HP 5961-0509 manual Symbol Collections, Various collections, Complement number

Symbol Collections

The symbols in an unbound font (typeface) can be divided into symbol collections. These symbol collections identify the symbols according to some language basis or special application usage. Some symbol collections include: Basic Latin, East European, Turkish, Math, Semi-Graphic, and Dingbats. If a symbol collection is included in an unbound font, all of the symbols of that collection are included.

Note	See Appendix D in the PCL 5 Comparison Guide to identify symbols
	in the various collections.

The symbols within a symbol collection do not change from one unbound font to the next. For example, the Basic Latin collection always contains the same symbols. Different fonts may contain different symbol collections. For example, the internal Univers typeface contains the Latin, Math, and Semi-Graphic collections (these collections contain all the symbols required for the 35 symbol sets that Univers supports). The ITC Zapf Dingbats typeface, on the other hand, contains only the Dingbats collection, which includes all the symbols required for the five supported symbol sets.

When searching unbound scalable fonts (during font selection) for those that match the requested symbol set, the printer actually searches for symbol collections. To identify symbol collections which meet the needs of the requested symbol set, the printer uses two numbers: the Character Requirements number and the Character

Complement number.

EN Unbound Scalable Fonts 9-9