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Roxbury fonts
Roxbury fonts
VSI-FAX provides a mechanism for using and managing the Roxbury family of fonts. VSI-FAX provides the following
Roxbury fonts:
Roxbury pica (regular) 10 cpi
Roxbury bold 10 cpi
Roxbury italic 10 cpi
Roxbury italic bold 10 cpi
Roxbury compressed 16.7 cpi
These are fixed-width bit-mapped fonts designed to look good at either standard or fine resolution. These fonts are
used in the following places:
eptotif uses them to image text files.
pcltotif uses them for text mode conversion. In this mode, the Roxbury fonts are compiled into PCL soft-
fonts, which can be selected with the appropriate PCL font-selection command.
vtifftool uses them in the header command to add a header to pages of a TIFF file.
FIMs (except FoDC) use them to create the header at the top of sent fax pages.
The Roxbury fonts are a mixture of character sets. The low-order half (chars 0x20 through 0x7f) are the same as the
standard ASCII character set. The top-half (chars 0x80 through 0xff), is a mixture of the PC line-drawing characters
(chars 0xb0 through 0xdf) and various non-standard characters.
These non-standard characters are not the same as the standard PC character set or the standard ISO multi-lingual
character set (ISO8859).
Esker provides these fonts as both the original text files describing these fonts and as compiled font files (.fnt files)
usable by eptotif and the FIMs, as well as compiled PCL soft-fonts (.sft files). Esker also provides a font
compiler program, which will compile the text font descriptions into new .fnt and .sft files.
These various fonts and source files allow you modify the Roxbury font to support special international symbols (e.g.,
Spanish cedilla, the German ess-tsett, etc.)
The compiled Roxbury fonts, source files and font compiler are located in the $VSIFAX/lib/fonts directory:
fontcomp
Font compiler
roxypica.txt
Roxbury pica font description file
roxyital.txt
Roxbury italic font description file
roxycomp.txt
Roxbury compressed font description file
roxypica.fnt
Compiled Roxbury pica font
roxybold.fnt
Compiled Roxbury bold font
roxyital.fnt
Compiled Roxbury italic font
roxybdit.fnt
Compiled Roxbury italic bold font
roxycomp.fnt
Compiled Roxbury compressed font