Updated DOC

Commands

Updated DOC Commands

This section provides updated information on HP PCL 4 and PCL 5 DOC commands. This information will be merged into the appropriate manuals as they are revised. But until then, it supersedes the following:

nQMS Crown Document Option Commands manual (part number

1800216-001E)—PCL 4 emulation %%IncludeFeature: resource command

nHP PCL 5 Emulation Technical Reference Manual (part number 1800304-001A)—All PCL 5 emulation commands

PCL 5 Emulation Terminology

Font

A font is a unique set of objects that has an ID and attributes (symbol set, spacing, pitch, height, style, weight, and typeface number). A font is accessed by specifying a desired set of attributes. The system selects the font that most closely matches these attributes from the available set of fonts. See the PCL 5 Emulation Technical Reference Manual for information on what characterizes a PCL font.

There are two types of fonts—bound and unbound. A bound font supports a single symbol set. An unbound font supports multiple, but not all, symbol sets. With unbound fonts, the symbol sets are organized into two groups—normal and Dingbats. All downloaded fonts are bound, and all resident fonts (except Zapf-Dingbats which supports the Dingbats symbol set) support the group of normal symbol sets.

In the QMS PCL 5 emulation, only fonts located in the current resource may be accessed by a PCL font ID using the normal <ESC>(#X sequence. All other fonts (resident, cartridge, or other), including those stored on the additional resources, can be accessed only by attributes.

Also, only objects stored in the current resource may be deleted directly by the PCL language. Therefore, unless they are explicitly removed, external fonts are always available to all PCL jobs.

Document Option Commands

C-5