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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- Subject: SET and downloading fonts
- Message-ID: <ID9106.D921112.T163332.GLB@UNB.CA>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:33:31 GMT
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
- Lines: 32
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Comments: <12NOV92.17897368.0041.MUSIC@UNB.CA>
-
- I've encountered a curious problem with the "SET" command
- as it relates to instructions for downloading fonts: despite
- repeated attempts to set the default so that it downloads fonts
- only as needed (option 0 under the font section of the printer
- section of other defaults) in insists on downloading them every
- time that I print (option 1). Needless to say, this is rather
- time consuming (not to mention irritating). Please note: 1) I've
- successfully modified other portions of nbcustom.set using
- the set menu (i.e. it doesn't seem to be set program) and
- 2) I am selecting the "make changes permanent" option.
-
- When I looked at nbcustom.set, what I guess to be the relevant
- section looked like this:
-
- NBPI=0
- NBFP=C:\FONTS\
- NBPI=0
- NBPI=1000
-
- Removal of all the NBPI= commands except one set to 0 remedies
- the problem until I make another modification to the file using SET
- at which point another NBPI=1000 line is added to the file and
- the problem returns. My interpretation is that SET command is
- generating a default value of 1000 for the starting ID number
- for font downloads and erroneously labeling this as NBPI which
- then overrides the earlier NBPI=0 entry.
-
- Aside from general quiries about what is happening, I wondered
- specifically 1) what does NBPI represent and should there be more
- than one such entry in the nbcustom.set and 2) if my interpretation
- is correct, what code other than NBPI should be in nbcustom.set
- in order to set the default starting ID number font downloads?
-