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From: jcmorris@mbunix.mitre.org (Morris)
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 22:09:07 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 you have the Fontware for Word package uSoft offers for its Word customers
(free? $5? something like that) or the support programs from SoftCraft you
can just feed the soft font to the package with your current .PRD file
and get out an updated .PRD (and frequently a new .DAT as well) without
having to go through the source and the MAKEPRD program.  The real advantage
to doing it this way is that the Fontware (or whatever) program builds the
necessary width tables in the .PRD file so that Word knows how much space
to allocate for a line.