Fonts B-7
Proportional Font Magnification
Each character in a proportionally spaced font is a different height and width. You may be able
to place more characters on a line using proportionally spaced fonts. You may want to
experiment with these fonts and adjust field measurements in your format as needed. The
bitmapped fonts (either monospaced or proportional) appear jagged when magnified. The
magnification range is 1 to 7.
Scalable Font Information
The scalable font is smooth at any point size. There are no jagged edges because the font is
created from an equation every time it is used. The field width varies with each letter.
When you define formats using scalable fonts, remember to set the character rotation to 0,
because it is not supported. However, field rotation is supported for text or constant text fields
using the scalable font. The scalable font does not print a slashed zero.
Scalable fonts perform better in constant text fields, because those fields are imaged only once
per batch, not once per label as in text fields. The transparent overlay allows closer field
placement when using scalable fonts.
The height and width magnification are defined in point size. 72 points = one inch.
One inch = cell size. The cell size is the built-in space around the individual characters of the
scalable font. The point size range is 4 to 255. If the height and width are not set to the same
point size, the printed characters look tall and thin or short and thick, which allows for greater
flexibility in the appearance of the font.
The 72 point EFF Swiss Bold sample shows the one inch cell size.
6pt Sample
10pt Sample
24pt Sample
48pt Sample
72pt Sample
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