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T S R D o w n l o a d Version 1.9b A memory resident soft font manager by Elfring Soft Fonts P.O. Box 61 Wasco, IL 60183 312-377-3520 or 708-377-3520 after 11/11/89 CIS: 72417,3437 Copyright 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts All rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.................................................. 1 Requirements.................................................. 2 Start Up...................................................... 2 Configuring TSR Download...................................... 2 Path........................................................ 3 Memory...................................................... 3 Printer Port................................................ 3 Loading TSR Download.......................................... 4 Running TSR Download.......................................... 7 Help........................................................ 8 Mark........................................................ 8 Download.................................................... 8 Memory Usage................................................ 9 Font Lists.................................................. 9 Soft Font ID Number......................................... 10 Exit........................................................ 10 Select a Font............................................... 10 Output Control.............................................. 10 Printer Control Menu........................................ 10 Change Subdirectory......................................... 11 Unload TSR Download......................................... 11 TSR Download Tutorial......................................... 12 Fontcat....................................................... 13 Typeface...................................................... 14 License And Other Information................................. 15 Association of Shareware Professionals........................ 15 TSR Download Order Form....................................... 17 INTRODUCTION TSR Download is a memory resident, (Terminate-and-Stay-Resident), soft font manager for the IBM PC. It locates your soft fonts automatically, and translates them into English! The program will download and/or select any HP compatible soft font. TSR Download remembers what fonts are in your printer and how much memory they take. The TSR Download program SHOULD be configured, (cus- tomized), before it is used. If you want to use the program in its memory resident mode you MUST load the program into memory before using it. The program can be called up from within any ap- plication by hitting a Hot-Key. TSR Download has a simple to use "point and shoot" interface and always has a short help screen available. The program can be removed from memory with a special key combination, provided it is the last memory resident program loaded. (TSR Download can also run from the command line.) All commands in TSR Download are mnemonic. Thus, the <D> key stands for Download, the <M> key for Memory, the key for Printer Control, etc. Basic commands include: <F1> or <H> Help screen <Esc> Exit Download <Return> or <Space> Mark font for later downloading <D> Download all marked fonts Set the next soft font ID number <L> Display fonts Loaded in your printer <M> Memory requirements for downloaded & marked fonts <O> Output to parallel, serial, or file Printer control menu <S> Select the highlighted soft font <C> Change the soft font subdirectory <Alt> Unload this program from memory This shareware package contains two programs: DL.EXE, and DLCFG.EXE. Additional utilities, FONTCAT.EXE and TYPEFACE.EXE are available to registered users. The DL.EXE and DLCFG.EXE programs are part of the TSR Download system, while the FONTCAT.EXE program is a utility that produces catalogs of your soft fonts. TYPEFACE.EXE lets you add proper typeface names to third party soft fonts. In addition, an information file READ.ME, a question and answer file, PROBLEM.TXT, and a site license file SITELIC.DOC will be found on this disk. The READ.ME file will contain information about any recent changes to the programs, and the PROBLEM.TXT file contains answers to common problems. Users are encouraged to register their version of TSR Download. Registered users are entitled to a number of benefits including: o A copy of the current version TSR Download (no opening share- ware screen, supports 32/100/200 soft fonts) o A configuration program that lets you alter the hot-key, window color, window position, error noise, number of directory reads, plus many other features 1 o Printed manual o A copy of our Soft Font Manual (it tells you everything you ever wanted to know about soft fonts.) o A copy of our FONTCAT utility program o A copy of the TYPEFACE utility program o A set of Helv & Roman LaserJet soft fonts (8 - 30 points) for only $30 additional o A set of Helv & Roman DeskJet soft fonts (6 - 30 points) for only $40 additional (30 pt is capitols and numbers only) REQUIREMENTS TSR