Extra! User Guide > Terminal Sessions > Printer Sessions > Enabling Fonts for GDI Mode

Enabling Fonts for GDI Mode

The printer settings Fonts page provides default font choices. These are all fixed-space fonts corresponding to the original IBM concept for LU1 and LU3 printing on a rectangular grid of rows and columns. Because GDI Mode allows you to use all fonts available in Windows, you must tell the PCL algorithm how to choose them.

Windows supports only five symbol sets ANSI, Windows, Symbols (math and decoratives), Shift-JIS (Japanese), and "OEM" which is defined by the vendor or original equipment manufacturer. Each Windows font is assigned exactly one of these sets.

NOTE:All fonts on the Windows printer are available to Print jobs. However, there is no way to equate the name by which Windows knows a typeface with the number which PCL uses to refer to it.

Extra! will ignore a PCL typeface specification and choose a font based on the other specified characteristics (character height, width, weight, style, and so on). This can easily result in selection of an "incorrect" font, if it matches those other characteristics.

To select a default font

  1. From the printer session Options menu, choose the Settings command.

    The Settings - Connection dialog box appears.

  2. Select the Printer Category.

  3. Choose the Fonts tab.

  4. In the Font Options group, select the Use PC Font Setting option.

  5. Choose a font type from the Font List.

  6. (Optional.) Select a font size from the Size list.

  7. Choose the OK button to save your changes and close the printer settings dialog box.

    -or-

    Choose the Apply button if you wish to save your changes and continue to configure printer settings.