Specifications

Revision C 16/01/96

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• Class (UB) . indicates the character format.

Value Class

1 Bitmap

2 Compressed Bitmap

3 Contour (Intellifont scalable)

4 Compound Contour (Intellifont scalable)

15 TrueType Scalable

• Contour data size (UI) - specifies the contour data size.

• Metric Data offset (SI) - relative to the address of the coutour data size field.

• Contour Tree Offset (SI) -relative to the address of the coutour data size field.

• XY Data Offset (SI) -relative to the address of the contour data size field.

• Metric Data

• Character Intellifont Scalable Data

• Contour Tree Data

• XY Coordinate Data

• Checksum - this value is placed at the end of the character data.

• Compound character escapement (SI)

• Piled character number (UB)

• Piled character list - includes some piled characters. Each of them is 6 bytes.

[ TrueType scalable font ]

Byte Data

0-1 Format (15) Continuation (0)

2 - 3 Descriptor size Class (15)

4 ~ Additional descriptor size

2 + Desc.size Character Data Size

4 + Desc. size Glyph ID

6 + Desc. size TrueType Glyph Data

0-1 Format (15) Continuation (0)

2 - 3 Descriptor size Class (15)

4 ~ Additional descriptor size

2 + Desc.size Character Data Size

4 + Desc. size Glyph ID

6 + Desc. size beginning of TrueType Glyph Data

0-1 Format (15) Continuation (1)

TrueType Glyph Data

Last-2 Reserved

Checksum