Download requires an IBM PC, XT, AT or compatible computer with PC-DOS or MS-DOS operating systems 2.1 through 4.1. TSR Download occupies 38K of RAM when loaded into memory. An HP LaserJet+, Series II, DeskJet, or compatible printer is required, along with a parallel or serial printer port. Printer ports LPT1:, LPT2:, LPT3:, COM1:, and COM2: are supported. START UP The TSR Download program can be used as either a memory resident or a command line program. In either case you SHOULD configure the program before running it. Copy the DL.EXE and DLCFG.EXE files from the distribution disk to your hard disk or another floppy disk. You may make a separate subdirectory for them, store them in your MS-DOS command sub- directory, or place them in the root directory. Once copied you are ready to configure TSR Download. NEVER work with original TSR Download distribution disk since the configuration program physi- cally modifies the TSR Download program! Please read through the rest of this manual. Then configure TSR Download to suit your needs. Once loaded into memory TSR Download is at your command. CONFIGURING TSR DOWNLOAD The DLCFG program configures the memory resident DL.EXE program for your particular computer system. The configuration program SHOULD be run before you use the TSR Download program! Remember that the DLCFG program MODIFIES the DL.EXE program. To configure the program make sure that both DL.EXE and DLCFG.EXE are in the current subdirectory. (It doesn't matter where this is.) Then type: dlcfg path memory port_type port_number status The configuration program will start and attempt to locate the DL.EXE program. (If DL.EXE is not found the configuration program 2 will quit. Once found the DL.EXE program will be modified as per the command line arguments. PATH Download always needs to be told where your soft fonts are stored. You must specify the disk drive, subdirectory path, and wild card to be used to locate your fonts. Move the cur- sor to the "Disk Drive, Path, & Wild Card:" line and hit the <Return> key. Now enter a valid drive, path, and wild card. For example: D:\fonts\*.usp C:\*.* D:\WS2\FONT\*.US? Do not tell TSR Download that your soft fonts are lo- cated in the current subdirectory by typing: *.*. You must supply a disk drive, path, and wild card. The wild card pat- tern can be very useful. If your soft fonts are mixed in with other files you can locate them through the use of this wild card. For example, the wild card pattern "*.US?" will find all files with the extension ".USP" or ".USL". If your fonts are located in their own special subdirectory you can use the "*.*" wild card to locate all files in that sub- directory. MEMORY Printer Memory. Since the TSR Download program knows how much memory each font will use in your printer, the program can be set up to warn you when you try and download more fonts than your printer will hold. Just enter the number of Kbytes of RAM memory your printer has. A DeskJet has either 128 or 256 Kbytes of memory. A LaserJet typically comes with 512 kbytes. If you have additional memory it usually is added in 1 megabyte sections. So if you have 1 megabyte of additional memory you have 1560 Kbytes, (remember the 512K you started with), or with 2 megabytes you have 2608 Kbytes. To set a new memory limit, move the cursor to the "Printer Memory:" line and hit the <Return> key. Now enter your printer RAM memory from 0 - 6000 followed by the <Return> key. You can disable this memory limits check by entering 0. PORT_TYPE Download will work with parallel or serial printer ports. If you have a choice you should use a parallel printer port. Parallel communication is MUCH faster than serial. (It takes about 16 seconds to send 100K bytes of fonts to a LaserJet from an IBM AT.) Answer with a for parallel printer ports or an <S> for serial printer ports, followed by a <Return> key. NOTE that if you chose serial communication you must ini- tialize the communications port yourself. TSR Download will not do this for you! You can use the DOS mode command to set 3 the serial communication rate. For example, to set 9600 baud on communications port 1 type: mode COM1:9600,N,8,1,P <Return> PORT_NUMBER This option lets you specify the printer port number that is connected to your laser or DeskJet printer. You can specify a parallel printer port number from 1 to 3, or a serial printer port number from 1 to 2. Only numbers will be ac- cepted. If the number you enter is incorrect the screen will remain in edit mode. Hit the <Return> key when the printer port is correct. STATUS The TSR Download program always checks the status of the parallel printer port before sending any data. This normally works quite well. However, if you have a networked, non- standard, or a very fast computer you may experience problems. The TSR Download program might think your printer port is busy when it is actually free. If TSR Download tells you your printer port is busy when you know it is not, you can use this option to tell the program to ignore printer status. So, if you have