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secondaryfonts?YouwanttoselectadownloadedfontIDasyoursecondary
font.This is thecommandto send:
<ESC>) n X
Font attributes
Thethirdwaytoselecta fontis to simplydescribewhatfontattributesyou
want.(Remember,selectingafontdoesnotmodifyafont.Youcan’tgetbold
or 14-pointcharactersifyoudon’thaveaboldor14-pointfontintheprinter.)
Inlistingtheattributesyouwant,itwillhelpyoutoprioritizethemthesame
wayyourLaserPrinter8does.Yourpnnterranksthevariousattributesafont
can havethis way (frommostto leastimportant):
orientation
symbolset
spacing(proportionalor monospaced)
pitch(charactersper inch)
fontheight(in points)
style(italicor upright)
strokeweight(lighttobold)
typeface
The laser printer just zips down this chain of attributes one by one,
eliminatingfontsthatdon’tmatchwhatyouwant,untilit getsdownto one
uniquefontthatmatchesyourrequest.If theprintermatchesdownto, say,
styleorweightbutcangonofurther,itwillgiveyouitsclosestfonttoyour
request.
And if you don’tspecifya particularvaluefor someattribute,the printer
assumesyouwantthevaluethatattributehadin the lastfontyouspecified
(orthedefaultvalueif you’vejust turnedontheprinter).Thiscansaveyou
someeffort:ifthefontyouwanthasanattributethesameasthecurrentfont,
youdon’thaveto specifythatattributeagain.
Orientation
Portrait orientationprints text across the width of a page. Landscape
orientationprintstext sidewaysup thelengthof a page.
The StarLaserPrinter8 is moreflexibleaboutorientationthan mostother
laser printers;it lets you simplyrotateany portraitfont to the landscape
orientationorviceversa.To startyouoff whenyouchangeorientation,the
printer resets all its marginsand its columnand line definitionsto their
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