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assigned relative priorities which define how the closest
font is selected from those available. Attempts to specify
a font which is unavailable will result in the closest fitting
font being selected.
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Below are the font characteristics in
descending order of priority:
Orientation
Character set
Proportional vs fixed spacing
Pitch (fixed spacing fonts only)
Size (points)
Style (upright vs italic)
Weight (light/medium/bold)
Typeface (Courier, Line Printer, etc.)
The printer maintains a table of available fonts and their
characteristics. Whenever you specify a new characteris-
tic (or use the
Default Font
command described in the next
chapter), this table is used to select the font having char-
acteristics closest to the newly revised set. Conceptually,
the selection process works as follows:
For each font characteristic, the printer scans through the
font table and marks as "bad" those fonts having a mis-
match. The printer then scans through the table for the
first "good" font, starting with the downloaded fonts (if
any), and proceeding through the resident and cartridge
fonts. The first "good" font becomes the newly selected
font. The definition of a mismatch varies from one font
characteristic to another (see details under the commands
in this section).
Any font characteristic not specified when defining a font
will remain set to its previous value. For example, you can
switch from upright to italic style without re-specifying the
font size or typeface.
NOTE:
The printer will only select fonts whose orientation
6Note that it is possible to have two fonts with identical selection charac-
teristics loaded into the printer at the same time. Downloaded fonts have
priority over resident or cartridge fonts during font selection.
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