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- March 4, 1987
-
- This READ-PCL.TXT file contains:
-
- -the latest information you need about using the
- updated drivers for printers which use HP's Printer
- Command Language (PCL)
-
- -information on using the latest version of PCLPFM
- to simplify installation of Soft Fonts.
-
- NOTES ON THE LASERJET DRIVER INCLUDED ON THIS DISK
-
- The driver file HPPCL.DRV is an updated driver for
- the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, and
- selected compatibles. This driver supercedes the
- drivers HPLASER.DRV and HPLASERP.DRV available on
- the Windows disks or shipped with previous versions
- of Microsoft Windows. The driver includes support
- for a wider range of HP font cartridges, support
- for soft (downloadable) fonts, and generally
- improves the performance of PageMaker on these
- printers.
-
- This driver is a standard Windows driver and should
- work with any Windows application. Note, however,
- that Aldus has not performed exhaustive
- compatibility testing of this driver with other
- Windows applications. Such testing is ongoing as
- new Windows applications are developed. If you
- experience trouble using the PageMaker-supplied
- driver with other Windows applications, try using
- the drivers supplied with Windows. If the problem
- exists with the Windows-supplied drivers as well,
- contact the supplier of the other application.
-
- FOR USERS WITH VERSION 1.00 OF THE PAGEMAKER-
- SUPPLIED DRIVER, HPPCL:
-
- Minor changes have been made to some of the font
- names in a few of the HP font cartridges supported
- by this driver. Since Windows matches your
- requested font to an available font by matching the
- font name, this may cause some fonts to be
- mismatched during printing. If this occurs, it can
- be fixed by selecting the text in PageMaker using
- the text tool and using the Type Specs... command
- to change the type font to the new name. The
- specific font names which have been changed are:
-
- Old Name New Name
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- Gothic Letter Gothic
- Presentation Presentations
- Prestige Prestige Elite
-
- INSTALLING SOFTFONTS
-
- The 1.03 version of PCLPFM lets you install either
- a single font or a group of fonts more easily than
- the procedure described on pages 25 through 28 of
- the PageMaker Installation Guide. Although the
- procedure described there is still valid, we
- recommend that you use the new procedures described
- below.
-
- Briefly, after copying the soft fonts on your hard
- disk, you run the PCLPFM program provided on
- PageMaker's Driver disk. PCLPFM creates a Printer
- Font Metrics (.PFM) file for each soft font file,
- then creates another file, APPNDWIN.INI, that you
- copy into the appropriate place in your WIN.INI
- file (Windows initialization file).
-
- When you run PCLPFM, you can specify:
- - a single soft font name, including a full path,
- drive, or directory
- - a group of soft font names, using single or
- multiple-character wildcards (for example,
- *.USP or HV???#R8.SFP)
-
- The procedures that follow assume that you create
- and use the subdirectory \PM\PCLPFM to store soft
- font files and run PCLPFM. In fact, you can use
- any directory, as long as you specify a full
- pathname wherever appropriate. Individual steps in
- the procedures may vary, depending on whether you
- have the full retail version or a run-time version
- of Windows. When you have finished, you'll need to
- restart Windows before the new soft fonts take
- effect.
-
- NOTE: You must have already installed the printer
- driver and used it at least once before following
- these procedures.
-
- STEP 1 : Copy Soft Font files to your hard disk.
-
- 1. Create a subdirectory \PM\PCLPFM in the
- PageMaker directory (\PM).
-
- This directory should contain only soft font
- files, the .PFM files as they are created, and the
- PCLPFM program file(s).
-
- 2. Copy the soft font files you wish to use from
- the vendor's disk to the \PM\PCLPFM directory.
-
- STEP 2 : Use PCLPFM.EXE to create PFM files.
-
- If you plan to use the soft fonts with a non-
- Windows application or if you want to permanently
- download fonts to your printer, first follow the
- vendor's instructions for downloading the fonts and
- then the instructions below. Make a note of the ID
- numbers for such fonts; you'll need these numbers
- later when you edit WIN.INI.
-
- If you plan to use the soft fonts only from Windows
- via a temporary download, the following procedures
- are all you need.
-
- 1. Insert PageMaker's Driver disk into drive A,
- then copy PCLPFM.EXE to the \PM\PCLPFM directory.
- If you will be running PCLPFM.EXE from Windows,
- also copy the file PCLPFM.PIF.
-
- 2. Start the program PCLPFM.EXE.
-
- From MS-DOS, type PCLPFM, then press the Enter
- key. In the MS-DOS Executive window in Windows,
- double-click on the program PCLPFM.EXE.
-
- 3. When prompted, type a single soft font filename
- or use wild cards, then press the Enter key.
-
- For example, for a single font, type a name
- like HV10B#R8.SFP; for a group of fonts, type
- something like *.USP, HV*.SFP, or HV???#R8.SFP
- (actual naming conventions vary according to soft
- font manufacturer).
-
- 4. Review the PFM filename(s) as displayed.
