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Installing ESF Fonts in MS Word 5.0/5.5 or MS Works
MS Word and MS Works both require matching ".DAT" and a ".PRD" printer
driver files to use and control soft fonts. The ".PRD" file tells Word what
fonts and typefaces are available, and gives the width of each character in
all proportionally spaced fonts. The ".DAT" file tells Word how to download
the soft fonts to your printer.
To use these ESF printer drivers they must first be copied them to your
Word or Works subdirectory. The INSTALL program will do this for you auto-
matically. Both files must be resident in the same subdirectory that Word
is located in to let Word automatically download soft fonts for you. If
you are using MS Works, *all* soft fonts must also be located in this same
subdirectory. IF YOU USE WORKS YOU MUST COPY THE SOFT FONTS TO YOUR WORKS
SUBDIRECTORY BY HAND!
If you are using MS Word, soft fonts may be located in a separate sub-
directory from Word. We recommend that you do this. Use your Word manual
to locate the section that describes how to tell Word where your soft
fonts are located.
Installing this ESF printer driver is easy in either Word or Works. Just
follow the steps below for MS Word. (Skip to the Works section for that
program.
Step 1
Locate the name of your *current* printer driver (this can be done from
within Word or Works). Uusing the program MERGEPRD that comes with Word,
you are going to merge the ESF printer driver and your existing printer
driver. This will *add* our font information to your existing driver.
FIRST, MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF YOUR CURRENT PRINTER DRIVER. Then run MERGEPRD
as shown below to add our info to this driver:
mergeprd yourdriver.prd esflaser.prd
Where "yourdriver.prd" is the name of your current printer driver for
your printer.
MERGEPRD will now ask "What type printer do you want to install for?"
Pick 1) HP LaserJet
You will then be asked for your printer model. Enter the number that
corresponds to your printer. MERGEPRD will then display the Main Menu.
Select:
4) Select Fonts & Font Sizes
On the new menu select:
1) Add font/size from PRDs
You will now see a list of font types. Each font type has a number before
it and lists the name of the PRD file that font came from. Enter the number
of each font family that came from your *original* driver followed by the
<enter> key. MERGEPRD will then ask what sizes to include. Type "all".
Repeat this process for *every* font that is listed in your original driver.
Then do the same thing for each font you purchased from ESF. (Do not in-
clude the fonts in our driver you don't own.)
Once you have marked all these fonts hit <enter> to return to the menu. At
this menu hit:
6 Return to Main Menu
Then select:
7 Create the output PRD file.
Enter a name for the new PRD file followed by the extension ".PRD". For
example, "Newdrvr.prd".
Step 2
To use a printer driver for a given document you must first select it! To
do this, first start Word. Use escape to stop editing text and select, "P"
(Printer), "O" (Options), F1 (ask for listing of printer drivers). Now move
the highlighted area (using the cursor keys) to the name you just gave the
new printer driver. Hit F1 again to select the font. Then return to editing
your text file. It should now print using Elfring Soft Fonts.
The printer drivers on this disk are named:
esflaser.prd \portrait printer drivers
esflaser.dat /
MS WORKS:
MS Works requires that all printer drivers and soft font be resident in its
primary subdirectory. This means you must copy the soft fonts, previously
stored in C:\FONTS to your Works subdirectory before you can use them.
Now start up Works and when asked to select a printer driver, select
ESFLASER.PRD, instead of your standard driver. That's all there is to it.
Copyright 1992 by Elfring Soft Fonts, All rights reserved.