HP Pcl 5 Manual

ENFont Header Format 11-19 Bitmap Font - Specified in PCL coordinate system dots.
Scalable Font - Specified in design units.
Figure 11-3 Character Cell - Bitmap
Orientation (UB)      
Specifies the orientation of the font. All characters within the font must 
have the same orientation as those specified in the font header; 
otherwise they are discarded as they are downloaded.
0 = por trait (0 degrees; the orientation of the raster scan 
of the printer)
1 = landscape (90 degrees counterclockwise)
2 =...

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Bitmap Font - Unsupported values invalidate font creation.
Scalable Font - set to zero.
NoteHewlett-Packard recommends that bitmap soft fonts be designed in 
portrait (0°), using the paper motion and raster scan direction of 
the HP LaserJet Plus and LaserJet series II printers. The HP LaserJet 
IID, IIP, 2000, and PCL 5 LaserJet printers rotate the fonts to match 
the paper’s physical coordinate system for the various paper sizes.
Spacing (B)   
Specifies the spacing of...

ENFont Header Format 11-21 Symbol set escape sequence termination characters can be any 
upper case ASCII character “A” through “Z.” “Q” is reserved for use 
with HP “Specials” symbol sets and is not recommended for general 
use.
NotesSymbol set ID’s of “@” and “X” do not have a corresponding Symbol 
Set selection command, sets marked as such can be selected only 
with the Font ID.
This field must have a value of 56 for a type 10 or 11 font (unbound 
Intellifont scalable) to be valid. 
Pitch (UI)...

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Height (UI) 
Bitmap Font - Specifies the design height of the font in quarter-dots 
(radix dots). This value, converted to points, is used as the height 
characteristic value of the font. A PCL point is   (0.01389) inch. 
It combines with Height Extended to specify the design height of 
the font in 1024
th-dot (fonts designed at 300 dpi).
For example, a 10 point font at 300 dpi has a height of 166 
quarter-dots (radix dots) (1200 quarter dots/inch,   inch/point) 
as...

ENFont Header Format 11-23
Width Type (SB)   
Specifies the proportionate width of characters in the font. 
Style LSB (UB)    
The least significant byte (LSB) of the Style word. Refer to Style MSB 
for a description of the Style word.
Stroke Weight (SB)   
Specifies the thickness of the strokes used in designing the font. The 
supported stroke weight values are -7 through 7. The thinnest stroke 
available is -7; the thickest stroke weight is 7. The standard stroke 
weight for a medium font is 0; the...

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Typeface (UB)           
This field specifies the HP typeface number of the font. The current 
version of this field, supported by the &payette; printer, is described 
first. Then a previous field, supported in earlier printers, is described.
Current Usage 
In the LaserJet 4 printer version of this field, an unsigned short 
integer is assembled from the two unsigned bytes of data. Printers, 
when seeking to match a typeface request with available font 
resources, may treat...

ENFont Header Format 11-25 Vendor Number - Bits 15 - 12. This value is assigned by HP and is 
between decimal values 0 and 15.
Typeface Family Number - Bits 11 - 0 This value is between 0 and 
4095. See Appendix C in the PCL 5 Comparison Guide.
Typeface Family Values are calculated according to the following 
formula:
Example 
The HP typeface number for Agfa Dom Casual typeface is 4157 
(vendor value=1, and typeface value=61): 
61 + (1 × 4096) = 4157 Table 11-15 Typeface Family Value (Current)
15...

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Previous Usage   
The previous treatment of the Typeface field supported the LaserJet 
IIP, IID and LaserJet III family printers. It consisted of the Typeface 
Least Significant Byte (LSB; the original, one-byte typeface value 
used prior to the LaserJet IID printer) and the Typeface Most 
Significant Byte (MSB) in the font header.
The previous typeface family value field is shown below. It included 
a 4-bit field to specify the vendor number, a 2-bit field for the version...

ENFont Header Format 11-27 Typeface Base ValueThe Typeface Base Number (bits 0 through 8) 
ranged from 0 to 511. Some of these values referred to the styles 
that vary by structure and appearance width (such as Helvetica 
Condensed, Helvetica Outline, etc.). Do not use these values in 
new designs since they are being deleted. Refer to Appendix C in 
thePCL 5 Comparison Guide for a list of typeface families and their 
typeface base values.
NoteFor future compatibility, use the two-byte (typeface MSB/LSB)...

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Quality (UB) 
This field specifies the quality of the font.
Placement (SB) 
Placement specifies the position of character patterns relative to the 
baseline.
Bitmap Font - The placement values for bitmap fonts are listed in the 
following table.
Scalable Font - Set the Placement field to zero. 11 Script Calligraphic
12 Script Broken Letter
13-63 Reserved
Values for bits 6 & 7
64 Sans Serif
128 Serif
192 Reserved
Table 11-20 Quality Values
Value Quality
0  Data processing...