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MoreFonts - "Sorry .ALL File Is Full" During |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: A customer using MoreFonts with an HP LaserJet IIP and WordPerfect 5.1 received the error message "Sorry: .ALL File Is Full" during the font creation process while MoreFonts was attempting to update the .ALL file. The font files were created, but the .ALL file ended up not being modified. Previously, the user had made well over 200 fonts, and was trying to add 82 more. Solutions: MoreFonts issues this error message (which is technically inaccurate because the font library is full not the .ALL file) because it reaches the font library 64K limit for the select strings. The reason they reach that limit is that they do not use the PTR variables. Some of their font select strings are over 150 bytes long. When MoreFonts tries to modify the .ALL file, it looks for an existing library of MoreFonts already there, and determines how many fonts are in it. If it already contains a maximum, or if the fonts you are adding will take you over that maximum, it produces the error message. MoreFonts is aware of the problem. One possible workaround for this problem is to reduce the number of fonts that MoreFonts is installing to it's font library. Reduce the library size by renaming the existing MoreFonts library (leaving it marked with an "*" to allow it to be used), and then create the new fonts. In this way, MoreFonts does not recognize the old font library, and creates a new one which spreads the font list between two libraries. Here are the steps: 1. Go into PTR and retrieve the .ALL file. 2. Highlight the printer and press Enter. 3. Highlight Fonts and press Enter. 4. Scroll through the listing of fonts, and remove the asterisks from any font groups that are not being used. (Leave asterisks by the built-in and MoreFonts groups.) 5. Highlight the MoreFonts font group, and press 3 to Rename. Give it a different name. Be sure to leave the asterisk by the new name. 6. Exit out to the main printer list. 7. Highlight your printer and select 4 to Copy. Type any valid but different .ALL filename for the destination file. 8. If this printer requires a sheet feeder, then press Shift-F8, highlight the sheet feeder definition, press 4 to Copy, and type in the same .ALL filename as before. 9. Exit PTR, but do not save the original .ALL file. 10. Because MoreFonts requires the original filename to update the .ALL file, you will now need to rename the original .ALL file to something else (i.e., .OLD), and then rename the new .ALL file to whatever the original .ALL file was named. 11. Go back into MoreFonts, and create the new fonts. When you go into Cartridges and Fonts in WordPerfect (Shift-F7, S, 3, 4), you will now see two MoreFonts groups: the old group (that you renamed), and the new group just created by MoreFonts. For more info see Memo STF_398. |
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