printer problems try changing the <N> to a <Y> followed by a <Return> key. Please note that registered users receive a different configura- tion program along with the current version of TSR Download. That configuration program runs interactively and gives you greater control over the operation of TSR Download. LOADING TSR DOWNLOAD TSR Download works as either a memory resident or a command line program. The program can be passed one or two optional arguments when it is run. These arguments control command line operation and list file control. The general form of a TSR Download command is: dl [listfile] [-c/b] Where "listfile" is the name of a disk file that contains a list of font files to send to your printer, and "-c" or "-b" tells the program to run from the command line. The position of these op- tions in the command line does not matter. Fonts specified by a list file are always sent to the printer before anything else is done. Any time that a "-c" option is present as an argument the TSR Download program will run from the command line, but will still pop up after downloading the list of fonts. If you just want to send a list of font and do NOTHING else use the "-b" (batch file) option. Note that when the "-c" or "-b" option is present the program is not loaded into memory! 4 To use TSR Download from the command line type: dl -c The TSR Download window will appear immediately and the program will search for your soft fonts. All aspects of program operation are the same whether you are running from the command line or as a memory resident program. The only thing that changes is how the program is activated. To download a list of soft fonts use the "-b" option and type: dl listfile -b TSR Download will simply find the list file and then send each soft font mentioned in it to your printer. TSR Download will return back to the command line when finished, unlike the opera- tion of the "-c" option. To use the memory resident version of the program you must load it into memory first. The simplest way to load TSR Download in this fashion is to type the program name. For example: dl Your PC screen will display one of three different messages at this point. If the program was successfully loaded into memory you will see a brief message describing the configuration of TSR Download: Download is now loaded into memory. Use Ctrl-Alt-D to activate. Printer port 1, read directory once, warnings enabled, 32 fonts. Once activated Download can be removed by hitting Alt-U. If you try and install TSR Download again after it was previously loaded into memory, your PC will beep and the following error message will appear: Download is already loaded into memory. If, when you install TSR Download, you have too little free memory, or another TSR program conflicts with Download you will get a different error message. If this occurs, please call us and indicate what the error code was. Download can not be loaded, error code ##. When TSR Download is first loaded into memory you can optionally send a list of fonts to your printer. This is a handy way to ini- tialize your printer with the fonts you normally use. For in- stance, you could put the command to install the program in your autoexec.bat file and have TSR Download send your favorite soft fonts to your printer, as it was loaded into memory. 5 To send a list of soft fonts you must first create a disk file that contains the name of each soft font you wish to download. Note that the TSR Download program can automatically create this soft font list for you, or you can create it with any ASCII text editor. (For more information on how TSR Download can create this list file see the section on font lists.) These soft font list files may be stored anywhere on your com- puter. If you place these list files in the same subdirectory that your soft fonts are located in, Download will save you the trouble of typing in the disk drive and path name for that file. Thus, the general rule for soft font names and for list files is: if a disk drive and a path name are present in the list file name or the soft font name, that drive and path will be used. If no disk drive and path is specified, the list file and the soft fonts are assumed to be in your soft font subdirectory! How does this work in practice? Assume you have a soft font list file, called ROMAN.LST, stored in your soft font subdirectory. (Remember that you must configure TSR Download using the DLCFG.EXE program and define the subdirectory where your soft fonts will be stored.) To send this list of fonts to your printer as Download is first loaded into memory type: dl roman.lst or dl roman -c or dl roman -b Since no disk drive and path was specified for the font list file (roman.lst) TSR Download assumes that this file is found in your soft font subdirectory. If no file name extension is given .lst is assumed. Suppose you don't keep your soft font list file in the soft font subdirectory? In that case type: dl c:\softfonts\roman.lst In either case TSR Download will tell you what fonts it is send- ing to your