CHAPTER 2 PCL - 3
4.2.4.
Text area ............................................................................................................................................... 28
4.2.5.
HP-GL/2 graphics window .................................................................................................................... 28
4.2.6.
Portrait page dimensions ...................................................................................................................... 29
4.2.7.
Landscape page dimensions ................................................................................................................ 31
4.2.8.
Coordinates ........................................................................................................................................... 33
4.2.9.
Units ...................................................................................................................................................... 33
4.2.10.
Unit of measure ..................................................................................................................................... 33
4.2.11.
Setting the left and right margins .......................................................................................................... 33
4.2.12.
Resetting the horizontal margins .......................................................................................................... 34
4.2.13.
Setting the top margin ........................................................................................................................... 34
4.2.14.
Setting the vertical motion index (VMI) ................................................................................................. 35
4.2.15.
Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI) ............................................................................................. 35
4.2.16.
Setting line spacing ............................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.17.
Text length ............................................................................................................................................ 36
4.2.18.
Page length ........................................................................................................................................... 37
4.2.19.
Perforation skip ..................................................................................................................................... 37
4.2.20.
Positioning the cursor ........................................................................................................................... 38
4.2.21.
Vertical positioning ................................................................................................................................ 38
4.2.22.
Horizontal position ................................................................................................................................ 39
4.2.23.
Positioning the cursor using control codes ........................................................................................... 40
4.2.24.
Using the cursor position stack ............................................................................................................. 40
4.2.25.
Half line feed ......................................................................................................................................... 41
4.2.26.
Logical page orientation ........................................................................................................................ 41
4.2.27.
Text direction ......................................................................................................................................... 41
5.
USING FONTS ................................................................................................................... 43
5.1.
Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 43
5.1.1.
Font types ............................................................................................................................................. 43
5.1.2.
Bitmap fonts .......................................................................................................................................... 43
5.1.3.
Scalable fonts ........................................................................................................................................ 43
5.1.4.
Bound fonts ........................................................................................................................................... 44
5.1.5.
Unbound fonts ....................................................................................................................................... 45
5.1.6.
Font sources ......................................................................................................................................... 45
5.1.7.
Internal fonts ......................................................................................................................................... 45
5.1.8.
Card/cartridge fonts .............................................................................................................................. 45
5.1.9.
Downloadable fonts .............................................................................................................................. 45
5.1.10.
Primary and secondary fonts ................................................................................................................ 45
5.1.11.
Specifying the primary font ................................................................................................................... 45
5.1.12.
Specifying the secondary font ............................................................................................................... 45
5.1.13.
Selecting the default fonts ..................................................................................................................... 45
5.1.14.
Switching between the primary and secondary fonts ........................................................................... 46
5.1.15.
Criteria for font selection ....................................................................................................................... 47
5.1.16.
Symbol set ............................................................................................................................................ 47
5.1.17.
Symbol collections ................................................................................................................................ 47
5.1.18.
Type of character spacing ..................................................................................................................... 47
5.1.19.
Pitch ...................................................................................................................................................... 47
5.1.20.
Height .................................................................................................................................................... 47
5.1.21.
Style ...................................................................................................................................................... 47
5.1.22.
Stroke weight ........................................................................................................................................ 48
5.1.23.
Typeface ............................................................................................................................................... 48
5.2.
Font Selection Commands ........................................................................................................ 49
5.2.1.
User-defined symbol sets ..................................................................................................................... 49
5.2.2.
Symbol set ID code command .............................................................................................................. 49
