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P r o g r a m m a T h e e k volume 2961
Titel: Deskjet fonts, DJ/Laserjet utilities; o.a. FONTFILT
(Dracula)
Number Name Size Date Comments
CATALOG 961 801 19-10-90 Deze lijst
2961.01 CTABLE COM 25551 14-06-89 Maak (PC-Write) breedtetabel van
fontfile
2961.02 DJFONTLR ZIP 57344 9-08-89 DJFONT.EXE vertaalprogramma
LJ ==> DJ fonts
2961.03 DJFONTPK ZIP 57344 9-08-89 Helvetica/Roman soft fonts
DJ + download
2961.04 DOWNLD COM 17280 21-01-88 Alternatieve download LJ/DJ
2961.05 FNTTOOLS EXE 4783 13-12-87 O.a. toon fontje op scherm (CGA)
2961.06 FONTEX DOC 9484 26-04-89 Doc voor \/
2961.07 FONTEX EXE 14922 26-04-89 Maak Roman 8 fonts van 7-bits
US fonts
2961.08 FONTFILT DOC 5566 2-11-88 Doc voor \/
2961.09 FONTFILT EXE 28740 2-11-88 Fonts verfraaien of verlelijken
2961.10 QFONT15 LZH 114959 19-10-90 Font-editor
VOL2961 ABS 5505 19-10-90 Abstract door PoCo
14 bestand(en) 15360 bytes beschikbaar on volume VOL2961
A. DESKJET utilities
** DJFont--Laserjet to Deskjet soft font converter
DJFont converts soft fonts designed for the Hewlett-Packard
Laserjet to the format used by the HP Deskjet. It works only on
proportional fonts in portrait mode, and only on sizes up to about
24 point (but that covers most worthwhile fonts). I am told that
converted fonts also work on the Deskjet Plus, but haven't tested
it myself.
=== USING CONVERTED FONTS (brief inadequate notes) ===
You first need a utility to download soft fonts to the Deskjet.
Most makers of Laserjet soft fonts provide such a program, and most
of these programs will work with Deskjet soft fonts as well. There
are also some public domain font downloaders that should work. The
more difficult step is to create a printer driver for your word
processing program.
DJFONTPK: Roman Times Helv fonts
This package contains three proportionally spaced Roman soft fonts
in the portrait mode, three proportionally spaced Helv soft fonts
also in the portrait mode, and a limited version of my standard
soft font download program. These fonts should be compatible with
any DeskJet printer.
B. LASERJET utilities (some also for DJ)
FONTFILT.EXE can perform 11 different transformations on HP
Laserjet Fonts. The syntax for FONTFILT is as follows:
FONTFILT inputfont outputfont [effect [effect...]]
For example:
FONTFILT century.sfp cenbold.sfp BOLD
FONTFILT century.sfp cen3d.sfp SHADOW
There are a number of different effects available:
BOLD [xsmear [ysmear]]
BOX [clearance]
DOUBLE
DRACULA [randomseed [maxdrip]]
FIXED
FUZZY
HALF
INVERT [hflush [vflush]]
OPENSHADOW [smear-amount [outline-thickness]]
OUTLINE [thickness]
SHADOW [smear-amount [outline-thickness]]
Up to 10 effects may be combined.
FontEx version 1.2
Font Extender for HP-compatible Soft Font Files
Xerox Ventura Publisher has become a very popular application for
electronic publishing and printing, even more so since the
introduction of the affordable laser printers, most of which will
emulate a HP Laserjet Plus-printer.
Although standard Ventura fonts print quite well on printers
like the Epson, Visa, Mitac etc. lasers, they cannot be equipped
with a character description language interpreter, such as
PostScript.
Even if they can, such a suppletion rather comes with a price.
This keeps the choice of printer fonts rather limited.
Recently a variety of HP compatible Soft Fonts have become
available in the Public Domain, e.g. the Glyphix-based fonts by
Gary Elfring (Wasco, Ill.). These are quite good-looking fonts,
but although they are HP-compatible, they are NOT
Ventura-compatible, as Xerox Ventura uses a modified extended
Roman-8 character set, whereas Glyphix-fonts (like most other Soft
Fonts) contain only the lower US ASCII character set. (The same
holds true for European versions of other WP programs like MS-Word.
PoCo.)
FontEx is a simple utility to expand these 7-bits fonts to full
8-bit Ventura Fonts. Although version 1.2 cannot yet add
diacritical marks of typographic characters, it can copy base
characters from the lower ASCII into the upper ASCII set.
Once this has been done, the extended set can be edited with
any Soft Font editor to add the odd dot and dash and so produce
full-fledged Ventura Publisher fonts.
DOWNLOAD.EXE is an IBM PC utility program that manages the process
of downloading soft fonts to a LaserJet, DeskJet, or compatible
printer. DOWNLOAD can also select fonts as they are being
downloaded.
The commercial version of DOWNLOAD can send a font, or group of
fonts, through the standard MS-DOS devices to your LaserJet
printer. It can also extract your fonts from an archive file, which
offers significant disk space savings.
You 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 fonts may be sent to the printer by specifying the
individual fonts names in an ASCII text file. All fonts resident
in your laser may be optionally deleted before fonts are
downloaded.
The public domain version of DOWNLOAD will not work with a list of
file names, nor will it extract files from an archive. These are
the only differences between the public domain and commercial
versions of the program.
QFONT is a soft font editor for downloadable soft fonts for HP
LaserJet laser printers and compatibles. QFONT supports Hercules
Mono, EGA and VGA displays -- with or without a mouse. We highly
recommend the use of a mouse, but for evaluation purposes you can
(with some difficulty) use the program without a mouse.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Required computer: IBM compatible, MS/PC-DOS 3.x.
Memory ..........: 512K.
Video ...........: Hercules Mono, EGA, VGA.
Mouse ...........: Microsoft or compatible (strongly
recommended, but not required).
Printer .........: HP Laserjet or compatible.
Maximum Font Size: about 2" (144 point) depending on style.
Orientation......: edits portrait fonts only; save as
landscape built in.