HP 5961-0509 manual Pitch UI

Notes

Note

Symbol set escape sequence termination characters can be any upper case ASCII character “A” through “Z.” “Q” is reserved for use with HP “Specials” symbol sets and is not recommended for general use.

Symbol set ID’s of “@” and “X” do not have a corresponding Symbol Set selection command, sets marked as such can be selected only with the Font ID.

This field must have a value of 56 for a type 10 or 11 font (unbound Intellifont scalable) to be valid.

Pitch (UI)

Bitmap Font - Specifies the pitch of the font in quarter dots (four quarter-dot units, also known as radix dots, equal one dot). It combines with Pitch Extended to specify the pitch of the font in 1024th-dots. Pitch defines the default HMI for the font.

For example, a a 17 cpi font designed at 300 dpi has a pitch value of

70 radix dots as calculated:

The remainder 0.588 is converted back to dots and then to

1024th-dots as shown below:

Pitch Extended is set to 150 1024ths-units.

For a proportional font, the width “printed” for a control code Space is determined by the pitch value, unless an HMI command is received following the selection of the font.

Scalable Fonts - Contains the master design space width (escapement) of the font in design units.

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