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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/laser/
> I found (from 1988/89):  hpril.zip - Russian soft font
> and two printer font editors for laserjet:  gof10.zip and fntedt57.zip
>
> And at /msdos/undefined/lqchr121.zip   to edit Epson printer fonts.
/msdos/printer not /undefined, sorry.



I have put all four files into downfont.zip at
keesan.freeshell.org  with a discussion and link at
keesan.freeshell.org/software.htm

I tried to upload and print a Cyrillic font from hpril.zip using gof10.zip 
(they use the same .sfp format) but could not get it to print on my 
Deskjet 660 so maybe it is not entirely laserjet compatible though the gs 
ljet driver prints on the 500 and 600 deskjet series.  I will try some day 
on the Laserjpet IIP emulating Brother.

fnted57.zip - has some other format.

lqchr121.zip is a nice program for designing draft and letter quality 
fonts for Epson LQ 24 type printers.  Maybe one could use the hpril 
Cyrillic font as a model to make an Epson font.

The hpril fonts are in English alphabetical order - ABCDE not ABVGD.

I suggest using these all on a VGA monitor.  gof (go_font) requires it and 
the other two crashed on my MGA monitor (two-monitor setup may have 
confused them).  lqchr says it should work on MGA.

Maybe some day I will find the time to design Cyrillic printer fonts for 
Epson and HP older laser printers to go with the VGA screen fonts we 
designed (see my site, same link).  My partner who does not read Cyrillic 
had fun using the screen font editing program and we even designed our own 
Euro character for cp1251.

A friend with WinXP is trying to get it to work with an HP Laserjet 6L 
that prints 600x600, uses Chris's fonts for the Laserjet 3 and later, and 
came with DOS drivers.  I am jealous.

It might be simplest to start by making an Epson charset for cp852 but the 
little Epson font editor came without the two promised standard fonts to 
modify.  Maybe I can get hold of the author, or another copy of this 
lqchr.  Boy will he be surprised to get a request for a program nearly 20 
years old!