Intermate iSeries, i5 Micr Soft Font Font ID, Ocra Soft Fonts, Ocrb Soft Font Font ID, PGR332D

MICR Soft Font (Font ID 3998)

The MICR E-13B font is used for check printing in USA, and exist per definition only in one size.

The font include the decimal digits 0-9 plus four special characters. The fours characters will be printed when the following characters is included in the text:

A=Amount symbol

D=Dash symbol

O=On us symbol

T=Transit symbol

It is therefore predefined in InterForm400® and does not need to be generated.

It can be used immediately by Remap Window, a Tabulator and Text constant commands within the overlay design window by selection of font ID 3998. The font will to the user function as a resident printer font.

InterForm400® will automatically add start and stop codes and check digits.

OCRA Soft Fonts

Two soft fonts, IF_OCRA and IF_OCRAEXT are distributed with InterForm400®.

IF_OCRA is BMP based and IF_OCRAEXT is based on a True Type Font. IF_OCRAEXT contains some extra characters compared to IF_OCRA. Font number 19 is intended to be used with these soft fonts. Remember to specify (automatic) download the soft font in option 3 of the fonts menu.

OCRB Soft Font (Font ID 0003)

OCRB is predefined in InterForm400® with font ID 3, but the soft font is not automatically downloaded to the printer when selected. The font will need to be downloaded to the printer according to the description on page 287 (3. Auto Download Soft Fonts).

Two font members IF_OCRB and IF_OCRB_L represent the OCR-B in portrait and landscape. You will only need to download both fonts if you are using OCR-B in both portrait and landscape, and only for HPII (PCL4) compatible printers. HPIII (PCL5) printers will automatically rotate a soft font.

The selection field when adding the OCRB font to an Auto Font Download definition should for a HPIII or HP4 compatible printer always state font number 3:

Update Auto download Soft Font			PGR332D
Printer group name	. . . :	ALLPCL
Font number . . . . . . :		___3	F4=List
Symbol set number	. . . :	3	0=All symbol sets (barcodes only)
			1=Roman-8 2=PC-8 DM 3=CodePage850
			4=CodePage852 5=Baltic
			6=CodePage858 7=Cyrillic
			8=CylillicEuro
			9=ISO 8859/9 Latin-5 (Turkish)
			A=ISO 8859/7 Latin/Greek
			B=CentralEurope w/Euro
Font member name 0° . . .		IF_OCRB___	F4=List
Font member name 90° . . .		__________	F4=List
F3=Exit	F4=Prompt		F12=Cancel

290User’s Manual for InterForm400®