SECTION 5.7
459
Font Descriptors
BIT POSITION
NAME
MEANING
17
18
AllCap
SmallCap
Font contains no lowercase letters; typically used for display purposes, such
as for titles or headlines.
Font contains both uppercase and lowercase letters. The uppercase letters are
similar to those in the regular version of the same typeface family. The glyphs
for the lowercase letters have the same shapes as the corresponding uppercase
letters, but they are sized and their proportions adjusted so that they have the
same size and stroke weight as lowercase glyphs in the same typeface family.
See below.
19
ForceBold
The Nonsymbolic flag (bit 6 in the
Flags
entry) indicates that the font’s character
set is the Adobe standard Latin character set (or a subset of it) and that it uses the
standard names for those glyphs. This character set is shown in Section D.1, “Lat-
the Symbolic flag should be set and the Nonsymbolic flag clear. In other words,
any font whose character set is not a subset of the Adobe standard character set is
considered to be symbolic. This influences the font’s implicit base encoding and
may affect a consumer application’s font substitution strategies.
Fixed-pitch font
Serif font
Sans serif font
Symbolic font
Script font
Italic font
All-cap font
Small-cap font
The quick brown fox jumped.
The quick brown fox jumped.
The quick
brown fox jumped.
✴❈❅ ❑◆❉❃❋ ❂❒❏◗■ ❆❏❘ ❊◆❍❐❅❄✎
The quick brown fox jumped.
The quick brown fox jumped.
The quick brown fox jumped
The quick brown fox jumped.
FIGURE 5.13
Characteristics represented in the
Flags
entry of a font descriptor