HP LaserJet Series II Line Draw And Pacific D

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:22 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Differences between WP 5.0 and WP 5.1 and the Pacific Data Products 25 in ONE! cartridge. The user had a LINE DRAW 12 PITCH (G) font in WP50 (which Scott Echols said was a bit mapped line draw font in WP50) and now that font is not available in WP 5.1. Pacific Data's information says that this font is available with the 103 cartridge, but is not in our driver. A document prepared in WP 5.0 with a header on every page with two 1" vertical line draw lines takes 8 minutes (total out time) to print in WP 5.0. The same document in WP 5.1 takes 1.5 hours. Supposedly, the LINE DRAW 12 Pitch was left out of the definition in WP 5.1 because the program can graphically create Line Draw characters, which is supposedly the same process we use in WP 5.0. Changing the Line Draw AFC is not acceptable because the initial base font is 12 pitch. Solutions: This Pacific Data Products 25 in ONE! cartridge does not have a 12 cpi line draw font. The 103 documentation was wrong. In WP 5.0, we graphically created the font. In WP 5.1, we did not need to create the font because the program will graphically create the characters. There are two reasons why printing line draw could be slower in WP 5.1. The first is the use of overlays. In WP 5.1, printing uses overlays, which could mean a lot of writing to disk. Using expanded memory, more printing can remain in memory which will take less time. The second reason would be searches. For each character a search will take place looking for an AFC or substitute font that has this character. After doing the searches, if it can not find the character, then WP will create it graphically. Getting rid of substitute font changes can speed up the printing a little, but can destroy other font set ups.

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