Specifications

CHAPTER 2 PCL - 3
4.2.5.
HP-GL/2 graphics window .................................................................................................................... 31
4.2.6. Portrait page dimensions ...................................................................................................................... 32
4.2.7. Landscape page dimensions ................................................................................................................ 34
4.2.8. Coordinates ........................................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.9. Units ...................................................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.10. Unit of measure ..................................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.11. Setting the left and right margins .......................................................................................................... 36
4.2.12. Resetting the horizontal margins .......................................................................................................... 37
4.2.13. Setting the top margin ........................................................................................................................... 37
4.2.14. Setting the vertical motion index (VMI) ................................................................................................. 38
4.2.15. Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI) ............................................................................................. 38
4.2.16. Setting line spacing ............................................................................................................................... 39
4.2.17. Text length ............................................................................................................................................ 39
4.2.18. Page length ........................................................................................................................................... 40
4.2.19. Perforation skip ..................................................................................................................................... 40
4.2.20. Positioning the cursor ........................................................................................................................... 41
4.2.21. Vertical positioning ................................................................................................................................ 41
4.2.22. Horizontal position ................................................................................................................................ 42
4.2.23. Positioning the cursor using control codes ........................................................................................... 43
4.2.24. Using the cursor position stack ............................................................................................................. 43
4.2.25. Half line feed ......................................................................................................................................... 44
4.2.26. Logical page orientation ........................................................................................................................ 44
4.2.27. Text direction ......................................................................................................................................... 44
5. USING FONTS ................................................................................................................... 46
5.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 46
5.1.1. Font types ............................................................................................................................................. 46
5.1.2. Bitmap fonts .......................................................................................................................................... 46
5.1.3. Scalable fonts ........................................................................................................................................ 46
5.1.4. Bound fonts ........................................................................................................................................... 48
5.1.5. Unbound fonts ....................................................................................................................................... 48
5.1.6. Font sources ......................................................................................................................................... 48
5.1.7. Internal fonts ......................................................................................................................................... 48
5.1.8. Card/cartridge fonts .............................................................................................................................. 48
5.1.9. Downloadable fonts .............................................................................................................................. 48
5.1.10. Primary and secondary fonts ................................................................................................................ 48
5.1.11. Specifying the primary font ................................................................................................................... 48
5.1.12. Specifying the secondary font ............................................................................................................... 48
5.1.13. Selecting the default fonts ..................................................................................................................... 49
5.1.14. Switching between the primary and secondary fonts ........................................................................... 49
5.1.15. Criteria for font selection ....................................................................................................................... 50
5.1.16. Symbol set ............................................................................................................................................ 50
5.1.17. Symbol collections ................................................................................................................................ 50
5.1.18. Type of character spacing ..................................................................................................................... 50
5.1.19. Pitch ...................................................................................................................................................... 50
5.1.20. Height .................................................................................................................................................... 50
5.1.21. Style ...................................................................................................................................................... 50
5.1.22. Stroke weight ........................................................................................................................................ 51
5.1.23. Typeface ............................................................................................................................................... 51
5.2. Font Selection Commands ........................................................................................................ 52
5.2.1. User-defined symbol sets ..................................................................................................................... 52
5.2.2. Symbol set ID code command .............................................................................................................. 52
5.2.3. Define symbol set ................................................................................................................................. 52
5.2.4. Symbol set control command ................................................................................................................ 54