











                                D O W N L O A D


                                  PC DOS ONLY



                                   Version 1.9





                  Copyright 1987 - 2013 by Elfring Fonts Inc








                                TABLE OF CONTENTS


        SUMMARY....................................................... 1




        REQUIREMENTS.................................................. 1




        FONT CHARACTERISTICS.......................................... 1




        RUNNING DOWNLOAD.............................................. 2




        HISTORY....................................................... 5




        LICENSE....................................................... 6



        WARRANTY...................................................... 6

                     Downloading Soft Fonts To A LaserJet



                                     SUMMARY
        
        DOWNLOAD.EXE is a utility program for PC compatible computers that 
        manages the process of downloading soft fonts to a DeskJet, LaserJet,
        or compatible printer. DOWNLOAD can also select fonts as they are 
        being sent making them either the primary or secondary font.  
        DOWNLOAD can send a font, or group of fonts, through the standard 
        MS-DOS parallel printer devices to your printer. You have optional 
        control over the soft font ID number, whether the font is permanent 
        or temporary, and whether it is a primary or secondary font. A list 
        of fonts may be sent to the printer by specifying the individual 
        font names in an ASCII text file.


                                  REQUIREMENTS
        
        DOWNLOAD requires a minimum of 128K of memory, an HP LaserJet, 
        HP DeskJet, or compatible laser printer, and a parallel port to 
        talk to the printer.  Parallel printer ports LPT1:, LPT2:, & LPT3: 
        are supported by the program.  Parallel port communication is 
        significantly faster than serial.



                              FONT CHARACTERISTICS
        
        All soft fonts have three characteristics associated with them.  
        Each font must have a unique ID number assigned to it.  This lets 
        you select a soft font through software or the front panel of the 
        printer. Each font must be defined as either temporary or perman-
        ent.  Temporary fonts are deleted whenever the LaserJet is reset 
        and are thus not very useful since most software that controls 
        the LaserJet sends a reset command out first, (deleting all temp-
        orary fonts).  Finally, a font may be defined as either primary 
        or secondary.  (Note that only one primary and one secondary font 
        can exist at one time and you don not have to have a primary or 
        secondary font.)  The LaserJet lets you switch between primary 
        and secondary fonts with simple control characters.  Control-N 
        selects the secondary font, while control-O selects the primary 
        font.  Embedding these characters in your text file will let you 
        switch between fonts. You can, of course, always select a font
        based on soft font metrics, (point size, symbol set, style, weight, 
        spacing, orientation, etc.)

        The DOWNLOAD program is designed to send soft fonts to the laser 
        printer and to help you manage all these font characteristics.  
        You can select the font ID number, and font status at the same 
        time that you download the font.  You can also make batch files 


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        to manage the process of sending a number of soft fonts to your 
        printer at one time.


                                RUNNING DOWNLOAD
        
        DOWNLOAD is easy to use.  The only thing you need to remember is 
        that DOWNLOAD will automatically prompt you with a brief descrip-
        tion of how to use it if you want it to.  Simply type DOWNLOAD 
        followed by a carriage return.  The program will print a short 
        explanation of its operation and options as shown below:


        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        |Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.9      |
        |Copyright 1986 - 1995 by Elfring Soft Fonts                    |
        |                                                               |
        |Use --> download fontname [device ID -options]                 |
        |                                                               |
        |  where: everything the between '[]'s is optional and...       |
        |                                                               |
        |   fontname = the name of the font to download or the name of  |
        |              a list of fonts to download preceded by an '@'   |
        |              character                                        |
        |   device   = LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3                              |
        |   ID       = starting ID number to assign font to (0 - 32767) |
        |   options  = T to make font temporary, P to make font primary,|
        |              S to make font secondary, or Q for quiet operat, |
        |              D delete all fonts in printer before downloading,|
        |              R reset the printer before downloading,          |
        |              or I ignore printer status check- very fast/clone|
        |                                                               |
        |When optional arguments are not present, download defaults to: |
        |LPT1, ID = 0, permanent font, and font is NOT selected.        |
        |For example:                                                   |
        |                                                               |
        |download he100rpn.usp lpt1: 5 -tp                              |
        |download @font.lst -q                                          |
        |download od300rpn.usp 1000 -sq LPT2                            |
        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        
        To run DOWNLOAD you MUST specify either the name of the soft font 
        to send to your printer, or the name of a disk file that contains 
        a list of soft fonts to send to the printer.  You can optionally 
        specify the device to send the file to, LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3.  In 
        addition, you can optionally control the three font attributes, 
        (ID number, permanent/temporary, primary/secondary), specified 
        above.  To invoke DOWNLOAD type:

        download yourfont [port ID# -options]
        
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        All items between the "[" and "]" characters are optional.  This 
        means you do not have to include them.  Note that the "[" and "]" 
        characters are not actually used in a command.  Also note that 
        these optional items can be specified in any order.

