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CHAPTER 3.HANDLING FONTS WITH ESCAPEE
OverviewofhandlingfontswithEscapeE
Whenafontisnotdownloadedaspartofthefile,
EscapeE
willattempttomatch
therequestedfontstothoseinitsresidentlibrary.
EscapeE
isdeliveredwithaset
offontdefinitionswhichmakeuseofstandardWindowsfontssuchasArial,Times
NewRomanandCourierNew.TheseareinafilecalledWINFONTS.FIFbutifyou
savefontstotheresidentfontlibraryafileiscreatedwhichisspecifictoyour
system(calledRESIDENT.FIF).Ifthereisnoexactmatchwithanyofthelibrary
fontsthenthenearestoneischosen,whichmayresultinsomevariationinthe
appearanceofthetext.
Thedemonstrationversionof
EscapeE
issuppliedwithaminimalsetoffontsand
alsousesthestandardWindowsfontsArial,TimesNewRoman,CourierNew,
CenturyGothic,SymbolandWingdings.Ifyoufindthattheappearanceofthe
fixedpitchfontsisnotacceptablethenyoucanobtainafixedpitchfontpackfrom
RedTitan.ThestandardWindows(19U)symbolsetisprovided,togetherwiththe
PCsymbolsetforthestandardfixedpitchfonts(10U).
EscapeE
cancreatemost
othersymbolsetsfromthe19Usetbyremapping.
Formatchingthebuilt-infontsonprinterssuchastheHP4andlatermodels
thereisaTrueTypefontpackavailableforpurchaseandcustomisedfontscanbe
suppliedtoorderfromRedTitan.
Amessageonthetoolbarwillalertyoutoanyproblemswithfontmismatching.
Youcanseethetextthatusesanyfontsthatwerenotcompletelymatched
againstavailabledownloadedorlibraryfontsbytickingthe'Showsubstitutedfonts
inred'option.(Ifthetextofasubstitutefontisactuallyred,thisoptiondefaultsto
blueinstead.)Youcanviewdetailsofthefont,andwhetheritisasubstitute,by
right-clicking the e text.
Ifyouhaveproblemsreadingafileafterexport,itmaybebecausethedownload
fontswerecreatedinadifferentsymbolsetwhenthePCLfilewasgenerated.For
example,someHP3printerdriversshiftthecharacterswhencreatingthe
downloadfonts,andanIBMmainframecouldcreateEBCDICfonts.Youcantry
readingthefileinto
EscapeE
againandselectingadifferentsymbolsetfromthe
'Symbolsetconversion'list.
Userscanresetthefontandimagelibrarysearchpaths.