
Soft Fonts Overview Soft fonts allow the programmer and user to
have a wide variety of font and small graphic re
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call. Some of the advantages and disadvan
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tages are listed below.
Advantages
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Programmer can design and generate
unique font sets that are licence free fonts.
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Generate small graphics that can be recalled
as font. Graphics less than 256 dots high and
2048 dots wide (255 bytes x 8).
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Graphics as fonts can be enlarged in horizon
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tal and vertical multiples, just like fonts.
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Increase printer’s flexibility.
❏ Minimize memory requirements for uses that
require only partial font sets.
❏ Utilities available to download third party
fonts.
Soft fonts can be downloaded to and deleted from
the printer from the Soft Font Downloader Utility,
CAL Tools or CAL3..
Disadvantages ❏
Soft fonts are slower to image than resident
fonts. Soft fonts are processed by the printer
in a manner similar graphics.
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Licencing issues with downloaded soft fonts.
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Requires programming tools to implement
some fonts. Typical text editors are not capa
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ble of programming raw data code.
Downloading some thirdparty soft fonts may require
a vendor’s licence. Eltron actively discourages copy
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right infringement and strongly suggests that all
user’s obtain required copyright licenses.
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