-
- When naming the PFM file(s), the program
- modifies the font name provided by the vendor by
- replacing the last character of the name with a
- P (portrait) or L (landscape) and changing the
- filename extension to .PFM. For example, a
- downloadable font named HV10B#R8.SFP becomes
- HV10B#RP.PFM. The program tells you if a file with
- the same name already exists. Type Y to replace
- the existing file, or N to go back and change the
- filename.
-
- 5. Press the Enter key to accept the .PFM
- filename(s).
-
- For a single file, you still have an option to
- change the name by pressing the Backspace key to
- erase the name, then typing a new name before
- pressing the Enter key. For multiple files, the
- PCLPFM program simply displays all the filenames.
-
- 6. When prompted, press Y to save the necessary
- soft font information in a file called
- APPNDWIN.INI.
-
- The PCLPFM program creates this ASCII file for
- you to insert into your WIN.INI file so that
- Windows can read the soft fonts.
-
- STEP 3 : Modify WIN.INI
-
- The last step is to insert the contents of
- APPNDWIN.INI in the proper place in WIN.INI. If
- you are running the retail version of Windows, you
- can modify WIN.INI using Notepad:
-
- 1. Open the file APPNDWIN.INI.
-
- Open Notepad by double-clicking on
- APPNDWIN.INI in the MS-DOS Executive window.
-
- 2. Copy the entire file to the Clipboard.
-
- Choose "Select all" from the Edit menu, then
- "Copy" from the Edit menu.
-
- 3. Open WIN.INI.
-
- Open the MS-DOS Executive window. Start
- another copy of Notepad by double-clicking on
- WIN.INI.
-
- 4. Copy the information from the Clipboard into
- WIN.INI.
-
- In WIN.INI, search for the appropriate printer
- keyword (for example, [HPPCL,LPT1]) -- you'll
- insert the soft font information after the printer
- keyword. Click to choose an insertion point, then
- choose "Paste" from the Edit menu to copy the PFM
- font information.
-
- 5. Edit the inserted information in WIN.INI so
- that PageMaker will read the soft font files.
-
- Erase the small box (an end-of-file marker),
- if there is one, from the end of the soft font
- information you've just copied. If you used a
- wildcard when running PCLPFM, you may have
- converted more soft fonts than you actually want.
- Check the filenames in WIN.INI and delete the
- entire line for any font that you don't want. For
- each font you permanently download (that is, as
- long as the printer is on), delete everything from
- the comma to the end of the line. Then edit the
- font ID number, if necessary, to match the number
- loaded into the printer. Check to see that all
- font ID numbers are unique -- they need not be
- consecutive.
-
- 6. Finish up.
-
- Save WIN.INI, close both copies of Notepad,
- close Windows, then start Windows up again.
-
- NOTE: Windows MUST be restarted for the newly-
- installed Soft Fonts to be available.
-
-
-
- If you are running the run-time version of Windows,
- modify WIN.INI using EDLIN or any word-processing
- application that reads and saves files as ASCII
- text:
-
- 1. In WIN.INI, locate the printer keyword (for
- example, [HPPCL,LPT1]) as described in the
- procedure for using Notepad.
-
- 2. Insert the entire contents of APPNDWIN.INI
- starting on the line after the printer keyword.
-
- 3. Edit the inserted information in WIN.INI so
- that PageMaker will read the soft font files.
-
- If you used a wildcard when running PCLPFM,
- you may have converted more soft fonts than you
- actually want. Check the filenames in WIN.INI and
- delete the entire line for any font that you don't
- want. For each font you permanently download (that
- is, as long as the printer is on), delete
- everything from the comma to the end of the line.
- Then edit the font ID number, if necessary, to
- match the number loaded into the printer. Check to
- see that all font ID numbers are unique -- they
- need not be consecutive.
-
- 4. Finish up.
-
- Save WIN.INI, close your word-processing
- application, then start PageMaker again.
-
- A WORD ABOUT SOFT FONTS AND SCREEN FONTS
-
- Soft Fonts are printer fonts. For some Soft Fonts, especially
- "decorative" fonts, there are currently no screen fonts
- available that allow you to see an accurate rendering of
- that Soft Font on the screen. This situation is
- expected to improve as font and printer vendors introduce
- screen fonts to match the available printer fonts.
- Windows and PageMaker use generic screen fonts
- (a Roman, sans serif, monospaced, and "decorative")
- to display the text on the screen. However, the
- printed text will be the Soft Font you specified. One
- effect of the use of generic fonts is that positioning of
- letters and words on the screen may not correspond to
- the exact positioning of the printed text on the page,
- though in most cases it will be close. What PageMaker
- goes to great lengths to do, however, is to ensure
- that where a line ends on the screen corresponds to the
- exact position of that line's ending on the printed page.
-
- If you find yourself in PageMaker looking at text
- on the screen and wondering what font it will print
- as, select a portion of that text and call up the
- Type Specs dialog box. Scroll through the list of
- fonts. If one of the fonts in the font list is
- highlighted, that is the font that the text has been
- assigned, and that is the font that will be used
- when it is printed. If no font in the list is
- highlighted, the area you have selected includes
- text with several different font specifications.
- Try cancelling the Type Specs dialog, select a
- smaller area of text, and call up Type Specs again.
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