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5.4.
Creating Downloadable Fonts
5.4.1.
Downloading
You can download existing fonts (that is, ones that you have bought or ones that you have created previously)
using either a font downloading application program or the DOS command
COPY/b <filename> PRN
In addition, some word-processing and DeskTop publishing programs will automatically download the fonts
that have been used in a document when that document is printed.
Alternatively, you can create a new downloadable font and download the necessary blocks of data that comprise
the downloadable font using PCL commands.
To send a font, you must send
* a font descriptor block followed by the character code
* a character descriptor
* data for each character
The printer can download 3 types of fonts.
Bitmap fonts, Bound Scalable fonts and Unbound Scalable fonts.
5.4.2.
Sending the font descriptor
Esc)s#W
(font descriptor data) (27)(40)(115)#(58)
<1Bh><28h><73h>#<88h>
This command sends the font descriptor to the printer.
# should be in the range 0 to 32767.
# is the number of bytes in the descriptor.
Characters are designed on a notional grid known as the character cell. The positioning and shape of each
character on the grid defines its size, shape and alignment to the other characters in the font.
Cell height
x-height
Baseline distance
Underline distance
Baseline
Underline thickness
Cell width
Summary of Contents for HL-4140CN
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Page 334: ...CHAPTER 8 BAR CODE CONTROL 1 CHAPTER 8 BAR CODE CONTROL ...
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