kevino@hpccc.HP.COM (Kevin Owen) (01/05/89)
I am using MS Word with an HP PaintJet printer an would like to exploit the features of the printer. The printer description file (hppaint.prd) that is shipped by Microsoft only knows about PICA font. Has anybody out there created a PRD file that knows about additional fonts? How about soft fonts? Would you be willing to post your "handiwork"?? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _ , __ Kevin Owen @ Hewlett-Packard ' ) / / ') Cupertino, California /-< _ , __o ____ / / , , , _ ____ Phone : (408) 447-0218 / ) </_\/ <__/ / < (__/ (_(_/_</_/ / <_ UN*X Mail ...hplabs!hpccc!kevino ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ppa@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul P. Austgen) (01/10/89)
I use Microsoft Word 4.0 with a Paintjet. I can give you two sets of answers: What I do now that I know works, and What I have read that should work. The paintjet actually has two built-in fonts. The 12 point is Pica, but the 10 and 7 point are Letter Gothic. The Word printer manual and program (through the .prd files) are apparently in error on this point. Anyway, the printer will print in these fonts regardless of what Word says, depending on which size you specify. The paintjet does not have enough memory to download fonts. Thus, you are stuck with the built-in fonts as described above. The printer manual states that custom fonts may be down-loaded and describes how to do so, but this is intended to be more on a character by character basis. In any event, Word does not know about the escape sequences, and you would have to do some sort of custom driver. Now, to what I have read, that could expand your usage of fonts on the paintjet. (You can also refer to Computer Shopper, JAN 89, Page 605). HP has written a new driver for the Paintjet that works in Windows. This driver causes the printer to print the many fonts available in Windows, thus giving you WYSIWYG. These are "soft" fonts, but they are not down-loaded to the paintjet. They are "ram" fonts. I assume that the printer must be in graphics mode, which may be slow. Microsoft has announced a new version of Word for Windows. There's a short blurb about it in December Byte Magazine. An upgrade is available at less than full price. I haven't tried it yet.