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Downloading a font: example one
Example one is for a computer tunning 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 CNlOORPN.RSP, CNlOOIPN.R8P and
CNlfKlBPN.RgP. 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 the disks 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 CNlOORPN.R8P
When the program asks for the font ID number you key in a number between
0 and 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.
You then do the same for the italics and boldface files, for example typing
for the italics font:
DOWNLOAD CNlOOIPN.R8P
The prompts will be the same, but you have to remember to use different font
ID numbers for the upright, italic and boldface fonts.
Downloading a font: example two
Example two is for a computer running Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker
desktop publishing program with Microsoft Windows.
PageMaker provides a print driver called HPPCL.DRV, and a program
called PCLPFM.EXE which creates the data it needs to print a given font. To
create font data for your Century Schoolbook fonts, at the A> prompt you
type:
PCLPFM CNlOO*.RSP
The asterisk, a “wildcard character,” indicates that PCLPFM is to create a
data file for all three fonts-regular, italics and bold. The program asks if you
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