Intermate iSeries, i5, AS/400 Example of Defining a Resident Printer font, =Propotional spaced

Spacing: Indicates whether the font is mono spaced (fixed pitch) or proportional spaced.

0=monospaced 1=Propotional spaced

Pitch: This field is only of importance if you have chosen fixed spacing. Then enter e.g. 10,00 for 10 CPI. If you have chosen proportional spacing, just enter a value within the valid interval, as the width of the individual letters is relative to the height of the font.

Height: The height of a font is expressed in typographical points. A point is 1/72 of an inch. A font height of 1/3 of an inch therefore has to be specified as 24,00. The height of a font is slightly greater than the distance from the top of a capital letter to the bottom of e.g. the letter "g".

Style: Style has the following meaning:

0=Upright1=Italic

Stroke weight: This describes the thickness of the characters:

0=Medium3=Bold

Typeface: This field has to be filled in with an ID-number of the typeface to be used. There is a lot of possible typefaces (refer to the font list or the technical reference of the printer). Here the scalable typefaces of the HPIII (PCL5) are shown:

05= CG Times Roman

52 = Univers (PCL5)

4148 = Univers (PCL5e)

16602 = Arial

16901 = Times New Roman

For other typefaces refer to page 386.

Symbol Set: The symbolset of the font. Leaving it blank will use the symbolset selected for the interface type (e.g. ASCII850 or ASCIIR8). Entering a symbolset here is normally for selecting special symbol character sets.

Override spacing:

Here you can override the spacing for fixed width fonts. If you e.g. use a 10 CPI courier font and override to 5 then the 10 CPI font is written with a spacing of 5 CPI.

Note that changing the above parameters does not change the appearance of the font unless a font matching the changes can be found in the printer. Print out a font list from the printers front panel to get an overview of available resident PCL fonts.

Example of Defining a Resident Printer font

We want to define a 70 point Univers Bold Italic for use in our overlay definitions. We know this font is available as a resident scalable font in HPIII compatible printers.

First we must print out a Font List from the printer’s front panel. Refer to the User’s Guide of your printer.

Univers Bold Italic is listed on a HPIII Font List with the following PCL Escape Sequence:

<Esc>(s1p__v1s3b4148T

If we break it up, we have the following information:

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