Chapter 7 — Commands
ESim for the PC4 and PF8 Printer Programmer’s Reference Manual 67
p
2
Character rotation using hexadecimal coding:
00 hex =0° and 180°
01 hex = 90° and 270° clockwise
02 hex = All four directions (2 pairs)
p
3
Font height measured in dots and specified using
hexadecimal coding. Range 00-FF hex. Font
height includes ascenders and descenders of
character and need to fit in the character cell of
256 dots = 32.03 mm (1.26 in).
a Map position of character using hexadecimal
coding. Range 00-FF hex.
b Spacing to next print character in dots using
hexadecimal coding.Range 00-FF hex. Must be
greater than or equal to the character width
specified by parameter c.
c Width of character in dots using hexadecimal
coding. Range 00-FF hex.
“data” p3 x c1 = bit map data (in bytes). Data is received
in bytes on a line by line basis. The 0,0 cell map
position is in the top left corner of the map as
viewed in the 0 degree rotation.
Repeat parameters a, b, c, and data for each
character until all characters in the set have been
downloaded.
For fonts with the rotation parameter p
2
set to 02
hex (all directions), repeat the individual font
character download for each 90° rotated character
from the start of the character set until all rotated
characters in the set have been downloaded. The
number of individual character maps downloaded
is double the characters in the font set (p
1
).
ES Command Parameter Descriptions (continued)
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