Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!mlawless From: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: LaserJet II: Soft vs Hard Fonts Message-ID: <5489@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 9 Aug 89 18:25:16 GMT References: <5130001@vantage.UUCP> Reply-To: mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless) Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, KS Lines: 30 In article <5130001@vantage.UUCP> ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) writes: >IT SEEMS TO ME that, rather than buying more memory, I would be better off >buying one or two of the "super font cartridges" that have appeared on the >market recently. >Most of these super cartridges claim to be 100% compatible with the HP >ones -- just more fonts in each cartridge. So ... if the software I use now >handles HP cartridges, then it seems to me that it should handle the super >cartridges as well. I would be careful if I were you. I called Microsoft with some questions about such super cartridges. I had noticed that Windows (and applications running under Windows) has a LaserJet driver that only knows about true HP font cartridges. They told me that I could use a super cartridge as long as I accepted the limitation of only being able to use the subset of fonts found in any one or two standard HP fonts at one time. Also, I seem to recall that most of the fonts are supported in ASCII only, and not the HP Roman-8 extended character set. There may be other limitations as well. Another poster noted that PDS apparently supplies drivers for popular software packages with the cartridge, but which ones I have no idea; is a Windows driver included, and if so, does it support everything else the standard LaserJet driver does correctly, including downloading of soft fonts? What about a driver for Microsoft Word (although in this case it is possible to create your own driver, as long as you know what you are doing and have infinite patience.). If anyone out there actually has one of these gadgets, could you please share your comments with the net on these issues. -- Mike Lawless, NCR E&M Wichita, Box 20 (316) 636-8666 (NCR: 654-8666) 3718 N. Rock Road, Wichita, KS 67226 Mike.Lawless@Wichita.NCR.COM {ece-csc,hubcap,gould,rtech}!ncrcae!ncrwic!Mike.Lawless {sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!Mike.Lawless