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From: ttp@beta.lanl.gov (T T Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Character editor for LaserJet softfonts needed
Keywords: laserjet softfont character editor
Message-ID: <22159@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 27 Oct 88 21:55:11 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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I use soft fonts in an HP LaserJet II with a PC compatible to produce
overhead slides.  An annoying problem is that the soft fonts do not
include "bullets" which I like to use to emphasize main points.  I
would like to know if anyone knows of any soft font character editors
that I could use to 1) replace the soft font character for (e.g.)
grave accent with the character for lower case "o" and, 2) then edit
the new grave accent character to fill in the center.

I would envision displaying the character on the screen, using cursor
keys or the mouse to guide the cursor to specific dots in the
character and then hitting, e.g., + or - to turn on and off that dot.
An ideal implementation would include a command to automatically
download the font to the printer and print a test copy of the font.

If soft font editors are not available, I would appreciate someone
directing me to a reference that describes the encoding of soft font
characters so that I could write bare bones version of an editor
myself.

Thanks for any information you can offer me.

Terry Phillips
Los Alamos National Laboratory
ttp@beta.lanl.gov