LaserJet Fonts & Font Utilities Contents: -----Fonts -----Font Utilities ========== -----Fonts [APPLE] Apple (Guber, Sol; $10) is a landscape oriented 24 point downloadable font for HPLJ printers. It is a medium stroke attractive font. [CAMELOT] Camelot (Guber, Sol; $10) is a very ornate soft font in old English style in 24 point landscape for the HPLJ. [CANDY] Candy (Guber, Sol; $10) is a candy striped soft font in 23 point landscape for the HPLJ. [CEN60] Cen60 is a 60-point Centrum font. [COMPUSY] CompuSym contains downloadable fonts to print computer key symbols to represent the cursor keys and SP, RET, ESC, DEL, FF, LF, TAB - each with a little box around it to indicate a keytop. Fonts for both landscape and portrait modes, 10 point, proportional. [COURIER] Courier (Straightforward; $10-$25) is a Courier PC 12-point font. [CMPTECH] Computer-Tech (Balog, Norman M.; $5) is a soft font file of a neo-tech, computerized style for the HP LaserJet or compatible. [CYRILL] Cyrill (Walter, Alexander; $0) is a Russian (Cyrillic) 10-point font. [LJFNT17] Elfring LaserJet Fonts and Utilities 1.7 (Elfring Soft Fonts ASP; $25) is an extensive (and impressive) set of soft fonts and utilities for the HP LaserJet and compatible printers: Broadway 18-point font, Century Legal font, Computer keyboard symbols font. Roman, Helvetic and Garamond faces in 10 pt medium, bold and italic. Greek alphabet in 10 pt proportional. Symbol set with (C), bullets, circled numbers and much more; in 24 point. Times Roman fixed width (non-proportional) and a Script font, both in 10 pt. Utilities include sample sheet printer, font downloader for LJ and DJ, and more. [SUPFNT12] Elfring Super Fonts I 1.2 (Elfring Soft Fonts ASP; $39) contains 17 display fonts for the HP LaserJet, printer drivers, plus intructions for using these fonts with WordPerfect 5, Word 5.0, and with other programs. Two soft font utilities are provided: DOWNLOAD for sending soft fonts to the printer, and DISPFONT for printing sample sheets of soft fonts. [ENGRAVD] Engraved (Nelson, Ken; $0) is a Broadway type font. [ESF_EURO] ESF's European LaserJet Fonts (Elfring Soft Fonts ASP; $25) contains 12 soft fonts that will print almost any European language. These fonts support any HPLJ or compatible printer. Fonts include Garamond, Helv and Roman 12 point medium/bold/italic, plus 18 point bold versions. Utility programs are provided for downloading and printing sample sheets of fonts. Printer drivers are included for WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1, MS Word 5.x, MS Works, Ventura, PageMaker, and Windows. The fonts come with the PC-850 symbol set and directly support German, Spanish, French, and many other languages. [FIXEDFNT] FixedFnt are non-proportional Helvetica and Times fonts for the HPLJ. These fonts are normally proportional and thus cannot be used easily with applications that need data to be evenly spaced, such as accounting software or other columnar oriented reports. [FT10] FT10 (Orbit Enterprises; $?) is a font for the HP LaserJet Plus designed to allow printing screens that use ASCII line graphics. [HANDWR] HandWr (Walter, Alexander; $0) is an 18 point handwriting font for HP LaserJet. Although 18 point sounds large, it is not for a script font. [HELVFON] HelvFont (Elfring, Gary; $?) contains both portrait and landscape versions of a Helvetica like proportionally spaced soft font. The package includes regular, bold, and italic versions of each font with 10 point heights. [HIERO] Hiero (Walter, Alexander; $0) contains an 18 point, Egyptian Hieroglyphics bitmapped soft font for HP LaserJet printers. This is a strictly a symbol font. [HLV8_18] HLV8-18 is a set of Helvetica fonts for the HP LaserJet. Sizes are 8, 10, 12 and 18 in regular, bold and italics, in landscape and portrait. [HPHEBRE] HPHebrew (Hexagon Products; $25) creates Hebrew soft fonts for the HP LaserJet II printer. It will generate soft fonts in any combination of the following: portrait or landscape; fixed width or proportional spaced; light, regular, or bold stroke; filled or hollow characters; and point sizes from 3 to 72. It