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D O W N L O A D
A Soft Font Companion Program For GRAB
From:
Elfring Soft Fonts
P.O. Box 61
Wasco, Illinois 60183
312-377-3520
(9 - 5 CST)
CIS: 72417,3437
Contents
1 SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
3 RUNNING DOWNLOAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
4 USING DOWNLOAD WITH GRAB . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5 ERROR MESSAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6 COMMON PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7 ABOUT ELFRING SOFT FONTS . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8 LICENSING INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9 REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10 WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11 Elfring Soft Font Registration . . . . . . . . 9
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1 SUMMARY
DOWNLOAD is a shareware utility program for the IBM PC or
compatible computer that manages the process of sending soft
fonts to your DeskJet, LaserJet, or compatible printer. This
version of DOWNLOAD can only send a single font at a time to your
printer. You can optionally change the soft font ID number or
parallel printer port. This DOWNLOAD package is customized
especially for use with GRAB. It comes with 12 point Helv and
Roman landscape fonts which will let you print envelopes in a
professional looking proportionally spaced font.
The more advanced (commercial) versions of DOWNLOAD can send a
single font, or group of fonts, through the standard MS-DOS
devices to your laser printer. They have optional control over
the soft font ID number, whether the font is permanent or
temporary, and whether it is a primary or secondary font. A list
of soft fonts may be sent to the laser printer by specifying
those fonts in an ASCII text file. Finally, the advanced version
of DOWNLOAD will extract fonts from archive libraries saving
great amounts of disk space. A memory resident DOWNLOAD is also
now available. Call or write for more details on these packages.
2 REQUIREMENTS
DOWNLOAD requires an IBM PC or compatible computer, with a
minimum of 128K of memory, an HP LaserJet+, Series II, DeskJet,
or compatible printer, and a printer port. Parallel printer
ports LPT1:, LPT2:, and LPT3: are supported. Everyone who wants
to use DOWNLOAD and/or these fonts on anything but a trial basis
must register the program! Licensing for personal use is free.
Licensing for a business or commercial use costs $10. See the
form at the end of this document. DeskJet owners MUST have at
least 1 - 128k RAM cartridge to use the soft font in this
package.
3 RUNNING DOWNLOAD
The DOWNLOAD program is designed to send soft fonts to your laser
printer and to help you manage font ID numbers. DOWNLOAD is easy
to use. The only thing you really need to remember is that
DOWNLOAD will automatically prompt you with a brief description
of how to use it if you need it. Simply type DOWNLOAD followed
by a carriage return. The program will print a short explanation
of its operation and options as shown below:
Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.3
Copyright 1987, 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts
Use --> download fontname [device ID -options]
where everything the between `[]'s is optional and...
fontname = the name of the font to download
device = LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3
ID = starting ID number to assign font to (0 - 32767)
When optional arguments are not present, download defaults to:
LPT1, ID = 0, permanent font, and font is NOT selected. For
example:
download he100rpn.usp lpt1: 5
To run DOWNLOAD you must specify either the name of the soft font
to send to your printer. You can optionally specify the device
to send the file to, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3. To invoke DOWNLOAD type:
download yourfont [port ID#]
All items between the `[' and `]' characters are optional. This
means you do not have to include them. Note that the `[' and `]'
characters are not actually used in a command. Also note that
these optional items can be specified in any order. For example,
to download a Times-Roman 12 point bold font you would enter:
download ro120rpn.usp
The DOWNLOAD program will find that file, (if it doesn't exist
DOWNLOAD will let you know), send it to your printer, and will
default to: printer port LPT1, soft font ID 0, and permanent
status. The font will not be selected as either primary or
secondary. The screen will look as follows:
Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.3
Copyright 1987, 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts
Sent 1 file, with a total of 12427 bytes
A more complicated command might involve using a different
printer port and assigning a soft font ID number. For example:
download tr100bpn.usp 1000 lpt2
This sends the bold faced Times-Roman font to the LaserJet via
LPT2: and assigns it font ID 1000, and permanent status.
WARNING: if you use DOWNLOAD to send more than one font to your
printer at a time, you MUST change the soft font ID number for
each font. If you send two fonts to your printer with the same
ID number your printer will throw one of them away. (The
advanced DOWNLOAD programs take care of this problem
automatically.) To send both fonts to your printer:
download ro120rpn.usl 1
download he120rpn.usl 2
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4 USING DOWNLOAD WITH GRAB
To use DOWNLOAD and the two fonts with GRAB you must first
configure GRAB to use one of these soft fonts. Next install
GRAB, and then you MUST download the soft font to your laser
printer. You are now set to print envelopes in a proportionally
spaced soft font. Remember that order: configure, install,
download, and print.
Sounds simple so far? Well it really is. Just chose between the
two fonts supplied with DOWNLOAD. The Helv font is a sans serif
font that resembles Helvetica. The Roman font resembles Times-
Roman. Pick the one you like best and then fire up the GRAB
configuration program.
