Installing truetype fonts, Selecting fonts in windows applications – Star Micronics LC-90 NX-1010 User Manual

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Using the Printer with Windows 3.1

Installing TrueType fonts

The TrueType fonts that are supplied on the 3.5” floppy disk that comes with
the printer can be used only when you are running Windows 3.1 or later. Use
the following procedure to install the fonts.

Launch Windows.

Open the Windows

Control Panel

.

Double-click

the

Fonts

icon and the

Fonts

dialog box appears.

Click

Add

and the

Add Fonts

dialog box appears.

Insert the disk that contains the fonts into one of your computer’s disk
drives. This explanation assumes you are using a drive named “A:”, but you
could use any drive. Just remember to change the “A:” in the following
steps to the name of the drive you are using.
Select the letter that represents the drive where the floppy disk is installed.
When you do, the names of all the fonts on the disk appear in the

List of

Fonts

window.Select the fonts you want to install by clicking on their

names. If you want to install all of the fonts, click

Select All

.

Click

OK

. The

Fonts

dialog box appears and installation is performed. The

names of the newly installed fonts are automatically added to the

Installed

Fonts

list.

While in the application program you are using, select

Printer Setup

from

the application’s

File

menu, and reselect the printer. After that, the

application can display on-screen text and print text on the printer using the
newly installed fonts.

Selecting fonts in Windows applications

Refer to the manual of the application you are using for details on how to select
fonts within that application.

In addition to the Windows fonts, you can also use the TrueType fonts that come
with this printer.

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