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You can instruct VPE to print text using a specific font and character set. Especially when creating PDF documents, it is important that you have some basic knowledge about the font handling mechanisms provided by VPE.
The font manager of VPE supports the following character sets:
Constant Name |
Comment |
VCHARSET_DEFAULT |
Windows: Chooses the VCHARSET_WIN_ character set that fits to the localization settings of the current user. |
VCHARSET_SYMBOL |
Required for using Symbol Fonts, like WingDings |
VCHARSET_MAC_ROMAN |
Macintosh Roman |
Character sets compatible to the character sets of the Windows operating system: |
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VCHARSET_WIN_ANSI |
Western character set: Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Latin, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Pilipino, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Welsh |
VCHARSET_WIN_HEBREW |
Hebrew |
VCHARSET_WIN_ARABIC |
Arabic |
VCHARSET_WIN_GREEK |
Greek |
VCHARSET_WIN_TURKISH |
Turkish |
VCHARSET_WIN_VIETNAMESE |
Vietnamese |
VCHARSET_WIN_THAI |
Thai |
VCHARSET_WIN_EAST_EUROPE |
Albanian, Belarusian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian |
VCHARSET_WIN_CYRILLIC |
Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian (Cyrillic) |
VCHARSET_WIN_BALTIC |
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian |
Character sets compatible to the ISO character sets (taken from unicode.org): |
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VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_1 |
Latin-1, Western character set (ISO-8859-1) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_2 |
Latin-2, East European (ISO-8859-2) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_3 |
Latin-3, South European (ISO-8859-3) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_4 |
Latin-4, Baltic (ISO-8859-4) |
VCHARSET_ISO_CYRILLIC |
Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) |
VCHARSET_ISO_ARABIC |
Arabic (ISO-8859-6) |
VCHARSET_ISO_GREEK |
Greek (ISO-8859-7) |
VCHARSET_ISO_HEBREW |
Hebrew (ISO-8859-8) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_5 |
Latin-5, Turkish (ISO-8859-9) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_6 |
Latin-6, Nordic (ISO-8859-10) |
VCHARSET_ISO_THAI |
Thai (ISO-8859-11) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_7 |
Latin-7, Baltic (ISO-8859-13) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_8 |
Latin-8, Celtic (ISO-8859-14) |
VCHARSET_ISO_LATIN_9 |
Latin-9, Western (ISO-8859-15) |
| NOTE: | When using symbol fonts, like for example "WingDings", you must set the property CharSet = SYMBOL_CHARSET first! |
There are two possible types of fonts that can be used, which are explained in the next chapters.