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to describe and map your character. Sixteen bytes are needed for the
description;the bit-map takes as many bytes as you've put into each
charactercell—perhapstwo or three hundredbytes.
As with the fontheader,each bytein the characterdescriptionis a number,
sent as the symbol at that positionin the ASCII table. Codingcharacter
descriptionsis tricky too, so again we recommend you ask your Star
Micronicsdealer for help. The table below shows what the bytes in the
characterdescriptionmean:
BYTE MEANING
o
descriptionlength
1
blank
2
always 14
3
always 1
4
orientation
5
blank
6-7
left offset (blankspaceto left of character)
8-9
top offset (blankspaceabovecharacter)
10-11 characterwidth
12-13 characterheight
14-15 printpositiontravel (proportionalspacingonly)
Thebitmapofthecharacters justthepattemofdotsinthecharacter,starting
at thetop left of its cell.Youworkyourway acrossthe cellanddownto the
bottomright;givingeachdot a valueof Oif it's not to be printedand 1 if it
is. Then you.groupthosedots as 8-bitbytes.
5)
Permanent or temporary?
The
last step in downloadingyourown font is to makethe font permanent
or temporary, using the Font Control command described earlier. The
command<ESC>*c4 F willallowthefontto be erasedwhenyou resetthe
printer.But the commandcESC>*C5 F willkeep yourfontavailableeven
after you reset the printer.
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