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- 1 SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 2 REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 3 FONT CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 4 RUNNING DOWNLOAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 5 ERROR MESSAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 6 COMMON PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 7 USING DOWNLOAD WITH GRAB . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- 8 LICENSE AND OTHER INFORMATION . . . . . . . . 10
- 9 SHAREWARE REGISTRATION FORM . . . . . . . . . 13
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- A Companion Program For Grab Plus
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- Version 1.8
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- Copyright 1986 - 1990 by Elfring Soft Fonts
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
- P.O. Box 61
- Wasco, IL 60183
- 708-377-3520
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- CIS: 72417,3437
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- 1 SUMMARY
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- DOWNLOAD.EXE is an IBM PC utility program that manages the
- process of downloading soft fonts to a LaserJet, DeskJet, or
- compatible printers. DOWNLOAD can also select fonts as they are
- being sent. DOWNLOAD can send a font, or group of fonts, through
- the standard parallel printer MS-DOS devices to your LaserJet or
- DeskJet 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 fonts names in an
- ASCII text file. All fonts resident in your laser may be
- optionally deleted before new fonts are downloaded, or you can
- reset the printer first.
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- This package is distributed as shareware and you are expected to
- register it if you use it! You may try this package out for a
- period not to exceed 21 days. Registration costs $15 and bring
- you a number of benefits. See the end of this documentation file
- for a registration form.
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- Elfring Soft Fonts also offers a number of soft fonts and a
- memory resident (TSR) version of DOWNLOAD with features you won't
- believe. This version finds your soft fonts and presents a list
- of them for you.
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- You can download or select any font on either a laser printer or
- a DeskJet. Font memory requirements are shown and the program
- keeps track of all fonts that have been sent to your printer.
- Finally, you can change printer orientation, character size,
- default font, or reset the print.
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- TSR Download is $35.00 by itself and includes a copy of our Soft
- Font Manual, or $65.00 with a set of LaserJet soft fonts, (Helv &
- Roman 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 point medium/bold/italic + 18, 24, & 30
- point bold), or $75 for TSR Download + DeskJet soft fonts (as
- above).
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- 2 REQUIREMENTS
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- DOWNLOAD requires a minimum of 128K of memory, an HP LaserJet,
- DeskJet, or compatible printer, and a parallel port to talk to
- the printer. Parallel printer ports LPT1:, LPT2:, LPT3: are
- supported by the program.
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- 3 FONT CHARACTERISTICS
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- All soft fonts have three characteristics associated with them.
- Each font must have a unique ID number assigned to it. This lets
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- you select a soft font through software commands. Each font must
- be defined as either temporary or permanent. Temporary fonts are
- deleted whenever the LaserJet is reset and are thus not as widely
- used as permanent ones since most software that controls the
- LaserJet sends a reset command out first, (deleting all temporary
- 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.)
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- 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.
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- Fonts that have ID numbers assigned to them may be selected based
- on that ID number. To do this you send an <Esc>(#X to the
- printer, where <ESC> stands for the escape key (1BH), and # is
- replaced by the ASCII soft font ID number. (To select soft font
- ID 15 you would send <Esc>(15X. Finally fonts can be selected by
- font metrics. In this method you describe the font. A sample
- Times-Roman selection string would be:
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- <Esc>&l0O<Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5T
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- (12 point, portrait, medium weight, US ASCII, Times-Roman). This
- method is too complex to explain here. We do offer an inexpensive
- Soft Font Manual that explains everything there is to know about
- how to name, use, select, and recognize soft fonts if you want
- more information.
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- 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 list files to
- manage the process of sending a number of soft fonts to your
- printer at one time. Finally, soft fonts may be archived into a
- common file and automatically extracted for downloading.
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- 4 RUNNING DOWNLOAD
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- DOWNLOAD is easy to use. The only thing you need to remember is
- that DOWNLOAD will automatically prompt you with a brief
- description 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:
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- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts
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- Use ƒƒ> download fontname [device ID ƒoptions]
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- where: everything the between '[]'s is optional and...