Perform a normal installation of GRAB for your printer. (You
must pick a laser printer type and printer port!) Once
everything is configured move the to the "Printer configuration
menu". From there select "LaserJet init fonts". You must now
enter a font selection sequence. The sequences for both the
Roman and the Helv fonts are shown below. Enter the appropriate
sequence for the font you have chosen. You must now move to the
locations menu and change the location information.
Proportionally spaced fonts have MUCH smaller space characters so
you need to modify the locations where your addresses will print.
To match the standard GRAB envelope patterns use the values
below:
To Match GRAB's normal positioning My Favorite
==================================
Large Up Down "To Address": 0 -2
Left to Right "To Address": 89 55
Left to Right "From Address": 24 20
Up Down "From Address": 0 -1
Small Up Down "To Address": 0 0
Left to Right "To Address": 99 85
Left to Right "From Address": 68 60
Up Down "From Address": 0 0
Comment line below: 1 1
Comment line spaces: -62 -50
Finally, save this configuration! Always remember to download
the appropriate soft font to your laser printer BEFORE printing.
Here are the escape sequences to select each of these soft fonts.
Note that <Esc> stands for the escape key. The ASCII string is
shown first followed by the decimal string. (GRAB wants to see
the decimal string.)
LASERJET soft fonts
Roman: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5T
27 40 48 85 27 40 115 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 53 84
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download ro120rpn.usl
Helv: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b4T
27 40 48 85 27 40 115 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 52 84
download he120rpn.usl
DESKJET soft fonts
Roman: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s0u1p12v0s0b4t2Q
27 40 48 85 27 40 115 48 117 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 52 116 50 81
download ro120rpn.djp
Helv: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s0u1p12v0s0b5t2Q
27 40 48 85 27 40 115 48 117 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 53 116 50 81
download he120rpn.djp
5 ERROR MESSAGES
DOWNLOAD automatically checks the status of your laser printer
before sending anything to it. If the printer is off, not
connected, deselected, or out of paper DOWNLOAD will display an
error message. For example, if your printer was out of paper you
would see:
download cp300rpn.usp
Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts
Sending font cp300rpn.usp with ID 0
Printer I/O error
Printer out of paper
Abort, Retry, Ignore?
Answer with the appropriate letter (A/R/I) followed by a carriage
return. This process lets you select the printer or add more
paper to correct the problem.
6 COMMON PROBLEMS
1) MY LASER PRINTER WORKS FINE NORMALLY. HOWEVER, WHEN I USE
DOWNLOAD TO SEND A SOFT FONT TO IT THE FONT IS GARBLED, DOESN'T
APPEAR, OR WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN.
This is a common problem and is almost certainly due to bad
hardware! When a soft font is downloaded your printer will be
receiving data at the maximum possible speed. If you do not have
a printer cable that meets minimum specifications, or if your
parallel printer port is marginal the problems mentioned above
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may occur. For the record: your parallel printer port cable
should be 6 feet long or less and made of quality materials. You
should NOT have a switch box in series with this cable! If your
cable is OK try switching to a different parallel port. These
ports are easy to damage with static electricity. They may appear
to work- but they fail during high speed transfers.
2) I DOWNLOAD A SOFT FONT AND MAKE IT MY PRIMARY FONT, JUST AS
YOUR MANUAL SAYS. IF I COPY FILES TO THE PRINTER THEY PRINT IN
THAT FONT. IF I USE MY WORD PROCESSOR I ALWAYS SEEM TO RETURN
BACK TO MY DEFAULT INTERNAL FONT (COURIER).
The first thing a word processor does, (before printing
anything), is to reset the printer. Resetting a laser printer (or
the DeskJet) automatically causes the printer to return back to
the default font, Courier). The only practical way around this
problem is to provide the word processor with a printer driver
that tells it how to use soft fonts.
3) WHEN DOWNLOADING A NUMBER OF SOFT FONTS MY PRINTER STOPS
WORKING AND DISPLAYS A FLASHING "20" ON THE LCD DISPLAY.
Congratulations, you have run out of memory in your printer. If
you are sending new fonts to the printer try deleting the old
ones before sending the new ones. (-D option in Download) If the
problem occurs regularly you should start looking for a 1 meg
memory add on board.
4) THE SOFT FONT ID NUMBERS I ASSIGN WITH DOWNLOAD DO NOT MATCH
THE NUMBERS SHOWN ON MY SAMPLE FONT PRINT SHEET.
The Soft Font ID numbers assigned by DOWNLOAD can be used to
select soft fonts. However, these ID numbers have NO relationship
to the numbers displayed on a font print sheet. Font print sheet
numbers always start at 1 and go up. Soft font ID numbers can
range from 0 - 65,535. There is no way to display a Soft Font ID
number on a print sheet. Ignore the numbers shown on these
sheets.
5) MY WORD PROCESSOR DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK WELL WITH SOFT FONTS.
WHAT CAN I DO?
At present, the following word processors will work well with
most soft fonts. Note that most of these word processors come
with printer drivers that support common soft font sets. (Some of
these word processors build their own printer drivers
automatically.)
