Scaling Fields; Magnifying Fonts And Character Fields - Intermec EasyCoder 3240 Developer's Manual

Scaling Fields

Intermec Printer Language (IPL) Developer's Guide
f1(rotated 90 degrees)
f2 (rotated 180 degrees)
ABCDE
f3 (rotated 270 degrees)
Field Rotation: This illustration shows the effects of rotating a field by using the Field
Direction command.
The size of a field is determined by the font or graphic you use and the field
magnification factors you apply. You can use the height and width
magnification commands to scale each of these fields even further.

Magnifying Fonts and Character Fields

Internal printer fonts already have specific sizes. For example, the letters in
font c0 are 7 dots wide by 9 dots high, with a 1-dot gap between characters.
If you design a field that prints 10 letters in font c0, the field will be 79 dots
wide by 9 dots high.
By applying magnification factors (h for height and w for width), you can
increase a field's height or width. If you increase the height to 2 (h2) for the
field described above, the field height doubles, and the final field prints 79
dots long by 18 dots high. If you change the height magnification to h3,
the field height triples, and the field prints 79 dots by 27 dots.
The default human-readable field H0 prints the 7 x 9 font as follows
(assuming you enter the word "example" as data):
When you apply a magnification factor of 3 to human-readable field H0,
the font now prints the image below:
Increasing the width of a text field to 2 makes each letter in the field twice
as wide. If you did this to the example above, with field height h2, the final
field would print 158 dots wide by 18 dots high.
When you magnify a bitmap font, the edges of the characters become
jagged. If you want to print large text characters, use an outline font.
Chapter 2 — Designing Bar Code Labels
ABCDE
f0 (horizontal)
Field origin
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