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- fontname = the name of the font to download or the name of a
- list of fonts to download preceded by an '@'
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- device = LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3
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- ID = starting ID number to assign font to (0 ƒ 32767)
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- options = T to make font temporary, P to make font primary S
- to make font secondary, Q for quiet operation, D
- for delete all fonts prior to downloading, or R to
- reset the printer.
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- When optional arguments are not present, download defaults to:
- LPT1, ID = 0, permanent font, and font is NOT selected.
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- For example:
- download he100rpn.usp lpt1: 5 ƒtp
- download @font.lst ƒq
- download od300rpn.usp 1000 ƒsq LPT2
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- download tr240bpn.usp
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- 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
- selected as either primary or secondary. The screen will look as
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- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts
- Sending font tr240bpn.usp with ID 0, 12427 bytes
- Sent 1 file, with a total of 12427 bytes.
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- A more complicated command might involve using a different
- printer port and assigning a soft font ID number. For example:
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- download tr100bpn.usp 1000 lpt2 ƒs
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- sends the bold faced TimesƒRoman 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
- embedding a controlƒN, (you can change back to your primary font
- with a controlƒO).
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- DOWNLOAD is capable of using a list of file names created with
- any ASCII text editor. To do this type:
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- download @fonts.lst 10
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- 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
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- he100rpn.usp
- he100bpn.usp
- he100ipn.usp
- he180bpn.usp
- he300bpn.usp
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- 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 sequentially 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:
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- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 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.
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- For a more detailed explanation of soft font ID numbers, and font
- status see you LaserJet user's manual.
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- Another useful option is the "D" command. This command lets you
- delete all soft fonts resident in your laser printer prior to
- downloading. For example, if you have limited font memory you
- can lose track of how many fonts have been sent to the laser
- printer. Rather than blindly sending more fonts, (which can
- result in a "20" error), you can tell DOWNLOAD to delete all soft
- fonts first, and then send the new fonts to the printer.
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- download @batch.lst 1 -d
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- 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
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- download @batch.lst 1000 -qt
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- This would result in the following display:
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- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts
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- 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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- 5 ERROR MESSAGES
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- DOWNLOAD automatically checks the status of your laser printer
- before sending anything to it. If the printer is off, not
- connected, deselected, or out of paper DOWNLOAD will display an
- error message. For example, if your printer was out of paper you
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- download cp300rpn.usp
- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts
- Sending font cp300rpn.usp with ID 0
- Printer I/O error
- Printer out of paper
- Abort, Retry, Ignore?
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- Answer with the appropriate letter (A/R/I) followed by a carriage
- return. This process lets you select the printer or add more
- paper to correct the problem.
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- 1. MY LASER PRINTER WORKS FINE NORMALLY. HOWEVER, WHEN I USE
- DOWNLOAD TO SEND A SOFT FONT TO IT THE FONT IS GARBLED,
- DOESN'T APPEAR, OR WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN.
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- This is a common problem and is almost certainly due to
- bad hardware! When a soft font is downloaded your printer
- will be receiving data at the maximum possible speed. If
- you do not have a printer cable that meets minimum
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- 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- but they fail during high speed
- transfers.
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- 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).
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- The first thing a word processor does, (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
- practical 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
- WORKING AND DISPLAYS A FLASHING "20" ON THE LCD DISPLAY.
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- Congratulations, you have run out of memory in your
- printer. If you are sending new fonts to the printer try
- deleting the old ones before sending the new ones. (-D
- option in Download) If the problem occurs regularly 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 DOWNLOAD DO NOT
- MATCH THE NUMBERS SHOWN ON MY SAMPLE FONT PRINT SHEET.
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- The Soft Font ID numbers assigned by 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 a Soft Font ID number on a print
- sheet. Ignore the numbers shown on these sheets.