printer. Printer status is also checked before each soft font is sent. (If your printer is off, not selected, or out of paper, you will have the option to fix the problem and then send the font, or stop the downloading sequence.) Note that when TSR Download sends a list of fonts this way it remembers what fonts are resident in your printer. The <M> command can be used to display a list of these fonts. Now that you understand how to send a list of fonts to your printer we should explain what a soft font list file looks like. Remember you can create these list files with any ASCII text editor, (EDLIN is an ASCII text editor), or you can have Download make them. In a soft font list file the name of each font appears on a 6 separate line. An optional disk drive and path may be placed before the font name. For example, if you have a set of six Times-Roman fonts in your soft font subdirectory the list file would appear as follows: TR100RPN.USP TR100BPN.USP TR100IPN.USP TR120RPN.USP TR120BPN.USP TR120IPN.USP RUNNING TSR DOWNLOAD The TSR Download program is activated by holding the <Ctrl> and <Alt> keys down while simultaneously pressing the <D> key. (Or use the key combination you selected with the configuration program.) A small window will appear in the center of your screen with a list of soft fonts. (See below.) NOTE that version 1.9b of TSR Download only supports 32 soft fonts at a time. The regis- tered version comes in three separate sizes: 32, 100, & 200 soft fonts. When more than 32 soft fonts are present, TSR Download 1.9b stops after locating the first 32 fonts. ╒══════════════════ TSR Download ═══════════════════╕ │BC140RPN.USP│BW180BPX.USP│CE100IPN.USP│CE180BPN.USP│ │BC180RPN.USP│BW240BPX.USP│CE100RPN.USP│CE240BPN.USP│ │BC240RPN.USP│BW300BPX.USP│CE120BPN.USP│CE300BPN.USP│ │BC300RPN.USP│CB140BPX.USP│CE120IPN.USP│CR150RPN.USP│ │BH100RPN.USP│CB180BPX.USP│CE120RPN.USP│DI120RPN.USP│ │BH120RPN.USP│CB240BPX.USP│CE140BPN.USP│GR100RPN.USP│ │BR250R46.USP│CB300BPX.USP│CE140IPN.USP│HE400BPN.USP│ │BW140BPX.USP│CE100BPN.USP│CE140RPN.USP│HE500BPN.USP│ │Bodoni, 18 point, bold [portrait LJ] │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ The window will now show a list of soft font names, sorted in al- phabetical order. At the bottom of this window a single line gives an English language explanation of the current, (highlighted), soft font. If you have more soft fonts than a single window will hold, the remainder of the fonts will appear on successive pages. Once activated, TSR Download responds to the following single key commands: <F1> or <H> Help screen <Esc> Exit DOWNLOAD <Return> or <Space> Mark font for later downloading <D> Download all marked fonts Set the next soft font ID number <L> Display fonts Loaded in your printer <M> Memory requirements for downloaded & marked fonts <O> Output control Printer control menu 7 <S> Select the highlighted soft font <C> Change the soft font subdirectory <Alt> Unload this program from memory While in TSR Download, you can move through the font list by using the cursor keys. The <Home> key takes you to the first font on a page, and the <End> key to the last. The <PgUp> & <PgDn> keys move between separate pages of fonts. The following section explains each of the above mentioned commands in detail. <F1> Help: A help menu is always available. It can be invoked by hitting either the <F1>, or <H> key. This menu summarizes the options available under Download. Use <PgUp> and <PgDn> to move through the Help screens. Return to the main display by hitting the <Esc> key. While you are in the help menu you can select any option key shown on it, (C, D, I, L, M, O, P, S, or Alt-U), and the program will automatically move to that feature. <Return> Mark: To mark a font for downloading or for list file creation you first move to the font by using the cursor keys. The up and down arrow keys move up and down the list of fonts. The left and right arrow keys move between columns in the list of fonts. The <Home> key can be used to return to the first font on a page. The <End> key moves to the last font on a page. The <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys move between pages of fonts. (These two keys only work if you have more than a full window, (32), of soft fonts.) To mark a font hit the <Return> or the <Space> key. The high- lighted font will be marked (its color will change), and the cur- sor will move down the list. If you accidentally mark a font you don't want, move back to it and use the <Return> or <Space> key. This will toggle the mark off. If you have enabled the printer memory check feature in the configuration program, TSR Download will check each time you mark a font to see if you have enough memory left to store it. (This feature can be disabled by enter- ing a value of 0 for printer memory.) When TSR Download detects you have exceeded your printers memory storage ability it flashes a brief message on the bottom of the window and makes a warbling sound. Note that the font is still marked and will be downloaded unless you un-mark it. You