This CD contains scalable Arabic downloadable fonts for your printers with PCL 5 emulation. These downloadable Arabic fonts are to supplement the fonts and character sets you have in your printer.
The Arabic directory contains six typefaces:
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Typeface |
Regular |
Bold |
Symbol set |
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Courier |
X |
X |
10V |
|
Letter Gothic |
X |
X |
10V |
|
CG Times |
X |
X |
8V, 10V, 9V |
Three symbol sets are provided with the Arabic download fonts:
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8V/AR |
Arabic-8 |
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10V/PR |
PC-864 Arabic |
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9V/WA |
Windows Arabic |
The fonts are ready to use and can be downloaded to your printer with PCL 5 emulation. The download fonts are provided in bounded and unbounded formats. Bounded fonts are in the \fonts\download\pcl\arabic\bound directory on the CD.
Unbounded fonts are in the \fonts\download\pcl\arabic\unbound directory on the CD.
• TFM (Tagged Font Metrics) files and Glue.txt file in the \autofont directory.
• Bounded font (.sfs) files (7) in the \fonts directory.
• TFM files and Glue.txt file in \autofont directory.
• Unbounded font (.unb) files (6) in the \fonts directory.
• Symbol sets that directly download to your printer in the \fonts directory. For example, send command: "copy /b 10V.PCL lpt1" to download the PC-864 Arabic symbol set to your printer.
• An updated 4026.pss (Optra E models) file in the \bat_file directory. Replace the old 4026.pss used by the DOS toolkit. This new 4026.pss file lets you select, from the DOS Toolkit, Arabic bounded fonts previously downloaded, and lets you select, temporarily or as default, Arabic symbol sets previously downloaded.
You can download fonts to your printer using several methods:
• Windows 95/98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 users can use the PCL printer properties to download the bounded fonts. The Windows PCL driver can be installed by running Setup on the root directory of the CD.
• Non-Windows users can use font management applications to download the bounded or unbounded fonts. If you download any unbounded fonts, you need to download the symbols sets also. Batch programs (LOADRAM, LOADFLSH) are provided in the \unbound\bat_file directory to download unbound fonts and symbol sets to your printer.
1. Copy the Glue.Txt file from \fonts\download\pcl\arabic\bound\autofont on the CD to the c:\autofont directory. If you do not have c:\autofont directory make one before you copy.
2. Edit (using NotePad or any ASCII editor) the Glue.Txt file and change the letter references for your CD drive for your system. The default is drive E:. Save the Glue.Txt file in c:\autofont.
3. In Optra PCL driver properties, click the Font tab, and then select Download. Follow the directions on the screen. The Font Source path will be c:\autofont if you copied the Glue.Txt file as shown in step 1. Use the default destination paths or change them for your system. Do not use the CD drive for the path.
To use the PCL 5 scalable fonts in WordPerfect:
Note: |
You may need to download the fonts to your printer RAM to print a font list for the PCL font selection strings in step 5. |
1. Install the PCL 5 printer driver (.ALL file) in the WordPerfect 5.1 directory.
2. Backup your current AutoFont directory.
3. Copy the GLUE.TXT file and the .TFM files from the font diskette into the C:/AutoFont directory on your hard disk drive. Also copy the .UNB font files to the C:\TD\FONTS directory on your hard disk drive.
4. Run the PTR program with the AutoFont option in the WordPerfect directory PTR /AutoFont.
a. Select the printer you want to add these fonts to and press 1.
b. Press 2 for Add AutoFont. An error message may appear indicating the number is out of range and the field is invalid. Ignore this message and let the program run to completion. Press Enter to end the PTR program.
5. Run the PTR program without the AutoFont option in the WordPerfect directory:
a. Select the correct printer. Press Shift F10 to retrieve; press F5 to list printers, and then press Enter. Highlight the .ALL file for your printer (usually has a "5E" in last two characters), and then press Enter. Press Enter again to edit the printer.
b. Select Edit Fonts and make sure Load and Select String is correct for the font you need to use in WordPerfect. Check the font selection string by downloading the font to the printer and doing a Print Fonts from the operator panel. Select the font to edit. Edit the Select Font string for all PCL 5 scalable fonts. Press F7 when you finish editing the Select Font string.
c. Select Edit Fonts and in Character Map 12, add code points to the font you use in WordPerfect. Use the character map tables provided in this package for the code points. Code points of 128 ('80'X) and above are not defined for Arabic fonts. Press F7 when you are finished editing the Character Map 12 table.
d. Select Edit Fonts and in Size and Spacing Information, add the character spacing value for each character you added in step c. Do this for all PCL 5 scalable proportional spaced fonts you use in WordPerfect. Use the .OUT files to get the horizontal spacing information. Highlight the Proportional Spacing Table, press Enter twice, and then press Page Down until you see Character Map 12. Use the indexed horizontal escapement value in the .OUT file and multiply the value by 1.4172. Put this escapement value at the same Character Map 12 code point as was added in step c.
e. When completed, press F7 to quit the PTR program and save the .ALL file you edited. We recommend that you backup this .ALL file.
6. Run WordPerfect, reinstall the updated printer driver, and then edit the printer:
a. Press Shift F7 to print, and then press S to select the printer. Highlight the printer, and then press D to delete the printer.
b. Press A to add the printer. Highlight your printer, and then press Enter. Press Enter again to replace the printer driver.
c. Press 4 for Cartridges/Soft fonts. Select Soft fonts. Select AutoFont.
d. Highlight the fonts edited in step 5 and press Enter to select the fonts.
e. Press F7 to save the fonts.
f. On the Edit screen, press 6 to edit the soft font directory, usually C:\TD\FONTS.
g. Press F7 twice to save this edit printer session.
7. You are ready to use WordPerfect with the soft fonts selected and edited in steps 5 and 6. Press CTRL V with the Character Map 12 and the code point (for example, 12,5) in your WordPerfect document to use the characters 128 and above in your Arabic soft fonts.
Refer to your application's user and technical documentation to add soft fonts in this package to your application.
To print the PCL symbol set maps for a particular PCL font in this package, use the printer Toolkit to download the font(s) to the printer RAM, and then print a symbol set map using the same Toolkit, or copy the SYMSET.PCL file in the TOOLKIT directory to the printer (copy symset.pcl /b lpt1). The downloaded font must be selected from the operator panel before you can print the downloaded font symbol set map.
The fonts on this CD are for use with any Lexmark laser printer and they may only be copied for use with other Lexmark laser printers.