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D O W N L O A D
Version 1.9b
Copyright 1987 - 1993 by Elfring Soft Fonts
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY....................................................... 1
REQUIREMENTS.................................................. 1
FONT CHARACTERISTICS.......................................... 1
RUNNING DOWNLOAD.............................................. 2
HISTORY....................................................... 5
LICENSE....................................................... 6
WARRANTY...................................................... 6
Downloading Soft Fonts To A LaserJet
SUMMARY
DOWNLOAD.EXE is an IBM PC utility program that manages the pro-
cess of downloading soft fonts to a DeskJet, LaserJet, or compat-
ible printer. DOWNLOAD can also select fonts as they are being sent
making them either the primary or secondary font. DOWNLOAD can
send a font, or group of fonts, through the standard MS-DOS par-
allel printer devices to your 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 specifying the individual
font names in an ASCII text file.
REQUIREMENTS
DOWNLOAD requires a minimum of 128K of memory, an HP LaserJet,
HP DeskJet, or compatible laser printer, and a parallel port to
talk to the printer. Parallel printer ports LPT1:, LPT2:, & LPT3:
are supported by the program. Parallel port communication is
significantly faster than serial.
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 or the front panel of the
printer. Each font must be defined as either temporary or perman-
ent. Temporary fonts are deleted whenever the LaserJet is reset
and are thus not very useful since most software that controls
the LaserJet sends a reset command out first, (deleting all temp-
orary 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.) 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. You can, of course, always select a font
based on soft font metrics, (point size, symbol set, style, weight,
spacing, orientation, etc.)
The DOWNLOAD program is designed to send soft fonts to the laser
printer 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 batch files
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to manage the process of sending a number of soft fonts to your
printer at one time.
RUNNING DOWNLOAD
DOWNLOAD is easy to use. The only thing you need to remember is
that DOWNLOAD will automatically prompt you with a brief descrip-
tion 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:
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.9b │
│Copyright 1986 - 1993 by Elfring Soft Fonts │
│ │
│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, or LPT3 │
│ ID = starting ID number to assign font to (0 - 32767) │
│ options = T to make font temporary, P to make font primary,│
│ S to make font secondary, or Q for quiet operat, │
│ D delete all fonts in printer before downloading,│
│ R reset the printer before downloading, │
│ or I ignore printer status check- very fast/clone│
│ │
│When optional arguments are not present, download defaults to: │
│LPT1, ID = 0, permanent font, and font is NOT selected. │
│For example: │
│ │
│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]
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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 sel-
ected as either primary or secondary. The screen will look as
follows:
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.9b │
│Copyright 1986 - 1993 by Elfring Soft Fonts │
│Sending font tr240bpn.usp with ID 0, 12427 bytes │
│Sent 1 file, with a total of 12427 bytes. │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