has all the usual downloading options. [HPSOFT] HPSoft (Gottlieb, Larry; $?) is a set of soft fonts for the HP LaserJet+: TINY.SFP, VERY small type, barely readable; LARGE.SFP, large, bold letters (somewhat crude); LARGEHLW.SFP, large, hollow letters. [HPSTUFF] HPStuff (Toren, Rip; $0) is a set of utilities for the HP LaserJet. The primary feature is the ability to print upper ASCII graphics characters without a special font cartridge. [LJ3FONT] Laserjet 3 & 4 Scalable Fonts 1.3 (Gary Elfring, ASP; $29) is a set of five scalable PCL5 fonts for LaserJet III & IV printers. It also includes WordPerfect & MS Word drivers plus a tutorial on fonts. Fonts include Baha, Cooper Black, Cooper Italic, Penoir, & ESF Rounded. [L3SSF] LaserJet III Scalable Soft Fonts (Elfring Soft Fonts ASP; $50) contains everything you need to get started with scalable soft fonts on a LaserJet III. This package contains eight scalable display faces, a soft font downloader, and a font display program. Printer drivers are provided for Word Perfect 5.1, MS Word 5.0 & 5.5, and MS Works. This package also contains a tutorial that explains the basics of using soft fonts. The type faces included are similar to ITC Bauhaus and Bauhaus Bold, Cooper Black and Cooper Black Italic, Peignot and Peignot Bold, and VAG Rounded and VAG Rounded Bold. Requires a LaserJet III-series printer. [NEWFONTS] NewFonts (Savoia, Jim; $0) is a set of soft fonts for HPLJs. They come in a range of sizes and include ASCII 160-255, with the line-drawing symbols. Included is a 20-point script font. [OBLIQUE] Oblique (Guber, Sol; $10) is light airy font in 24 point landscape for the HPLJ. [OLDE_18] Olde-18 is an Old English font in 18 point print. [PALATI1, PALATI2] Palatine Soft Fonts (Schreiner, R.; $0) is a set of downloadable soft fonts for the HPLJ and compatible printers. The fonts are all of the Palatine typeface. Included are upright, upright bold, italic, and italic bold in 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 18-, and 24-point sizes. Also included are printer resource files for Word Perfect 5.1 with these fonts already installed for HPLJ printers. [REVERS1] Reverse contains two downloadable font for the LaserJet. Both fonts feature reverse (white on black) printing. [SCRIPT10] Script10 (Elfring, Gary; $?) contains a portrait version of a 10 point Script proportionally spaced soft font. This is an excellent font, but 10 point seems rather small for a script font. [SCRIPT18] Script18 is a script font in 18 point print. [TEENY] Teeny Font is a 2 point soft font for the HP LaserJet. (Get out your magnifying glass.) [TMSN3060] Tmsn3060 is a set of Times Roman fonts in 30 and 60 point. [TOYLAND] ToyLand (Guber, Sol; $10) is a very unusual soft font for the HPLJ in that the letters are the shapes of toys. For example a = apple, b = bow and so forth. It is 18 point size in portrait and landscape. [TR_SFL] TR-SFL Times Roman fonts in a variety of sizes in landscape mode. [TR_SFP] TR-SFP Times Roman fonts in a variety of sizes in portrait mode. [VENUS] Venus is a set of softfonts for the HPLJ. It includes 12-, 20-, and 29-point sizes of a sanserif style proportionally spaced typeface. -----Font Utilities [BITFONT] BitFont 3.8 (Patin, Bruce J.; $15) lets you design or modify fonts of bit-mapped characters for downloading to printers such as the HP LaserJet II and the Epson dot matrix printers. This program is not for the novice. Note that the accompanying sample files are configuration files, not actual sample fonts. [BUILDFNT] BuildFnt (Hexagon Products; $20) is a set of soft fonts for the HP laser printer. It consists of a serif and sans serif font that can be printed in any combination of point sizes 6, 8, 10, or 12, fixed or proportional spaced, and portrait or landscape orientation. [DISPFNT] DispFont (Elfring, Gary; $0) prints a sample sheet of HP LaserJet soft fonts for easy reference when selecting fonts. The symbol map also shows each character in the font along with the decimal code required to select that character. [DOWNLD] DownLD (Holmgren, R. J.; $?) downloads soft_font_files to the LJ II either