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A First TRY with LQ.EXE and LQMATRIX
DOWNLOADING.
The very first thing you will want to do is to see how your printer
prints out the fonts on these disks. Nothing could be easier.
After you unpack the fonts (GO) you proceed as follows: At the prompt
(A>) simply enter LQ <font file> and hit the CR. Font file will be
the name of any of the fonts present. You need not type in the
extension. For a start why not try Mr. Philipps' GOTHIC.LQP. Turn on
the printer then enter:
LQ GOTHIC
after downloading, send a text file to the printer. You should be
able to do that via your usual word processor (assuming it does not
reset the printer before printing - they usually do not).
Or if you are in a big hurry use the DOS copy routine:
At the prompt enter:
copy con prn
and hit the CR. Now type in something, as many lines as you want.
When done enter ^Z (control Z) and then CR. The message will be sent
to the printer.
All of the fonts have an LQ? extension, thus GOTHIC.LQP, PRES.LQN &
CAPS.LQD. A final P means it is a proportional font, N a NLQ (near
letter quality) font, and D a draft font. The proportional fonts are
the really attractive ones and show off the 24 pin printer at its
best.
There are various switches that go with the LQ program and the full
documentation describes each of them. If you enter LQ without a font
name you will get a short explanation of each of the switches.
If you want to see what the font looks like use the /P switch. Enter
LQ GOTHIC /P and hit CR. As the font is downloading it will be
printed out at the printer.
If you wish to download from within a word processor you can use the
DOS shell. It sometimes happens when doing that you receive this
message 'out of memory' when trying to execute LQ. The way around
that is to create for the DOS prompt (out of any application program)
a 'download file' with LQ. This is easy to do. Enter LQ [filename]
/F. Where filename is the name of the font and the /F switch tells
LQ to create a download file which will keep the name of the original
file but will change its extension to DW? - thus from GOTHIC.LQP LQ
creates GOTHIC.DWP. Now when coming into the DOS shell from your
application enter:
COPY/B [FILENAME.DW?] PRN
page 2. of 2.
e.g. COPY/B GOTHIC.DWP PRN. Be sure to include the binary switch /B
after the COPY otherwise DOS will stop downloading the first time it
reaches the text end of file marker: Ctl Z.
EDITING.
Let's say that you would like to make some characters of your own,
not a full font, but some special characters to take the place of the
ones you never use like @ or ^ or \.
For this you will use LQMATRIX, the main program. What you do is very
simple. Enter LQMATRIX and hit the CR. First you will be asked what
size font you want. Chose one of the three. Now give your file a
name...say, TRYME.
You will go to the main menu where you will go directly to the editor
by hitting E.
You will see on the left a box with the cursor in the upper left
corner. Move the cursor around with the cursor keys and anytime you
wish to make a mark hit CR or the space bar (SP). To remove a mark
put the cursor on the mark and hit either SP or CR.
Many things can be done in the matrix and the Help screen tells you
about them (also the main documentation). Just hit H and scroll
through help.
If you want to test a character hit P and it will print out. When you
are satisfied with you design save the character with S and give it a
position - replace the unwanted @, for example.
After making your extra characters exit the Matrix with Q and then
exit the program with Q again. Your new font will be saved.
Download the new font with LQ (or with P then D from the main menu of
LQMATRIX).
In downloading not only will your new characters be sent to the
printer's RAM (temporary) memory, but the other built in (Rom)
characters as well.
Now try writing a document with your new characters and print it out.
Once you have mastered making a few extra characters you are ready to
make an enterly new font of your own!
Have fun.
J. David Sapir [Jimmy Paris Software]
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LQMATRIX is copyrighted by J.David Sapir 1985,9l