7.5 Font-Simulation Commands and Data

A font-simulation is a capability of simulating italic, bold, underlined,
or strikeout text from a normal device font. The FONTSIMULATION dialog box
contains controls which you use to identify the font-simulation commands
and data that your printer supports. Most printers provide at least some
font simulations for device fonts. The font-simulation commands described
in this dialog are assumed to be applicable to all device fonts. There are
two exceptions:

o   A separate PFM file for fonts is defined in the minidriver.

o   The fGeneral dialog box in the PFM file inhibits font simulations.

NOTEÿ To enable the bold, italic, and strikeout font simulations for a
single printer model, the corresponding bits in the fGeneral dialog box in
the MODELDATA data structure for each printer model must be set.

If a printer is not capable of simulating bold, italic, underline, or
strikeout text, GDI will perform the simulation instead. However, GDI
simulations are slower than device simulations.

The following illustration shows a FONTSIMULATION dialog box:

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