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Chapter 3 - Working with Fonts and Graphics For more information on using PrintSet to download fonts, see the PrintSet online documentation. Using IPL Commands to Download Fonts Although the easiest way to download fonts is with PrintSet, you can also use the IPL command set to create and download user-defined bitmap and outline fonts to your Intermec printer. Downloading Bitmap Fonts To learn more about bitmap font formats, see "Creating User-Defined Font Characters for Advanced Mode" on page 53. Downloading Outline Fonts If you need to download an outline font but you cannot use PrintSet, you can: • create a program to convert the outline font to a format you can download to the printer. • manually convert the outline font to a format you can download to the printer. When you convert an outline font to a format you can download to the printer, you must change the font character data into nybblized data that the printer can interpret. When you nybblize data, you divide each byte of data into two bytes. For example: byte 0xAB becomes two bytes: 0x41, 0x42 or text string "AB" To manually download an outline font to your printer 1 Nybblize the font data. Divide the nybblized data into separate lines preceded by the j command (for more information, see the Outline Font, Download command in the IPL Command Reference Manual). Remember to wrap the entire line in and ;. You need short lines for limited message length protocols and to make modifying easier by using an editor or word processing program. 2 Include IPL commands to instruct the printer what to do with the font data. For help, see the following example. 3 Send the commands to the printer using one of the methods described in Chapter 1. This is an example of a nybblized outline font file that includes IPL commands to send it directly to a printer. Nybblized Outline Font File Example Command RCP J03,Times,1; j0001000000110100000400604c545348efe24cd00000; Definition Enter Program mode. Create TrueType font 3 and give it the name Times. TrueType data string. 40 Intermec Printer Language (IPL) Developer's Guide

Section	Page
Contents	5
Before You Begin	9
Safety Information	9
Global Services and Support	9
Warranty Information	9
Web Support	9
Telephone Support	10
Service Location Support	10
Who Should Read This Manual	10
Related Documents	10
Chapter 1 - Introduction to IPL Commands	11
What Is IPL?	12
Which Printers Support IPL?	12
About IPL Commands	12
Printing Labels with IPL Commands	13
Learning the Structure of IPL Command Strings	13
Using ASCII Control Characters	14
Creating Command Strings	15
Sending IPL Commands to the Printer	15
Switching Between Printer Operating Modes	16
Chapter 2 - Designing Bar Code Labels	19
Introduction to Label Formats	20
About Field Types	20
Human-Readable Fields	21
Bar Code Fields	21
Line and Box Fields	22
User-Defined Character or Graphic Fields	22
Working With Fields	22
Editing Field Zero (H0)	22
Numbering Fields in a Format	23
About Interpretive Fields and Field Locations	23
Editing Existing Fields	24
Deleting Fields	25
Positioning Fields	25
Rotating Fields	26
Scaling Fields	27
Magnifying Fonts and Character Fields	27
Magnifying Bar Code Fields	28
Specifying Data for Fields	28
Example of Constant Data	29
Example of Changing Data	29
Example Using the “Next Data Entry Field, Select” Command	30
Working With RFID Tags	31
How to Write Data to an RFID Tag	31
How Data is Stored on an RFID Tag	32
Writing Hex or ASCII Formats	32
Writing Numerical Formats	32
Creating a Sample Label Format	32
Positioning Fields in a Label Format	33
Creating Command Strings for the Label Format	34
Printing the Sample Label	38
Complex Label Design Examples	38
Example with Lines and Boxes	38
Example with Graphics and Rotated Fields	40
RFID Tag Example	43
Chapter 3 - Working with Fonts and Graphics	47
Learning About Fonts	48
About Bitmap Fonts	48
About Outline Fonts	48
Choosing a Font	49
Downloading Fonts to the Printer	49
Using PrintSet to Download Fonts	49
Using IPL Commands to Download Fonts	50
Downloading Bitmap Fonts	50
Downloading Outline Fonts	50
Using TrueType Fonts	51
Selecting the Printer Language	51
TrueType Fonts and Memory Usage	51
Installing Asian Fonts	52
Installing Code Page Tables for Asian Scalable Fonts	52
Installing Asian Bitmap Fonts	53
Licensing Your Fonts	53
Creating Bitmap Fonts From TrueType Fonts	54
Creating User-Defined Characters and Fonts	54
Creating User-Defined Characters for Emulation Mode	55
Creating User-Defined Fonts for Emulation Mode	57
Creating User-Defined Characters for Advanced Mode	58
Creating User-Defined Font Characters for Advanced Mode	63
Chapter 4 - Advanced Printer Programming	67
Using the Printer Memory Efficiently	68
How Is the Printer Storage Memory Used?	68
Making the Most of Your Storage Memory	68
Reimaging Modified Fields	68
Using Emulation Mode	69
Using Legacy Mode	73
Using Direct Graphics Mode	74
What Is Run-Length Encoding?	74
Immediate Commands	75
Compression Encoding Commands	75
Low Order Data	75
High Order Data	75
Bitmap Data	75
Example of Direct Graphics Commands	76
Designing Pages	78
Chapter 5 - Troubleshooting	79
Troubleshooting Checklist	80
How the Printer Handles Error Conditions	80
Syntax Errors	80
Parameter Errors	80
Image Overrun Errors	80
Invalid Numeric Character Errors	81
Insufficient Storage Memory Errors	81
Interpreting Error Codes and Solving Problems	81
Printing Labels with 86XX-Compatible Code 39	83
Appendix A - Full ASCII Tables and International Character Sets	85
Full ASCII Table	86
Full ASCII Control Characters Table	88
International Character Sets	89
Advanced Character Table	89
86XX Character Table	89
IBM Translation Character Table	90
Code Page 850 Character Table	90
Extended Character Sets	92
Characters in Fonts c0, c1, c2, and c7	92
Characters in Fonts c20, c21, and c22	93
Characters in Font c23	94
Characters in Font c24	95
Characters in Fonts c25, c26 and c28	96
Appendix B - User-Defined Interface Tables	97
Print Commands (t = 0)	98
Escape Print Commands (t = 1)	99
Shift Print Commands (t = 2)	100
Status Responses and Auto-Transmit Commands (t = 3)	101
Protocol Commands (t = 4)	102
Communications Protocol Characters	103
Index	105
Symbols	106
Numerics	106
A	106
B	106
C	106
D	106
E	106
F	107
G	107
H	107
I	107
J	108
K	108
L	108
M	108
N	108
O	108
P	108
R	109
S	109
T	109
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Chapter 3 — Working with Fonts and Graphics

