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- BUILDFNT - A Laser Printer Utility
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- BUILDFNT is a utility program that converts bit-map character fonts
- stored on disk to a form usable by the HP LaserJet Series II printer.
- Each bit-map character font can be converted to fixed or proportional,
- portrait or landscape through BUILDFNT options.
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- In the simplest case, enter BUILDFNT followed by the bit map file name,
- such as:
- BUILDFNT SERIF10R.FNT
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- This will download a portrait, fixed-spaced font to LPT1 as id 16381.
- To override the defaults, use options on the command line. Options
- are preceded by a dash (-), such as:
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- BUILDFNT SERIF10R.FNT -DCOM1
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- Entering the command BUILDFNT with no file name and no options will print
- a help screen.
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- BUILDFNT comes complete with several type face maps, each of which can
- be generated in fixed or proportional spacing and portrait or landscape
- orientation:
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- SANSE06R.FNT Sans serif, 6-point font
- SANSE08R.FNT Sans serif, 8-point font
- SANSE10R.FNT Sans serif, 10-point font
- SANSE12R.FNT Sans serif, 12-point font
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- SERIF06R.FNT Serif, 6-point font
- SERIF08R.FNT Serif, 8-point font
- SERIF10R.FNT Serif, 10-point font
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- BUILDFNT - A Laser Printer Utility
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- The options are:
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- -Dname Device name. Normally BUILDFNT writes to LPT1, but it will
- write to: LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM1, COM2, or PRINTER. (Note
- that since PRINTER isn't a device, the use of the word
- printer will cause BUILDFNT to write a softfont to the FILE
- PRINTER, which you can inspect, modify, or use with other
- downloading programs.)
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- -Innnn ID number of font. Normally BUILDFNT gives its font the id 16381.
- Use the -I option to give it a different ID, such as:
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- BUILDFNT SANSE10R.FNT -I1 -Dlpt1
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- You can use the identification number of the font from within
- documents to have the laser printer switch fonts automatically.
- The command: ESC(13X
- when received by your printer instructs it to switch to the
- font with an id of 13.
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- -L Landscape. Normally BUILDFNT creates a Portrait mode font, but all
- you have to do to create a landscape font is use the -L option.
- (No characters follow the -L option.)
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- -P Proportional. Normally BUILDFNT creates a Fixed-space font, but all
- you have to do to create a proportionally spaced font is use the
- -P option. (No characters follow the -P option.)
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- -W Width. Display a width table of the characters in the font.
- See below for further information.
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- Information about the fonts
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- If you are using these fonts with other software, such a word
- processor or a page layout program, you may need to describe
- the fonts to the other software. Ideally, the other software
- could read the HP soft font format, but if that is not the case,
- the following information may help you.
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- The laser printer has a resolution of 300 dots per inch. To print a
- 10 point font, which is 10/72 inches high, the characters must be
- 10/72*300, or 42, dots tall. The fonts SERIF and SANSE both use a
- square character box, so for the 10 point fixed width font, characters
- are displayed in a 42 x 42 dot box. Similarly for the other point
- sizes:
- Points Dots
- 6 25
- 8 33
- 10 42
- 12 50
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- With a fixed width font, all characters take the same amount of space,
- from the thinnest i to the widest w. For proportional spaced fonts,
- the characters take only the amount of space needed to display the
- character, and the next letter to be printed is squeezed close to the
- previous letter - no excess blank space between characters. If you
- want to know how wide each character is, use the -W option of BUILDFNT.
- This will display a table of the characters in the font and the width
- of each character in dots.
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- The format of the width display is similar to that used for ASCII
- input to Microsoft's MAKEPRD program:
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- {W0
- FontSize: XX where XX is 2 times the point size
- chFirst: XX where XX is the ASCII code of the
- first character in the font (usually
- 32 for blank)
- chLast: XX where XX is the ASCII code of the
- last character in the font (usually
- 127 for the copyright symbol)
- XX:YYY where YYY is the width in dots of
- XX:YYY the character with the ASCII code XX
- ...
- XX:YYY
- }W
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- If you need this information directly in machine readable format, you
- will have to redirect the screen display to a file and edit it, such as:
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- BUILDFNT sanse10r.fnt -p -w > sanse10r.prd
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- BUILDFNT - A Laser Printer Utility
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- Shareware
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- BUILDFNT is distributed as shareware: try it before you buy it.
- Make sure it works on your configuration to your liking. Shareware
- is NOT freeware - unless you pay for it, you don't have the right
- to continue using it beyond a test period.
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- The price of BUILDFNT is $20. Send your check to:
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- BUILDFNT
- Hexagon Products
- P.O. Box 1295
- Park Ridge, IL 60068-1295
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- When you register BUILDFNT, please include the following information:
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- Name: ___________________________________________________
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- Company: ________________________________________________
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- Address: ________________________________________________
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- City: ___________________________________ State: ________
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- Zip: _________________ Phone: ___________________________
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- Do you use DOS or OS/2? DOS OS/2
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- Do you use color? Yes No
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- Do you use EGA or VGA? Yes No
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- Do you have a mouse? Yes No
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- What kind of printer do you use? ________________________
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- Where did you acquire BUILDFNT from? ____________________
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