Uploading Windows fonts

[wilfranz]

I need to get beyond the HP printer resident fonts. Using VGL (rather than PCL), how does one upload Windows fonts (TT or Open)?

(Using an HP LaserJet 5P).

TIA

wilfranz

 

[netmanrick]

What OS are you using? Are these in addition to the resident Windows(if you are using Windows) fonts?
For my own info,why VGL?

Rick Harris
SC Dept of Motor Vehicles
Network Operations

 

[wilfranz]

Thanks for your very prompt response, Rick. I am using XP-Prof. The fonts I want to upload are the Windows resident fonts (in the \Windows\Fonts directory). Although, I would also like to be able to go one step further and upload uninstalled fonts from any directory (I keep a reserve of uninstalled fonts on another directory).

Up til now, I have been able to use only the printer-resident fonts.

I use VGL almost exclusively because of its vector and drawing capabilities. I do custom charts, graphs, and plottings, and these are impossible with PCL.

I'd appreciate any help on this.

Bill vV

 

[DansDadUK]

See similar question in thread286-806528 for outline comments.
The xlttlib tool mentioned is only for PCLXL, as I thought, but you could possibly adapt the (source) code to produce PCLETTO fonts for PCL5.

 

[netmanrick]

You might want to check HP's web site for FAQ's.

Rick Harris
SC Dept of Motor Vehicles
Network Operations

 

[wilfranz]

Hello DansDadUK.

Thanks very much for your thoughtful response. (I haven't gotten back to you earlier because I have been away.) However I am very interested in pursuing your suggestion of using the XLTTLIB tool, which I may want to spend the necessary time and effort to adapt to PCL5. I have tried to find it in the HP Developers Forum, but without success. I suspect it is buried in one of the many DK's at that site. Can you give me any clue about its more specific whereabouts?

I have also searched, again without success, for other shareware which might help me in making soft font files from TTF files.

Also, permit me ask a further question. Is the PCLXL to which you referred the proprietary name for PCL6? I'm not familiar with it, having been a user of PCL5 and HP-VGL/2 for some years now.

Thanks again,
BillvV

 

[Buff1]

You might invest in a technical reference manual for
an hp (or compatible) sometimes they will have the
font parameters for building fonts (including headers etc
and of course specific character representation).

I use one from a toshiba page laser (i think they got out
of the laser printer business), but it's quite informative.

I know this is the long way around it sounds like, but it
along with how win fonts (ttf especially) are set up, might
give you a way to make a conversion program.

 

[DansDadUK]

Hello wilfranz (or BillvV)

PCLXL is the official name for PCL6; note that is totally different to the PCL5 language (it is not a superset of the latter).

Once logged on the hpdevelopersolutions.com site (you can join for free as an affiliate):
select Developer Kits
choose LaserJet
select Printer Languages
select PCL6
and you will find folders for documentation, FAQs (not much) and tools.

Let us know how you get on!