PCL Symbol Sets

PCL Symbol Sets – The symbol set of a font describes the relative positions of individual characters within the font. Since there can only be 256 characters in most fonts, and there are well over 256 different characters used in professional document preparation, there needs to be some way to map characters into positions within the font.

The symbol set serves this purpose. It identifies the “map” used to position characters within the font.

Use Table below to find addition information on each of the different PCL Symbol Sets.

PCL Symbol Set Name SYM-ID KIND1 Alias Test File
3 of 9 Barcode 0Y 25 n/a
8859/5-1986 Cyrillic ASCII 0R 18 n/a
ABICOMP Brazil/Portugal 13P 432 P1
ABICOMP International 14P 464 P2
Alternate 11P 368 n/a
Alternate Caps 23J 746 n/a
Arabic (McKay’s Version) 0V 22 n/a
Astrology 1 24L 780 n/a
Bit Paired APL 1P 48 n/a
C39 Barcode (UC+LCase) 109Y 3513 n/a
C39 Barcode (UC+text) 209Y 6713 n/a
C39 Barcode (Upper Case) 9Y 313 n/a
Carta 20L 652 n/a
Chess 23L 748 n/a
CODABAR Barcode 5Y 185 n/a
Code 11 Barcode 7Y 249 n/a
CP-857 Turkish-8 8T 276 TK
CP-864 Arabic-8 8V 278 AR
CP-864 Latin/Arabic 10V 342 PR
CP-869 Greek-8 8G 263 G8
CP-874 TISI 620-2433 Thai 1T 116 n/a
Cyrillic (CP 855) 1R 50 n/a
Desktop 7J 234 DT TTDT_7J
Devanagari 2D 68 n/a
Document 8J 266 n/a
Expert 10P 336 n/a
Fractions 19J 618 n/a
Fraktur 12P 400 n/a
Hebrew-7 0H 8 HO
Hebrew-8 8H 264 H8
HP Block Characters 1L 44 n/a
HP European Spanish 7S 243 n/a
HP Large Characters 0C 3 n/a
HP Latin Spanish 8S 275 n/a
HP-GL Download 16S 531 n/a
HP-GL Drafting 17S 563 n/a
HP-GL Special Symbols 18S 595 n/a
HPL 5U 181 n/a
Industrial 2 of 5 Barcode 1Y 57 n/a
Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcode 4Y 153 n/a
ISO 10: Swedish 3S 115 3S
ISO 11: Latin/Thai 0S 19 SW TTSW_0S
ISO 13: Baltic languages plus Polish 1K 43 n/a
ISO 14: JIS ASCII 0K 11 0K
ISO 15: Italian 0I 9 IT TTIT_0I
ISO 16: Portuguese 4S 147 4S
ISO 17: Spanish 2S 83 SP TTSP_2S
ISO 2: International Reference 2U 85 2U
ISO 21: German 1G 39 GR TTGR_1G
ISO 25: French 0F 6 0F
ISO 4: United Kingdom 1E 37 UK TTUK_1E
ISO 57: Chinese 2K 75 2K
ISO 6: US ASCII 0U 21 US TTUS_0U
ISO 60: Danish/Norwiegan 0D 4 DN TTDN_0D
ISO 61: Norwegian Version 2 1D 36 1D
ISO 69: French 1F 38 FR TTFR_1F
ISO 84: Portuguese 5S 179 5S
ISO 85: Spanish 6S 211 6S
ISO 8859/1 Latin I (ECMA-94) 0N 14 E1 TTE1_0N
ISO 8859/15 Latin 9 (W. Eur.) 9N 302 E9 TTE9_9N
ISO 8859/2 Latin 2 (E. Eur.) 2N 78 E2 TTE2_2N
ISO 8859/3 Latin 3 (S. Eur.) 3N 110 n/a
ISO 8859/4 Latin 4 Baltic 4N 142 n/a
ISO 8859/5 Latin/Cyrillic 10N 334 ER TTER_10N
ISO 8859/5-1986 Cyrillic 0R 82 n/a
ISO 8859/6 Latin/Arabic 11N 366 n/a
ISO 8859/7 Latin/Greek 12N 398 EG TTEG_12N
ISO 8859/8 Latin/Hebrew 7H 232 EH
ISO 8859/9 Latin 5 5N 174 E5 TTE5_5N
ISO 8859/9 Latin 5 Turkish n/a
ISO: German 0G 7 0G
ISO: Spanish 1S 51 1S
ISO-8859/10 Latin 6 Nordic 6N 206 E6
ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 100 11L 364 n/a
ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 200 12L 396 n/a
ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 300 13L 428 n/a
KANA-8 (JIS 210) 8K 267 n/a
