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From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Microsoft Word 4.0 and downloading printer fonts
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Date: 21 Jun 88 04:27:57 GMT
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I have just ordered the "downloadable font" hardware option for my
Toshiba P321 (*not* P321SL) 24-pin dot-matrix printer (currently avail-
able direct from Toshiba for about $45 plus tax and shipping).  I plan
to try my hand at developing my own fonts.  I use Microsoft Word 4.0 on
an IBM PC/XT clone for my home word processing needs.

I think I understand, from the Toshiba P321 manual, what form the
downloading info must take.  However, the Microsoft Word documentation
isn't anything like sufficiently detailed for me to figure out how to
put together my own downloadable font and get it loaded properly.

If anyone out there has experience with using downloadable fonts with
Microsoft Word on an IBM or clone (whether with a Toshiba P321 or not,
and whether you have designed your own fonts or not), I would very much
appreciate it if you could contact me via e-mail (see below for my
address).

Also, if anyone knows of a PD or shareware tool for creating download-
able fonts, I would be grateful to hear about it.

-- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683
   3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA
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