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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:50:29 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: EPM printer fonts ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >There's a \OS2\DLL\LASERJET\ directory on my machine
> >with a lot of *.fnt files. The names look like they might be
> >for the font cartridges that I can slide into my LaserJet II's.
>
> These are the soft fonts. The driver knows how to correlate
> these with the display fonts and will download them as needed.

Okay, I've been playing with this some more and here's what I've found.
In the printer driver Properties is a tab called Fonts/Cartridges which
contains two lists. The list of "Active cartridge fonts" (hard fonts
which reside in plug-in cartridges) has names which correlate with the
*.fnt files in \OS2\DLL\LASERJET\. The list of "Currently installed
soft fonts" is empty which makes sense because the LaserJet has two
kinds of soft fonts -- those which you download ahead of time and mark
as resident (I forget what PCL calls this), and those that are part of
the PCL print stream and are deleted as soon as the print job is done.

Where are the "system fonts" located (OS/2 and WinOS2, thanks Steven for
pointing this out)? I found the \PSFONTS\ directory where the
PostScript fonts are located.

Here's something else I don't understand. I ran PSTAT /C | SORT and
saved the output, then opened the Font Palette and ran PSTAT /C | SORT
again. There's no Font Palette program; it must be embedded in
something else. Its Properties don't show an executable. (I figured if
I found "the program" then "the fonts" might be with it.)

This might be a good topic for this Saturday's meeting. (I'll be in San
Diego. If you do it can you videotape it?)

- Pica Pete

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