Datamax-O'Neil VMP SERIES AN-16 (Single Byte Character Set Font File Format) User Manual
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The letter "A" would need to allow for the increased cell size, and would become:
0000011000000000
->
006h & 000h
0000011000000000
->
006h & 000h
0000111100000000
->
00fh & 000h
0000111100000000
->
00fh & 000h
0001111110000000
->
01fh & 080h
0001100110000000
->
019h & 080h
0011100111000000
->
039h & 0c0h
0011111111000000
->
03fh & 0c0h
0111111111100000
->
07fh & 0e0h
0110000001100000
->
060h & 060h
1110000001110000
->
0e0h & 070h
1100000000110000
->
0c0h & 030h
1100000000110000
->
0c0h & 030h
1100000000110000
->
0c0h & 030h
0000000000000000
->
000h & 000h
0000000000000000
->
000h & 000h
0000000000000000
->
000h & 000h
0000000000000000
->
000h & 000h
0000000000000000
->
000h & 000h
0000000000000000
->
000h & 000h
FONT FILE EXAMPLE – VERSION 1.0 MONOSPACE:
Since the file must be in binary, it is often easiest to create using an assembler. The following example shows the header,
and two of the characters in a form ready to assemble. The object code output, then, can be sent to the printer using the
Oneil WINDOWS configuration program, or a special command.
dl
PT10B_LINK
; Value is reset internally and can be any 4 byte number
db
"1.0"
; font version number (1.0 flags this header and respresentation)
db
047H
; code resulting from mod 256 summation of name of font below
db
"PT10B"
; name of this font
db
'E'
; single letter used as an alternate to refer to this font
db
00d
; use 00 for straight text
dw
14d
; (ABSOLUTE = 12) number of dots wide for this font
dw
20d
; number of dots high for this font
db
02d
; number of bytes in each dot row of each character
dw
40d
; number of bytes in each character represented in this font
db
'A'
; The letter "A" is first ASCII character represented
db
'B'
; The letter "B" is last ASCII character represented
db 00d
;
reserved
db
'1'
; USER font version number
db
"04/30/96"
; USER font creation date
db
"2 CHARS EXAMPLE FONT"
; USER 20 character description