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DOWNLOAD Version 1.9 Copyright 1986 - 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts Elfring Soft Fonts PO Box 61 Wasco, IL 60183 Phone: 708-377-3520 Fax: 708-377-6402 CIS: 72417,3437 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY....................................................... 1 REQUIREMENTS.................................................. 1 FONT CHARACTERISTICS.......................................... 1 RUNNING DOWNLOAD.............................................. 2 ERROR MESSAGES................................................ 5 COMMON PROBLEMS............................................... 5 DISTRIBUTION.................................................. 6 WARRANTY...................................................... 6 REGISTRATION...................................................7 SUMMARY DOWNLOAD.EXE is an IBM PC utility program that manages the process of downloading soft fonts to a LaserJet, DeskJet, or compatible printers. The program works with bit-mapped fonts or the newer scalable fonts for the LaserJet III printer line. DOWNLOAD can also make a font active as it is being sent. DOWNLOAD can send a font, or group of fonts, through the standard parallel printer ports to your LaserJet or DeskJet printer. You have optional control over the soft font ID number, whether the font is permanent or temporary, and whether it is a primary or secondary font. A list of fonts may be sent to the printer by specify- ing the individual fonts names in an ASCII text file. All fonts resident in your laser may be optionally deleted before new fonts are downloaded, or you can reset the printer first. This package is being distributed as shareware and you are expected to register it if you use it! You may try this package out for a period not to exceed 15 days. Registration costs $10 and brings you a number of benefits. See end of this documentation for a registration form. Elfring Soft Fonts also offers a shareware memory resident (TSR) ver- sion of DOWNLOAD with features you won't believe. This version finds your soft fonts automatically, and displays a list of them in English. No more cryptic font file names. TSR Download will also compress soft fonts so they occupy 1/6 the normal amount of disk space. You can down- load or select any font on either a laser printer or a DeskJet all from within your application program. The program keeps track of all fonts that have been sent to your printer and their memory requirements. Lots of other control options are available in this 7K TSR. TSR Download is $45.00 by itself, or $75.00 with a set of LaserJet soft fonts, (Helv & Roman 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 point medium/bold/italic + 18, 24, & 30 point bold), plus our Soft Font Manual. (The manual explains all there is to know about what a soft fonts is, how they are named, and how to select them!) A DeskJet version is also available for $75. REQUIREMENTS DOWNLOAD requires a minimum of 128K of memory, an HP LaserJet, DeskJet, or compatible printer, and a parallel port to talk to the printer. Parallel printer ports LPT1:, LPT2:, LPT3: are supported by the program. DeskJet printers require a RAM cartridge for soft font usage. FONT CHARACTERISTICS All soft fonts have three characteristics associated with them. Each font must have a unique ID number assigned to it. This lets you select a soft font through software commands. Each font must be defined as either temporary or permanent. Temporary fonts are deleted whenever the LaserJet is reset and are thus not as widely used as permanent ones since most software that controls the LaserJet sends a reset command out first, (deleting all temporary fonts). Finally, a font may be defined as either primary or secondary. (Note that only one primary and one secondary font can exist at one time and you don not have to have a primary or secondary font.) 1 The LaserJet lets you switch between primary and secondary fonts with simple control characters. Control-N selects the secondary font, while control-O selects the primary font. Embedding these characters in your text file will let you switch between fonts. Fonts that have ID numbers assigned to them may be selected based on that ID number. To do this you send an <Esc>(#X to the printer, where <ESC> stands for the escape key (1BH), and # is replaced by the ASCII soft font ID number. (To select soft font ID 15 you would send <Esc>(15X. Finally fonts can be selected by font metrics. In this method you describe the font. A sample Times-Roman selection string would be: <Esc>&l0O<Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5T (12 point, portrait, medium weight, US ASCII, Times-Roman). This method is too complex to explain here. We do offer an inexpensive Soft Font Manual that explains everything there is to know about how to name, use, select, and recognize soft fonts if you want more information. The DOWNLOAD program is designed to send soft fonts to the laser print- er and to help you manage all these font characteristics. You can select the font ID number, and font status at the same time that you download the font. You can also make list files to manage the process of sending a number of soft fonts to your printer at one time. Finally, soft fonts may be archived into a common file and automatically extracted for downloading. RUNNING DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD is easy to use. The only thing you need to remember is that DOWNLOAD will automatically prompt you with a brief description of how to use it if you want it to. Simply type DOWNLOAD followed by a carriage return. The program will print a short explanation of its operation and options as shown below: SHAREWARE