Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide

The Paris Spooler Technical Manual

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Appendix A

O D I F Y I N G T H E

H A R A C T E R

E L E C T I O N

A B L E

The ANSI character set which is supported by Windows includes 256 characters,
numbered 0 to 255. The standard definition of characters 0 to 127 correspond to
the letters, numbers and symbols seen on a standard U.S. keyboard and it is these
characters that are predominantly used in the English language.

The remaining characters (128 to 255) are generally unused and correspond to
characters not usually found on your computer’s keyboard, such as accented
letters, currency symbols and mathematical symbols.

Paris provides you with the option to control the number of characters downloaded
in a character set by allowing you to modify the character selection table.

H Y C O N T R O L T H E N U M B E R O F C H A R A C T E R S

Paris manages printer resources, the downloading of fonts, forms and graphics to
the printer, according to the capabilities of the device and PDL (Page Description
Language) being used. By controlling the number of characters in a character set,
the transmission time to the printer to download fonts can be reduced.

For example, if you are using a printer that requires the resources to be sent every
time a job is printed, the transmission time to the printer is increased. If you are
printing multiple jobs, you can reduce the transmission time by speeding up the
downloading of fonts. This is achieved by modifying the number of characters
being downloaded.