Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!howard
From: howard@wasatch.UUCP (Walt Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Font symbol set ID question
Keywords: font-id printer
Message-ID: <1155@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 89 05:07:08 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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I am fiddling with some programs that want printer driver tables.
HP's laserjet support telephone folks could tell me about proportional
font character sizes, but could not tell me if there is a rule for figuring
out whether a particular character set is 7-bit or 8-bit, based on the
two-character ID assigned to the set.  Now Roman8 (ID = 8U) is clearly
8-bit, and Roman Extension (ID = 0E) is a 7-bit set that is the same as
the upper half of Roman8.  But is there some rule for taking an ID like
2Q and figuring out from that alone whether the symbol set has 128 or 256
characters (I know, only 96 or 192 maximum printable) in it?

>>Walt howard@wasatch.utah.edu