send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.9. Copyright 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts, All rights reserved. Use-> download fontname [device ID -options] where: everything the between '[]'s is optional and... fontname = the name of the font to download, or the name of a list of fonts to download preceded by an '@' character device = LPT1, LPT2, LPT3 ID = starting ID number to assign to font(s) (0 - 65535) options = T to make font temporary, P to make font primary, S to make font secondary, Q for quiet operation, D to delete all fonts in printer before downloading, R to reset the printer before downloading, or I to ignore printer status check When the optional arguments are not present, download defaults to: LPT1, ID= 0, permanent font, and font is NOT selected. Please register this shareware if you use it on ANYTHING other than a trial basis. To register send $10 to Elfring Soft Fonts, PO Box 61, Wasco, IL, 60183 USA 708-377-3520. CIS: 72417,3437 2 Example DOWNLOAD usage: download he100rpn.usp lpt1: 5 -tp download @font.lst -q download od300rpn.usp 1000 -sq LPT2 To run DOWNLOAD you must specify either the name of the soft font to send to your printer, or the name of a disk file that contains a list of soft fonts to send to the printer. You can optionally specify the device to send the file to, LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. In addition, you can optionally control the three font attributes, (ID number, permanent / temporary, primary/secondary), specified above. To invoke DOWNLOAD type: download yourfont [port ID# -options] All items between the "[" and "]" characters are optional. This means you do not have to include them. Note that the "[" and "]" characters are not actually used in a command. Also note that these optional items can be specified in any order. So, to download a Times-Roman 24 point bold font you would enter: download tr240bpn.usp The DOWNLOAD program will find that file, (if it doesn't exist DOWNLOAD will let you know), and defaults to: printer port LPT1, soft font ID 0, and permanent status. The font will not be selected as either primary or secondary. The screen will look as follows: Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.9 Copyright 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts Sending font tr240bpn.usp with ID 0, 12427 bytes Sent 1 file, with a total of 12427 bytes. A more complicated command might involve using a different printer port and assigning a soft font ID number. For example: download tr100bpn.usp 1000 lpt2 ─s sends the bold faced Times─Roman font to the LaserJet via LPT2: and assigns it font ID 1000, permanent and secondary status. The secondary status lets you select this font in a document by embedding a control─N, (you can change back to your primary font with a control─O). DOWNLOAD is capable of using a list of file names created with any ASCII text editor. To do this type: download @fonts.lst 10 This instructs the program to find the disk file "fonts.lst". This file is assumed to contain a list of font file names to send to the LaserJet. All files will be sent in the order they appear in the list. For example, if the file "fonts.lst" looks as follows: 3 he100rpn.usp he100bpn.usp he100ipn.usp he180bpn.usp he300bpn.usp then the command "download @fonts.lst 10" will load all five fonts to your LaserJet through LPT1. The "he100rpn.usp" font will be assigned font ID 10 and loaded first. Font "he100bpn.usp" will be loaded next with font ID 11. This process will continue sequentially until font "he300bpn.usp" is sent to the printer as font ID 14. All fonts will be assigned permanent status. The screen will look as follows after the downloading process is finished: Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.9 Copyright 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts Sending font he100rpn.usp with ID 0, 12427 bytes Sending font he100bpn.usp with ID 1, 18834 bytes Sending font he100ipn.usp with ID 2, 33754 bytes Sending font he180bpn.usp with ID 3, 48531 bytes Sending font he300bpn.usp with ID 4, 68929 bytes Sent 5 files, with a total of 133944 bytes. For a more detailed explanation of soft font ID numbers, and font status see your LaserJet user's manual. Another useful option is the "D" command. This command lets you delete all soft fonts resident in your laser printer prior to downloading. For example, if you have limited font memory you can lose track of how many fonts have been sent to the laser printer. Rather than blindly sending more fonts, (which can result in a "20" error), you can tell DOWNLOAD to delete all soft fonts first, and then send the new fonts to the printer. download @batch.lst 1 -d Finally, the "quiet" option lets you disable much of the screen output from DOWNLOAD. This is particularly useful with batch files since you are probably not interested in file statistics when downloading a batch of files. To use the quiet option you would type: download @batch.lst 1000 -qt This would result in the following display: Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.9 Copyright 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts Note that the "-t" option used above would give all soft fonts listed above "temporary" status. They would automatically be erased after the first reset command is sent the the laser printer. 4 ERROR MESSAGES DOWNLOAD automatically checks the status of your laser printer before sending anything to it. If the printer is off, not connected, de- selected, or out of paper DOWNLOAD will display an error message. For example, if your printer was out of paper you would see: download cp300rpn.usp Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.9 Copyright 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts Sending font cp300rpn.usp with ID 0 Printer I/O error Printer out of paper Abort, Retry, Ignore? Answer with the appropriate letter (A/R/I) followed by a carriage return. This process lets you select the printer or add more paper to correct the problem. 