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Font attributes for specialists

Font attributes for specialists

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You can set up data tags so that font size, weight, style and typeface are matched; specialists will recognize these as PCL-style font attributes. See Setting search tag options.

By rights, PCL documents should select fonts by number; many documents, however, specify their fonts by name. RedTitan products (e.g. DDF, DSC) manage 'named' fonts using the alphanumeric ID command Escape &n#WFontstring, where string is the name and # is the byte count of Fontstring. For example

Esc &n9WFontArial

This is particularly useful when a document uses library fonts only, see PCL export options. Using this mechanism, EscapeE can uniquely identify matching fonts in its library, independent of the printer (printers ignore the command).

Size

Match points:  for proportional fonts; enter the size in 'points' (1/72 inch)

Match cpi:  for fixed-pitch fonts; enter the size in 'characters per inch'

Weight

 0 = normal
 3 = bold
 7 = black
-3 = light

Style

0 = normal
1 = italic
2 = oblique (i.e. just slanted, not true 'italic').

Typeface

0 is Lineprinter
4099 and 3 are Courier
24580 and 4 are Helvetica
4101 and 5 are Times
4148 and 52 are Univers

Click to expand/collapse hidden textCommonly used fonts

Weight

Style

Typeface

Name

0

4

4362

Albertus ExtraBold

0

0

4362

Albertus Medium

0

0

4168

Antique Olive

0

3

4168

Antique Olive Bold

1

0

4168

Antique Olive Italic

0

0

16602

Arial

0

3

16602

Arial Bold

1

3

16602

Arial Bold Italic

1

0

16602

Arial Italic

0

0

4113

CG Omega

0

3

4113

CG Omega Bold

1

3

4113

CG Omega Bold Italic

1

0

4113

CG Omega Italic

0

3

4101

CG Times Bold

1

3

4101

CG Times Bold Italic

1

0

4101

CG Times Italic

0

0

4101

CG Times Roman

4

0

4140

Clarendon Condensed

1

0

4116

Coronet

0

3

4099

Courier Bold

1

3

4099

Courier Bold Italic

1

0

4099

Courier Italic

0

0

4099

Courier Medium

0

0

4197

Garamond Antiqua

0

3

4197

Garamond Antiqua Bold

1

3

4197

Garamond Antiqua Bold Italic

1

0

4197

Garamond Antiqua Italic

0

0

48

HP-GL Stick font

0

0

4102

Letter Gothic

0

3

4102

Letter Gothic Bold

1

0

4102

Letter Gothic Italic

0

0

4297

Marigold

0

3

16901

Times New Bold

1

3

16901

Times New Bold Italic

1

0

16901

Times New Italic

0

0

16901

Times New Roman

0

0

4148

Univers

0

3

4148

Univers Bold

1

3

4148

Univers Bold Italic

4

0

4148

Univers Condensed

4

3

4148

Univers Condensed Bold

5

3

4148

Univers Condensed Bold Italic

5

0

4148

Univers Condensed Italic

1

0

4148

Univers Italic

0

0

31402

Wingdings