Note
HP-GL/2 as implemented in HP LaserJet printers has no
mechanism for parsing 2-byte characters. Therefore,
HP-GL/2 character transformations (e.g. SI and SR
commands) cannot be applied to these characters.
Vertical Writing
Vertical writing can be accomplished using the vertical
rotated (“-1”) mode of the Character Text Path command
(
?
&c-1T
). When using a vertical rotated text path
direction, full-width characters are rotated and printed “on
their sides.” All other characters are unaffected and the
CAP is still advanced in the horizontal direction. The “-1”
mode has the effect of transforming a portrait page with
horizontal full-width characters into a landscape page with
vertical full-width characters. This can be combined with
the Print Direction command (
?
&a#P
) to achieve the
desired text orientation (e.g. portrait, landscape, reverse
portrait, or reverse landscape).
An example of horizontal and vertical rotated writing is
shown below. The first line of text is horizontal writing and
the second line is vertical rotated writing. Note that the “~”
character is replaced with a vertical substitute on the
second line. The C program that follows was used to
generate the PCL commands for this example.
Printer-Specific Differences 2-53
Summary of Contents for PCL 5
Page 8: ...Contents 4 ...
Page 174: ...5 8 Memory Usage ...
Page 198: ...A 24 Printer Commands ...
Page 201: ...8U Roman 8 R8 7J DeskTop DT Internal Symbol Set Charts B 3 ...
Page 202: ...0N ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 E1 19U Windows 3 1 Latin 1 W1 B 4 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 203: ...12U PC 850 Multilingual PM 10U PC 8 Code Page 437 PC Internal Symbol Set Charts B 5 ...
Page 204: ...12J MC Text MC 10J PS Text TS B 6 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 205: ...11U PC 8 Danish Norwegian PD 13J Ventura International VI Internal Symbol Set Charts B 7 ...
Page 206: ...1U Legal LG 14J Ventura US VU B 8 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 207: ...6J Microsoft Publishing PG 9U Windows 3 0 Latin 1 WO Internal Symbol Set Charts B 9 ...
Page 208: ...17U PC 852 Latin 2 PE 9T PC Turkish PT B 10 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 209: ...9E Windows 3 1 Latin 2 WE 2N ISO 8859 2 Latin 2 E2 Internal Symbol Set Charts B 11 ...
Page 210: ...5N ISO 8859 9 Latin 5 E5 5T Windows 3 1 Latin WT B 12 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 211: ...9J PC 1004 Code Page 1004 PU 26U PC 775 Code Page 775 PV Internal Symbol Set Charts B 13 ...
Page 212: ...19L Windows Baltic WL 6N ISO 8859 10 Latin 6 E6 B 14 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 213: ...6M Ventura Math VM 8M Math 8 M8 Internal Symbol Set Charts B 15 ...
Page 214: ...5M PS Math MS 15U Pi Font PI B 16 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 215: ...19M Symbol Font AS 579L Wingdings Font L Internal Symbol Set Charts B 17 ...
Page 216: ...9L Ventura ITC Zapf Dingbats DV 10L PS ITC Zapf Dingbats DS B 18 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 218: ...13L ITC Zapf Dingbats series 300 D3 B 20 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 221: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion Internal Symbol Set Charts B 23 ...
Page 222: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued B 24 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 223: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued Internal Symbol Set Charts B 25 ...
Page 224: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued B 26 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 225: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued Internal Symbol Set Charts B 27 ...
Page 226: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued B 28 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 227: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued Internal Symbol Set Charts B 29 ...
Page 228: ...B 30 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...