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Many commercial font-management programs are now on the market,
including Insight Development's LaserControl, Blaha Software's HotLead,
SoftCraft's LaserFonts, and the PCL printer driver in Microsoft's Windo~)s.
These utility programs help you download fonts, then let you access the fonts
automatically from your word processor or other programs.
,Most font files on disk that you buy to download into your printer have
Escape sequences right in the file, which simplify the process. Usually all
you have to do is copy the file from your computer into yourprinter (you must
assign a font ID number first). If you download fonts with the MS-DOS
COPY utility, make sure to use the COPY /Eloption. That will keep your
computer from "interpreting" the data you send, which sometimes produces
badly shaped characters.
OK, let's look at a couple of examples.
3.4.6 Downloading a font: example one
Example one is for a computer running just MS-DOS.
Say you've bought Hewlett-Packard's Century Schoolbook fonts and want
to download the regular (upright), italics and boldface characters. The HP
disk labels for each file are CN 100RPN.R8P, CN 100IPN.R8P and
CN1OOBPN.R8P.In case you're interested, that's HP's code for CeNtury,
100 decipoints, Regular (or Italic or Bold), ProportioNal, Roman-8 symbol
set, Portrait.
One of thedisks you get also contains a batch file named DOWNLOAD.BAT.
To load the regular upright font you make sure the printer is online, then after
your computer's A> prompt you type:
DOWNLOAD CN1OORPN.R8P
When the program asks for the font ID number you key in a number between
Oand 32767. Then when the program asks whether you want the font stored
permanently or temporarily you type either P or T (a temporary font
disappears if you press the printer's [RESET] button). Finally the program
asks if you want to print a sample of the font and you reply Y or N for yes or
no.
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