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secondaryfonts?Youwanttoselecta downloaded fontIDasyoursecondary
font.This is the commandto send:
<ESC>) n X
Font attributes
The third wayto selecta fontis to simplydescribewhatfont attributesyou
want.(Remember, s electinga fontdoesnotmodifya font.Youcan'tgetbold
or 14-point c haractersifyoudon'thaveaboldor 14-point f ontintheprinter.)
In listingthe attributesyouwant,it willhelpyouto prioritizethemthe same
wayyourLaserPrinter8does.Yourpnnterranksthevariousattributesafont
can havethis way (from most to least important):
orientation
symbolset
spacing(proportional o r monospaced)
pitch (charactersper inch)
font height(in points)
style(italicor upright)
strokeweight(lightto bold)
typeface
The laser printer just zips down this chain of attributes one by one,
eliminatingfontsthatdon'tmatchwhatyouwant,untilit getsdownto one
uniquefontthat matchesyourrequest.If the printermatchesdown to, say,
styleor weightbut can go no further,it willgiveyouits closestfontto your
request.
And if you don't specifya particularvalue for some attribute,the printer
assumesyou wantthe valuethat attributehad in the last fontyou specified
(or thedefaultvalueif you'vejust turnedon the printer).This can saveyou
someeffort:if thefontyouwanthasanattributethesameas thecurrentfont,
you don'thave to specifythat attributeagain.
Orientation
Portrait orientation prints text across the width of a page. Landscape
orientationprintstext sidewaysup the lengthof a page.
The Star LaserPrinter8 is more flexibleaboutorientationthan most other
laser printers;it lets you simply rotate any portrait font to the landscape
orientationor viceversa.To startyouoff whenyou changeorientation,the
printer resets all its margins and its column and line definitionsto their
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