Microsoft KB Archive/27441

Using PAGEDL.PRD with the IBM 3812 Pageprinter

PSS ID Number: Q27441 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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PAGEDL.PRD is used for one-time downloading of fonts with Word on the IBM 3812 Pageprinter. The PAGEDL printer driver combines all of the fonts from the other Pageprinter drivers. The other Word drivers for the IBM Pageprinter do dynamic font downloading. That is, when there is a font change in the document, the old font is unloaded from printer memory and the new font is loaded.

The advantage of dynamic loading is that there is no limit on the number of fonts that can be used in a document, since only one font at a time needs to be in printer memory. The disadvantage of dynamic font downloading is that if you do have several font changes in your document, the unloading and loading required can slow down the printing considerably.

With PAGEDL.PRD, all fonts in the document are downloaded at one time, at the beginning of printing. The advantage is that the printing is speeded up. The disadvantage is that there is a limit to the number of fonts that can be in the document, since all fonts must reside in printer memory at the same time. The Pageprinter has 192K for font memory, which will hold about six different fonts.

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