memory serves me correctly, Wisconsin. Please do not confuse this Softcraft with the Softcraft (bought by Novell a couple of years ago) in Texas that distributed Btrieve. Back to Fancy Font. Fancy Font read in a text file and produced output suitable for a small variety of printers. You had to have the version of Fancy Font that was compatible with the type of printer you had. As I mentioned above my copy was for Epson FX and compatibles. You could insert directives into the text file to cause Fancy Font to fill and adjust your text, indent, skip lines, change fonts and type sizes and the like. All in all it felt much like a subset of troff, the Unix typesetting program. In addition to Fancy Font, which came with some basic fonts and sizes, you could buy more fonts and sizes, a font editor, and a kerning program as well as interface prograams to Word? and WordPerfect?. If you didn't use the word processing programs that Fancy Font had special interfaces for you were on your own for supplying a text editor, spelling checker and hyphenation program (Fancy Font supported a soft hyphen feature). I used the MKS version of vi, IBM Personal Productivity Word Proof, and a modified version of Allen Holub's hyphen (Dr. Dobbs ca. 1985) for these functions, respectively. In summary, Fancy Font produced tremendous output on dot matrix printers using various fonts and sizes. Sorry I don't have any information on how you can contact the company or where you can buy this program today. Carl -- Carl Bergerson uunet!p4tustin!carl Point 4 Data Corporation carl@point4.com 15442 Del Amo Avenue Voice: (714) 259 0777 Tustin, CA 92680-6445 Fax: (714) 259 0921