User`s manual
Section 6
Modifying and Creating
LQ
Fonts
About the
LQ
Fonts
By using the font utilities supplied with Perfect Print, you can easily revise,
adapt
or
create LQ
fonlS
to suit your needs. You can, for instance, erase
unwanted point sizes, create required sizes, copy sizes from one font
.to
another,
or
change normal
fonlS
to LQ
fonlS.
You can
also
create a completely new LQ font by using a font editor (one
has
been supplied). This is, however, very difficult and requires much time.
Be
sure to mark such fonlS using "FontDistance", otherwise the Print
System will treat them as standard GEOS
fonlS.
It
is extremely important that
at
least one - but not more than seven -
visible point sizes be contained within a font.
If
not, geoWrite will crash
and your current document page may be lost (FontHide allows you to "hide"
additional point sizes from geoWrite to avoid this). Special care should be
given when modifying
fonlS.
Save often to your work disk. Working on
fonts (VLIR files) under GEOS the system tends to be rather error-prone.
geoFont, especially, tends to crash and
if
you are using a ram disk your
fonlS
may be lost. GEOS sometimes produces additional pseudo point sizes
that cause geoWrite to crash and which cannot be deleted. The only solution
is to move all point sizes
of
the font to a new font with "FontMove".
Existing fonts can be changed to LQ
fonlS
with "FontZoom" and eventually
"FontAdjust".
If
a large point size is available, but no small size, create the
small size using "FontZoom" and a reduction factor
of
3. You can then
clean up the font using a font editor.
If
a small point size is available, but
no large one, create the large one using "FontZoom" and an enlargement
factor
of
3. Cleaning up large
fonlS
can
be
very time consuming.
At
least two point sizes must be present in an LQ font. One is needed for
the screen and geoWrite and one for the Print System.
If
you're using point
size 12 for the screen, then a point size
of
36 is recommended for GEOS
LQ
(9 pin printer set for
X=819).
If
there is point size 40 available instead, the
system will reduce the font slightly, causing a reduction in print quality.
If
you want to modify an existing LQ font
or
create an entirely new one
please follow this rule: The characters which make
up
one point size within
a font should not differ in anything other than size when creating other point
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