In [System Settings], click [Font] to run system setup and verification of fonts.
Font
Configure font settings.
Font Used in Project
Select the fonts used in project files.
Japanese Standard Font, English Standard Font, and English Stroke Font are fixed.
You cannot use the font area in the following models.
When using a font other than [Japanese Standard Font], [English Standard Font] or [English Stroke Font], it uses the user screen area.
GP-32** Series
GP-4100 Series
ST Series
Font Size
Displays the memory size of the font.
Font Area
Displays the memory size of the font area (maximum 4096 KB). When the font size exceeds the font area, it uses the user screen area.
GP-32** Series and ST Series cannot use the Font Area. When using a font other than [Japanese Standard Font], [English Standard Font] or [English Stroke Font], it uses the user screen area.
When the size of a font or bitmap image to be registered is larger than the available font area, the font or image will be registered in the User Screen Area. One font or bitmap image will not be registered separately in the Font Area and the User Screen Area
User Screen Area
If the memory size of the font being used exceeds the font area (4096 KB), the part exceeding the font area is moved to the [User Screen Area] and the excessive memory size is displayed. The User Screen Area's capacity depends on the display unit model.
Set up items related to the bitmap font size.
Compress
Specifies whether or not Bitmap font data is compressed.
In Use
Displays the total memory size of the bitmap font being used in the project.
Configure image font settings.
Character Registration
Register the character that you want to display as an image font.
To display image fonts in the [Text Display] and [Input Display], the characters need to be registered in the [Character Registration] dialog box. Up to 20,000 characters can be registered.
Directly entering a character for Character Registration
Directly input a character to be registered in Character Registration window and click [Register].
Registering text file contents in Character Registration
Click [Input from file] and display the [Open File] dialog box. Select a text file containing a character you want to register. The character in the text file is displayed in the Text Registration window.
Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding to create the text file selected in the [Input from file] setting.
Please refer to the following for the models which support image fonts using Character Registration.
1.3 Supported Features
When display text is undefined, registering the following file sets up the text in a single step. The initial settings for each file are stored in the \Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Pro-face\GP-Pro EX*.**\Char folder. (*.** indicates the version)
If a large number of text is registered, it may take longer to display or edit on the editing screen for parts with image fonts.
Refine Search
Search by font names. Search from the first character. The search result is displayed in the Image Font list.
Reference Part
List the parts which are using the font selected in Image Font list.
Double-click the Parts ID to open the screen using the font.
Image Font List
Lists the image font information used in Alarm parts and Data Displays.
Even though all the displayed information is the same, information on the image font with different [Font set] types will display separately.
Font Name
Display the name of the Font used.
Font Size
Display the size of the Font used.
Style
Dispaly the style of the Font used (Standard/Italic/Bold/Italic Bold).
Data size
Display the bitmap data size for the Font used.
Total Usage
Display the total size of the Character Registered image font data.
Size when 25 single-byte characters are registered as Image Font.
MS Gothic 10 points Approximately 300 bytes
MS Gothic 24 points Approximately 1 KB
MS Gothic 48 points Approximately 2.7 KB