WordStar 2000 v3.0, WordStar 5.0, Word 4.0 & 5.0, Word Perfect
4.1 & 5.0,
PC Write 2.71 & 3.02.
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6) THESE SOFT FONTS DON'T WORK WITH MY DESKJET!
All DeskJet soft fonts end with the letters "DJP". The other
fonts work only on laser printers. To use a DeskJet soft font you
MUST have a 128K RAM cartridge installed!
7 ABOUT ELFRING SOFT FONTS
We have been making soft font packages and utility programs for
laser printers for the last three years. We also do custom font
design, letter heads, and graphic scanning. All our fonts and
utilities are reasonably priced, ($20-$50). We offer: memory
resident download programs, downloaders that extract fonts from
archived libraries of fonts, programs that print sample sheets of
your fonts, and several other utility programs. (We also offer
the same line of products and fonts for the DeskJet printer.)
Our fonts come in four different categories- proportionally
spaced, fixed width, symbol sets, and title fonts. Proportional
fonts include: Broadway, Century, Century Legal, Helv, Old
English, Rockford, Roman, Script, Square, & University. Fixed
width fonts include: Bar Code 3/9, Courier, Letter Gothic, Line
Draw, Lotus fonts, Prestige Elite, & Roman. Symbol sets include:
Boxed Helv (keyboard symbols), Pi Characters, Dingbats, Credit
Cards, Greek, and custom fonts. Title fonts include Helv & Roman
in 40 & 50 point, plus hollow and shadow fonts!
8 LICENSING INFORMATION
Elfring soft fonts and utilities are not and never have been in
the public domain. Every version of these fonts and utilities
contains a Copyright Notice and a prohibition against sale,
modification, or alteration. These fonts and utilities are not
free software.
Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts.
Non-registered users are granted a limited license to use these
fonts and utilities on a trial basis for the purpose of
determining whether they are suitable for their needs. Use of
any font or utility, except for this limited purpose, requires
registration. Use of non-registered copies of fonts or utilities
by any business, corporation, governmental agency or other entity
institution is strictly forbidden.
Registration lets you use a set of soft fonts or a utility on a
single computer and laser printer; a registered user may use the
program on a different computer, but may not use the program on
more than one computer or printer at the same time. Note that
personal registration of the fonts and utilities in this GRAB
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package is FREE. Corporate registration requires payment of a
fee.
All users are granted a limited license to copy trial Elfring
Soft Font packs and utilities, only for the evaluation use of
others subject to the above limitations. Software must be copied
in unmodified form, along with the file containing this license
information. The full documentation must be included with the
copy.
Corporate and Business users are strictly prohibited from using
this software for any purpose other than evaluation.
9 REGISTRATION
After an evaluation period not more than 15 days in length,
personal users should register their copy by simply filling out
the form below. No fee is required. Corporations or anyone
using these fonts or utilities while engaged in an activity
pursued with the intent of making a profit MUST register. Fill
out the form below and enclose a check, payable in U.S. funds for
$10.00.
Registration licenses you to use DOWNLOAD and the two landscape
fonts on a regular basis. Registered users will receive mailed
notification of other fonts and utilities. Registered users will
also be granted access to a registered user only BBS to become
available sometime in 1989. Personal users need register only
one font or utility; business users must register each font or
utility pack.
All registration forms should be sent to:
Elfring Soft Fonts
P.O. Box 61
Wasco, Illinois 60183
312-377-3520
10 WARRANTY
Elfring Soft Fonts makes no warranty of any kind, express or
implied, including without limitation, any warranties of
merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. Elfring
Soft Fonts shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct,
indirect, special or consequential arising from a failure of
these programs or fonts to operate in the manner desired by the
user. Elfring Soft Fonts shall not be liable for any damage to
data or property which may be caused directly or in directly by
use of the program.
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IN NO EVENT WILL ELFRING SOFT FONTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR
INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER
PARTY.
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11 Elfring Soft Font Registration
(GRAB Package)
Name: ____________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________
Soft font or utility name: ______________________________________
Source of font or utility: ______________________________________
Printer:
[ ] HP LaserJet+, [ ] HP LaserJet II, [ ] HP DeskJet, [ ]
Other________________
Word Processor or DTP: ______________________________________
Mail To:
Business users must enclose $10.00 U.S.)
Elfring Soft Fonts, P.O. Box 61, Wasco, Illinois 60183
Telephone Registration: 312-377-3520 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST)
[ ] I want more information on the following fonts or utilities:
Barcode 3/9, Broadway, Century Schoolbook, Century Legal,
Courier, Helv, Line Draw, Old English, Rockford, Roman, Roman
fixed width, Script, Symbol sets, Title fonts, 40 - 50 point
fonts, Dingbats, Computer keyboard fonts, Greek, Credit cards,
Spread sheet fonts and macros, download, dispfont, custom fonts,
special utilities, and memory resident download.
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