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Subject: Re: Word Perfect and Laserjet: I don't understand!
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Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 11:31:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 17 11:31:40 1987
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In article <3962@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mic@lapis.berkeley.edu(Michel Bruneau) writes:
[ ... lots of questions regarding the LaserJet ... ]

I'll say what I can about the HP LaserJet and the Apple LaserWriter, but
can't say much about WordPerfect.

First off, you didn't say which LaserJet you have, as it does make a
difference.  The early LaserJets only support the internal fonts and one
font cartridge.  Roman 10cpi font is the major internal font.  Notice that
it is of fixed size, vertically and horizontally.  Font cartridge B, F & P
contain Times-Roman proportional, but at 10 point size only.  Font cartridge
K contains Times-Roman 10 and 8 point, proportional, with some math stuff.
Font Cartridges T, U and V contain Helvectica Bold in 10, 12 and 14 point
as well as Helvetica Medium in 6 and 8 point.  But, notice that I said
Font Cartridges, meaning you can't have all of these at once.  Makes
printing things a little rough.  Even though the Apple LaserWriter has
all of these resident, troff doesn't allow mixing Times-Roman and
Helvectica at the same time.

If you were to have the LaserJet+ or the 500, then you can do downloadable
fonts, which some of the newer versions of text processors are supporting.
I thought that WordPerfect 4.2 did support the LaserJet's downloadable
fonts.  For sure it supports the LaserWriter's PostScript language.

But, good news on the HP LaserJet front, they will be supporting PostScript
in their newer series II laser printers.

So, in conclusion, I would check the model of your LaserJet and the
version of your WordPerfect.

On the subject of IBM characters, most software doesn't support the
extended IBM character set, especially HP and the LaserJet.  In the case
of the Okidata, I'm not sure how you are entering the extended characters,
ie, using ALT+### to get the character on the screen, but the HP will not
be able to print it.  You need a driver for the HP using downloadable
characters. Actually you need something that UNIX has and that is TBL,
so that you can draw boxes.  It really does work great with troff and
the Apple LaserWriter.  I don't know if WordPerfect supports drawing
boxes or not.

In other words, the IBM extended character set is not the real world
way of drawing boxes.  This is my opinion, of course.  It is great for
the IBM-PC's screen, but lousy for putting onto paper.

The above has been my experience, working with the HP LaserJet+ and the
Apple LaserWriter+.
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