Rockwell Automation 2711-ND3 PanelBuilder v2.60 Software User Manual - Manual (Page 373)

22–3 Multilingual Support
Publication 2711-6.0
Double-Byte Character Set
Double-byte character sets are a specific form of multi-byte
character sets, where some characters consist of two bytes, Chinese,
for example.
Glyph
The actual shape (bit pattern, outline, etc.) of a character image, for
example, an italic ‘a’ and a roman ‘a’ are 2 different glyphs
representing the ‘a’ character.
The FontTool
t utility lets you create font files which are used by:
•
PanelBuilder software to display text whose character glyphs
reside in a font file.
The font file must reside in the \PBWIN\FONT folder. The
default installation creates an \AB\PBWIN\FONT folder.
•
PanelView terminal to display the characters on the screen when
the application is running. The font file must reside on a memory
card inserted into a PanelView terminal.
We recommend that you use the ATA flash cards for double-byte
languages because these languages require more space.
Font Files
FontTool can create font files for any of the installed set of languages
(or code pages) supported by Windows. The code page for many
languages is 1252.
PanelView font files have an .OTF (Operator Terminal Font)
extension and reside in the \PBWIN\FONT folder. A font file
contains a set of characters in one or more sizes of the same style.
The character set (or code page) of the language you want to use
must reside on your computer.
What is FontTool?