TSR Download is a soft font manager. This is release 2.9b of the share- ware version of the program. This version incorporates automatic soft font decompression for LaserJet fonts, allows use of TSR Download under Windows 3.0, offers a new user interface, and only requires 7K of RAM. Other new features include: improved list file management, full mouse support, and automatic creation of landscape fonts when needed. If you want to use the font compression option, make sure you have en- abled it when you configure the program with DLCFG. You must also use the stand alone soft font compression program CFT to first compress your soft fonts. If you want TSR Download to create landscape fonts you must enable this option with DLCFG and compress the fonts with CFT. This version of TSR Download uses a memory swapping technique to con- serve memory. The program will occupy only 7K of RAM, but needs to place part of itself: on a hard disk, or on a RAM disk, or in EMS memory. The DLCFG program lets you choose where the rest of the pro- gram is stored. If you have both a hard disk and a RAM disk, you are much better off telling TSR Download to swap itself to the RAM disk. Note that you must register this shareware if you continue to use it beyond the 20 day trial period. NEW FEATURES! 1) A few computer systems seem to lock up when TSR Download or the DLCFG program sound a beep. You can disable these sounds in TSR Download using the DLCFG program. Previously, though, the DLCFG program itself would beep which could lock up a mcahine. You can now start the DLCFG program with a "quite" option to eliminate this problem. If you machine locks up with the beep sound in DLCFG, just start the program as follows: dlcfg -q 2) TSR Download now runs as a DOS application under Windows 3.0. For complete information on using TSR Download under Windows see the sep- arate documentation disk file WINDOWS.DOC. DeskJet owners can finally send soft fonts to their printer from within a Windows application. A separate installation program WINDINST.EXE is supplied which will configure TSR Download to properly run under Windows. 3) TSR Download can take quite a while to scan your soft font subdir- ectory the first time it is loaded and activated. IF you RARELY add new fonts to your system you can speed this scan up with a new feature. This feature lets you save a complete library of soft font information and then read this information (instead of scanning for fonts) when the program is first activated. Follow the steps below to use this feature. First load TSR Download into memory, activate it, and let it scan your font subdirectories. When the window shows a complete font list hit the new "Z" option to save the font library. TSR Download will ask you for a library name. Answer with any valid 8 character DOS file name, with no file name extension or path. TSR Download will then save the complete list of soft fonts it has found in a library file under the file name you entered. Now all you have to do is tell TSR Download this file name when you first load the program into memory, as follows: dl /library For example, suppose you load TSR Download, activate it, and let it scan for soft fonts. Now hit "Z", and then enter "MASTER" when asked for a library name. You can use TSR Download for the rest of the day in the normal way. However, the next day when you go to load TSR Download into memory type: dl /master When you activate TSR Download with the hot key you will notice that the program no longer scans for fonts initially. Instead, it reads the lib- rary of font information you saved the previous day. Reading a library is MUCH faster than scanning for soft fonts. The DRAWBACK to this feature is that if you add extra fonts or remove some from you font sub- directories TSR Download won't know! (You can always let TSR Download scan for soft fonts again and save a new library of fonts.) WARNING! if you save a library of your fonts NEVER try and use that same library if you change the colors of TSR Download with SETCOLOR. If you change colors for TSR Download please resave the master font library. 4) A number of programs select soft fonts by their ID number. These programs include Windows and Ventura Publisher. While you can use TSR Download to assign an ID number and then send an individual soft font, this process is quite tedious for downloading more than a single font. This version of TSR Download offers a new way of assigning soft font ID numbers. You can now send a list of fonts to your printer automati- cally assigning each soft font a specific ID number. To do this, you must first create a soft font list file. Just mark the fonts you want to download all at once and create a list file. Now leave TSR Download and using an ASCII text editor, edit the list file. (The list file is saved in the primary soft font subdirectory and ends with the file name extension ".LST".) Place a comma after each soft font file name and follow this with the ID number you want to assign to the font. A typical list file might look as follows: hv100rpn.usp tr120bpn.usp uv180bpn.usp If you want to assign ID number 21 to the Helv font, 34 to the Roman font, and 3 to the University font change the file as follows: hv100rpn.usp,21 tr120bpn.usp,34 uv180bpn.usp,3 TSR Download will now assign the ID numbers you specified each time this list file is used to send font to the printer. 5) TSR Download lets you send a file to the printer from the Printer Control menu. While creating a printer control file is easy, we have put together a set of common printer control functions you might like to use. To use a function, just go to the Printer Control menu

, move to the last entry , and hit . Type the name of one of the files listed below: SAMPLE - If you first download a soft font with ID 1, sending SAMPLE to your printer will print a sample sheet of the font auto- matically. MEDIUM - Switch to a medium weight font now. BOLD - Switch to a bold font now. ASCII - Select the US ASCII symbol set. PC8 - Select the PC-8 symbol set. ROMAN8 - Select the Roman-8 symbol set. LEGAL - Switch to legal paper size. LETTER - Switch to letter paper size. 2COPIES - 2 copies of everything will be printed from now on. 5COPIES - 5 copies of everything will be printed from now on. 10COPIES - 10 copies of everything will be printed from now on. MANUAL - Switch to manual feed. TRAYFEED - Switch to tray feed. 1MARGIN - Force 1 inch left and right margins.