dinolt@wdl.fac.com (George W Dinolt) (05/07/91)
I have a Deskjet+ printer with a 256K Byte softfont cartridge. I have been trying to write software to download my own softfonts. (I am using a 68000 based machine.) Eventual goal is to write a driver to download TeX fonts to use with a dvijet program. The documentation which came with the printer contains no discussion of softfonts and other documentation I have found from third parties doesn't seem to help either. Optimally, what I would like is C sources which demonstrate how a download is down, even for just one character. Pointers to HP (or other) manuals which describe the process would also help. Probably best not to pollute the network with this, so direct mail might be best. If enough others are intersted I could summarize and post. Thanks. -- Regards, George Dinolt (dinolt@wdl1.wdl.loral.com, (408) 473-4150)
kjc@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (05/10/91)
In article <DINOLT.91May6103948@wdl45.wdl.fac.com>, dinolt@wdl.fac.com (George W Dinolt) writes: > I have a Deskjet+ printer with a 256K Byte softfont cartridge. I have > been trying to write software to download my own softfonts. (I am > using a 68000 based machine.) Eventual goal is to write a driver to > download TeX fonts to use with a dvijet program. The documentation > which came with the printer contains no discussion of softfonts and > other documentation I have found from third parties doesn't seem to > help either. Optimally, what I would like is C sources which > demonstrate how a download is down, even for just one character. > Pointers to HP (or other) manuals which describe the process would > also help. > > Probably best not to pollute the network with this, so direct mail > might be best. If enough others are intersted I could summarize and > post. > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > George Dinolt (dinolt@wdl1.wdl.loral.com, (408) 473-4150) > Thu May 09 15:47:34 BST 1991 Dear George, There is a package called "jetroff" available from uunet.uu.net in the directories ... comp.sources.misc/volume4/jetroff (original sources) comp.sources.misc/volume5/jetroff (patches) comp.sources.misc/volume8/jetroff (more patches) jetroff is a ditroff to LaserJet (II+III) postprocessor. It uses fonts in TeX "pk" format (internally) but eventually produces LaserJet output. It also includes a utility for converting HP SoftFonts to pk format. We use the HP Times Roman and Helvetica SoftFonts in this manner with excellent results (as good as psroff and Adobe Times Roman). Assuming the Deskjet+ is compatible with the Laserjets then the two files from the jetroff distribution that will be of interest to you are sfp2pk.c - convert soft fonts to pk format and pk16.c - unpack and download pk fonts. Hope this helps ... Kenny Chan kjc@uk.ac.liv.cs P.S I tried mailing you direct but the message got bounced!! >