Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:898 comp.text:5901 comp.periphs.printers:78 comp.sys.ibm.pc:40521 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!mlawless From: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Where are the HP fonts ? Keywords: PD fonts Message-ID: <5728@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 21 Dec 89 14:41:52 GMT References: <208@netdev.UUCP> <83643@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless) Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, KS Lines: 43 In article <83643@linus.UUCP> carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) writes >If the PD fonts include documentation that shows the escape sequences to >use to access the fonts you should be able to use MAKEPRD (comes with >Word) to create a driver. I have never tried it with downloadable fonts, One more wrinkle--any fonts (downloadable or not) that are proportionally spaced need a width table. If one is not provided with the font, you can figure it out for yourself, although the procedure is somewhat tedious. First, make a document file containing one line for each printable character in the font(s) in question, each line containing 30 occurrences of the same character. You will need to have the basic PRD file already created, so you can actually select the fonts for printing (even though the width information is not yet entered). For each font, format the entire document using that font and print it. The length of each line (measured to the tenth of an inch) times 10 will be the width of that character in that font in dots, to be entered in the appropriate width table. Finally, a DAT file is also required. This is what word uses to relate the font specification in the document to a filename for the font download file for each font. The Word 5.0 Printer Information manual has a section describing the format of this file; unfortunately, it must be edited in binary (using something akin to Norton Utilities), since no tool is provided by Microsoft for edit DAT files. The best way to get started with downloadable fonts for the LJ and Word is ot get the $10 Bitstream Fontware package through Microsoft (available to all registered Word users). It comes with Dutch (Times Roman) and Swiss (Helve- tica) fonts, can create load files in any size from 6 to 127 points in 1/2 point increments, automatically creates PRD and DAT files for each font set specified, and can create fonts for LaserJets, Postscript printers, and Windows screen fonts. All in all, this is an outstanding value for $10. Of course, additional font styles are on the order of $200 apiece, and you will need some serious disk space if you intend to keep too awful many fonts around at one time. And the generation of fonts is rather slow. Quality of the generated fonts, BTW, is quite good. -- Mike Lawless, NCR E&M Wichita, Box 20 (316) 636-8666 (NCR: 654-8666) 3718 N. Rock Road, Wichita, KS 67226 Mike.Lawless@Wichita.NCR.COM {ece-csc,hubcap,gould,rtech}!ncrcae!ncrwic!Mike.Lawless {sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!Mike.Lawless