Font information
Table 21 Font Information from the Printer Device Programming Manual
Appendix D Working with Fonts, Font Character Sets, Code Pages, CHRIDs, and Coded Fonts in the Printer Device Programming manual, SC41-5713-04, contains several tables with more detailed information on fonts, including a list of Font IDs and their corresponding fonts. The iSeries Printer Device Programming V5R4 (SC41-5713-06) is available at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/sc415713.pdf The following information was copied directly from Table 21. Font Information from the V5R4M0 (R540) version of the Printer Device Programming manual (though with a few corrections): The legend and table below provide information about each font. This information could save you time in trial-and-error testing when choosing a font for your application
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FGID | Font Global Identifier |
Name | Name of Font |
Font Type | U = Uniformly Spaced M = Mixed Pitch T = Typographic |
Attributes | Blank = Roman b = Bold i = Italics s = Second Strike w = Double Wide |
Point | Point size (Blank for uniformly spaced & mixed pitch fonts) S = Scalable |
Pitch | Characters per inch (For example, 17) S = Scalable |
FGID | Name | Type of Font | Attributes | Point | Pitch (CPI) |
34231 | Helvetica Italic | T | i | 10P | *21 |
34251 | Helvetica Italic Bold | T | bi | 10P | *21 |
37431 | Old English | T | 12P | *18 | |
37431 | Old English | T | 14P | *15 | |
37431 | Old English | T | 18P | *12 | |
41783 | Coronet Cursive | T | 12P | *18 | |
41803 | Coronet Cursive Bold | T | b | 14P | *15 |
41803 | Coronet Cursive Bold | T | b | 18P | *12 |
Note: Pitch or CPI column for typographic fonts indicates the width of the space character between printed characters. Width, pitch, and CPI of other space characters will vary. |