individually or stacked (as many as 20 files on one command line). Stacking can save a significant amount of time. [FED211] FontEdit 2.11 (Walter, Alexander; $30) is font editor for HP LaserJet printers. It allows you to view and edit any HP LaserJet bit-mapped soft font. It supports portrait or landscape, fixed or proportional, and can convert among them. It handles 110 point (VGA), 80 point (EGA), 88 point (Herc and AT&T), or 44 point (CGA). You can sculpt individual pixels, or use the many built-in special effects and area shapes. It imports PrintShop icon graphics and characters from black and white PCX, TIF, or other soft fonts. A handwriting font is included. [FONTEDIT] FontEdit 6.1 (Derrickson, John G.; $20) is a soft font editor for HPLJ+ compatible printers. It changes pixels of characters as large as one inch tall with zoom and automatic viewpoint scrolling. Special effects include bold, ghost, flip, invert, and resize. It will convert between fixed and proportional, and will change font descriptor parameters. Includes context-sensitive on-line help and some sample soft font files. [FONTFIL] FontFilt (Bumgardner, Jim; $?) converts an HP LaserJet font into a hollow (outline) or 3D (shaded) font. [FONTID] Fontid (Software Architects Inc.; $?) These programs replace the BASIC routines supplied by HP with each soft font package. The advantage of these routines over the HP ones is that they are command line driven, so that you may construct a batch file to download a set of fonts automatically. [FONTS] Fonts (The Font Loader) (Drumm, Jeff; $?) lets you download user-defined sets of fonts into the HPLJ. Using HP's PCLPAK for this purpose takes more disk space because you end up with multiple copies of each font file: the original plus those inside each download set. [FONTLDR] FontLoader 1.51 (Temple, Will; $25) is an HP LaserJet soft font loader that can rotate, scale, make thin or wide, mirror, turn upside down and turn a proportional font into a monospaced font - all on the fly. "On the fly" means that these features are controlled by adding text-based commands to your files or to a special input file. FontLoader can create new fonts or minimize the number of fonts you need to keep on your hard disk. For example, you could load a 48pt font and scale it down to 8, 12, 18, 24, 36 or any in-between sizes you want. You can also scale up, but as is always the case with resizing laser output, you always get better quality by scaling down. Outline and white-on-black options are included. Other features include a width table option which creates an ASCII text file of font information; the ability to change the weight of a font; the ability to rotate a font without changing the page alignment, letting you easily mix "portrait" and "landscape" characters; and the ability to "shave" dots from the outside edges of each character. Fonts can be angled between 1 to 75 degrees, and label font italic and label font upright are included. [FONTSUM] FontSum 1.01 (Orbit Enterprises, Inc.; $20) prints a summary of specified soft fonts. It loads and prints 15 different fonts equally spaced on a page, making a handy reference sheet. Requires an HP LaserJet and a collection of soft fonts. [FONTVC] FontView 3.0 & FontClean (Moody, S. H.; $17) FontView displays information about HPLJ softfont files and displays each character magnified on an EGA screen. FontClean cleans up the header record in a font file. [HP] HP displays soft fonts on the screen. [HPL2VEN] HPL2Ven (Campbell, Vince; $0) converts HP LaserJet fonts for use with Ventura. [HPXFONT] HPXFont .2 (MerderonthaOreonTex Press; $9-$24) clears all soft fonts from HP Laserjet printers. [LASERFON] LaserFon is a font selecter for the HPLJ. [LISTFNT] ListFont (Hickey, Daniel J.; $0) is designed to catalog soft fonts for the HP LaserJet. For each file selected, it prints out the font header and a sample of all the characters in the font. The printout can then be put in a binder for reference. [LOADFONT] LoadFont and Overlay (Advance Systems; $20 each) is a utility that reads a directory of up to 200 SoftFonts and lets you select the