Font Header Examples

Two examples for downloading a Font Header are provided below; one for a bitmap font and one for an Intellifont scalable font.

Bitmap Example

To download a bitmap font header for a portrait HP Roman-8, 10 pitch, 12 point, upright, medium, Courier font, with an ID number of one, send:

EC*c1D (set Font ID to 1)

EC)s#W (# = 64 bytes of font descriptor data + x bytes of optional data)

An example of the bitmap header is shown on the following page.

Table 11-32

FIELD NAME

VALUE

DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

Font Descriptor Size

64

Bytes

 

 

 

Header Format

0

Bitmap Font Format

 

 

 

Font Type

1

Eight Bit

 

 

 

Style MSB

0

 

 

 

 

Reserved

0

 

 

 

 

Baseline Position

40

 

 

 

 

Cell Width

30

 

 

 

 

Cell Height

53

 

 

 

 

Orientation

0

Portrait

 

 

 

Spacing

0

Fixed Pitch

 

 

 

Symbol Set

277

8U: Roman-8

 

 

 

Pitch

120

Quarter Dots (30.00 Dots)

 

 

 

Height

200

Quarter Dots (50.00 Dots)

 

 

 

x Height

88

Quarter Dots (22.00 Dots)

 

 

 

Appearance Width

0

Normal

 

 

 

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HP 5961-0509 manual Font Header Examples, Bitmap Example