HELP ME INSTALL FONTGDOS!!! by Gerry Kichok GEnie:G.KICHOK A general guide for anyone to use, and I take no responsibility for any damage done by my unselfish gift to the public. Contents of file FONTGDOS.LZH: Orig size Pack size Member name --------- --------- ----------- 59715 24161 PRINTERS\BJ10.SYS CANON BUBBLE JET 10e 60600 24414 PRINTERS\DJ5.SYS HP DESKJET 500 53040 28062 ACC\FONTGDOS.ACC GDOS Printer Selector 43025 22323 CPX\FONTGDOS.CPX GDOS Printer Selector 22471 8219 FONTGDOS.DOC Bad Docs, Baaaddd Docs! 26591 12006 AUTO\FONTGDOS.PRG FontGDOS program itself! 64367 34462 ACC\FSM.ACC FSM Font Manager 54759 28752 CPX\FSM.CPX FSM Font Manager 42375 23481 ACC\FSMPRINT.ACC FSM Printer Config 34492 18770 CPX\FSMPRINT.CPX FSM Printer Config 59236 23933 PRINTERS\FX80.SYS EPSON FX-80 60194 24164 PRINTERS\LASERJET.SYS HP LASERJET 58397 23329 PRINTERS\MEMORY.SYS MEMORY DRIVER (paging) 9718 3862 PRINTERS\META.SYS METAFILE DRIVER (.GEM) 59121 23957 PRINTERS\NB15.SYS STAR NB25-15 59516 24079 PRINTERS\NECP.SYS NEC P-SERIES 58719 24227 PRINTERS\NX1000.SYS STAR NX1000 58491 24111 PRINTERS\OKI20.SYS OKIMATE 20 60005 24867 PRINTERS\PAINTJET.SYS HEWLETT-PACKARD PAINTJET 60036 24556 PRINTERS\SLM.SYS New SLM 605 59201 0 PRINTERS\SMM804.SYS Old SLM 804 --------- --------- ----------- 1064069 462848 Quite BIG EH! --------- --------- ----------- The Old SLM 804 driver is there, it just takes up no space in the archive. Note: Only one 'Atari Laser Printer' appears in the selection box, so erase the one you don't need! and Contents of file FNT_GDOS.LZH: Orig size Pack size Member name --------- --------- ----------- 53040 28062 FONTGDOS.ACC 43025 22323 FONTGDOS.CPX 22471 8219 FONTGDOS.DOC 26591 12006 FONTGDOS.PRG 64367 34462 FSM.ACC 54759 28752 FSM.CPX As you can see with NO printer drivers or the printer selector this is pretty useless, except that you get the DOC file, which DOES NOT WORK for the files sent, because there is no SETUP.PRG . DIRECTIONS: If you are not already using XCONTROL panel, you should start. It can make your life alot easier. *** DO NOT reboot TILL I TELL YOU TOO!!! 1) Unarc the files using Questor onto the C: partition of your Hard Disk. NO Hard Drive!, and you still want to use FontGDOS, you are going to need lots of room on that little diskette of yours. (I recommend you use DC Squish and DataDiet if you have it.) If you are short of space just unarc what you need using ARCSHELL 3.1 or a similar utility. I suggest only: 22471 FONTGDOS.DOC 26591 AUTO\FONTGDOS.PRG 54759 CPX\FSM.CPX 34492 CPX\FSMPRINT.CPX 43025 CPX\FONTGDOS.CPX 58397 PRINTERS\MEMORY.SYS 9718 PRINTERS\META.SYS ~60000 PRINTERS\*** the driver for your printer*** -------- ~309453 bytes DC Squish is okay for the Program and will save 6k, DC DataDiet, (DO NOT use it on the SYS files), works on the CPXS and DOC files saving 52k, so the total will still be ~250k. If you are using another compression system, Questor's, the result should be about the same or a little smaller. ***IF YOU HAVE MORE THAT 1 PRINTER, you can use more than one printer driver. For example if you have a Deskjet for documents and a EPSON for disk labels, you will need both DJ5.SYS and FX80.SYS in your folder. ***IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE PRINTER YOU HAVE, check your printers manual for compatible printer drivers. 2) If the files were not unarced where they should be, they will need to be moved into the proper places. FONTGDOS.PRG goes into the AUTO folder, placement has not been mentioned in the DOCS but I decided to place it beside the G+PLUS.PRG, CODEHEAD was very specific where to put G+Plus, after all the FIX programs and any ram disks, but before DATADIET, WARP9, and NEOLOAD. The CPX programs go with the rest of your CPX programs, and the ACC's go in the root directory. The Drivers should be in the folder called PRINTERS, although you can change that to whatever you like, I called my folder FONTGDOS. Note: This is also were you should place all the fonts you own. 3) If your are using ATARI XControl Panel this will be easy because you do not need to reboot, if NOT change FONTGDOS.PRG in your AUTO folder to FONTGDOS.PRX and see that there are no more than 6 active ACCessory programs, then reboot. a) Open your XCONTROL panel accessory. SELECT OPTIONS. SELECT SETUP. Next RELOAD your CPX's, the button with the arrows from the X to the CPX icon. This should automatically load the new CPX's because they are named CPX and not the unselected CPZ. SELECT OK, and take a look at your 3 new CPX's. b) Wait for your computer to reboot. 