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From: benoitm@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Benoit Menendez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet Font Downlaods
Message-ID: <910006@hpmwbam.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 18:18:49 GMT
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Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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> The answer is no, it does not.   (I'm posting instead of mail as this is
> a common misconception).  It is still a great printer though.  I think
> that you find that the hardest thing to get around with soft fonts is
> not the difference in formats, but that the deskjet requires the characters
> to be downloaded in ascending order.

I don't think that this is much of a problem. The inability to do automatic
kerning by storing negative paddings in the character descriptor is more of a
problem. This makes italic or large soft fonts look bad unless your word
processor can compensate for this restriction.

It is indeed a great printer, the print quality is amazing.

	Benoit.