CHAPTER 2 PCL - 3
4.2.5.
HP-GL/2 graphics window
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4.2.6.
Portrait page dimensions
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4.2.7.
Landscape page dimensions
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4.2.8.
Coordinates
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4.2.9.
Units
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4.2.10.
Unit of measure
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4.2.11.
Setting the left and right margins
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4.2.12.
Resetting the horizontal margins
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4.2.13.
Setting the top margin
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4.2.14.
Setting the vertical motion index (VMI)
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4.2.15.
Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI)
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4.2.16.
Setting line spacing
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4.2.17.
Text length
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4.2.18.
Page length
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4.2.19.
Perforation skip
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4.2.20.
Positioning the cursor
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4.2.21.
Vertical positioning
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4.2.22.
Horizontal position
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4.2.23.
Positioning the cursor using control codes
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4.2.24.
Using the cursor position stack
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4.2.25.
Half line feed
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4.2.26.
Logical page orientation
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4.2.27.
Text direction
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5.
USING FONTS
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5.1.
Introduction
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5.1.1.
Font types
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5.1.2.
Bitmap fonts
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5.1.3.
Scalable fonts
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5.1.4.
Bound fonts
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5.1.5.
Unbound fonts
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5.1.6.
Font sources
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5.1.7.
Internal fonts
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5.1.8.
Card/cartridge fonts
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5.1.9.
Downloadable fonts
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5.1.10.
Primary and secondary fonts
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5.1.11.
Specifying the primary font
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5.1.12.
Specifying the secondary font
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5.1.13.
Selecting the default fonts
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5.1.14.
Switching between the primary and secondary fonts
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5.1.15.
Criteria for font selection
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5.1.16.
Symbol set
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5.1.17.
Symbol collections
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5.1.18.
Type of character spacing
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5.1.19.
Pitch
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5.1.20.
Height
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5.1.21.
Style
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5.1.22.
Stroke weight
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5.1.23.
Typeface
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5.2.
Font Selection Commands
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5.2.1.
User-defined symbol sets
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5.2.2.
Symbol set ID code command
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5.2.3.
Define symbol set
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5.2.4.
Symbol set control command
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