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- "Display soft font information"
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- Copyright 1988 - 1990 by Elfring Soft Fonts
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
- P.O. Box 61
- Wasco, Illinois 60183
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- FONTINFO Program
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Ever wanted to check out the characteristics of that public do-
- main font you just downloaded? Or perhaps you need to know the
- basics on a fixed width font. Maybe someone misnamed one of your
- fonts.
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- Well... FONTINFO was designed to do all that and more. FONTINFO
- will display, (in English, not gibberish), all the basic charac-
- teristics of a font. This includes: the display font name, font
- orientation, font height - style - & weight, the number of char-
- acters in the font, its symbol set, spacing, type face, base line,
- cell height & width, print quality, and beginning/ending codes.
- In addition, FONTINFO indicates whether a font is for a LaserJet or
- a DeskJet printer. (Neither will work in the other.)
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM
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- As with all my LaserJet & DeskJet utilities, you can always type the
- program name by itself for a help screen. FONTINFO is quite simple
- and needs only a single argument to run. Just give it the name
- of the font to examine and FONTINFO will print out a detailed
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- fontinfo fontname
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- Will print a detailed table of that font's characteristics on the
- screen. You can send this information to the printer for a per-
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- At this point an example might help. For example to look at my
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- fontinfo bw140rpn.usp
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- The program will respond with the following information:
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- Copyright 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts, Version 1.1
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- Font name: Broadway -LaserJet font
- Orientation: portrait
- Height: 14.0 points
- Style: Upright
- Weight: 0 (normal)
- # Characters: 94 (ASCII)
- Symbol set: 21 (US ASCII)
- Spacing: proportional with a 2.65 point space
- Type face: 21 (Broadway)
- Baseline: 47, Cell Height: 64, Cell Width: 57 (in dots)
- Serif Style: Sans Serif Square (not set?)
- Print Quality: Data Processing (not set?)
- First char: Not set
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- Note that FONTINFO understands all the standard details about
- type face names, font styles, symbol sets, and font weights.
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- FONT INFORMATION
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- Display Font Name
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- Just what is the display font name? If you own a LaserJet series
- II, this is the name that will be displayed in the font print
- out. Note that a number of older HP soft fonts do NOT correctly
- display their soft font name. (The example of Cooper Black above
- one case.) For most modern soft fonts this should be the name of
- the font you are using. Note that the LaserJet II will append
- the word "bold" or "italic" to this name if the font fits that
- characteristic.
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- Font Orientation
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- A font is either oriented in the portrait mode, (characters run
- left to right across the eight inch width of the paper), or the
- landscape mode, (characters run left to right across the 11 inch
- width of the paper. Note there is no real difference between a
- portrait and landscape font. Both produce identical characters.
- The information in a landscape font is simply arranged different-
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- Font Height
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- This is the height of a font in points. (72.27 points per inch.)
- Note that the font height is the distance from the top of an
- upper case character to the bottom of a lower case character's
- desender. Say the top of an "A" to the bottom of a "j". Thus NO
- character in the font is that height! Due to resolution problems
- in the font height information entry most fonts display as frac-
- tional point sizes: thus a 30 point font might be displayed as
- 29.8 points.
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- Font Style
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- A font may be either upright or slanted. A slanted font is usu-
- ally considered to be italic, with some noted exceptions.
- (Script is a slanted font but is not italic.) Actually, for the
- more technically inclined a slanted font is really oblique and
- not italic but who really cares?
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- Font Weight
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- Fonts may have weights (how dark they are) ranging from -7 to +7.
- A weight of 0 is considered medium. Negative weights are consid-
- ered light, while positive weights are considered bold. FONTINFO
- automatically interprets this information for you.
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- Characters in Font
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- This number describes the range of characters in a font. A 127
- indicates that characters may range from 33 - 127. A 254 font
- can contain all those characters PLUS characters ranging from 160
- - 254.
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- Font Symbol Set
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- The symbol set describes the assignment of characters within a
- font. Most soft fonts are either US ASCII or Roman-8. However,
- a large number of other symbol sets are possible. The symbol set
- number is printed followed by an interpretation of that symbol
- set. FONTINFO understands the names of over 17 different symbol
- sets and will display this information automatically or the word
- "unknown".
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- Font Spacing
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- Font spacing may be either fixed width or proportional. If the
- font is proportionally spaced FONTINFO will tell you this along
- with the width of a space character in that font. If the font is
- fixed width, FONTINFO will display the number of characters per
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- Type Face
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- A font may have a type face number ranging from 0 to 255. Font
- numbers 0 - 26 have been assigned by HP and will be translated by
- FONTINFO into their corresponding names. Other font names will
- result in the word "unknown" being printed for the font name.
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- Base Line, Cell Height, Cell Width
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- Each font must define the maximum height of a character, its
- maximum width, and where that character sits in the cell (base
- line). If you try to combine two different fonts on the same
- line that have different base lines, even though the fonts are
- the same size, the result will be disaster.
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- Serif Style
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- A font may have the serify style defined in it. Only newer fonts
- have this attribute set.
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- Print Quality
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- Most new fonts have the print quality set. This is especially
- true of DeskJet fonts. Print quality ranges from draft, through
- near letter quality, to letter quality. Older LaserJet fonts will
- probably indicate draft quality here. (It doesn't matter for a
- laser printer.)
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- First character, Last Character
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- Defines the first character in a font and the last character.
- Since a font doesn't have to have all characters in it this is
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- WARRANTY
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- This utility is provided free of charge. As such, it has NO war-
- ranty. I bear no responsibility for its function or use. I am
- not liable for consequential or any form of damages due to non-
- performance of this software.
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- This program is provided free of charge to all who are interested
- in it. It may be freely exchanged as long as no fee is charged
- for it. Please distribute this package with BOTH this documenta-
- tion file and the executable program. This program and documen-
- tation are copyright 1987 - 1990 by Elfring Soft Fonts. All rights
- are reserved. Commercial use is STRICTLY prohibited.
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- For free information on my other inexpensive utilities and download-
- able soft fonts for your DeskJet or LaserJet printer contact:
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
- P.O. Box 61
- Wasco, Illinois 60183-0061
- 708-377-3520
- (9 - 5 CST)
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