what does these mean in PCL 5 Reference?

[AmyLin]

I am reading PCL 5 Printer language Technical Reference Manual,and i am

not very good in english.
i want to know the mean of UB and UI and B mean in PCL referendce?
for exampleage 11-20 to11-24 Spacing(B), there are
Pitch(UI),Height(UI)......,what does these mean ?

 

[Christoph Lindemann]

You can find the answer to you question, on page 11.17 in the section "Data
Types"

UB = Unsigned Byte
B = Boolean
UI = Unsigned Integer

 

[Arthur Entlich]

If you go to:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/s...13210.pdf#search="PCL +printer language "UB""

you can download that pdf file which is an HP PCL manual.

Then go to pages 172-181 (Section 10)
And you will find this chart and considerable explanation.


The following abbreviations are used to define the data type of each
field in the symbol set header:
Header Size (UI)
Set the header size to the size of the header data — the number
of bytes from Header Size (byte 0) to the last byte just before the
beginning of the Symbol Map data bytes. This value is 18 or greater.

Font Header Field Data Type Notation

(B) : Boolean (0, 1)
(UB) : Unsigned Byte (0 . . 255)
(SB) : Signed Byte (-128 . . 127)
(UI) : Unsigned Integer (0 . . 65535)
(SI) : Signed Integer (-32768 . . 32767)
(ULI) : Unsigned Long Integer (0 . . 232-1)
(SLI) : Signed Long Integer (-231 . . 231-1)
(ASCxx) : ASCII string array (0 . . xx-1) of characters


Art

 

[AmyLin]

thank you very much ,i have found it in chap 11-51
thanks for your help