Specifications

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• Character height (UI) - the height of the download character in grid dots. This can be in the range 1 to 16384.
• Delta X (UI) - the horizontal distance from the bottom left hand corner of the character’s grid that the cursor is
moved after the character is printed. The attribute is specified in units of 1/1200" and can be in the range -
32768 to 32767.
[ Intellifont scalable font data]
Byte Data
0-1 Format Continuation
2 - 3 Descriptor size Class
4 - 5 Contour Character data
Last data Reserved Checksum
< Intellifont-scalable contour data>
MSB LSB
4 Contour Data size
6 Metric data offset
8 Character Intellifont data offset
10 Contour tree offset
12 XY data offset
14
Metric data
Character Intellifont Data
Contour tree data
XY coordinate data
< Continuation data for Intellifont scalable contour data >
Byte Data
0-1 Format Continuation
2 - 3 Continuous contour character data
Last Reserved Checksum
< Compound character data of Intellifont scalable font >
Byte Data
0-1 Format Continuation
2 - 3 Descriptor size Class
4 - 5 Compound character escapement
6 - 7 piled character number ignore
8 - ... piled character list ( 6 byte x characters
)
Last Reserved checksum
• Format (UB) - specifies the character format.
Value Format
4 Bitmapped font
10 Intellifont-scalable font
15 TrueType scalable font
• Continuation (B) - signifies whether the character data represents a new character (0) or is a continuation of
the character described by the previous character descriptor block and its data (non-zero). If the continuation
byte is non-zero the bytes following it are interpreted as character data.
• Descriptor size (UB) - specifies the character descriptor size in bytes.