Intermec Printer Language (IPL) Developer’s Guide

For more information on using PrintSet to download fonts, see the PrintSet online

documentation.

Using IPL Commands to Download Fonts

Although the easiest way to download fonts is with PrintSet, you can also use the

IPL command set to create and download user-defined bitmap and outline fonts to

your Intermec printer.

Downloading Bitmap Fonts

To learn more about bitmap font formats, see

“Creating User-Defined Font

Characters for Advanced Mode” on page 53.

Downloading Outline Fonts

If you need to download an outline font but you cannot use PrintSet, you can:

•

create a program to convert the outline font to a format you can download to the

printer.

•

manually convert the outline font to a format you can download to the printer.

When you convert an outline font to a format you can download to the printer, you

must change the font character data into nybblized data that the printer can

interpret. When you nybblize data, you divide each byte of data into two bytes.

For example:

byte 0xAB becomes two bytes: 0x41, 0x42 or text string “AB”

To manually download an outline font to your printer

Nybblize the font data.

Divide the nybblized data into separate lines preceded by the j command (for

more information, see the

Outline Font, Download

command in the

IPL

Command Reference Manual

). Remember to wrap the entire line in <STX> and

;<ETX>. You need short lines for limited message length protocols and to make

modifying easier by using an editor or word processing program.

Include IPL commands to instruct the printer what to do with the font data. For

help, see the following example.

Send the commands to the printer using one of the methods described in

Chapter 1.

This is an example of a nybblized outline font file that includes IPL commands to

send it directly to a printer.

Nybblized Outline Font File Example

Command

Definition

Enter Program mode.

<STX>J03,Times,1;<ETX>

Create TrueType font 3 and give it

the name Times.

TrueType data string.