Brother HL-Series Technical Reference Manual page 79

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• Class (UB) . indicates the character format.
• Contour data size (UI) - specifies the contour data size.
• Metric Data offset (SI) - relative to the address of the coutour data size field.
• Contour Tree Offset (SI) -relative to the address of the coutour data size field.
• XY Data Offset (SI) -relative to the address of the contour data size field.
• Metric Data
• Character Intellifont Scalable Data
• Contour Tree Data
• XY Coordinate Data
• Checksum - this value is placed at the end of the character data.
• Compound character escapement (SI)
• Piled character number (UB)
• Piled character list - includes some piled characters. Each of them is 6 bytes.
[ TrueType scalable font ]
<TrueType character descriptor>
2 + Desc.size
4 + Desc. size
6 + Desc. size
2 + Desc.size
4 + Desc. size
6 + Desc. size
Value Class
1 Bitmap
2 Compressed Bitmap
3 Contour (Intellifont scalable)
4 Compound Contour (Intellifont scalable)
15 TrueType Scalable
Byte
0-1 Format (15)
2 - 3 Descriptor size
4 ~ Additional descriptor size
Character Data Size
Glyph ID
TrueType Glyph Data
0-1 Format (15)
2 - 3 Descriptor size
4 ~ Additional descriptor size
Character Data Size
Glyph ID
beginning of TrueType Glyph Data
0-1 Format (15)
TrueType Glyph Data
Last-2 Reserved
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Data
Continuation (0)
Class (15)
Continuation (0)
Class (15)
Continuation (1)
Checksum