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- USING ESF FONTS WITH OTHER PACKAGES
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- All ESF soft fonts are full HP compatible. They will work with any applica-
- tion program that recognizes 3rd party HP format fonts. If your word
- processor or desktop publishing program is not mentioned here, check your
- user manual to see how to add soft font support to your application. This
- document describes how to add these fonts to: PC Write, Q&A, Ventura,
- Windows, WordStar 5.5/6.0, and WordStar 2000.
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- **Using ESF Soft Fonts With PC Write
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- The PC Write program (version 2.71 or greater) fully supports soft fonts
- for laser printers. A shareware utility available from QuickSoft called
- FONT SELECTOR will examine HP format soft fonts and make up printer
- drivers for PC Write. Note that PC Write does not download soft fonts for
- you. We suggest a tool like our TSR Download to help in the managing and
- downloading of your soft fonts.
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- **Using ESF Soft Fonts With Q&A
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- The Q&A program and Q&A Write fully support 3rd party HP format soft
- fonts. To use soft fonts with Q&A you need a copy of their QAFONT.EXE
- program. If you are using an existing font description file such as
- HPLASERJ.FNT, QAFONT can add the new descriptions to this file. If you
- would like to use a new font file name (i.e. MYFONTS.FNT), QAFONT will
- create this new file to hold the font descriptions. (Reminder: If you are
- using a new filename, remember to re-install the printer and type the new
- name on the "Font File Name" line of the "Special Printer Options"
- screen).
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- The QAFONT program may accompany your Q&A program or you may have to call
- Symantec Product Support to get a copy. Note that Q&A does not download
- soft fonts for you. We suggest a tool like our TSR Download to help in the
- managing and downloading of your soft fonts.
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- **Using ESF Fonts With Ventura
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- All LaserJet fonts on this disk are compatible with Ventura Publisher. To
- use these fonts in Ventura they must first be converted into Ventura for-
- mat. To convert these fonts you need your Ventura Disk #11. (This disk
- number changes with each new release.) Check out your Ventura manual- the
- "Adding new fonts for the HP LaserJet Plus" section for more details.
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- Step 1) Build new VFM files. (Ventura Font Metric width tables) Find the
- Ventura program HPLTOVFM.EXE. Run this program for each soft font found in
- this set.
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- HPLTOVFM SM180PRN.USP /F=SYMBOLS /N=37 /P=18 /W=N
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- Where /F= is the typeface name which MUST start with a capitol letter
- /N= is the typeface number (look these up in you Ventura manual)
- /P= is the point size of the font
- /W= weight of the font, N=normal, I=italic, B=bold, T=bold italic
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- Step 2) Make an ASCII text file that lists the name of each VFM file
- created in step 1. (Must end in ".LST".) One file name per line. The file
- names must be listed in point size order smallest to largest, with styles
- listed in: normal, italic, bold, bold italic order.
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- Step 3) Use the Ventura VFMTOWID.EXE program and the LST file from step 2
- plus the VFM files to create a width table.
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- VFMTOWID ESFSHARE.LST
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- Where ESFSHARE.LST is the list file created in step 2,
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- Step 4) Create a HPLJPLUS.CFN file as described in your Ventura manual.
- Download the soft fonts to your printer.
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- Step 5) Merge the width tables and clean up. Run Ventura and select
- Options - Add Remove Fonts - Merge Width Table.
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- **Using ESF Soft Fonts With Windows 3.0
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- 1) make sure your soft fonts are unpacked
- 2) start Windows
- 3) At the Main menu double click on the Control Panel icon
- 4) Now double click on Printers
- 5) Make sure you have a LaserJet or DeskJet printer installed and active
- You can *not* use the scalable driver for either printer. (Neither
- supports soft fonts.)
- 6) Now click on Configure, in the next menu click on Setup
- 7) At this menu click on Fonts, then click on Add Fonts, and finally give
- a drive and path for them
- 6) You will now see a list of fonts. Click on each font you want to
- install. Then click the Add button. Each font will appear on the left
- side of your screen. You can make these fonts Permanent at this point
- or leave them as Temporary. (DeskJet owners *must* make each font
- Permanent. Temporary DeskJet soft fonts are not supported by the
- current Windows driver.)
- 7) Thats it. The fonts are installed in Windows.
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- Some applications will not automatically recognize soft fonts installed
- into Windows. These program want to you reconfigure the printer before
- they will recognize these new fonts. Word for Windows is an example of
- this type of program. To get Word for Windows to recognize the new fonts,
- at the File Menu:
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- 1) Click on "Printer Setup"
- 2) Click the button "Setup"
- 3) Click "Ok", then click "Ok" again.
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- **Using ESF Fonts With WordStar 5.5/6.0
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- Fonts can be added to WordStar using two utility programs supplied by
- MicroPro. The WordStar Customizing/Printer manual explains how to do
- this. Basically, you run the LSRFONTS program from the WINSTALL menu and
- add fonts to your WordStar printer data file. Then you run the PRCHANGE
- file to move these new definitions to your current printer driver. Note
- that WordStar does not download soft fonts for you. We suggest a tool
- like our TSR Download to help in the managing and downloading of your
- soft fonts.
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- **Using ESF Fonts With WordStar 2000
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- The WordStar 2000 program has a built in tool that lets you add soft font
- information to any existing printer driver. First determine what printer
- driver your document is using. Then, from the main WS 2000 menu press A
- for Additional, then select HP Fonts. Follow the instructions here and
- add new font information to your driver. Note that WordStar does not
- download soft fonts for you. We suggest a tool like our TSR Download to
- help in the managing and downloading of your soft fonts.
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