Korean-8 9K 299 n/a
Legal 1U 53 LG TTLG_1U
Line Draw-7 0L 12 n/a
Line Draw-7 (same as 0L) 0B 2 n/a
Line Draw-8 8L 268 n/a
Lining Figures 21J 682 n/a
Math-7 0M 13 n/a
Math-7 (same as 0M) 0A 1 n/a
Math-8 8M 269 M8 TTM8_8M
Matrix 2 of 5 Barcode 2Y 89 n/a
MC Text (Macintosh) 12J 394 MC TTMC_12J
MICR (CMC-7) 14Y 473 n/a
MICR (E13B) 10O 335 n/a
Microsoft Publishing 6J 202 PB TTPB_6J
MSI/Plessey Barcode 6Y 217 n/a
OCR-A 0O 15 n/a
OCR-B 1O 47 n/a
OCR-M 2O 79 n/a
OEM-1 7U 245 n/a
OEM-SPECIALS xQ 17+32x n/a
Old Style Figures 18J 586 n/a
Ornaments 21L 684 n/a
PC-1004 OS/2 9J 298 PU
PC-720 Arabic n/a
PC-737 n/a
PC-775 Baltic (PC-8 Latin 6) 26U 853 PV TTPV_26U
PC-8 Bulgarian 13R 434 BG
PC-8 D/N, Code Page 437N 11U 373 PD TTPD_11U
PC-8 Greek Alternate (437G) 14G 455 GE
PC-8 Latin/Greek 12G 391 GK
PC-8 PC Nova 27Q 881 PY
PC-8 Polish Mazovia 24Q 785 PL
PC-8, Code Page 437 10U 341 PC TTPC_10U
PC-850 Multilingual Latin I 12U 405 PM TTPM_10U
PC-851 Latin/Greek 10G 327 PG TTPG_10G
PC-852, Latin 2 (Polish) 17U 565 PE TTPE_17U
PC-853 Latin 3 Turkish 18U 597 P3
PC-855 Cyrillic 10R 328 PK TTPK_10R
PC-857 Latin 5 Turkish 16U 533 P5 TTP5_16U
PC-858 Multilingual Euro 13U 437 P9 TTP9_13U
PC-860 Portugal 20U 661 PP
PC-861 Iceland 21U 693 IC
PC-862 Latin/Hebrew 15H 488 PH TTPH_15H
PC-863 Canadian French 23U 757 CN
PC-865 Nordic 25U 821 NW
PC-866 Cyrillic/Russian 3R 114 CP TTCP_3R
PC-869 Greek 11G 359 IG
PC-8T, Code Page 437T 9T 308 PT TTPT_9T
PC-911 Katakana 3K 107 PJ
PCL ITC Zapf Dingbats 14L 460 L$ TTL$_579L
Pi Set #1 31L 1004 n/a
Pi Set #2 32L 1036 n/a
Pi Set #3 33L 1068 n/a
Pi Set #4 34L 1100 n/a
Pi Set #5 35L 1132 n/a
Pi Set #6 36L 1164 n/a
Pi Symbols 15U 501 PI TTPI_15U
POSTNET Barcode 15Y 505 n/a
PS ISO Latin 1 11J 363 n/a
PS ITC Zapf Dingbats 10L 332 DS
PS Math Symbol 5M 173 MS
PS Text 10J 330 TS
Roman Extension 0E 5 RE
Roman-8 8U 277 R8 TTR8_8U
Roman-9 4U 149 R9
Russian-GOST 12R 402 RG
Small Caps & Lining Figures 22J 714 n/a
Small Caps & Old Style 17J 554 n/a
Sonata 20S 659 n/a
Swash Characters 16J 522 n/a
Symbol (Math) 19M 621 AS TTAS_19M
Symbol (Math) 19M 621 SY TTSY_19M
Tax Line Draw 2L 76 n/a
Tech-7 1M 45 n/a
Teletex 10T 340 n/a
TeX Math Extension 11M 365 n/a
TeX Math Italic 13M 429 n/a
TeX Math Symbol 12M 397 n/a
Thai-8 0T 20 n/a
TISI 620-2533 (Thai) 1T 52 n/a
TISI 620-2533 Thai 0T 84 n/a
Typewriter Paired APL 0P 16 n/a
Ukrainian 14R 466 CU
Universal Greek & Math Pi 10M 333 n/a
Universal New & Comm. Pi 22L 716 n/a
UPC/EAN Barcode 8Y 281 n/a
UTF-8 (Unicode) 18N 590 n/a
Ventura International 13J 437 VI
Ventura ITC Zapf Dingbats 9L 300 DV
Ventura Math 6M 426 VM
Ventura US 14J 205 VU
Windows 1258 (Vietnam) n/a
Windows 3.0 Latin I 9U 309 WN TTWN_9U
Windows 3.0 Latin I 9U 309 WO TTWO_9U
Windows 3.1 Latin 2 9E 273 WE TTWE_9E
Windows 3.1 Latin 2 9E 293 n/a
Windows 3.1 Latin 5 5T 180 WT TTWT_5T
Windows 3.1 Latin I 19U 629 W1 TTW1_19U
Windows 874 (Thai) n/a
Windows 98 Cyrillic 9R 306 WR TTWR_9R
Windows 98 Latin 6 Baltic 19L 620 WL
Windows 98 Latin/Greek 9G 295 WG
Windows CP 932 (Japan) n/a
Windows Latin/Arabic 9V 310 WA
Windows LineDraw 8I 329 n/a
Wingdings 579L 18540 WD TTWD_589L