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D I S P F O N T
Print Soft Font Sample Sheets
Version 1.5
Elfring Soft Fonts
P.O. Box 61
Wasco, IL 60183
Phone: 708-377-3520
Fax: 708-377-6402
CIS: 72417,3437
Copyright 1987 - 1992 Elfring Soft Fonts
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION................................................. 1
OPERATION.................................................... 1
EXAMPLES..................................................... 3
VARYING THE SAMPLE TEXT...................................... 4
GENERAL INFORMATION.......................................... 4
LICENSE...................................................... 5
WARRANTY..................................................... 5
Display a Soft Font
INTRODUCTION
Do you have problems deciding which soft font to use? It's hard
to choose a font without seeing an example of it. What you need
is a display sheet, showing what each of your soft fonts looks
like. This should show the font name and typeface, a sample
alphabet, some representative text, and perhaps a symbol map. Of
course you might be able to do this with your word processor and
a great deal of work. OR you can use DISPFONT and turn these
sheets out in no time.
DISPFONT is a utility for the IBM PC or compatible computers and
the HP LaserJet or compatible printers. DISPFONT prints a sample
sheet of any soft font. The sample sheet contains four basic
sections: header, alphabet, text, and symbol map. The "header"
displays the soft font file name, the name of the type face, and
its style, point size, and orientation. The alphabet section
displays all the characters in the standard ASCII set. The text
section lets you see what the font looks like when printing sev-
eral lines with that font. Finally, the symbol map shows each
character in the font along with the letter of the alphabet or the
decimal code required to select that character.
DISPFONT requires an IBM or compatible computer, a minimum of 128K
of memory, and a parallel or serial port. A LaserJet +, II, IID, or
IIP, compatible printer, or DeskJet that supports downloadable soft
fonts is required. This package is ASP shareware. See REGISTER.DOC.
OPERATION
Your printer should be running and on-line before starting
DISPFONT. To run DISPFONT, simply type in the program name, the
name of the soft font to display, and one of several options.
DISPFONT assumes you want to use printer port LPT1, unless you
tell it otherwise. The basic command structure of DISPFONT is:
dispfont fontname [printer -s -a -#]
The "fontname" is the name of the soft font file to print a sam-
ple of. Everything between the "[" and "]" characters is option-
al. Typical soft font file names follow the form:
FFPPPSPN.USO
├┘└┬┘│ └─ font orientation (P/L)
│ │ └─ font style (R/B/L/I)
│ └─ point size (tenths of a point)
└─ type face
Example font names include:
tr100rpn.usp (Times-Roman, 10 point, regular, portrait)
tr240bpn.usl (Times-Roman, 24 point, bold, landscape)
he060ipn.usp (Helvetica, 6 point, italic, portrait)
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The optional "printer" argument lets you select a printer port to
send the sample sheet to. DISPFONT recognizes the standard three
parallel printer ports: LPT1, LPT2, & LPT3. If no printer port is
included on the command line DISPFONT defaults to LPT1. The serial
printer ports, (COM1 or COM2), are NO LONGER supported!
The optional "-s" argument is used to suppress the printing of a
symbol table. If the "-s" option is NOT used you can use the "-a"
option to select an alphabetic symbol map, instead of a decimal one.
The line spacing the program uses can now also be controlled using
the "-#" option. Replace the "#" with any digits that specify how
many 48ths of an inch you want to move on each carriage return. Thus
"-24" sets the line spacing to 2 lines per inch, "-8" gives 6 lines
per inch. When no symbol table is printed you have more room for your
customized text. (See the section on Varying The Sample Text for an
explanation of this feature.)
A typical sample font sheet would look as follows:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ File: ro300rpn.usp, Roman-Times: 30 pt, portrait │
│ │
│ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz |[]{};:`" │
│ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ │
│ 0123456789 `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+\,.<>?/ │
│ │
│ This is sample text that you can change. │
│ Edit this file with any ASCII text editor, │
│ and your text will be printed. │
│ │
│ 33=! 34=" 35=# 36=$ 37=% 38=& 39=' 40=( 41=) │
│ 42=* 43=+ 44=, 45=- 46=. 46=/ 48=0 49=1 50=2 │
│ 51=3 52=4 53=5 54=6 55=7 56=8 57=9 58=: 59=; │
│ 60=< 61== 62=> 63=? 64=@ 65=A 66=B 67=C 68=D │
│ . │
│ . │
│ 123={ 124=| 125=} 126=~ │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
DISPFONT automatically adapts itself to the font you are
printing. It will adjust printer orientation and line spacing
based on the characteristics of that font. While DISPFONT can
handle fonts of any size up to 72 points, it should be noted that
the symbol map will be hard to read when the font point size is
greater than 40 - 50 points.
If you forget how to use DISPFONT you can always get help by
typing the program name with no arguments. For example, typing
"dispfont" followed by a carriage return would display the fol-
lowing:
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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Print sample sheet of a soft font, Version 1.3, │
│Copyright 1987 by Gary Elfring │
│ │
│Use --> dispfont softfont [printer -s -a -#] │
│ │
│where, softfont is the file name of the soft font