dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) (04/14/89)
Are there any third-party font-vendors who supply their fonts in HP
DeskJet cartridges? I've looked at HP's rather limited selection of
DeskJet font cartridges, and haven't been too impressed... I find their
TmsRmn distinctly inferior to Adobe's Times-Roman, for example. I'd
really like to find the Palatino font (or a lookalike) in a DeskJet
cartridge.
DeskJet-compatible softfonts would be another possibility. I have the
technical documentation for the softfont data/file format, and could
perhaps take a LaserJet soft-font and translate it into DeskJet format.
Seems like a lot of work, though, and HP warns that such converted fonts
may result in too-light characters unless manually edited.
Also, I'm using the DeskJet with a Macintosh, and the driver I use
doesn't have a softfont-downloading capability... I'd need to write a
downloader myself, I guess.
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