can use the <M> Memory option to review how much memory your marked fonts will take before they are downloaded. <D> Download: To download all marked fonts, hit the <D> key. Download will ask you whether you want to send your fonts now. Answer with a <Y> for yes, or an <N> for no. If you answer yes, TSR Download will check the printer status to make sure the printer is on line and ready. (If the printer is not ready, an error message will appear and you will have the option of fixing the problem or returning to the Download main menu.) The fonts will then be sent to the printer, and a status message will tell you what font is currently being downloaded. Once a font is downloaded to your printer it will appear in the list of fonts that can be displayed with the <M> option. 8 <M> Memory Usage: You can view memory requirements for all marked fonts and see a list of all soft fonts that have been pre- viously sent to your printer with this option. Just hit the <M> key. Marked font memory requirements will be shown on the bottom line of the window. The rest of the window will show a list of fonts now resident in your printer. While this list is displayed, you may clear it by hitting the <W> Wipe key. Note that changing the soft font subdirectory will clear this list. Use the <Esc> key to return to the main font menu. See the sample screen below: ╒═══════════════ Resident Printer Fonts ════════════╕ │HV100BPN.USP│UV180BPN.USP│ │ │ │HV100IPN.USP│152 Kbytes │ │ │ │HV100RPN.USP│ │ │ │ │SQ120R10.USP│ │ │ │ │TR100BPN.USP│ │ │ │ │TR100IPN.USP│ │ │ │ │TR100RPN.USP│ │ │ │ │TR140BPN.USP│ │ │ │ │9 marked fonts: 123 Kbytes, W wipes list, or ESC │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ <L> Font Lists: TSR Download will send a list of fonts to your printer or create a font list for you. To move to the font list menu hit the <L> key. Your display will look as follows: ╒═══════════════ List File Control ═════════════════╕ │ │ │ Send a list of fonts to the printer │ │ Create a font list and save it │ │ │ │ ESC to return to the main menu │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ Use the up and down cursor keys to move to the function you want. Then hit <Return> to select that function. In the screen shown above this would select the "Send font list" function. TSR Download would then prompt you for the name of the font list. Enter a font name and extension followed by a <Return>. All fonts in this list will be sent to your printer. If you make a mistake just use the <Esc> key to cancel. Remember that the Printer Font List will now contain those fonts. Please note that the when asked for a list file name you may specify a disk drive and path, or you may just enter the file name and extension. If only the file name and extension of the list file are given, that file is assumed to reside in your soft font subdirectory. (Change the subdirectory with the <C> key.) As a convenience for you any file name that does not have an ex- tension is assumed to have the default extension for list files ".LST". Thus the file names test.lst and test are equivalent. To enter a file name with no extension just add a period to the end of the file name. Thus test. and test.lst are not equivalent. Creating a font list from within TSR Download is easy. From the 9 main screen of TSR Download, mark the fonts you wish to put into a list file, just as if you were going to send them to the printer. Now enter the List File menu with the <L> key. Select the "Create a font list and save" option. TSR Download will prompt you for a file name for the new font list. Enter the new name followed by a return. (Note the program will never overwrite any existing file with the same name.) Once again, if you make a mistake and don't wish to create a list of fonts use the <Esc> key. Please note the warning above about disk drives and path names. This method of creating a list file will only work with soft fonts contained in a single subdirectory! Soft Font ID: The ID number to be assigned to the next soft font can be changed using this key. Hit the key and you will be prompted for an ID number from 0 to 65,535. Enter your ID num- ber followed by a <Return>. This number will be used for the next soft font that is downloaded. Each successive soft font will receive the next sequential number. (If you set the ID number to 5, and download 3 fonts, the first will get ID 5, the next ID 6, and the last ID 7. If you download more fonts later, the next soft font ID will be 8.) <Esc> Exit Download: You can leave TSR Download from the main menu by hitting the <Esc> key. This will return you to your ap- plication. <S> Select a Font: Any soft font resident in your printer can be selected as the primary font. To do this, first move the cur- sor to the font you want to select. Now hit the <S> key. TSR Download will ask you if you want to select this soft font. Answer with a <Y> or <N>. <O> Output Control: You can redirect the output of Download to a disk file, or change the serial or parallel printer port as- signment with this option. To