Many commercial font-management programs are now on the market,
includingInsight Development’sLaserControl, Blaha Software’s HotLead,
SoftCraft’sLaserFonts, and the PCL printer driver in Microsoft’s Windo~)s.
Theseutility programshelp you download fonts, thenlet you accessthe fonts
automatically from your word processor or other programs.
,Mostfont files on disk that you buy to download into your printer have
Escape sequences right in the file, which simplify the process. Usually all
youhave todo iscopy the filefrom your computerinto yourprinter (youmust
assign afont ID number first). If you download fonts with the MS-DOS
COPY utility, make sure to use the COPY /Eloption. That will keep your
computerfrom “interpreting” the data you send, which sometimes produces
badly shaped characters.
OK, let’s look at acouple of examples.
3.4.6 Downloading afont: example one
Example one isfor acomputer running just MS-DOS.
Say you’vebought Hewlett-Packard’s Century Schoolbook fonts and want
to download the regular (upright), italics and boldface characters. The HP
disk labels for each file are CN100RPN.R8P, CN 100IPN.R8P and
CN1OOBPN.R8P.In case you’re interested, that’s HP’s code for CeNtury,
100decipoints, Regular (or Italic or Bold), ProportioNal, Roman-8 symbol
set, Portrait.
Oneof thedisksyou getalso containsabatch filenamed DOWNLOAD.BAT.
Toload the regularupright font youmake sure theprinter is online,then after
your computer’s A> prompt you type:
DOWNLOAD CN1OORPN.R8P
Whenthe program asks for thefont ID number you key in anumberbetween
Oand 32767.Then when the program asks whether you want the font stored
permanently or temporarily you type either Por T(a temporary font
disappears if you press the printer’s [RESET] button). Finally the program
asksif you want to print asample of the font and you reply Yor Nfor yes or
no.
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