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From: [e-mail] (Paul Adam Hoadley)
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Subject: CGTimes on a DJ500 (revised query)
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:07:01 +1030
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This is a revised version (of sorts) of the query I posted yesterday.
BTW -- Thanks to all the replies I've had already.  I don't want to sound
ungrateful (I'm not at all :-), but I don't think anyone's quite grasped the
point yet.

Here's part of yesterday's post:

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I purchased my briliant HP DeskJet 500 about 6 months ago, and, as
yet, have been unable to make it work to its fullest capacity.  My
setup is: Amiga 2000HD using Excellence! V3.0, printer on parallel port.

This is my problem:
1.  The DJ500 has an excellent internal font called CGTimes (6,12 pt.)
2.  It can print this font at something like 240 cps.
3.  It appears to me that because my software does not know the
dimensions for the font, there's no way in hell I'm going to get my
documents to print out (formatted properly) in CGTimes.
4.  This is very disappointing for me.  I'd have been prepared to give
up and blame the printer, until last weekend when I hooked it up to a
Toshiba clone laptop that I brought home -- and Word 5.5 will output in
flawless CGTimes. :-(
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Replies of the form "I use Final Copy II..." are much appreciated, but miss
the point!

Someone suggested that I might be sort of mismatching my WP (which,
admittedly, is rather graphic-output oriented) and my more text oriented
output needs.  I don't think so, for two reasons:

1.  Excellence works flawlessly as a text-based WP as long as you use a font
that it "knows".  At the moment, this is pretty much limited to Courier :-)
In fact, I NEVER use the graphics output.  Apart from anything else, the
fonts are at nowhere near the 300dpi res of the printer, and the whole
output is just a joke.

2.  I know for a fact (well, it says so in the manual :-) that the DJ500
will work in the manner I desire with Word for Windows, and I understand this
is a graphics-oriented WP probably comparable to Excellence.  It can do this
because Hewlett Packard provides (on a 5.25" floppy) the appropriate metric
files for the DJ'd internal fonts.  Presumably WfW reads these metrics and
can construct a suitable screen font so that the whole thing becomes WYSIWYG.


Point 2. just there kind of leads me on to my conclusion.  Considering that
I can get Excellence to both turn on and print in CGTimes12, I doubt that
I need a better printer driver (though I could easily be wrong here.)  It
seems to me that I need a screen font (ie. normal crappy Amiga bitmap font)
which matches the printer's CGTimes12.  Now, if Hewlett Packard supply one
for WfW, it couldn't be impossible to use that metric to somehow hack an
appropriate Amiga font.  I wouldn't have a hope in hell of doing it, but
surely it could be done.  Anyone from Hewlett Packard reading this and want
to jump in?  I wouldn't be sounding so fanatical about the whole thing if
I hadn't seen the way the clone could output at 240cps.  It really did look
great.  I just WISH my amy could do it!!

Thanks for reading...
Paul.

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