mbeck@ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) (09/28/90)
Hello * I'm cross-posting to two different newsgroups, figuring that someone must have already done this with the environment I'm dealing with (IBM-PC and HP LJ-II). I have two HP proportional soft fonts for the LJII (AD and AF). The editing software in use needs the proportional spacing data (i.e; the character width) to correctly format text to the printer. It works out that my software has data on only a few of the available fonts. I *know* the width data must be buried in that pile of binary somewhere. Has anyone written software to retrieve it? On a similiar note... I don't see a reverse data channel from the printer to the computer.. and I'd like to get the proportional spacing data from the ROM's. Same problem: the software has only a few of the fonts stored in internal tables. If the font spacing data is available, I'd appreciate a pointer. Information will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Mark +-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Mark Becker | .signature under | | Internet: mbeck@ai.mit.edu | construction | +-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/30/90)
In article <11064@life.ai.mit.edu> mbeck@ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) writes: >I have two HP proportional soft fonts for the LJII (AD and AF). The >editing software in use needs the proportional spacing data... >I *know* the width data must be buried in that pile of binary >somewhere... Sort of. You won't like it. For some reason, HP's widths specify setting its proportional fonts ridiculously loose. (The ones I've looked at do this, anyway.) >On a similiar note... I don't see a reverse data channel from the >printer to the computer... There is none. Even when it physically exists, i.e. serial lines, the only characters the printers will ever send are XON and XOFF. Talk about brain damage (in the designers, not the printers :-)). -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) (10/01/90)
In article <11064@life.ai.mit.edu>, mbeck@ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) writes: > [...] > I have two HP proportional soft fonts for the LJII (AD and AF). [...] > I *know* the width data must be buried in that pile of binary > somewhere. Has anyone written software to retrieve it? > [...] Try SIMTEL20's MSDOS archives, namely directory PD1:<MSDOS.LASER>, where there must be at least one such extracting program ("CTABLE.ARC"), along with any info to retrieve them yourself in case you don't have the proper manual along with the printer. If this fails, I have an old Pascal program (Turbo's, version 3) that does just that, as well as some c routines to play with fonts in several ways. Markus Fischer, Dpt. of Anthropology, Geneva.