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Article #3365Re: Where are the HP fonts ?
From: Tom Haapanen
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:59
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:59
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Mike Lawless <mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> writes:
> In article <83643@linus.UUCP> carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) writes
> >If the PD fonts include documentation that shows the escape sequences to
> >use to access the fonts you should be able to use MAKEPRD (comes with
> >Word) to create a driver. I have never tried it with downloadable fonts,
>
> One more wrinkle--any fonts (downloadable or not) that are proportionally
> spaced need a width table. If one is not provided with the font, you can
> figure it out for yourself, although the procedure is somewhat tedious.
There are two width table generators available on mims-iris.waterloo.edu
(by anonymous ftp or mail); CTABLE (shareware, for MS Word and XyWrite,
but somewhat buggy) and jetwidth (free, for MS Word only, but seems to
work better).
I suppose it's time to tell everybody about the mims-iris font archive
gain. So I'll post YA announcement...
\tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
my views to have anything to do watmims research group
with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!tom From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Where are the HP fonts ? Message-ID: <459@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 20:59:53 GMT References: <208@netdev.UUCP> <83643@linus.UUCP> <5728@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 24