Microsoft KB Archive/31875

Preserving Permanent Downloadable Fonts

PSS ID Number: Q31875 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00 5.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

The file Microsoft Word for DOS versions 4.0 and 5.0 use to download fonts by default, DOWN.EXE, deletes all soft fonts stored in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet memory. You can keep soft fonts that are designated as permanent fonts from being deleted by changing an instruction found in the .DAT file. DOWN.EXE reads the .DAT file when printing.

To modify the .DAT file, load it into Word and change the seventh character of the first line from the digit zero (0) to the digit one (1). Save the file without formatting.

The .DAT file that DOWN.EXE reads when printing has the same filename as the .PRD file found in the “printer:” field of Word’s Print Options menu; however, this .DAT file contains a .DAT extension.

You also can adapt the .DAT file so that DOWN.EXE designates the fonts it downloads as permanent. To do this, replace the characters “c4F&quot; (which follow each font filename) with the characters &quot;c5F”. However, because the printer quickly runs out of memory space when all fonts are permanent, this process is not recommended.

The escape sequences used by DOWN.EXE are documented in the technical reference manuals supplied with the HP LaserJets, including Page A-14 of the “HP LaserJet Series II Printer Technical Reference Manual.”

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