HP LaserJet III, PDP Cartridge - Printing Ita

DocumentID: 645634
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:08 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using the HP LaserJet III printer and the Pacific Data Products (PDP) CF220 font cartridge. The customer used some disks sent by PDP to install the cartridge definition into the WordPerfect printer driver. The fonts work correctly, except when the customer tries to use the Italic and Outline attributes together. The Outline attribute works fine, but the Italics attribute prints out garbage characters, like "[&dD". Solutions: The customer is using the Cooper Black font with Italics and Outline turned on. There is no italic font available so WP is underlining the text. The underline code printed out with the text causing the garbage characters, as mentioned above. In order for WP to underline the font when the Outline attribute is on, the method of underlining must be changed from Perform Underline On Same Pass to Perform Underline On Separate Pass. The driver does this in the font select string code. However, PDP installs their font information into the WP .ALL file without including this change of underline method in the font string. To make the necessary changes to the .ALL file, follow these steps: 1. Retrieve the .ALL file into the PTR program and press Alt-F8 for Global String Variables 2. Cursor to hpsmoutoff.### (### could be the number 408, 364, or some other number) 3. Press the Right Arrow key to move into the Expression box 4. Place the cursor at the end of the string and add SETMETHOD(UNDERLINE,AUTOSAME) 4. Cursor to hpsmouton.### (### could be the number 406, 362, or some other number) 5. In the Expression box, at the end of the string add SETMETHOD(UNDERLINE,AUTOSEPARATE) 6. Exit the PTR program and save the modified .ALL file 7. Update the .PRS file in WP by pressing Print (Shift-F7), S (Select Printer), Update (7)

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