wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) (06/21/88)
I have just ordered the "downloadable font" hardware option for my Toshiba P321 (*not* P321SL) 24-pin dot-matrix printer (currently avail- able direct from Toshiba for about $45 plus tax and shipping). I plan to try my hand at developing my own fonts. I use Microsoft Word 4.0 on an IBM PC/XT clone for my home word processing needs. I think I understand, from the Toshiba P321 manual, what form the downloading info must take. However, the Microsoft Word documentation isn't anything like sufficiently detailed for me to figure out how to put together my own downloadable font and get it loaded properly. If anyone out there has experience with using downloadable fonts with Microsoft Word on an IBM or clone (whether with a Toshiba P321 or not, and whether you have designed your own fonts or not), I would very much appreciate it if you could contact me via e-mail (see below for my address). Also, if anyone knows of a PD or shareware tool for creating download- able fonts, I would be grateful to hear about it. -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA wales@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales "We would all become unpeople, undoing unthings untogether."
anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (06/21/88)
In article <13722@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes... ]I have just ordered the "downloadable font" hardware option for my ]Toshiba P321 (*not* P321SL) 24-pin dot-matrix printer (currently avail- ]able direct from Toshiba for about $45 plus tax and shipping). I plan ]to try my hand at developing my own fonts. I use Microsoft Word 4.0 on ]an IBM PC/XT clone for my home word processing needs. ] ]I think I understand, from the Toshiba P321 manual, what form the ]downloading info must take. However, the Microsoft Word documentation ]isn't anything like sufficiently detailed for me to figure out how to ]put together my own downloadable font and get it loaded properly. ] ]If anyone out there has experience with using downloadable fonts with ]Microsoft Word on an IBM or clone (whether with a Toshiba P321 or not, ]and whether you have designed your own fonts or not), I would very much ]appreciate it if you could contact me via e-mail (see below for my ]address). ] ]Also, if anyone knows of a PD or shareware tool for creating download- ]able fonts, I would be grateful to hear about it. I'm in a quite similar situation with similar equipment, so responders might consider posting here, to help out more people. ==Jess Anderson======(home:)========INTERNET: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu==== | 1210 W. Dayton 2838 Stevens UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,allegra,ucbvax} | | Madison, WI 53706 Madison 53705 !uwvax!vms3.macc.wisc.edu!anderson | ==608/263-6988=======608/238-4833===BITNET: anderson@wiscmacc===============
dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) (06/23/88)
To create downloadable fonts for the Toshiba P321 (and P321SL) you can use the PD program called FED (FontEDitor) written by Jeffrey William Gillette and distributed by Duke University as the Duke University Language Toolkit. Send two blank, formatted 360k diskettes to Jeffrey William Gillette, Humanities Computing Facility, 104 Languages Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706. Phone (919) 684-3637 FED requires an EGA. The Toolkit also allows you to create fonts for the EGA itself, and for the IBM ProPrinter and Epson FX-80/85. Support for the HP LaserJet was in the works last time I checked (months ago). Dominik Wujastyk -- bitnet: user DOW on the bitnet node HARVUNXW arpanet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!dow