Specifications

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Device Font Printing in a .NET Environment
.NETFrameworksupportsonlyTrueTypeandOpenTypefonts.Therefore,theprinter’sdevice
fontscannotbeused.IntheAPD,therefore,afontsubstitutionfunctionisprovidedtoallowyou
tousedevicefontsevenwith.NETFramework.
Thisfunctionisnotonlyusefulina.NETFrameworkenvironment:italso
allowsyoutousethe
devicefontsfromanapplicationthatonlysupportsTrueTypefonts.
Substituting Fonts
TheAPDfontsubstitutionfunctionreplacesaTrueTypefontwithadevicefont.Byspecifyinga
devicefonttobeusedasasubstituteforagivenTrueTypefont,printingcanbedoneusinga
devicefont.WhileitmayappearthataTrueTypefontisselected,theactualprintingwill
bedone
usingthedevicefont.
ForTrueTypefontsnotavailableforthesubstitution,seethetablebelow.
TrueType fonts not available for the substitution
Marlett Symbol MS Outlook Wingdings 3
Wingdings Webdings Wingdings 2
APD
.Net Framework
ABC
Application
Printing
Substituting fonts
ABC
ABC
(TrueTypeFont)
Display
Screen display
TM Printer
(TrueTypeFont)
ABC
ABC
(DeviceFont)
(TrueTypeFont)
(DeviceFont)