setup-printer Command

The setup-printer BASIC program downloads fonts to a laser printer attached to a form queue.

The form queues are items in the dm,devices, file with fonts 1 through 16 defined at the proper table entry (x-125 through 140.)

The list of font item-IDs used by a form queue are in the file dictionary dm,fonts, with the item-IDs the same as the form queue.

If a form queue is indicated, it downloads the fonts in that list.

If a printer number is indicated, for all form queues defined by that printer, it downloads the fonts in each form queue list. Thus, by specifying the item-ID of the form queue, it retrieves the list of fonts in dm,devices, dictionary.

q.number

Form queue number to which the fonts are downloaded.

printer.number

Printer number to which the form queue fonts are downloaded.

Fonts reside in the dm,fonts, file.

The list of fonts assigned to a form queue resides in the dictionary dm,fonts form queue number.

Setting up a form queue downloads all the fonts defined for that form queue.

Setting up a printer does a form queue download for each form queue defined for that printer.

Each (downloaded) font is stored in the printer’s memory, and is referenced by a numeric font-ID number. To ensure that an existing font is not accidentally overwritten, the beginning font-number of 10 is used, and is increased by 10 for each additional downloaded font.

The fonts may be invoked using the same @ functions available to BASIC and the arguments between (-146) and (-267), or by the Output Processor font<font.number> command).

See Also

.font Command

@() Function

download Command

Font