HP Laser Jet: DOS to Office 2000

[houseisland]

Hi.

My brother asked me this question, and I wasn't sure what to say. One of his clients has an ancient ARCnet/Novell network, which my brother manages to keep limping along. The client had my brother update some workstations so that they are running Office 2000 where they had been running DOS applications before. The problem is that the DOS applications' printer drivers, Word 5.5 drivers in particular, used the HP Laser Jet internal or cartridge fonts. The Windows OS (W9?) on the workstations now does not seem to access these fonts but uses TTF fonts instead. This all works almost perfectly: the conversion utilities in Office 2000 work on the DOS *.doc files but they have to be reformatted in a different font after conversion or they come up as jibberish; once this is done, however, everything is OK and the files print just fine. The problem is the client - the client loved the non-purportionally spaced Courier machine font used before and does not like any of the TTF equivalents. Is there a way to make the client happy here?

[This message has been edited by houseisland (edited January 07, 2000).]

[BAD.IRON]

If you have access to the old (original) font file, you can copy that file to the font file in the windows control panel.

[houseisland]

Thanks. Unless I am misunderstanding what you are telling me, I not sure that this will work, though. In MS Word (dos), the *.prd file communicates directly with the printer hardware, or so I think. There are no software font files. In Word 6 (dos), it was possible to use the mergeprd.exe utility to assign TTF files to the prd file. But the client was using Word 5.5, which did not use TTF files.