Table Of Contents - Kyocera C8100DN - Color Laser Printer Technical Reference Manual

General Infomation ................................................................................................................................... i
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................iii
Introduction to PRESCRIBE
Format of PRESCRIBE Commands ....................................................................................................1-4
Basic Concepts......................................................................................................................................1-4
Edge Limits ..................................................................................................................................1-4
Margins ........................................................................................................................................1-4
Page Orientation and Direction ....................................................................................................1-5
Coordinate Systems .....................................................................................................................1-7
Text Positioning ...........................................................................................................................1-7
Character Spacing ........................................................................................................................1-8
Paths .............................................................................................................................................1-9
Logical Page and Physical Page ..................................................................................................1-9
Command Parameters .........................................................................................................................1-10
Numeric Parameters ...................................................................................................................1-10
Character Strings ........................................................................................................................1-11
Upper and Lowercase Letters .....................................................................................................1-12
Special Parameters .....................................................................................................................1-13
Graphics Tutorial
Drawing Lines ..............................................................................................................................2-2
Drawing Boxes and Circles ..........................................................................................................2-6
Drawing Filled Shapes..................................................................................................................2-9
Path Mode Graphics............................................................................................................................2-16
Path ............................................................................................................................................2-16
Drawing Lines.............................................................................................................................2-18
Miter Limit .................................................................................................................................2-21
Drawing Arcs and Curves ..........................................................................................................2-24
Drawing Complex Curves ..........................................................................................................2-26
Closed Paths ...............................................................................................................................2-29
Filled Areas ................................................................................................................................2-30
Clipping Rectangle .....................................................................................................................2-32
Printing with Character Paths ....................................................................................................2-33
Raster Graphics ..................................................................................................................................2-34
Raster Data Compression Formats .............................................................................................2-34
Commands for Printing Raster Data ..........................................................................................2-35
Printing Raster Data....................................................................................................................2-37
Changing the Printing System's Imaging Model .......................................................................2-37
Saving and Restoring the Graphics State ...................................................................................2-39
Macros
Examples of Macros .............................................................................................................................3-3
Fonts
List of Fonts ..................................................................................................................................4-2
KPDL Fonts ..................................................................................................................................4-4
Substituting a Bitmap Font ..........................................................................................................4-6

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