In a day and age where many people think it too much work to do anything
other than rastering out a single line of pixels to the laserprinter, and
then, as needs be, repeat it, row by row, until the picture is printed, it
might go past some people - the ones that only have Windows - that there
are still some people out there who sit around loading 'softfonts' into
their memory, and then, after exporting those fonts to a laserprinter,
find it convenient to juggle them around with no more than a short ESC
sequence to effect an overall change in printout. (It sure beats having to
reload 64K of bytes every time you want to switch from italic to upright,
or from plain to bold, or large to small, including subscripts and
superscript, just to print out a document of medium complexity.)
Back in the olden days, laserprinters tended to have just enough room for
a few dozen softfonts, and the only way to get them in, was by sending ESC
codes to the laserprinter, almost always with a preliminary 'printer
reset' code consisting of two bytes: 1b 45 - so I was wondering if you
had any tips on how to modify my laserfonts from the olden days for use
with Windows? Of course, things are more complicated than snipping off
two bytes. It turns out that there are hosts of other ESC sequences that
need to be fixed up, or turned around. Like whether a font is
proportional or fixed, upright or italic, that sort of thing.
