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- COMMON PROBLEMS
-
- 1) My laser printer normally works just fine. However, when I use
- TSR Download to send a soft font to it, the font is garbled,
- doesn't appear, or weird things happen.
-
- This is a common problem and is usually due to bad hardware!
- When a soft font is downloaded through a parallel port your
- printer must receive data at the maximum possible speed. If
- you do not have a printer cable that meets minimum
- specifications, or if your parallel printer port is marginal
- the problems mentioned above may occur. For the record: your
- parallel printer port cable should be 6 feet long or less
- and made of quality materials. You should NOT have a switch
- box in series with this cable! If your cable is OK try
- switching to a different parallel port. These ports are easy
- to damage with static electricity. They may appear to work
- fine normally but then fail during high speed transfers.
-
-
- 2) I download a soft font and make it my primary font, just as
- your manual says. If I copy files to the printer they print in
- that font. If I use my word processor I always seem to return
- back to my default internal font (Courier).
-
- The first thing most word processors do, (before printing
- anything), is to reset the printer. Resetting a laser
- printer (or the DeskJet) automatically causes the printer to
- return back to the default font, (Courier). The only practi-
- cal way around this problem is to provide the word processor
- with a printer driver that tells it how to use soft fonts.
-
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- 3) When downloading a number of soft fonts my printer stops work-
- ing and displays a flashing "20" on the LCD display.
-
- You have run out of memory in your printer! If you are send-
- ing new fonts to the printer try deleting the old ones
- before sending any more new ones. Switch to the printer con-
- trol menu in TSR Download, and send the delete all soft
- fonts command. If the problem still occurs with some
- regularity you should start looking for a 1 meg memory add
- on board.
-
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- 4) The soft font ID numbers I assign with TSR Download do not
- match the numbers shown on my sample font print sheet.
-
- The Soft Font ID numbers assigned by TSR Download can be
- used to select soft fonts. However, these ID numbers have NO
- relationship to the numbers displayed on a font print sheet.
- Font print sheet numbers always start at 1 and go up. Soft
- font ID numbers can range from 0 - 65,535. There is no way
- to display the TSR Download Soft Font ID number on a print
- sheet. Ignore the ID numbers shown on these sheets.
-
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- 5) My word processor doesn't seem to work well with soft fonts.
- What can I do?
-
- At present, the following word processors will work well
- with most soft fonts. Note that most of these word proces-
- sors come with printer drivers that support common soft font
- sets. (Some of these word processors build their own printer
- drivers automatically.)
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- WordStar 2000 v3.0, WordStar 5.0 & 5.5, Word 4.0 & 5.0, Word
- Perfect 4.1 & 5.0, PC Write 2.71 & 3.02.
-
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- 6) Anytime I use TSR Download to send a font or command to my
- printer I get the "PRINTER NOT READY" message.
-
- TSR Download always checks the status of the parallel
- printer port before sending any fonts or commands to the
- printer. Download performs this status check by calling a
- standard BIOS function that is supposed to return informa-
- tion about printer select, paper level, busy, etc. Some com-
- puter BIOSs are not truly IBM compatible and thus return in-
- correct status. Some printer cables are not wired correctly
- and thus do the same thing. Some computers hooked to net-
- works also have this problem. The DLCFG program lets you al-
- ter TSR Download so that the program no longer pays any at-
- tention to parallel printer port status. See the documenta-
- tion for more information on this option.
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- 6) The color scheme used by TSR Download looks terrible on my
- machine.
-
- The TSR Download program comes configured with the one color
- combination that works on Monochrome, CGA, EGA, & VGA dis-
- plays. This color combination can be easily modified using
- the DLCFG program. We highly recommend changing the colors
- to suit your particular needs.
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- 7) TSR Download takes forever to search through my soft font
- directory and locate all my soft fonts. How can I speed this up?
-
- The rate at which TSR Download can locate your soft fonts is
- dependent on the number of files present in the subdirectory
- AND the wild card used to search for these fonts. If you
- have 100 files in this subdirectory, of which only 50 are
- soft fonts, and use the "*.*" wild card- TSR Download must
- check each file to see if it is a font. This wastes time!
- Try a wild card like "*.??P" to locate all portrait fonts or
- "*.??L" to find all landscape ones. This will significantly
- speed up initial operation.
-
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- 8) I have about 150 soft fonts yet TSR Download never shows me
- more than 100 fonts at any one time.
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- TSR Download only has room for 100 soft fonts. If you have
- more fonts than this you will only see the first 100 fonts
- that the program finds. The 100 font limit keeps the memory
- requirements small. If you really need to see and use more
- than 100 fonts and you don't mind allocating extra memory
- for the program contact us an expanded version of the
- program. We have a 200 or 300 fonts version available for an
- additional $15. Each additional 100 soft fonts require 4200
- bytes of memory.
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- 9) I have 55 soft fonts in my subdirectory, yet TSR Download only
- displays 51 of them.
-
- A number of public domain soft fonts have incorrect font
- headers. TSR Download checks each font file to make sure it
- has a valid soft font header. (This is how the program
- avoids listing other programs in its font display.) If you
- have a number of public domain soft fonts some of them may
- be bad. This is why TSR Download does not display them.
-
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- 10) I downloaded 35 soft fonts to my printer. Yet TSR Download
- displays only 32 of them and my laser printer font test sheet
- also only shows 32 fonts.
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- All HP LaserJet printers (with the exception of the HP 2000)
- limit you to 32 soft font. Since the printers will not hold
- more than 32 soft fonts, TSR Download will only display 32
- soft fonts. Also note that you can not print with more than
- 16 fonts on any given page.
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