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

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:

> On 11 Jan 05 at 19:09, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
>
> > > > - downloadable fonts for HP Laserjet 3 or later
> > >
> > > I don't think this will work for my HP Laserjet IIP or the deskjet series,
> > > unfortunately.  But maybe there is something in here I can use to design
> > > my own fonts some day.  Thanks.  I will look into using my Epson fonts
> > > with linux if I can find them and extract from the WP setup.
>
> You _should_ try my fonts. There is nothing to lose.

But how would I use fonts for 600x600 dpi, scalable, on a PCL laser 
printer that prints 300x300 (or 150x150) not scalable?


> > See below for an explanation of why your Laserjet 3 fonts won't work on a
> > Laserjet IIp or a deskjet.
> >
> > 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 or see keesan.freeshell.org/software.htm

> > Perhaps I can find some way to import the Turbofonts Cyrillic fonts into
> > this editor.  Turbofonts had some mistakes that needed correcting.
>
> Yes, in those days I wrote a my own font editor in Basic, in
> order to print Latin 2 characters on my first matrix printer.
> But writing a complete new alphabet needs quite some time even for
> 24pins only.

It would help to start with at least the standard character set for Epson 
24-pin.  I have not found one yet other than Turbofonts so will see if 
there is some way to extract fonts from that.



> > Perhaps converting from ascii to ps would be simplest, and graphics is not
> > as slow to print on a deskjet as on a dot-matrix. -------
>
> I do not know deskjet at all. These printers are told to be too
> expensive.

Deskjet 500's have been thrown out around here for at least five years.
They print 300x300 dpi, inkjet, and are cheaper than laser printers.

> >       The Intellifont scaleable font format is supported by all HP
> >       LaserJet printers from the HP LaserJet III onwards.
>
>
> I think my fonts are not scalable and our HPLJ 4ML has only 300dpi.
> The font file is so big because for each type size there is an own
> font definition. So this actually should be compliant with the
> old HPLJ II.

I wonder why the website said it did 600x600.

> >     Once soft fonts have been added to a LaserJet printer they are
> >     accessed by sending an escape sequence which selects the font ready for
> >     use. Data is then sent to the printer as usual and will be printed using
> >     the selected font.
>
> In order to test the font file you should take one Code sequence from
> hpcesky.txt (search for '_RUS') and put it with some cp866 Russian
> letters into a test file that will be sent to the printer after the
> download file.

I will try to understand this some time.  You put the escape sequence into 
hpcesky.txt?

> Christof
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Sindi