4. Font support and selectionThis chapter describes font support and the relationshipsbetween IBM and Xerox fonts.The ability to install customized translate tables and crossreference tables between IBM and Xerox fonts provides you withflexibility for utilizing fonts to suit your individual requirements.Tables showing the character sets and the supported IBM codepages are found in the “Font and code set tables” appendix.Supported fontsYour Xerox MRP Family coax printer provides font support formost of the printers it emulates. Support is provided for threecategories of fonts:• Fixed pitch fonts—Your printer supports fixed pitch fontsmatching the fixed pitch capabilities of all the IBM printersemulated.• Proportionally spaced (PS) fonts—Your printer providessupport for proportionally-spaced fonts using the same PSwidth values as those used by IBM, thus ensuring a matchwith IBM PS fonts.• Typographic fonts—Your printer provides support fortypographic fonts using the same width values as those usedby IBM, thus ensuring a match with the resepctive IBM fonts.The supported fonts are the PCL fonts and the 3816 emulationfonts. In the event the 3816 emulation fonts are not resident onyour Xerox MRP Family coax printer, the interface card will use anappropriate PCL resident font. Refer to the “IBM GFID to PCLfonts attribute” appendix for the appropriate PCL resident font touse.While the PCL font closest to the requested font is used by theprinter, this algorithm may not choose a font with the exactcharacteristics for the desired output. To have your outputexactly match that of a 3816, download the compatibility fontset. Otherwise, differences may be observed in margins,justification, and data running off the page.Included fontsYour MRP printer equipped with an internal coax interface isshipped with a set of fifty five 3816 emulation fonts. These fontsare supplied on 9-track tapes shipped with the printer. Table 4-1is a list of the font names that uses the corresponding GFIDnumber shown as the last four digits.XEROX MRP FAMILY COAX COMMAND REFERENCE 4-1