        So, to download a Times-Roman 24 point bold font you would enter:

        download tr240bpn.usp
        
        The DOWNLOAD program will find that file, (if it doesn't exist 
        DOWNLOAD will let you know), and defaults to: printer port LPT1, 
        soft font ID 0, and permanent status.  The font will not be sel-
        ected as either primary or secondary.  The screen will look as 
        follows:

        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        |Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.9      |
        |Copyright 1986 - 1995 by Elfring Soft Fonts                    |
        |Sending font tr240bpn.usp with ID 0, 12427 bytes               |
        |Sent 1 file, with a total of 12427 bytes.                      |
        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        
        A more complicated command might involve using a different print-
        er port and assigning a soft font ID number.  For example:

        download tr100bpn.usp 1000 lpt2 -s
        
        sends the bold faced Times-Roman font to the LaserJet via LPT2: 
        and assigns it font ID 1000, permanent and secondary status.  The 
        secondary status lets you select this font in a document by em-
        bedding a control-N, (you can change back to your primary font 
        with a control-O).

        Two other options "D" and "R" give you control over your laser print-
        er operation. The "D" option tells DOWNLOAD to delete all soft fonts
        in the printer before sending new ones. The "R" option instructs the
        program to reset your printer before downloading. So to send a font 
        to your laser and reset it and revove any other fonts your would type:

        download bh100rpn.usp 5 -rd

        The last option to discuss is the "I" or ignore option. DOWNLOAD always
        checks the parallel printer port status before sending soft fonts. If
        you own a not-so-compatible clone the status returned might not match
        what DOWNLOAD expects. OR, if you have a VERY fast 386 computer, your
        machine may so out speed your printer that DOWNLOAD will think the 
        printer is off line or out of paper. Use the "I" option to tell DOWN-
        LOAD to ignore printer status as follows:

        download hv100rpn.usp -i        

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        Finally, DOWNLOAD is capable of using a list of file names creat-
        ed with any ASCII text editor.  To do this type:

        download @fonts.lst 10 
        
        This instructs the program to find the disk file "fonts.lst".  
        This file is assumed to contain a list of font file names to send 
        to the LaserJet.  All files will be sent in the order they appear 
        in the list.  For example, if the file "fonts.lst" looks as fol-
        lows:

        he100rpn.usp
        he100bpn.usp
        he100ipn.usp
        he180bpn.usp
        he300bpn.usp
        
        then the command "download @fonts.lst 10" will load all five fonts 
        to your LaserJet through LPT1.  The "he100rpn.usp" font will be 
        assigned font ID 10 and loaded first.  Font "he100bpn.usp" will 
        be loaded next with font ID 11.  This process will continue sequen-
        tially until font "he300bpn.usp" is sent to the printer as font 
        ID 14.  All fonts will be assigned permanent status.  The screen 
        will look as follows after the downloading 
        process is finished:

        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        |Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.9      |
        |Copyright 1986 - 1995 by Elfring Soft Fonts                    |
        |Sending font he100rpn.usp with ID 0, 12427 bytes               |
        |Sending font he100bpn.usp with ID 1, 18834 bytes               |
        |Sending font he100ipn.usp with ID 2, 33754 bytes               |
        |Sending font he180bpn.usp with ID 3, 48531 bytes               |
        |Sending font he300bpn.usp with ID 4, 68929 bytes               |
        |Sent 5 files, with a total of 133944 bytes.                    |
        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        
        For a more detailed explanation of soft font ID numbers, and font 
        status see your LaserJet user's manual OR our Soft Font Manual.

        Finally, the "quiet" option lets you disable much of the screen 
        output from DOWNLOAD.  This is particularly useful with batch 
        files since you are probably not interested in file statistics 
        when downloading a batch of files.  To use the quiet option you 
        would type:

        download @batch.lst 1000 -qt
        
        This would result in the following display:
        

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        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        |Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.9      |
        |Copyright 1986 - 1995 by Elfring Soft Fonts                    |
        +---------------------------------------------------------------+
        
        Note that the "-t" option used above would give all soft fonts 
        listed above "temporary" status.  They would automatically be 
        erased after the first reset command is sent the the laser 
        printer.











 

        





 











        








         

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