select this option hit the <O> key. You will see a message "Parallel, Serial, or File (P/S/F):". To select a new parallel or serial printer port hit either or <S> respectively. You will be asked for the port number. Respond with a parallel port number 1 - 3 or a serial port number 1 - 2. To redirect all TSR Download output to a disk file, chose the (F) option. You will then be prompted for a disk file name. Please use a disk drive, path, and file name! All further output will be saved in this disk file. You can return to normal parallel or serial operation by first selecting the <O> option and then by specifying the port type and number. Printer Control Menu: To move to the printer control menu, use the key. You will see the menu shown below. Use the cur- sor keys to move to the desired action. Use the <Return> key to select an action. You will be asked to verify that you want to send this sequence to the printer. Answer with a <Y> for yes, or an <N> for no. If the printer is off, not selected, out of paper, or busy you can retry or abort this operation. Hit the <Esc> key to return back to the main menu. 10 ╒═════════════════ Printer Control ═════════════════╕ │ Form Feed 66 lines/page │ │ Reset the Printer 4 lines/inch │ │ Remove Soft Fonts 6 lines/inch │ │ Default font 8 lines/inch │ │ 10 cpi 12 lines/inch │ │ 16.67 cpi 16 lines/inch │ │ Landscape mode Manual feed │ │ Portrait mode Tray feed │ │ Now (Y/N)? │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ <C> Change Subdirectory: You can change the subdirectory and wild card that are used to locate soft fonts at any time. Doing this will clear the list of soft fonts that have been loaded into your printer. To change subdirectories, enter a <C>, followed by a valid disk drive, path, and wild card. (C:\fontsl\*.* for example.) If any item is missing TSR Download will ignore the new subdirectory information. <Alt> - Unload TSR Download: You can remove the resident portion of Download from memory provided no other program is loaded below it. Activate TSR Download from the command line, and use the <Alt> - key to select this option. You will be asked if you are sure you want to remove the program. Answer with a <Y> or <N>. TSR DOWNLOAD TUTORIAL This section gives a quick tutorial in how to install and use TSR Download. To begin, move to the disk drive and subdirectory that contains copies of the DL.EXE and DLCFG.EXE programs. (TSR Download and its matching configuration program.) Run the con- figuration program by typing its name as follows: dlcfg yourfontpath 512 p 1 n You must specify a disk drive, path, and wild card for your soft fonts in place of the word "yourfontpath". The minimum accept- able entry is: c:\*.*. Try and keep the wild card as specific as possible, since this speeds up program operation. If your soft fonts are located on disk drive D: in subdirectory \softfont and you have many different soft font names you would enter: d:\softfont\*.*. The "512" in the command tells TSR Download you have 512K of free memory. (You can modify this if you like.) The "p" and "1" tell TSR Download to use parallel printer port 1, LPT1. The "n" tells the program to pay attention to printer port status. Please note: if you have already loaded a version of TSR Download into memory you can not proceed with the next step of this tutorial until that version of the program is removed from memory or your system is rebooted. 11 Load TSR Download into memory by typing the program name: dl <Return> Now activate the program by holding down all the keys that make up the hot-key. To do this press <Ctrl><Alt><D>. A small blue window will appear on your screen, (or a bordered box on a monochrome system). A message will appear that indicates TSR Download is looking for your soft fonts. Once the directory is scanned for soft fonts a list of them will appear in this window. If the message "no soft fonts found" appears your subdirectory does not contain any soft fonts or you have incorrectly typed the disk drive, path, and wild card entry. The screen cursor should be highlighting the first file name entry in the upper left corner of this small window. The bottom line of the window will explain what this soft font is in English. Try moving the cursor about using the arrow, <Home>, and <End> keys. Notice the way the bottom line of the window al- ways translates the soft font into an easy to understand display. If you have more than 32 soft fonts in your subdirectory you can switch this window between different pages of them by hitting the <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys. Suppose you want to send two of these fonts to your printer. Move the cursor to the first font you want to send. Then hit the <Space> or <Return> key to mark this font for later use. Now move to the next font you want to send using the cursor keys. Once again mark the font with either the <Space> or <Return> key. Now that both fonts are marked hit the <D> key to download these marked soft fonts. TSR Download will ask if you are sure you want to continue. Make sure your printer is on and answer with a <Y>. TSR Download will display the name of each soft font as it is being downloaded. Once a soft font is resident in your printer you can select it from within TSR Download. Move the window cursor to the font file name. Then hit the <S> select key. That font is now the active font in your printer until the printer is reset or turned off. Leave TSR Download by hitting the <Esc> key. Now copy a disk directory to your printer: dir *.