On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:46:37 -0600, you wrote: >I may get back to you. I suspect a printer driver issue. He says it prints >codes and the like, so we are going to try his older printer -- he MAY have >a driver that works with that one. > >Sharol > >-----Original Message----- >From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Stephen Bird >Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:53 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: DOS WP 5.0 fonts question > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:53:05 -0600, you wrote: > >>Anybody have any light to shed on this issue? > >I still have a font program called Publisher's PowerPak (or something like >that) >which may help... >-- >cheers, Stephen
Hi Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the world and King DOS fought hard and long to survive against the marauding hoards of double glazing contractors (Windows) WP5, 5.1, Wang and another prog which I cannot remember the name of but was published by the dBase folk used printer codes and the one I had also had a "page view". I did all my degree stuff using this and boy oh boy was it good (on a 286 @ 6Mhz with 256K ram). The old Acorn/BBC Master had a similar setup where print codes were inserted into the text. In all these programs one could write one's own printer driver and use one's own "shortcuts" in the text to use the formatting. So specialist programs arrived to help extend the use of fonts as did the graphical stuff we all use today. I do remember that the laser or page printers offered tons of built in fonts and Adobe came out with a method to use these with many DOS based programs. Can I suggest that you contact a "self help" group for the disabled and there is always the possibility of using Windows with voice commands and the world is you friend's oyster...................... Sir Hugh of Bognor Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to find it! Hugh Gundersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bognor-bill.co.uk Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK ------------------------------------------------- Vyisder Asmeni Orsisarsis Asderisorsis. B.Cozderiz Vunarz PERORZ ------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
