Font Header Examples - HP PCL 5 Reference Manual

Font Header Examples

Two examples for downloading a Font Header are provided below;
one for a bitmap font and one for an Intellifont scalable font.
Bitmap Example
To download a bitmap font header for a portrait HP Roman-8, 10
pitch, 12 point, upright, medium, Courier font, with an ID number of
one, send:
An example of the bitmap header is shown on the following page.
Table 11-32
FIELD NAME
Font Descriptor Size
Header Format
Font Type
Style MSB
Reserved
Baseline Position
Cell Width
Cell Height
Orientation
Spacing
Symbol Set
Pitch
Height
x Height
Appearance Width
EN
E
(set Font ID to 1)
*c1D
C
E
(# = 64 bytes of font descriptor data
)s#W
C
+ x bytes of optional data)
VALUE DESCRIPTION
64 Bytes
0 Bitmap Font Format
1 Eight Bit
0
0
40
30
53
0 Portrait
0 Fixed Pitch
277 8U: Roman-8
120 Quarter Dots (30.00 Dots)
200 Quarter Dots (50.00 Dots)
88 Quarter Dots (22.00 Dots)
0 Normal
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