Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!anderson From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Microsoft Word 4.0 and downloading printer fonts Message-ID: <396@dogie.edu> Date: 21 Jun 88 16:11:09 GMT Sender: news@dogie.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 29 In article <13722@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes... ]I have just ordered the "downloadable font" hardware option for my ]Toshiba P321 (*not* P321SL) 24-pin dot-matrix printer (currently avail- ]able direct from Toshiba for about $45 plus tax and shipping). I plan ]to try my hand at developing my own fonts. I use Microsoft Word 4.0 on ]an IBM PC/XT clone for my home word processing needs. ] ]I think I understand, from the Toshiba P321 manual, what form the ]downloading info must take. However, the Microsoft Word documentation ]isn't anything like sufficiently detailed for me to figure out how to ]put together my own downloadable font and get it loaded properly. ] ]If anyone out there has experience with using downloadable fonts with ]Microsoft Word on an IBM or clone (whether with a Toshiba P321 or not, ]and whether you have designed your own fonts or not), I would very much ]appreciate it if you could contact me via e-mail (see below for my ]address). ] ]Also, if anyone knows of a PD or shareware tool for creating download- ]able fonts, I would be grateful to hear about it. I'm in a quite similar situation with similar equipment, so responders might consider posting here, to help out more people. ==Jess Anderson======(home:)========INTERNET: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu==== | 1210 W. Dayton 2838 Stevens UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,allegra,ucbvax} | | Madison, WI 53706 Madison 53705 !uwvax!vms3.macc.wisc.edu!anderson | ==608/263-6988=======608/238-4833===BITNET: anderson@wiscmacc===============