home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- COMMON PROBLEMS
-
- 1) MY LASER PRINTER WORKS FINE NORMALLY. HOWEVER, WHEN I USE DOWNLOAD TO
- SEND A SOFT FONT TO IT, THE FONT IS GARBLED, DOESN'T APPEAR, OR WIERD
- THINGS HAPPEN.
-
- This is a common problem and is usually due to bad hardware! When a
- soft font is downloaded through a parallel port your printer will be
- receiving data at the maximum possible speed. If you do not have a
- printer cable that meets minimum specifications, or if your parallel
- printer port is marginal the problems mentioned above may occur. For
- the record: your parallel printer port cable should be 6 feet long or
- less and made of quality materials. You should NOT have a switch box in
- series with this cable! If your cable is OK try switching to a different
- parallel port. These ports are easy to damage with static electricity.
- They may appear to work- but they fail during high speed transfers.
-
-
- 2) I DOWNLOAD A SOFT FONT AND MAKE IT MY PRIMARY FONT, JUST AS YOUR
- MANUAL SAYS. IF I COPY FILES TO THE PRINTER THEY PRINT IN THAT FONT.
- IF I USE MY WORD PROCESSOR I ALWAYS SEEM TO RETURN BACK TO MY DEFAULT
- INTERNAL FONT (COURIER).
-
- The first thing a word processor does, (before printing anything), is
- to reset the printer. Resetting a laser printer (or the DeskJet) auto-
- matically causes the printer to return back to the default font,
- (Courier). The only practical way around this problem is to provide the
- word processor with a printer driver that tells it how to use soft fonts.
-
-
- 3) WHEN DOWNLOADING A NUMBER OF SOFT FONTS MY PRINTER STOPS WORKING AND
- DISPLAYS A FLASHING "20" ON THE LCD DISPLAY.
-
- You have run out of memory in your printer! If you are sending new fonts
- to the printer try deleting the old ones before sending the new ones.
- Switch to the printer control menu in Download, and send the delete all
- soft fonts command. If the problem still occurs with some regularity you
- should start looking for a 1 meg memory add on board.
-
-
- 4) THE SOFT FONT ID NUMBERS I ASSIGN WITH DOWNLOAD DO NOT MATCH THE
- NUMBERS SHOWN ON MY SAMPLE FONT PRINT SHEET.
-
- The Soft Font ID numbers assigned by DOWNLOAD can be used to select soft
- fonts. However, these ID numbers have NO relationship to the numbers
- displayed on a font print sheet. Font print sheet numbers always start at
- 1 and go up. Soft font ID numbers can range from 0 - 65,535. There is no
- way to display a Soft Font ID number on a print sheet. Ignore the numbers
- shown on these sheets.
-
-
- 5) MY WORD PROCESSOR DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK WELL WITH SOFT FONTS. WHAT CAN
- I DO?
-
- At present, the following word processors will work well with most soft
- fonts. Note that most of these word processors come with printer drivers
- that support common soft font sets. (Some of these word processors build
- their own printer drivers automatically.)
-
- WordStar 2000 v3.0, WordStar 5.0, Word 4.0 & 5.0, Word Perfect 4.1 & 5.0,
- PC Write 2.71 & 3.02.
-
-
- 6) ANYTIME I USE DOWNLOAD TO SEND A FONT OR COMMAND TO MY PRINTER I GET
- THE "PRINTER NOT READY" MESSAGE. WHAT'S WRONG?
-
- Download always checks the status of the parallel printer port before send-
- ing any fonts or commands to the printer. Download performs this status
- check by calling a standard BIOS function that is supposed to return infor-
- mation about printer select, paper level, busy, etc. Some computer BIOSs
- are not truely IBM compatible and thus return incorrect status. Some printer
- cables are not wired correctly and thus do the same thing. Some computers
- hooked to networks also have this problem. The DLCFG program lets you alter
- Download so that the program no longer pays any attention to parallel printer
- port status. See the documentation for more information on this option.
-
-
- 6) THE COLORS SCHEME USED BY DOWNLOAD LOOKS TERRIBLE ON MY MACHINE.
-
- The Download program comes configured with the one color combination that
- works on Monochrome, CGA, EGA, & VGA displays. This color combination can
- be easily modified using the DLCFG program. We highly recommend changing
- the colors to suit your particular needs.
-
-
- 7) DOWNLOAD TAKES FOREVER TO SEARCH THROUGH MY SOFT FONT DIRECTORY AND
- LOCATE ALL MY SOFT FONTS. HOW CAN I SPEED THIS UP?
-
- The rate at which Download can locate all your soft fonts is dependant on
- the number of files present in a particular subdirectory AND the wild card
- used to search for these fonts. If you have 100 files in this subdirectory,
- of which only 50 are soft fonts, and use the "*.*" wild card- Download must
- check each file to see if it is a font. This wastes time! Try a wild card
- like "*.??P" to locate all portrait fonts or "*.??L" to find all landscape
- ones. This will significantly speed up initial operation.
-
-
- 8) I HAVE ABOUT 150 SOFT FONTS YET DOWNLOAD NEVER SHOWS ME MORE THAN 100
- FONTS AT ANY ONE TIME. WHAT GIVES?
-
- Download only has room for 100 soft fonts. If you have more than this
- you will only see the first 100 fonts that Download finds. The 100 font
- limit keeps the TSR memory requirements small. If you really need to see
- and use more than 100 fonts and you don't mind allocating extra memory for
- the program contact us for information concerning custom versions of the
- program.
-