4) The GDOS Printer Selector If you have lots of fonts and drivers, this could take awhile, my 80 fonts and drivers take close to 3 minutes to load in. Under the heading current printer is a shadowed box, this is your selected printer right? IF NONE, click OPTIONS, then Set Font/Driver Path and select the path where the Printer Drivers and Fonts are kept. Click OK, then TOP MENU. Then you can select your current printer by clicking on the box. IF you unarced more than one printer driver select the appropriate driver. Then SAVE. There you are! ***This CPX will now create the ASSIGN.SYS file, changing the old one to ASSIGN.OLD NEXT select OPTIONS again. Then Driver Installation. This is covered in the DOCS, but as a review. The Active Devices are the devices you will need to print and create meta files: Devices 1-10 are SCREEN.SYS drivers that are built into [ROM]. Devices 11-20 are PLOTTER.SYS drivers and are disk [RES]ident. Devices 21-30 are PRINTER.SYS drivers and are disk [RES]ident. Devices 31-40 are META.SYS drivers and are disk [RES]ident. P.S. I don't know how the MEMORY.SYS driver is to be used, YET!, but it will produce the page to be printed in memory, I think. These are set up using the AVAILABLE Devices section, making sure to select either ROM or RES, then ADD the device. You will probably notice the first 9 are already preset, and that they are all set to ROM. So all you need to set is 21 and 31, and these should be set to RES. (If more than 1 printer, set 22,23,... to the printer drivers.) Select MENU to exit. Select Font Installation next. Displayed currently are the active fonts. Click on the Active Fonts box and the Inactive Fonts will be displayed so you can ADD fonts to the Active list. For which fonts to use for each device see FontGDOS docs to see which resolution matches which device: nameXXLO.FNT Low Screen Resolution nameXXCG.FNT Medium Screen Resolution nameXXHI.FNT High Screen Resolution nameXXEP.FNT Printers that do 120x144 dpi nameXXSP.FNT Printers that do 180x180 dpi nameXXQD.FNT Printers that do 240x144 dpi nameXXNP.FNT Printers that do 360x360 dpi nameXXLS.FNT Printers that do 300x300 dpi nameXXLB.FNT Printers that do 160x72 dpi nameXXMF.FNT Meta File Fonts Where XX is the font 'name's point size. Click MENU, TOP MENU, then SAVE your modified ASSIGN.SYS file. 5) The FSM Font Manager Not to much to do here, SELECT Options Menu, then Outline Font Setup. This control panel is mainly for use with FSM GDOS not this bitmapped stuff. The ONLY setting to worry about is Set Font Cache. Character at 20 (smallest) Miscellaneous at 20 (smallest) Bitmap Font is set to the file size of your largest font (uncompressed) as a rule. This is the amount of memory put aside to hold the fonts, therefore if you only have a 520ST and the largest font you have is 210k this will eat up so much memory you will be unable to run any applications. OK to EXIT Saving creates the EXTEND.SYS file needed. 6) The FSM Printer Configuration This installs the selected printer driver to the printer in use. Thats all! If there is more than one printer driver loaded select the one you wish to use, then exit. Your DONE! Now you can change the FONTGDOS.PRX in the AUTO folder back to .PRG if you had to reboot earlier. You have now installed FontGDOS, and can REBOOT! Known conflicts with FontGDOS while using WARP 9 at NeoDesk will cause the screen not to be cleared properly. The arguments about who needs to fix what are already going on. If you are using Word Up!, stick to the GDOS or get G+Plus, because it has always used a 'load as you need it' font caching system.