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CHAPTER 2 "PCL" - 3
4.2.8.
Coordinates...........................................................................................................................................28
4.2.9. Units......................................................................................................................................................28
4.2.10. Unit of measure ................................................................................................................................28
4.2.11. Setting the left and right margins......................................................................................................28
4.2.12. Resetting the horizontal margins......................................................................................................29
4.2.13. Setting the top margin.......................................................................................................................29
4.2.14. Setting the vertical motion index (VMI).............................................................................................30
4.2.15. Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI) ........................................................................................30
4.2.16. Setting line spacing...........................................................................................................................31
4.2.17. Text length........................................................................................................................................31
4.2.18. Page length.......................................................................................................................................32
4.2.19. Perforation skip.................................................................................................................................32
4.2.20. Positioning the cursor.......................................................................................................................33
4.2.21. Vertical positioning............................................................................................................................33
4.2.22. Horizontal position ............................................................................................................................34
4.2.23. Positioning the cursor using control codes.......................................................................................35
4.2.24. Using the cursor position stack.........................................................................................................35
4.2.25. Half line feed.....................................................................................................................................36
4.2.26. Logical page orientation ...................................................................................................................36
4.2.27. Text direction ....................................................................................................................................36
5. USING FONTS ...................................................................................................................38
5.1. Introduction...............................................................................................................................38
5.1.1. Font types .............................................................................................................................................38
5.1.2. Bitmap fonts ..........................................................................................................................................38
5.1.3. Scalable fonts........................................................................................................................................38
5.1.4. Bound fonts...........................................................................................................................................39
5.1.5. Unbound fonts.......................................................................................................................................39
5.1.6. Font sources .........................................................................................................................................39
5.1.7. Internal fonts .........................................................................................................................................39
5.1.8. Card/cartridge fonts ..............................................................................................................................41
5.1.9. Downloadable fonts ..............................................................................................................................41
5.1.10. Primary and secondary fonts............................................................................................................41
5.1.11. Specifying the primary font...............................................................................................................41
5.1.12. Specifying the secondary font ..........................................................................................................41
5.1.13. Selecting the default fonts ................................................................................................................41
5.1.14. Switching between the primary and secondary fonts.......................................................................41
5.1.15. Criteria for font selection...................................................................................................................42
5.1.16. Symbol set........................................................................................................................................42
5.1.17. Symbol collections............................................................................................................................42
5.1.18. Type of character spacing ................................................................................................................42
5.1.19. Pitch..................................................................................................................................................42
5.1.20. Height................................................................................................................................................42
5.1.21. Style..................................................................................................................................................42
5.1.22. Stroke weight....................................................................................................................................43
5.1.23. Typeface...........................................................................................................................................43
5.2. Font Selection Commands........................................................................................................44
5.2.1. User-defined symbol sets .....................................................................................................................44
5.2.2. Symbol set ID code command..............................................................................................................44
5.2.3. Define symbol set..................................................................................................................................44
5.2.4. Symbol set control command................................................................................................................46
5.2.5. Selecting the symbol set.......................................................................................................................46
5.2.6. Selecting the type of character spacing................................................................................................48
5.2.7. Selecting the pitch.................................................................................................................................48