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TrueType Font Information
The TrueType font (EFF Swiss Bold) is smooth at any point size or
magnification. There are no jagged edges as in the standard
printer bitmapped fonts. EFF Swiss Bold is a proportionally
spaced font. Therefore, the field height and width varies with
each letter.
When you define formats using the TrueType font, 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 TrueType font.
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 minimum point size is 4 and the maximum point size is
250. If height and width magnification 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.
To use large point sizes (greater than 60), you must reconfigure
memory and increase the size of the scalable (vector) fonts buffer.
The Monarch® MPCL
Toolbox (
Font Utility)
is available on our
Web site and converts TrueType fonts to Hex or Run-Length
encoding for the printer. Previously, the printers could accept a
TrueType bitmap font that was converted to a bitmapped file using
the
Font Utility
. However, you were limited to a particular
character set and specific point size.
When downloading a TrueType font, you download the entire font.
You cannot specify a subset (particular characters or point size)
of the font. This allows you to print a variety of Code Pages with
International (Turkish, Latin, Spanish, etc.) characters. TrueType
fonts are designed to be regionally specific; therefore, all code
pages may not be supported in a given font.
These font files are large and may image slower than bitmap
fonts. The size of the font file, in bytes, is the minimum amount
of memory you must have available for fonts in the printer’s
downloadable fonts buffer.
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