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SECTION 5.7 Font Descriptors
BIT POSITION NAME MEANING
17 AllCap Font contains no lowercase letters; typically used for display purposes, such
as for titles or headlines.
18 SmallCap 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.
19 ForceBold See below.
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-
in Character Set and Encodings.” If the font contains any glyphs outside this set,
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 The quick brown fox jumped.
Serif font The quick brown fox jumped.
Sans serif font The quick brown fox jumped.
Symbolic font ✴❈❅ ❑◆❉❃❋ ❂❒❏◗■ ❆❏❘ ❊◆❍❐❅❄✎
Script font The quick brown fox jumped.
Italic font The quick brown fox jumped.
All-cap font The quick brown fox jumped
Small-cap font The quick brown fox jumped.
FIGURE 5.13 Characteristics represented in the Flags entry of a font descriptor
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