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Adding ESF Soft Fonts to Your WP 5.1 Driver
Enclosed is a laser printer font definition file for WordPerfect 5.1 and
these ESF soft fonts. Do NOT use this font definition file by itself! You
must follow the directions below to add these soft font definitions to
your standard printer driver. There are three basic steps: move fonts
from our driver to yours, activate the fonts for your particular printer,
and re-install the modified driver from within WordPerfect. Please note
that if you are using Glyphix or Power Pak you must use step 3b below
instead of 3a. You can also use step 3b to add only a single typeface
family to your driver at a time.
These instructions assume you are familiar with DOS and working from the
DOS prompt. It should take no more than 10 minutes to install these fonts.
Conventions: when you see something surrounded by the "<" and ">" char-
acters, that represents a key on your keyboard. So <enter> stands for
the enter key, <F1> for the F1 function key, & <L> for the letter "L" key.
Step 1
The INSTALL program will have copied all your new soft fonts to your ex-
isting soft font subdirectory, or it will have created a new subdirectory.
All your soft fonts from all manufacturers should be in this single sub-
directory. It is MUCH less confusing to place all soft fonts in a single
subdirectory. REMEMBER the name of this subdirectory, you will need it
later. (The default subdirectory is C:\FONTS)
Step 2
From the DOS prompt, switch to the subdirectory where WordPerfect 5.1
expects to find your printer definition files. This is typically C:\WP51,
however if you are not sure you can use WordPerfect to determine what the
directory is. Start WordPerfect, and press <Shift><F1>, then <L>. Now make
a note of the drive and subdirectory. Then exit from WordPerfect back to DOS.
Locate the name of the ALL file you currently use for your printer.
(Probably WPHP1.ALL)
Now backup your current WordPerfect printer driver PRS & ALL files. You
can do this by copying them to files with different names or by copying
them to a floppy disk.
Step 3a
Assuming you do not have Glyphix or PowerPak installed, you are now going
to use the PTR.EXE program that comes with WordPerfect 5.1 to move ESF
soft font definitions from our ".ALL" file to yours. If you can't locate
the PTR.EXE program, you will need to reinstall WordPerfect and make sure
you unpack the utility programs when re-installing. Note that if you
*only* want to move a single typeface definition from our driver to yours
you should follow Step 3b below, instead of 3a. Type:
PTR /UPDATE ESFLASER.ALL yourall.file<enter>
Where "yourall.file" is the name of the ALL file for your printer. Remember
to include the ".ALL" part of the filename. For example:
ptr /update esflaser.all wphp1.all<enter>
The PTR program will now move the ESF font definitions into your ".ALL"
file. This may take a little time, depending on the computer you own. When
PTR is finished it will return back to the DOS prompt.
Step 3b
If you do have Glyphix or PowerPak installed, you are now going to use
the PTR.EXE program that comes with WordPerfect 5.1 to move ESF soft
font definitions from our ".ALL" file to yours in a different way than
described in Step 3a. This method is also used to move single typeface
definition to your existing driver. Type:
PTR ESFLASER.ALL<enter>
Hit <enter>, move down to Fonts and hit <enter> again. Now use the cursor
keys to move down and highlight the font library you want to move. Now hit
<4> (Copy), and enter the name of the printer driver to copy this infor-
mation to. (say: wphp1.all<enter> ) Repeat the highlight and copy commands
until you have copied all the font libraries you want to move to your
printer driver. To exit, hit <Alt><F7> and answer No to save the file and
Yes to exit. You will now be back at the DOS prompt.
Step 4
Your ".ALL" file now contains the ESF soft font definitions, but they are
not active for your particular printer. To activate the font definitions,
you need to run the PTR program again. This time we are using PTR to mod-
ify YOUR ".ALL" file. So type PTR followed by the name of your driver.
PTR WPHP1.ALL<enter>
Now highlight your printer name, and press <enter>
WARNING: if no list of printer names appears there is something wrong
with your printer driver! If this happens, use the WordPerfect program
to reload your original printer ALL file from floppy disk. Then repeat
step 3 above.
Move down to (highlight) "Fonts", and press <enter>
Move down past the Built-In & Cartridges to Soft Fonts and highlight all
the ESF font families you purchased and then mark them with the "*" key.
Font families are identified by type like:
ESF Helv & Roman
ESF KeyCaps
ESF Spread Sheet
Repeat this process and mark all the ESF font families you want to use
with a "*"
Now exit from PTR and save the modified ".ALL" file.
Hit <Alt><F7>
"Save file?" Y
File to be Saved "C:\wp51\wphp1.all" <enter>
"Replace File?" Y
"Exit?" Y
Step 5
Start WordPerfect and enter <Shift><F7> for the printer menu. Press <S> for
the Select Printer menu. This displays a list of printer drivers currently
installed. Now press <A> for additional printers. Use the arrow keys to
highlight your printer name "LaserJet" or what have you, then press <enter>
to select. WordPerfect will now tell you the name of the new ".PRS" file it
is going to create. (If you already have a file by this name WP will ask if
you want to replace it. Answer Yes.) Now press Exit <F7>.
Step 6
You are now at the Edit screen for Select Printers. Press <C> to select
"Cartridges and Fonts". Use the down arrow key to move down to the Soft
Fonts line. Hit <enter>. You will probably see a list of all soft fonts
libraries (by typeface) available for the LaserJet. If you don't see this
list don't worry. WordPerfect will simply have moved you directly into the
font library. At this point you must tell WordPerfect how you want to handle
the downloading of soft fonts. WP offers two different options. If you mark
each individual font file with a "+", WP will handle the downloading of soft
fonts automaticly. WP will search through each document before it is print-
ed. Any fonts used in a document that were marked with a "+" will be sent to
the printer before WP attempts to print. THIS IS THE RECOMMENDED METHOD OF
HANDLING FONT DOWNLOADING FOR BEGINNERS.
If you mark each soft font with a "*", WP *assumes* the soft font is already
resident in the printer. It's up to *you* to get the font there. (You can
use WP's Printer Initialize command, or our soft font downloader.)
So, at the Cartridges and Fonts menu, use the down arrow key to move the
cursor to each ESF typeface family you own and press the enter key. You will
now see a list of fonts that make up this typeface family. Use the "+" or the
"*" key to mark each font you own. ("+" means a font will be downloaded for
each document, "*" means you must run Printer Initialize before printing.)
Note that all Elfring Soft Font definition lines include the letters (ESF)
at the end of the font name. Also mark any other soft fonts or cartridges
you may own. Now press <F7> twice. WP will update the driver and return to
the Select Printer screen.
Now press <6> or <D> to specify the disk drive and directory name for
your downloadable fonts. Hit <F7> three times to return to document editing.
Using Soft Fonts
WordPerfect lets you mark soft fonts with a * or a +. The + tells WP to
search through a document before printing it and to download all soft fonts
the document needs before attempting to print it. The * tells WP that the
soft fonts are resident in the printer already. If you marked any soft
fonts with a * you w