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HP LaserJet III - Univers Font & Outline Attr
DocumentID: 646621
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:16 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using the HP LaserJet III printer, a Univers 30-40 point landscape font, and the Outline option (Ctrl-F8, 2, 5) within a document. When the document is printed, codes are inserted into the document halfway through words. When the customer switches back to a plain Univers font (not an Outline font), everything prints fine. Solutions: Looking closer at the print-to-disk file the customer sent in, there were no HPGL initialization commands in the file. The initialization command removes the defined "end of label" character. The end of label character tells the printer when to end the HPGL text string. When the HP driver switches to Outline, WordPerfect performs the Outline feature using the HPGL codes. WP sends the text starting with an LB (label) command. The printer will continue to print the text in the HPGL setting until the printer receives the end of label character. WP is sending the character, but without the initialization command telling the printer what that ending character is, the character sent by WP is ignored. The printer not only prints the end of label character, but everything that follows the character. To correct the problem, the customer can add the end of label definition to the hpouton variable. The steps to do this within the PTR Program are as follows:
1.      Enter the PTR Program and retrieve the .ALL printer file
2.      Press Alt-F8 (Global String Variables), cursor to hpouton, and press Enter
3.      Press Ctrl-Enter to edit
4.      Add a line at the top, just before the existing code, by pressing Enter
5.      Type [27]"%1BDT~;"[27]"%1A" on the top line
6.      Exit the PTR Program, and save the modified .ALL file
7.      Update the .PRS printer file within WP by pressing Print (Shift-F7), S (Select Printer), Update (7)

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