Hewlett-Packard Type Director Soft Fonts 2.0 and Windows (74163)

SUMMARY

Type Director by Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a typeface and font management package. Like other font packages, you select the typefaces and the sizes desired (in any point size from 4 to 200 in half-point increments, depending on your application and available system memory), and then the application builds the fonts for you.

This package is different from others because it can create fonts for several applications (Windows versions 2.03, 2.10, 2.11, and 3.0; Microsoft Word 4.0 and 5.0; Aldus PageMaker 1.0a and 3.0; and Ventura Publisher). Type Director creates both printer and screen fonts for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

Currently, there are two versions of Type Director packages. The first version does not have a version number; let's call it version 1.0 in this article. Type Director 2.0 is the second version.

The major differences between Type Director 2.0 and Type Director 1.0 are the following:

Type Director 2.0 is compatible with more software packages and printers than the original version.
Type Director 2.0 incorporates outline fonts for the LaserJet III instead of bitmaps. This increases speed and print quality.

When you install fonts for Windows, Type Director 1.0 and 2.0 adds the fonts to your WIN.INI automatically. There is no need to use the Soft Font Installer. You must be careful to choose Windows as the application for which you are creating the fonts and use the Windows character set. You can create a specific typeface and size for a specific group of characters to conserve on memory.

Type Director 1.0 and 2.0 can create reduced symbol sets also. However, if you create a reduced symbol set that contains any symbol that is not available to your Windows application, you won't be able to print from that application properly.

Fonts created for another specific application cannot be used for Windows or vice versa. You must create fonts specifically for all of your applications supported by Type Director 2.0.

Type Director 2.0 has a utility that downloads the soft fonts that you created to your LaserJet. This utility is not necessary when you use the Type Director fonts with Windows. The HPPCL.DRV driver downloads the fonts for you automatically, whether you have them installed permanently or temporarily.