OCR A Font

[Brian K. White]

You can use a soft font on pcl printers, or run through ghostpcl to pdf 
or others.
We do it for bar codes, postnet, and for the micr font on the bottom of 
checks.
You buy the font from someone, stick the file somewhere, add a few new 
print codes to your hplaser print code table, and adjust your form to 
include the code to load the font file in the printer init, or even just 
in the top-left character cell of the form though that is a little 
inefficient. Then somewhere else in the form you use the print code to 
select that font. The fonts are bitmaps, so you generally get a few 
files for a few different sizes, and you have to pick a size that works 
with the rest of your form.

You usually get examples for the right pcl codes to show how to use the 
font, but a little familiarity with how pcl works helps. Some parts of 
the pcl codes can't necessarily be simply copied verbatim, but must be 
understood and then adjusted from there as needed.


On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:33 AM JohnMac via Filepro-list 
<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com 
<mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:

    Is there a font solution other than installing an aftermarket font
    chip that
    I can use to produce an OCR A character set.



    John McNaughton



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