Xerox DocuPrint 180 manual Fonts, Character spacing

BASIC CONCEPTS

Fonts

A font is a character set which has a unique typestyle, type size, and orientation. Both fixed and proportionally spaced fonts are available for use on an LPS. Each font character occupies an area called a character cell. All character cells in a fixed font are the same width, while character cells in a proportional font vary in width, as shown in figure 2-4.

Figure 2-4.Character spacing

Because the length of a line printed with a proportional font is relatively unpredictable, fixed fonts are used for variable data on a report to avoid overprinting of forms by variable data.

Proportional fonts are normally used for forms data, such as, titles, headings, and so on. A business letter is an example of the use of proportional fonts for variable data. The difference in line length is illustrated in figure 2-5.

Figure 2-5.Character spacing examples

Fonts are available in various typefaces (such as, OCR and Titan), sizes, styles (such as, serif and sans serif), and weights (such as, medium and bold). The LPS Standard Font Library Font User Guide lists the standard fixed and proportional fonts.

In addition to typeface, style, and size, a font can be defined by its orientation:

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Landscape

Portrait

Inverse landscape

Inverse portrait.

Refer to the Xerox 4850 HighLight Color and 4135 Laser Printing Systems Font User Guide for specific font information, the Xerox LPS Forms Creation Guide for using fonts in a form, and the Xerox DocuPrint 180 LPS Operations Reference for information on Font Editor keyword commands (used to create source font files from existing licensed and non-licensed font files).

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