* >lpt1:. Notice that the directory is printed in the soft font you selected. Reactivate TSR Download by hitting the <Ctrl><Alt>(D) keys. If you can't remember what commands work in the program hit <F1> or <H> for help. A simple two page help screen will appear. Return from the help screen to the main window by hitting <Esc>. If you would like to know what fonts are now resident in your printer hit the <M> memory key. The window will display the soft fonts that have been sent to your printer and their memory re- quirements. In addition, the memory requirements of any soft fonts that are marked for later downloading will be displayed on the bottom line of the window. Hit the <Esc> key to return to the main window. 12 The printer control menu is available by hitting the printer key. You will now see a list of 16 things you can do. Use the cursor keys to move to the action you would like to take. To move to the "Remove soft fonts" entry hit the down arrow key two (2) times. Then hit the <Return> key. The bottom of the window will prompt you with an "Are you sure?" message. Enter a <Y> for yes and all resident soft fonts in your printer will be deleted. In addition the list of fonts displayed when you use the <M> com- mand will also be cleared. Use the <Esc> key to return back to the main window. The last thing to try in this tutorial is the List command. There is a much easier way to download a number of soft fonts all at one time rather than marking each individual font. Make sure you are at the main window which shows a list of all your soft font file names. Pick out three or four fonts and mark them. (Move the cursor to each one and hit the <Return> key.) Now hit the <L> list key. A new screen will appear that gives you two choices: Send a list, or Create a list. Use the cursor key to move down to the "Create a font list" entry and hit <Return>. The bottom line of this window will prompt you for a font list file name. The simplest thing to do is to make up a file name with no extension. Try naming your list file sample. If you don't specify a disk drive and path, TSR Download automatically uses the one from your soft font subdirectory. If you don't specify a file name extension TSR Download adds the extension ".lst" all by itself. So you have now created a list file that is saved in your soft font subdirectory called sample.lst. To send all the fonts in that list to your printer, move the cur- sor up to the "Send a list of fonts" entry. Hit the <Return> key. TSR Download will ask for the list file name. Enter sample followed by a <Return>. All the fonts in this list will now be sent to your printer. They will also appear in the Memory dis- play. Hit the <Esc> key twice to exit this menu and the TSR Download program itself. FONTCAT The FONTCAT program is a unique utility that prints a complete catalog of all the soft fonts you own. The FONTCAT program scans your disk for soft fonts, analyzes them, and prints a simple report in English that describes each font you own. To run FONTCAT you simply specify the disk drive, path, and wild card to be used to search for your soft fonts. A sample catalog is dif- ficult to show in a limited space like this. The catalog shows the font file name first, followed by the typeface name. Note that FONTCAT can display the true typeface name of any soft font, not just the standard typefaces defined by HP. The catalog then shows the font point size and pitch. Proportionally spaced fonts display the entry "prop." while fixed width fonts have their pitch displayed here. The stroke weight of the font and its style are displayed next. Font orientation, 13 the symbol set and the printer the font is designed for are then shown. Finally, the font file size is displayed in kilo bytes. To make a catalog of your soft fonts you only need to know the subdirectory where they are stored. Make sure your printer is turned on and ready, and then type: fontcat c:\fonts\*.* This will locate all valid soft font files on C: in subdirectory \fonts. You can also change the printer port to any other valid parallel or serial port, or you can redirect the catalog to a disk file! To print the same catalog to LPT2 or COM1 type: fontcat c:\fonts\*.* LPT2 fontcat c:\fonts\*.* COM1 Finally, to send the catalog to the disk file "catalog.txt" on drive D: type: fontcat c:\fonts\*.