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From: carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where are the HP fonts ?
Keywords: PD fonts
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Date: 19 Dec 89 14:15:27 GMT
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In article <208@netdev.UUCP> root@neisse.UUCP (Alex Huppenthal) writes:
>Greetings fellow netlanders.
>I have about 5 fonts from the public domain for the HP printer. I just 
>received a list of another 10 or so on an University list server.
>My question is this:  
>
>   2. Has anyone found a way to use these fonts with MS-WORD?
>-Alex

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,
but creating a driver for cartridge fonts was fairly easy.  I used
the Word utility to "unassemble" an existing driver, edit it for
the new cartridge, and "reassemble" it as a PRD file.  The drivers are
structured like a lookup table, where you specify the font name to appear
in Word and the corresponding escape sequence to call up the font.

Bruce Carlson