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 almost certainly due to bad hardware! When a soft font is downloaded 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. Congatulations, 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. (-D option in Download) If the problem occurs regularly you should start looking for a 1 meg memory add on board. 5 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.X, WordStar 6.0, Word 5.X, Word Perfect 5.1, PC Write 3 DISTRIBUTION This program is provided on a trial basis as shareware to all who are interested in it. To use this product on other than a trial basis you must register it for $10.00. See the end of this file for a regis- tration form. Copies of this program may be freely exchanged as long as no fee is charged for them. Please distribute this package with BOTH this documentation file and the executable program. This program and documentation are Copyright 1986 - 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts. All rights are reserved. Commercial use without registration is strictly prohibited. We offer over 65 different typefaces for LaserJet, DeskJet, and Post- Script printers. For a free catalog call or write us at the address listed below. WARRANTY Elfring Soft Fonts specifically disclaims all other warranties, ex- pressed or implied, including but not limited to, implied war- ranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to defects in the disk or documentation, and the program License granted herein. In no event shall Elfring Soft Fonts be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. LICENSE AND OTHER INFORMATION Users of this package must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "These programs and fonts are supplied as is. The author disclaims all war- ranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The 6 author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of these software programs and fonts." This package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide in- centive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and you continue to use these fonts or util- ities after a trial period of 20 days, you must make a registration payment of $10.00 to Elfring Soft Fonts. The $10.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibil- ity of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial or business users of this package must register and pay for their copies of this package within 10 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contact- ing Elfring Soft Fonts. Please distribute this package intact! This program and all documentation are Copyright 1986 - 1991 by Elfring Soft Fonts. All rights are reserved. Anyone distributing this package for any kind of remuneration must first contact Elfring Soft Fonts at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering this package immediately, (however Elfring Soft Fonts must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of this package). You are encouraged to pass a copy of this package along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. We will also send them an information packet that describes other software available from Gary Elfring and Elfring Soft Fonts. Member ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) Gary Elfring is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP mem- ber by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. If you like these LaserJet fonts & Utilities tell your friends! If you don't like them tell us why! To keep prices on products like this as low as they are we cannot afford to advertise. You are our form of advertisement! Tell your friends. If you have the opportunity to 7 write an article in a newsletter or a trade magazine and like this pack- age spread the word! We need all of the help we can get to put quality software into the users hands without charging inflated prices! If you do write an article about this package we would appreciate hearing from you. Elfring Soft Fonts PO Box 61 Wasco, IL 60183 Phone: 708-377-3520 Fax: 708-377-6402 CIS: 72417,3437 SHAREWARE REGISTRATION FORM V1.5 To register this copy of Elfring Soft Font's DOWNLOAD 1.9, to be eligible for support, and to receive a copy of our LaserJet font bro- chure, please fill out the following form, and mail it along with your payment of $10.00. No shipping or handling fee is required. Elfring Soft Fonts, P.O. Box 61, Wasco, Illinois 60183 USA Phone: 708-377-3520 Fax: 708-377-6402 (9 AM - 5 PM CST) CIS: 72417,3437 Please register my copy of Elfring Soft Fonts LaserJet package. [ ] $10 shareware package [ ] Illinois residents add 6.25% sales tax ($.63) Make all checks payable to: Elfring Soft Fonts. Payment must be made in US dollars drawn on a US bank, VISA, MC, or cash. Not responsible for cash lost in the mail. If sending cash use registered mail or protect it. Payment: [ ] VISA [ ] MC [ ] Check (US funds / US bank) [ ] Cash Card Number: _____ _____ _____ _____ Expiration: _________ Signature: ________________________________________________ Name: _________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________ City, State, Zip: _________________________________________ Country: _________________________________________ Comments: _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Source of software: ______________________________________ [ ] Please send me my free CompuServe membership and $15 access credit Word Processor: [ ] Word Perfect, [ ] Word, [ ] PC Write [ ] WS5.5 Printer: [ ]LaserJet+, [ ]LaserJet II,IIP,IID, [ ]LaserJet III, [ ]Compatible