* d:\catalog.txt TYPEFACE TYPEFACE is a program that lets you modify a soft font's typeface name. BitStream does not properly follow the HP convention for naming soft fonts. So, TSR Download can not give you an English typeface name for some fonts made by BitStream. With TYPEFACE you can modify the names of all your BitStream fonts, and thus cor- rect this problem. LIMITATIONS: The program will not work across subdirectories. You must change to the subdirectory your fonts are stored in before using TYPEFACE. The first 25 typefaces (numbers 0 - 24) have been defined by HP. No matter what you change their names to the original name will still appear. To run TYPEFACE, change to your soft font subdirectory, and give typeface a font name or wild card plus a typeface name. For in- stance: typeface fontname typeface_name where fontname is any soft font file name or wild card and typeface_name is the name of the type face Examples: typeface he100rpn.usp Helvetica typeface bh*.* "Boxed Helv" typeface gs*.us? "Gill Sans" 14 LICENSE AND OTHER INFORMATION Users of TSR Download must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "TSR Download is supplied as is. The author disclaims all war- ranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of TSR Download." TSR Download is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to con- tinue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and you continue to use TSR Download after a trial period of 20 days, you must make a registration payment of $35.00 to Elfring Soft Fonts. The $35.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of TSR Download must register and pay for their copies of TSR Download within 10 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Elfring Soft Fonts. Anyone distributing TSR Download for any kind of remuneration must first contact Elfring Soft Fonts at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering TSR Download immediately (However Elfring Soft Fonts must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of TSR Download.). You are encouraged to pass a copy of TSR Download along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the TSR Download program, along with numerous other benefits as explained in the documentation. We will also send them an information packet that describes other software available from Gary Elfring and Elfring Soft Fonts. Member ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) Gary Elfring is a Member of The Association of Shareware Profes- sionals (ASP). ASP has established stringent standards for its members. ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a problem with an ASP member (other than technical support), ASP may be able to help. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bel- levue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. If you like TSR Download tell your friends! If you don't like TSR Download tell us! To keep prices on products like this as low as they are we cannot afford to advertise. You are our form of advertisement! Tell your friends. If you have the oppor- tunity to write an article in a newsletter or a trade magazine and like TSR Download spread the word! We need all of the help we can get to put quality software into the users hands without charging inflated prices! If you do write an article about TSR Download we would appreciate hearing from you. Elfring Soft Fonts P.O. Box 61 Wasco, IL 60183 312-377-3520 (708-377-3520 after 11/11/89) CIS: 72417,3437 TSR Download Order Form Support quality shareware and register this copy of TSR Download V1.9b. The registration fee you pay will entitle you to support & the following: TSR Download in 32/100/200 font versions, FONTCAT & TYPE- FACE utilities, printed manual, & The Soft Font Manual. $35.00 ______ The TSR Download package above PLUS LaserJet portrait and landscape Helv & Roman soft fonts in 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, & 30 points. (Equivalent to the HP AC soft font set) $65.00 ______ The TSR Download package above PLUS DeskJet portrait Helv & Roman soft fonts in 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, & 30 pts. (6 - 14 pt in medium/bold/italic) $75.00 ______ [ ]Word Perfect 5.0, [ ]Word 5.0 [ ]PC Write 3.0X, or [ ]WordStar 5.5C DeskJet printer driver $20.00 ______ US shipping and handling $3.00 ______ Canada & Mexico shipping and handling $5.00 ______ All other foreign orders $8.00 ______ Illinois residents add 6-1/2 percent sales tax 6.5% ______ Total ______ Payment: [ ] VISA [ ] MC [ ] Check (US funds) [ ] PO ($50 minimum) Make all checks payable to: Elfring Soft Fonts # ______________ Card Number: ______ ______ ______ ______ Expiration: ____________ Signature: _______________________________________________________ Name: __________________________________________________ Company: __________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________ City/State/Zip: __________________________________________________ Day time phone: __________________________________________________ Comments: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Source of shareware TSR Download: ________________________________ Printer: [ ] LaserJet+, [ ] LaserJet II, [ ] Compatible, [ ] DeskJet Elfring Soft Fonts P.O. 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