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MICR Soft Font (Font ID 3998)
The MICR E-13B font is used for check printing in USA, and exist per definition only in
one size.
The font include the decimal digits 0-9 plus four special characters. The fours characters
will be printed when the following characters is included in the text:
A=Amount symbol
D=Dash symbol
O=On us symbol
T=Transit symbol
It is therefore predefined in InterForm400
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 and does not need to be generated.
It can be used immediately by Remap Window, a Tabulator and Text constant commands
within the overlay design window by selection of font ID 3998. The font will to the user
function as a resident printer font.
InterForm400
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 will automatically add start and stop codes and check digits.
OCRA Soft Fonts
Two soft fonts, IF_OCRA and IF_OCRAEXT are distributed with InterForm400
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IF_OCRA is BMP based and IF_OCRAEXT is based on a True Type Font. IF_OCRAEXT
contains some extra characters compared to IF_OCRA. Font number 19 is intended to be
used with these soft fonts. Remember to specify (automatic) download the soft font in
option 3 of the fonts menu.
OCRB Soft Font (Font ID 0003)
OCRB is predefined in InterForm400
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 with font ID 3, but the soft font is not automatically
downloaded to the printer when selected. The font will need to be downloaded to the
printer according to the description on page 287 (3. Auto Download Soft Fonts).
Two font members IF_OCRB and IF_OCRB_L represent the OCR-B in portrait and
landscape. You will only need to download both fonts if you are using OCR-B in both
portrait and landscape, and only for HPII (PCL4) compatible printers. HPIII (PCL5)
printers will automatically rotate a soft font.
The selection field when adding the OCRB font to an Auto Font Download definition
should for a HPIII or HP4 compatible printer always state font number 3: 
          Update Auto download Soft Font                               PGR332D  
                                                                                
 Printer group name . . . :  ALLPCL                                             
                                                                                
 Font number  . . . . . . :  ___3        F4=List                                
 Symbol set number  . . . :  3           0=All symbol sets (barcodes only)      
                                         1=Roman-8  2=PC-8 DM  3=CodePage850    
                                         4=CodePage852 5=Baltic                 
                                         6=CodePage858 7=Cyrillic               
                                         8=CylillicEuro                         
                                         9=ISO 8859/9 Latin-5 (Turkish)         
                                         A=ISO 8859/7 Latin/Greek               
                                         B=CentralEurope w/Euro                 
                                                                                
 Font member name 0°  . . .  IF_OCRB___  F4=List                                
 Font member name 90° . . .  __________  F4=List                                
                                                                                 
                                                                     
                                                                                
                                                                                
 F3=Exit             F4=Prompt                               F12=Cancel