updated March 18, 2002

Appendix E. Proportional Fonts

This section describes the procedure for converting and downloading proportional fonts. It also gives recommendations that will simplify implementing proportional fonts on a receipt.

Preparing the Fonts

Downloading proportional fonts to the SureMark is a 2-step process:

1.Convert a TrueType font to the SureMark proportional font format. Use the IBM Font Converter program, fontconvert.exe, to convert the fonts.

2.Download the converted font file to the printer.

Implementing Proportional Fonts

The variable width of proportional fonts can make it difficult to layout a receipt using traditional methods. You can simplify the process of laying out the format of a receipt by using the alignment and tab features of the SureMark printer.

The following topics show how to use the alignment and tab features with proportional fonts. Command descriptions are given in RS-232 command format. For the command syntax when you use a printer driver, please consult the driver documentation.

A single proportional character set requires two user-defined code pages. Therefore, the printer allows the following combination of user-defined and proportional character sets to be stored in the printer.

Number of Proportional Character Sets

Number of User-Defined Character Sets

 

 

0

4

 

 

1

2

 

 

2

0

 

 

Selecting code page 2 when a proportional character set is defined for code page 1 (or selecting code page 4 when proportional characters are defined in code page 3) will result in unreadable characters being printed. See the Select Print Mode command (“Set Print Mode” on page 125) for more information on selecting code pages.

A proportional character set is enabled using the Select User-Defined Characters command. See “Select User-Defined or Resident Character Sets” on page 129.

Layout Using Align Commands

A common requirement for receipt layout includes aligning item prices. This is commonly accomplished using fixed field lengths for item descriptions or counting characters. Using proportional fonts makes this method of alignment practically impossible.

The simplest method to align prices is to use the Align Column Right command (see “Align Positions” on page 134) with the Fix Font Matrix command (see “Fix Font Matrix” on page 141).

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IBM TI5 Appendix E. Proportional Fonts, Preparing the Fonts, Implementing Proportional Fonts, Layout Using Align Commands

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