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- 7 USING DOWNLOAD WITH GRAB
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- To use DOWNLOAD and any of these three fonts with GRAB you must
- first configure GRAB to select one of these soft fonts. Next
- install GRAB, and then you MUST download the soft font to your
- laser or DeskJet printer. You are now set to print envelopes in
- a proportionally spaced soft font. Remember that order:
- configure, install, download, and print.
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- Sounds simple so far? Well it really is. Just chose between the
- three fonts supplied with DOWNLOAD. The Helv font is a sans
- serif font that resembles Helvetica. The Roman font resembles
- Times Roman. The Park Ave font is a script type of font. Pick
- the one you like best and then fire up the GRAB configuration
- program.
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- Perform a normal installation of GRAB for your printer. (You
- must pick a laser printer or DeskJet type and printer port!)
- Once everything is configured move the to the "Printer
- configuration menu". From there select "LaserJet init fonts".
- You must now enter a font selection sequence. The sequences for
- the Roman, Park Ave, and the Helv fonts are shown below. Enter
- the appropriate sequence for the font you have chosen.
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- Note that there are two different ways to select a soft font. The
- short method selects soft fonts by the ID numbers that are
- assigned to each font as it is downloaded. The disadvantage of
- using the ID selection method is that you MUST always download a
- given soft font with the same ID number. The advantages to this
- method are that it is easy to enter the selection string, and you
- can switch fonts just by downloading a different soft font with
- the same ID number!
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- You can also select soft fonts by "font metrics". This is a long
- complicated string that tells your printer EXACTLY what font to
- use. This method is more reliable than the ID method since it
- does not depend on the way you downloaded the font.
- Unfortunately, this method requires a very long command string
- and will not let you switch between fonts. We recommend using the
- soft font ID select technique described above.
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- You may now move to the locations menu and change the location
- information. Proportionally spaced fonts look different and you
- may want to shift the position of your return address or the
- envelope address slightly. Note this is not really necessary. Try
- a sample envelope out to see how you like the result.
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- Finally, save this configuration! Always remember to download
- the appropriate soft font to your laser printer BEFORE attempting
- to print an envelope.
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- Here are the escape sequences to select each of these soft fonts.
- Note that <Esc> stands for the escape key. Remember there are TWO
- (2) different ways to select soft font. You may select them by
- soft font ID number or by font metrics. The font ID number is
- shorter and allows you to change fonts, but less reliable. Both
- methods are shown below. Pick one way and use it consistently.
- The table below shows the proper DOWNLOAD command, and the ASCII
- string required by GRAB.
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- / download tr120rpn.usl 523
- by ID < <Esc>(523X
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- by / download tr120rpn.usl
- metrics < <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5T
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- / download hv120rpn.usl 524
- by ID < <Esc>(524X
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- by / download hv120rpn.usl
- metrics < <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b4T
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- / download pk120rpn.usl 525
- by ID < <Esc>(525X
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- by / download pk120rpn.usl
- metrics < <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b59T
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- / download ro120rpn.djp 501
- by ID < <Esc>(501X
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- by / download ro120rpn.djp
- metrics < <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5t2Q
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- / download he120rpn.djp 502
- by ID < <Esc>(502X
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- metrics < <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5t2Q
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- Park Ave.
- / download pk120rpn.djp 503
- by ID < <Esc>(503X
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- by / download pk120rpn.djp
- metrics < <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b59t2Q
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- Note that if you plan on switching between soft fonts you must
- con figure GRAB to accept ONE soft font ID number. You then
- download different soft fonts with the same ID number! For
- example, if you configure GRAB to select soft font ID number 501
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- download tr120rpn.usp 501 - picks Times Roman
- download hv120rpn.usl 501 - picks Helvetica
- download pk120rpn.usl 501 - picks Park Ave.
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- 8 LICENSE AND OTHER INFORMATION
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- Users of this package must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
- "These programs and fonts are supplied as is. The author
- disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including,
- without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of
- fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for
- damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use
- of these software programs and fonts."
