IBM Fonts
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AXIS 5570e User’s Manual
Section 17
IBM Fonts
Font Selection,
Coax Printer
Emulations
Fonts can be indirectly selected by the IBM system using pitch selection
(CPI). In order to gain full access to the fonts the Axis Network Print
Server offers an alternative font selection command. Please note that
matrix printers only support a few fonts.
Font selection commands may be included anywhere in your documents.
They begin with ‘percent-slash’ (
%/
) followed by the word
FONT
and the
font number (Font Global Identifier, FGID). An optional point size value,
preceded by a comma, may be included. The command is ended by a
semi-colon (
;
).
The following example shows how to select the 10 CPI Courier (fixed
pitch) font.
Resulting printout
:
Font Selection,
Twinax Printer
Emulations
Fonts are selected by a FGID (Font Global Identifier) and mapped to a
printer resident PCL font, selected to make a close match to the original
IBM font. The IBM to PCL font mapping is controlled by the Font
Definition Table. All entries in this table are fully editable, and you can
also add new entries.
Available Fonts
The fixed pitch fonts are not scalable. If a Point Size is specified, it will be
used to compress or expand the character spacing. (
%/FONT 11,105;
will
compress the 10 CPI font to 10.5 CPI without changing the size of the
characters).
%/FONT 11;This is 10 CPI Courier
This is 10 CPI Courier
Refer to
DBCS Support
, on page 197 for details on DBCS font types supported by the Axis
Network Print Server.
FGID
IBM Font Name
Pitch 5 CPI Fonts
244
Courier 5
245
Courier Bold 5
Pitch 8 CPI Fonts
266
Courier Bold 8
