pwong@ihuxv.ATT.COM (Wong) (01/11/89)
I just purchased a Deskjet printer. I need the following fonts that are not a part of the standard Courier: * 12 pitch (12 cpi) Elite * Italics The HP Elite Prestige Cartridge provides the above and costs about $71. I am considering using soft fonts instead. I believe that I must buy the disks. Do the disks that came with Deskjet have soft fonts? Are there any public domain soft fonts available? Do I need 256K or will just one 128K RAM cartridge do (about $85)? Wordperfect does not give me the SOFT FONTS menu when I go into Printer->Edit->Cartridge and Soft Fonts. Does this mean that I need a different copy of 5.0? (My version doesn't support Soft Fonts on the Deskjet.) Thanks in advance for any comments and recommendations. Pat Wong ihnp4!ihuxv!pwong
benoitm@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Benoit Menendez) (01/14/89)
> I just purchased a Deskjet printer. Great choice. > I need the following fonts > that are not a part of the standard Courier: > > * 12 pitch (12 cpi) Elite > > * Italics > > The HP Elite Prestige Cartridge provides the above and costs about $71. > > I am considering using soft fonts instead. I believe that I must buy > the disks. Do the disks that came with Deskjet have soft fonts? Are there any > public domain soft fonts available? Do I need 256K or will just one > 128K RAM cartridge do (about $85)? The soft fonts (by HP) for the DeskJet contain only Helvetica and Times-Roman in 8, 10, 12, 14, (4, 5, 6, 7) points in normal, bold, italic, bold italic, with ASCII charset or HP-Roman8 charset. No Prestige Elite, but you can get your hands on a LaserJet public-domain soft font and use a LJ-to-DJ soft font converter (I have written one). If you are using only soft-fonts with WP, I strongly suggest two RAM Cartridges. > Wordperfect does not give me the SOFT FONTS menu when I go into > Printer->Edit->Cartridge and Soft Fonts. Does this mean that I need > a different copy of 5.0? (My version doesn't support Soft Fonts on the > Deskjet.) In order to select the soft fonts in WP, you must have the .ALL file containing the DeskJet driver (WPRINT1.ALL or WPRINT2.ALL, I don't remember) in your WP directory. Then you can change your soft-font configuration. The problem is that WP only knows about HP cartridges and soft fonts. Conclusion: Until I finish that program to automatically modify the WP DeskJet driver to support arbitrary softfonts, your are stuck with the Elite Cartridge. Benoit. ---------------------------------------- Benoit Menendez ARPANET : benoitm%hpmwtd@hplabs.hp.com UUCP : ...hplabs!hpmwtd!benoitm