Value ; Vendor - Page 80

2001/10/02

CHAPTER 2 "PCL" - 60 

Value 

Vendor 

0 

Reserved 

1 

Agfa Division, Miles Inc. 

2 

Bitstream Inc. 

3 

Linotype Company 

4 

The Monotype Corporation plc  

5 

Adobe Systems Inc. 

The Typeface family number can be 0 to 4095.  This value is calculated as follows; 

(TrueType base value) + (Vendor value x 4096) = Typeface Family 

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Serif style (UB) -  

Bitmap font - ignored by these printers. 
 Scalable font - values for the lower 6 bits are ignored and values for the upper 2 bits indicates the serif style.  
Bit 6 indicates sans serif and bit 7 indicates serif.  

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Quality (UB) - ignored by these HL Series printers. This byte specifies the fonts quality according to the 

following table. 

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Placement (SB) - ignored by these HL Series printers. This byte specifies the placement of characters relative 

to the baseline accordin g to the following table.   

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Underline distance (SB) -  

 Bitmap fonts - the distance in dots from the baseline to the underline.  A positive value places the underline 
above the baseline,  a negative value places it below the baseline.  A value of 0 places it on the baseline. 
Scalable fonts  - ignored by these printers.  This value should be set to 0. 

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Underline height (UB) - the height of underline itself. 

Bitmap fonts - this value is fixed at 3 dots. 
Scalable fonts - ignored by these printers.  This value s hould be set to 0. 

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Text height (UI) - ignored by these HL Series printers.  

 This word specifies the spacing between successive lines of text in 1/4 dots for bitmap fonts and in design 
units for scalable fonts.  This is normally about 1.2 times the fonts height. 

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Text width (UI) - ignored by these HL Series printers.  

 This word specifies the average width of the fonts lowercase characters in 1/4 dots for bitmap fonts and in 
design units for scalable fonts. 

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First code (UI) - ignored by these printers.  This word specifies the character code of the first (lowest 

numbered) printable character in the font. 

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Last code (UI) - specifies the character code of the last (highest numbered) character in the font.  If this value 

is less than 255,  it is recognized as 00FFH. 

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Pitch extended (UB) - the fractional part of the character pitch. For a 17 cpi font the bytes value would be 

calculated as follows:  
  

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1200/17  = 70.588  The Pitch byte takes the value 70. 

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Pitch Extended = 0.588 X  256 = 150 (rounded down).   

( According to HP's manual,  this should be set to 0.)  This printer ignores the value for scalable fonts. 

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Height extended (UB) - the fractional part of the height of the font. For a 10 point font the bytes value would 

be calculated as follows: 

1200 X 10/72 = 166.667, the Height byte takes the value 166 

Height Extended = 0.667 X 256 = 170 (rounded down).    

Point size = (character height x 256 + extended character height) x 300 / (72 x 1024)   

( According to HP's manual,  this should be set to 0.) These printers ignore the value for scalable fonts. 

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Cap height data (UI) - ignored by these HL Series printers. This word specifies for the font the distance 

between the baseline and the top of an unaccented capital letter (for example, ‘H’), as a percentage of the 
font’s em rule, ‘—’.