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Centronics PagePrinter 8 (HP) - Bold Does Not
DocumentID: 646086
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:11 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When the customer uses Bold (F6) after having made 12 other font changes, the text does not appear bold. This only happens when the bold command is after several other font changes. If he selects the actual Ctrl-F8 to select a bold font, the text prints out bolded. Also, bold prints fine from a blank screen or in documents where it is the first font change. The customer is using Bitstream fonts on all documents and the Centronics PagePrinter 8 (HP). Solutions: The customer is marking the fonts with a plus (+). He is using more fonts in the document (number of fonts is not important in this case, what is important is the size of the fonts) than what can be stored in the RAM of the printer. For example, the customer uses 12 fonts which take up 400K of memory, but the printer only has room for 350K. Therefore, when WordPerfect sends a 50K font to the printer, there is no room to store it so it does not get stored in the printer. Then when the document calls for the font, it is not there and another font must take its place.

A work around is to go into PTR and replace the bold AFCs for all the Roman fonts. Delete the fonts listed next to bold so the printer will bold the Roman fonts rather than perform a font change. Then when the user prints, rather than loading the Roman font and the bold font and running out of printer memory, it only loads the Roman font and uses the printer's automatic bold to bold the font.

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