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- CHART -- a LaserJet Soft Font Management Utility
-
- Are you occationally lost about what screen character represents what
- printed character with some soft fonts -- especially in the high
- ASCII character sets? Or with Dingbat-like character sets?
-
- CHART prints a rectangular grid showing all characters contained
- within a soft font and gives the decimal numbers required to type them
- in from the keyboard using the Alt-KeyPad entry method. Those
- characters which may be entered directly from the keyboard also have
- the appropriate letter or symbol shown.
-
- Operation of the program is simple. I won't belabor the obvious
- except to say that you may optionally give the name of the soft font
- file to be printed from the DOS command line.
-
- All characters from 0 through 255 will be printed on the chart if they
- are included in the soft font. Remember that characters 0, 7-15, and
- 27, if present, are considered invisible by Hewlett-Packard
- definition. In order to print them, your application must precede
- each with the Transparent Print Data escape sequence.
-
- In order to chart some public domain soft fonts which may vary wildly
- from HP standards, no error checking is done to insure that a font
- file requested is really a font file. The basic information about a
- font printed at the top of the sheet does depend on standard HP format
- and conceivably could be erroneous with some non-standard fonts.
- If the font file really will print, the chart itself will be accurate.
-
- CHART will display point sizes up to about 40 gracefully, but will
- start looking pretty crowded beyond that. It's really designed only
- for portrait orientation, but on my HP LaserJet IIP which
- automatically rotates any font, landscape comes out just fine. I
- don't really know what will happen on other printers without that
- capability.
-
- CHART loads the requested font as well as its own three fonts used for
- the report (imbedded within the .EXE file) into the printer as
- temporary font IDs #17001-17004. If you should happen to have those
- unlikely IDs already loaded, they'll be clobbered.
-
- CHART is a freebie from: Don Phillip Gibson
- 910 East 11th
- Winfield, KS 67156
-
- CompuServe [75725,1752]
- GEnie DGIBSON
-
- CHART program and documentation copyright (c) 1990 by Don Phillip
- Gibson. Released April 21, 1990.
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