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March 4, 1987
This READ-PCL.TXT file contains:
-the latest information you need about using the
updated drivers for printers which use HP's Printer
Command Language (PCL)
-information on using the latest version of PCLPFM
to simplify installation of Soft Fonts.
NOTES ON THE LASERJET DRIVER INCLUDED ON THIS DISK
The driver file HPPCL.DRV is an updated driver for
the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, and
selected compatibles. This driver supercedes the
drivers HPLASER.DRV and HPLASERP.DRV available on
the Windows disks or shipped with previous versions
of Microsoft Windows. The driver includes support
for a wider range of HP font cartridges, support
for soft (downloadable) fonts, and generally
improves the performance of PageMaker on these
printers.
This driver is a standard Windows driver and should
work with any Windows application. Note, however,
that Aldus has not performed exhaustive
compatibility testing of this driver with other
Windows applications. Such testing is ongoing as
new Windows applications are developed. If you
experience trouble using the PageMaker-supplied
driver with other Windows applications, try using
the drivers supplied with Windows. If the problem
exists with the Windows-supplied drivers as well,
contact the supplier of the other application.
FOR USERS WITH VERSION 1.00 OF THE PAGEMAKER-
SUPPLIED DRIVER, HPPCL:
Minor changes have been made to some of the font
names in a few of the HP font cartridges supported
by this driver. Since Windows matches your
requested font to an available font by matching the
font name, this may cause some fonts to be
mismatched during printing. If this occurs, it can
be fixed by selecting the text in PageMaker using
the text tool and using the Type Specs... command
to change the type font to the new name. The
specific font names which have been changed are:
Old Name New Name
-------------- ------------------------
Gothic Letter Gothic
Presentation Presentations
Prestige Prestige Elite
INSTALLING SOFTFONTS
The 1.03 version of PCLPFM lets you install either
a single font or a group of fonts more easily than
the procedure described on pages 25 through 28 of
the PageMaker Installation Guide. Although the
procedure described there is still valid, we
recommend that you use the new procedures described
below.
Briefly, after copying the soft fonts on your hard
disk, you run the PCLPFM program provided on
PageMaker's Driver disk. PCLPFM creates a Printer
Font Metrics (.PFM) file for each soft font file,
then creates another file, APPNDWIN.INI, that you
copy into the appropriate place in your WIN.INI
file (Windows initialization file).
When you run PCLPFM, you can specify:
- a single soft font name, including a full path,
drive, or directory
- a group of soft font names, using single or
multiple-character wildcards (for example,
*.USP or HV???#R8.SFP)
The procedures that follow assume that you create
and use the subdirectory \PM\PCLPFM to store soft
font files and run PCLPFM. In fact, you can use
any directory, as long as you specify a full
pathname wherever appropriate. Individual steps in
the procedures may vary, depending on whether you
have the full retail version or a run-time version
of Windows. When you have finished, you'll need to
restart Windows before the new soft fonts take
effect.
NOTE: You must have already installed the printer
driver and used it at least once before following
these procedures.
STEP 1 : Copy Soft Font files to your hard disk.
1. Create a subdirectory \PM\PCLPFM in the
PageMaker directory (\PM).
This directory should contain only soft font
files, the .PFM files as they are created, and the
PCLPFM program file(s).
2. Copy the soft font files you wish to use from
the vendor's disk to the \PM\PCLPFM directory.
STEP 2 : Use PCLPFM.EXE to create PFM files.
If you plan to use the soft fonts with a non-
Windows application or if you want to permanently
download fonts to your printer, first follow the
vendor's instructions for downloading the fonts and
then the instructions below. Make a note of the ID
numbers for such fonts; you'll need these numbers
later when you edit WIN.INI.
If you plan to use the soft fonts only from Windows
via a temporary download, the following procedures
are all you need.
1. Insert PageMaker's Driver disk into drive A,
then copy PCLPFM.EXE to the \PM\PCLPFM directory.
If you will be running PCLPFM.EXE from Windows,
also copy the file PCLPFM.PIF.
2. Start the program PCLPFM.EXE.
From MS-DOS, type PCLPFM, then press the Enter
key. In the MS-DOS Executive window in Windows,
double-click on the program PCLPFM.EXE.
3. When prompted, type a single soft font filename
or use wild cards, then press the Enter key.
For example, for a single font, type a name
like HV10B#R8.SFP; for a group of fonts, type
something like *.USP, HV*.SFP, or HV???#R8.SFP
(actual naming conventions vary according to soft
font manufacturer).
4. Review the PFM filename(s) as displayed.
When naming the PFM file(s), the program
modifies the font name provided by the vendor by
replacing the last character of the name with a
P (portrait) or L (landscape) and changing the
filename extension to .PFM. For example, a
downloadable font named HV10B#R8.SFP becomes
HV10B#RP.PFM. The program tells you if a file with
the same name already exists. Type Y to replace
the existing file, or N to go back and change the
filename.
5. Press the Enter key to accept the .PFM
filename(s).
For a single file, you still have an option to
change the name by pressing the Backspace key to
erase the name, then typing a new name before
pressing the Enter key. For multiple files, the
PCLPFM program simply displays all the filenames.
6. When prompted, press Y to save the necessary
soft font information in a file called
APPNDWIN.INI.
The PCLPFM program creates this ASCII file for
you to insert into your WIN.INI file so that
Windows can read the soft fonts.
STEP 3 : Modify WIN.INI
The last step is to insert the contents of
APPNDWIN.INI in the proper place in WIN.INI. If
you are running the retail version of Windows, you
can modify WIN.INI using Notepad:
1. Open the file APPNDWIN.INI.
Open Notepad by double-clicking on
APPNDWIN.INI in the MS-DOS Executive window.
2. Copy the entire file to the Clipboard.
Choose "Select all" from the Edit menu, then
"Copy" from the Edit menu.
3. Open WIN.INI.
Open the MS-DOS Executive window. Start
another copy of Notepad by double-clicking on
WIN.INI.
4. Copy the information from the Clipboard into
WIN.INI.
In WIN.INI, search for the appropriate printer
keyword (for example, [HPPCL,LPT1]) -- you'll
insert the soft font information after the printer
keyword. Click to choose an insertion point, then
choose "Paste" from the Edit menu to copy the PFM
font information.
5. Edit the inserted information in WIN.INI so
that PageMaker will read the soft font files.
Erase the small box (an end-of-file marker),
if there is one, from the end of the soft font
information you've just copied. If you used a
wildcard when running PCLPFM, you may have
converted more soft fonts than you actually want.
Check the filenames in WIN.INI and delete the
entire line for any font that you don't want. For
each font you permanently download (that is, as
long as the printer is on), delete everything from
the comma to the end of the line. Then edit the
font ID number, if necessary, to match the number
loaded into the printer. Check to see that all
font ID numbers are unique -- they need not be
consecutive.
6. Finish up.
Save WIN.INI, close both copies of Notepad,