DevicesFonts for Zebra Devices

If the Family selected is Family Driver and the Model selected is ZPL IIClosed Zebra Programming Language II, a printer control language., or if the Family selected is Zebra and a specific device model is selected, then the Fonts tab displays the following options. Some options may not be relevant to some device models. For more information about drivers and Loftware Enterprise™ SP, see Managing Devices.

Note: It is recommended that Zebra ZPL II devices use x.17 or later firmware. For Zebra font commands, x.14 or later firmware is required. Loftware Enterprise SP supports Zebra ZPL II devices with x.10 or later firmware.

Font Options

Option Description Values
Enable Global Printing Engine

Whether to enable Zebra's Global Printing feature, which is required for Unicode fonts.

Note: Enabling this option may impact device throughput, such as causing pauses before printing a label.

True: Allow Unicode fonts. (Default)

False: Do not allow Unicode fonts.

Do Not Send Option: No value for this option is sent to the device. Select this value if you want to configure the option at your device.

TrueType® Font Recall Options

Note: The font recallClosed The ability to reference a font and style at print time by using a font file stored in device memory. Using font recall can reduce the amount of data in the print stream and therefore improve performance. functionality requires that you install the same font in Loftware Enterprise SP and on your device. Font recall is not supported for Loftware Enterprise SP's built-in fonts. If you attempt to use font recall with a built-in font by installing a font of the same name on your device, the result may not be WYSIWYG.

Note: In some circumstances, font recall cannot be applied for a particular field. For more information, see Troubleshoot Devices.

Option Description Values
Downloaded Fonts

Combinations of font and style that Loftware Enterprise SP can reference in device memory to support font recallClosed The ability to reference a font and style at print time by using a font file stored in device memory. Using font recall can reduce the amount of data in the print stream and therefore improve performance.. For a font to be referenced, it must have already been saved to the specified location in device memory, and must already have been installed in Loftware Enterprise SP.

Font: The name of a font. Only fonts installed in Loftware Enterprise SP are displayed in this list.

Bold and Italic: Which style of the font to reference. To reference more than one style, you must include each style as a separate row in the Downloaded Fonts table.

Bold Italic Style Description
Cleared Cleared Regular
Selected Cleared Bold
Cleared Selected Italic
Selected Selected Bold Italic

Recall Name: The device drive letter and font file name where you have saved the font in device memory, such as E:ARIALUNI.TTF. Each device drive letter represents a location in device memory. For more information, refer to your device manufacturer's documentation.

Tip: If your device can print out a list of the fonts installed in device memory or display the list via a web browser, use that list to determine the Recall Name to enter in Loftware Enterprise SP.

Important! If the same font is loaded into more than one location in device memory, create an entry in the Downloaded Fonts table for only one of these instances.

Add: Add a row to the Downloaded Fonts table so that you can select a new font and style combination for Loftware Enterprise SP to be able to reference in device memory at print time. The font must already be installed in Loftware Enterprise SP and loaded into device memory for font recall to format the text as intended.

Delete: Remove the selected font and style combination from the list available to Loftware Enterprise SP for recall.

Important! Adding a font to the list does not load it into device memory or install it in Loftware Enterprise SP, nor does deleting a font from the list remove it from device memory or uninstall it from Loftware Enterprise SP. For information about how to install fonts in Loftware Enterprise SP, see Managing Fonts. For information about how to load fonts into device memory, refer to your device manufacturer's documentation.

 
TrueType Font Recall

Whether to enable font recallClosed The ability to reference a font and style at print time by using a font file stored in device memory. Using font recall can reduce the amount of data in the print stream and therefore improve performance. functionality for TrueType fonts that you have installed in Loftware Enterprise SP. This manufacturer's devices allow you to load one or more fonts into device memory. If you have loaded fonts into device memory, Loftware Enterprise SP can reference those fonts at print time, reducing the amount of data in the print stream and improving printing performance.

Important! For this functionality to work, you must have loaded these fonts into device memory. Refer to your device manufacturer's documentation for information about how to load fonts into device memory.

Note: For this functionality, Zebra supports TTFClosed TrueType font files, but not TTCClosed TrueType font collection files.

Cleared: Do not enable TrueType font recall functionality. (Default)

Selected: Enable TrueType font recall functionality.

Default Glyph

What character to use as the default character to be printed when a specified character is not available in the font.

Note: This option is displayed only if TrueType Font Recall is enabled.

Cleared: A space. (Default)

Selected: The default character of the base font, typically a hollow box.

Bidirectional Text Layout

Whether to allow characters from languages with different directionality on the same line. For example, whether to permit characters from a language read from left to right, such as English, on the same line as characters from a language read from right to left, such as Arabic.

Note: This option is displayed only if TrueType Font Recall is enabled.

Selected: Allow different directionality on the same line. (Default)

Cleared: Do not allow different directionality on the same line.

Character Shaping

Whether to allow characters to have different forms based on context. Character shaping helps ensure that adjacent letters in a cursive font connect appropriately.

Note: This option is displayed only if TrueType Font Recall is enabled.

Selected: Allow different character forms. (Default)

Cleared: Do not allow different character forms.

OpenType Table Support

Whether to support fonts that use the OpenType file format. The OpenType file format extends the TrueType file format and includes advanced features for layout.

Note: Zebra devices support OpenType fonts only if the fonts have been saved as TTF files.

Note: This option is displayed only if TrueType Font Recall is enabled.

Cleared: Do not support OpenType fonts. (Default)

Selected: Support OpenType fonts.