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- This package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no
- charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with
- your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part
- of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is
- to provide personal computer users with quality software without
- high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to
- continue to develop new products. If you find this program
- useful and you continue to use these fonts or utilities after a
- trial period of 21 days, you must make a registration payment of
- $15.00 to Elfring Soft Fonts. The $15.00 registration fee will
- license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time.
- You must treat this software just like a book. An example is
- that this software may be used by any number of people and may be
- freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as
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- there is no possibility of it being used at one location while
- it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two
- different persons at the same time.
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- Commercial or business users of this package must register and
- pay for their copies of this package within 10 days of first use
- or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be
- made by contacting Elfring Soft Fonts. Please distribute this
- package intact! This program and all documentation are Copyright
- 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts. All rights are
- reserved.
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- Anyone distributing this package for any kind of remuneration
- must first contact Elfring Soft Fonts at the address below for
- authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted
- to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its
- guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may
- begin offering this package immediately, (however Elfring Soft
- Fonts must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept
- up-to-date with the latest version of this package).
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- You are encouraged to pass a copy of this package along to your
- friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their
- copy if they find that they can use it. We will also send them
- an information packet that describes other software available
- from Gary Elfring and Elfring Soft Fonts.
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- Member ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals)
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- Gary Elfring is a Member of The Association of Shareware
- Professionals (ASP). ASP has established stringent standards for
- its members. ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle
- works for you. If you are unable to resolve a problem with an
- ASP member (other than technical support), ASP may be able to
- help. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786,
- Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to
- ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
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- If you like this companion program for GRAB tell your friends!
- If you don't like them tell us why! To keep prices on products
- like this as low as they are we cannot afford to advertise. You
- are our form of advertisement! Tell your friends. If you have
- the opportunity to write an article in a newsletter or a trade
- magazine and like this package spread the word! We need all of
- the help we can get to put quality software into the users hands
- without charging inflated prices!
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- If you do write an article about this package we would appreciate
- hearing from you.
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- Other collections of fonts are available. I offer a large number
- of different downloadable fonts including Roman, Helv, Century,
- Century Legal, Rockford, Broadway, Script, Square, Flourish, Old
- English, University, Courier, Line Draw, Prestige, Letter Gothic,
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- Palatine for both laser printers and the DeskJet or DeskJet Plus.
- If you don't see the font you are looking for, call or write me.
- I am always creating new fonts. I also do inexpensive custom
- fonts. In addition I have a number of soft font utility programs
- including: download- send and select fonts to a LaserJet or
- DeskJet, dispfont- display a sample sheet of a soft font, and TSR
- DOWNLOAD- memory resident soft font downloader + more! An
- interactive easy to use soft font management program. For more
- information on these inexpensive downloadable soft fonts for your
- LaserJet or DeskJet contact me at the address listed below.
- Finally- special installation kits are available for DeskJet soft
- fonts and WordStar 5.5C.
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
- P.O. Box 61
- Wasco, IL 60183
- 708-377-3520
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- 9 SHAREWARE REGISTRATION FORM
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- To register this copy of Download plus Grab fonts, to be eligible
- for support, and to receive a copy of our LaserJet font brochure,
- please fill out the following form, and mail it along with a
- check for $15.00 to:
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
- P.O. Box 61
- Wasco, Illinois 60183
- 708-377-3520
- (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST)
- CIS: 72417,3437
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- Illinois residents must add 6.5% sales tax ($.98). Thus all
- orders from Illinois must include $15.98. Make all checks payable
- to: Elfring Soft Fonts. Payment must be made in US dollars drawn
- on a US bank, VISA, or MC.
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- Please register my GRAB companion package- Download + fonts.
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- [ ] Please send me my free CompuServe membership and $15 access
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- Word Processor: [ ] Word Perfect, [ ] Word, [ ] PC Write [ ]
- WS5.5 Printer: [ ] LaserJet+, [ ] LaserJet II, [ ] LaserJet
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