Table 11-14 Stroke Weight Values (continued)

-3

Light

 

 

-2

Demi Light

 

 

-1

Semi Light

0Medium, Book, or Text

1Semi Bold

2Demi Bold

3Bold

4Extra Bold

5Black

6Extra Black

7Ultra Black

Typeface (UB)

This field specifies the HP typeface number of the font. The current version of this field, supported by the &payette; printer, is described first. Then a previous field, supported in earlier printers, is described.

Current Usage

In the LaserJet 4 printer version of this field, an unsigned short integer is assembled from the two unsigned bytes of data. Printers, when seeking to match a typeface request with available font resources, may treat the typeface number as a single value. If an exact match cannot be made, the request may be ignored (for selection purposes, however, the font select table is updated).

The procedure for allocating typeface numbers for the font products of various vendors, however, will consider the typeface number to be composed of two distinct fields: a vendor field (consisting of the four most significant bits) and a typeface family field (consisting of the 12 least significant bits). The following diagram illustrates this scheme:

11-24Soft Font Creation

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HP 5961-0509 manual Typeface UB, Current Usage, Semi Bold Demi Bold, Extra Bold Black Extra Black Ultra Black