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One of our client asks for a PCL version of our font. What is PCL? I found a menu item on Format menu PCL5, how can I provide PCL version of our truetype font to this customer? For example, we have a font file named abc.ttf, which is created by font creator program. What to do now?

Bhikkhu, thank you for the useful link. According to the Erwin's thread: pointSize * resolution / ( 72 points per inch * units_per_em ) and 550 * 18 * 72 / ( 72 * 2048 ) = 4.83 Can you explain the meaning of the each items: 1.)18 is the font size using in windows program, e.g. Word or notepad, right...

Bhikkhu, it's really a smart way, thanks. But what is the "official" method?

Hello, I need to create a font which can be print from a word doc. The requirement is when the font size is 12, the print size of a glyph (a black rectangle) is 1 millimeter width and 2 millimeter height. So my question is, how to calculate the points when I design the glyph? It seems I also need to...