SoftFonts you want to download to a Laser printer. It will optionally build a batch file for later use in downloading the fonts or create a SoftModule combining multiple fonts into a single file which can be loaded into the printer without a special download program. Also included is a large collection of Savoy Centus fonts in a variety of size and style variations. [MAKETBL] MakeTable 1.0 (Unique Software ASP; $25) will build a standard PC-WRITE width table for HPLJ (and compatible) softfonts. This makes it possible to use proportional width softfonts with PC-Write. [PCX3FNT] PCX3FNT (TaxWare ASP; $20) converts PCX files to HP LaserJet compatible soft font files. Typical uses would be to convert signatures and logos for downloading to the printer. [PSLJ] PSLJ (Gibson, Don Phillip; $0) converts New PrintShop graphics to LaserJet fonts. The resulting soft font file may be downloaded to a laser printer and accessed as a graphic icon from your word processor or desktop publishing program. Also included is CHART, which shows you which image is assigned to which screen character. [PST] PST (Satz, David; $?) is actually two tiny programs that send the proper control strings to the HPLJ II for identifying the fonts you want to download. [QFONT] QFont (Jamestown Software; $80) is a soft font editor for bitmapped fonts for HPLJs and compatibles. [SOLIDFN] Solidfnt 1.0 (Conroy, Harry; $20) converts any HPLJ soft font to a solid, three-dimensional typeface. The character-height, -width and delta-x (cursor displacement) parameters for each character are adjusted to take account of the small extra space required by the offset thickness. [STEST] STest (Graham, Keith P.; $0) is a Basic program which can read HP soft fonts. For those interested in hacking soft fonts. [TRIM] Trim (Gibson, Don Phillip; $0) lets you trim down the size of a soft font file by deleting characters from it that you do not want. For example, if you had a large font file from which you only wanted a few specific characters, you could select those and delete the rest. [TSRDL29D] TSR Download 2.9d (Elfring Soft Fonts ASP; $49) is a pop-up soft font manager that also works from the command line. It supports up to 100 soft fonts. Also on the disk are 12 point Helvetica and Roman medium, bold, italic soft fonts for both the LaserJet and DeskJet. Elfring tells us that the LJ fonts are exact imitations of HP's AC soft font set, so they can be used with almost any word processor. TSR DL lets you pop up a menu while in any non-graphics program and easily load and select fonts and execute other printer control commands. Configuration routines and a TSR manager for easier use in Lotus and MS Word are included. The program also incorporates automatic soft font decompression, and automatic creation of landscape fonts when needed. [TT2BMP] TT2BMP (Walter, Alexander; $20) is a DOS-based program to convert TrueType fonts to LaserJet bitmap fonts so older DOS-based programs can still use the latest printer fonts. Requires a graphics display and a print file generated by a Windows 3.1 application using TrueType fonts. [VARIFNT] Varifont 1.0 (Conroy, Harry; $20-$60) will convert an HPLJ soft font into a new font of the same typeface, but of a different size, shape, texture, character set, or other attribute. It will make characters 50% or 100% taller, 33% to 50% thinner, or 50% or 100% thicker. It will create mirror-image characters. It offers a large number of predefined patterns that can be added to the characters or to the background. It will also create outline fonts. This is an interesting utility because you could conceivably create a whole range of font sizes from a single font. The fonts generated by this program can be manually downloaded into the LaserJet or they can be used automatically with any program which supports soft fonts, such as WordPerfect and PFS:First Publisher. [ZEP] ZEP (Graham, Keith P.; $?) is a TSR for loading and selecting Hewlett Packard soft fonts. They allow a user to load a new soft font, switch to a new soft font or embed easy to use selection codes in text files that are to be printed.