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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

Table Legend
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
 
Table 21. Font Information
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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.
 
 
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