Legacy Font Download Program & filePro

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 08:20P Wed Apr 04 2007, Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> Man, I haven't heard of or used a .USP font file for years! I'd be willing 
> to take an initial look at the font file(s) if you want to email them. But 
> it raises some other questions:
> 
> What is so special about these fonts? 
> 
> Would built-in fonts not work?
> 
> What happens if you run the program without the font(s) being preloaded? 
> PCL has a pretty good fallback routine, where if a requested font is 
> missing it will select an alternative by font characteristics.

But there is a very good chance that the font is only being
selected by an ID and NOT by characteristics at all. Probable even.

This is pretty typical of downloaded bitmap fonts.


Jim 
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