Creating User-Defined Font Characters For Advanced Mode - Intermec EasyCoder 3240 Developer's Manual

Chapter 3 — Working with Fonts and Graphics

Creating User-Defined Font Characters for Advanced Mode

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Command Strings for User-Defined Character Example (continued)
Command
<STX>U1;o100,100;c2;w20;h20<ETX>
<STX>R<ETX>
<STX><ESC>E4<ETX>
<STX><ETB><ETX>
Creating user-defined font characters for Advanced mode is almost
identical to the procedure for creating user-defined characters. You need to
define the format for each ASCII character you want to use. For help, see
"Creating User-Defined Characters for Advanced Mode" on page 49.
Additionally, when you write the command strings that define the ASCII
characters for the font, you need to include syntax for these commands:
• "Bitmap User-Defined Font, Clear or Define": This command creates a
new font and font number. Syntax is
• "Bitmap Cell Width for Graphic or UDF, Define": This command
defines the width for all cells that contain a character from this font.
Syntax is x , where
n
• "Bitmap Cell Height for Graphic or UDF, Define": This command
defines the height for all cells that contain a character from this font.
Syntax is y , where
n
• "User-Defined Font Character, Create": This command creates the new
character. Syntax is t
corresponding ASCII character. For help, see the
page 76. You need to add this syntax for each new character in your
user-defined font.
• "Intercharacter Space for UDF, Define": This command defines the
amount of space added to the default intercharacter gap length for a
bitmap font. Syntax is z
default spacing of 2.
To create a user-defined font character for Advanced mode
1 Follow Steps 1 to 7 of
mode" on page 49.
example:
Definition
Creates graphic field 1, origin of
100,100, uses graphic 1, and magnifies it
by a factor of 20
Saves and exits to Print mode
Selects format 4
Prints the format
, where
Tn
is the cell width in dots.
n
is the cell height in dots.
n
, where is the decimal equivalent of the
n n
, where is the number of dots to add to the
n n
"To create a user-defined character for Advanced
This procedure uses the following graphic as an
Intermec Printer Language (IPL) Developer's Guide
is the font number.
n
"Full ASCII Table" on