Microcom LDS II, Programming Manual

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Designing Using LDSII Chapter 1
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orientation may be; left will always be the left edge of the characters when the media exits
the printer.
Kerning is when one character in a proportional font can be slid under another character to
achieve a more appealing result. Kerning is enabled and used by default unless a value for
the FJ parameter is entered. If a value is entered then kerning would have to be selected
by adding “100” to the justification value.
Proportionality refers to whether the characters are all different widths or all the same. A
proportional font has characters that are mostly different widths. A mono-spaced font has
characters that are all the same width, except generally for punctuation.
When selecting the alignment value, text and/or bar codes will be aligned from the XB and
YB insertion point. The justified function, to be aligned, can be specified by using a
combination of the insertion point and the FW (Field Width) parameter so that the text is
spaced to run this entire distance.
The desired alignment value can be determined from the table below:
Composition Horizontal Alignment
Horizontal Vertical Left Center Right Justified
Above
Baseline
Top 11 12 13 14
Vertical
Alignment
Below
Baseline
Bottom 31 32 33 34
Add 100 for kerning and add 200 for mono-spacing to the FJ value to produce effects.
Table 4 Field Justifications
For Example: A typical European language would be left horizontal and normal vertical
alignment, which would be a va
lue of “11” for the “FJ” parameter. If kerning was also
desired, the proper value would then be “111” and for mono spacing it would be “211”.
1.5.10 FW (Field Width)
XB, YB, CI, SW, SH, AI, DN, FO, FJ,
FW
, CS, FC, CC
The field width parameter sets the width of a text field, using the current unit of measure,
along the direction of composition. This is used to limit the physical width of the cell where
the appropriate data is to be placed. If the desired data is longer than the field width setting,
then characters outside the cell width setting will not be printed.
1.5.11 CS (Character Spacing)
XB, YB, CI, SW, SH, AI, DN, FO, FJ, FW,
CS
, FC, CC
This parameter adjusts the spacing between each character or the inter-character spacing.
The change is made relative to a default, where omitting this parameter or entering a “0”
causes the default to be used. The specified spacing value is in units of typesetting points,
where 1 point = 1/72”. Positive point values increase the default spacing while negative