RE: Font on *LAN attached Laser

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, your specific help:  I can't give you any.  Font ID 011 should be
Courier, 10 CPI.  Perhaps there is a menu setting on the printer itself that
is overriding the 400?  I use 011 and it comes out exactly as I expect.

As for the manual reference - that's what I get for using my own memory
without looking it up first I suppose.
I apologise in advance for including all the links.  I'm trying to show how
and where I found this stuff for the archives.

I usually look in the CL Reference Appendix B, because that's what I
remember: 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AUP02/APPENDIX1.2   
This is V4R3 but I can't imagine newer releases added much information to
these tables.

Thinking that I just might be wrong, I went to the V4R5 CL Reference manual
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AUP04/CCONTENTS
where I get to read that my desired information is in the Information
Centre.  Oh, boy!  Fortunately, IBM provided me with a link:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/info/rbam6_frm.htm

I search on "font ID" and get nothing.  "Font" gives me a link to "Printer
File Attributes" which explains that a font ID tells you what font you want
to use.  Giving up on that, I backtrack to the CL topic and take the link
for CL Commands.  I'm looking for CHGPRTF FONT(), so I hit the alphabetical
list of commands and use my browser's "search in a web page" function to
find "chgprtf" and take that link:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/info/cl/chgprtf.ht
m

The FONT parameter points me to the Printer Device Programming book:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AUJ02/CCONTENTS  
where Appendix D gives me a font listing:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AUJ02/APPENDIX1.4.5.1
2.2#TBLLISTFON

Thinking that the Information Centre search engine had... issues, I tried
http://www.search400.com
I didn't have the patience to wade through all the hits, but one caught my
eye:
http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/web/fonts  
It doesn't provide the font listing I'm after, but there's other more
generic AFP information there that could prove interesting...

All in all, long way to go.

Buck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Crosby 
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:13 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Font on *LAN attached Laser
> 
> Buck Calabro wrote:
>  
> >   Font numbers are listed in the CL Reference manual under "Font
> parameter"
> > as in CRTPRTF, etc.
> > I have Infoprints here and have no such problem.
> 
> But the CL Reference _doesn't_ say more.  Here is what is there:
> 
> "More information about the valid font identifiers, the display value, the
> characters per inch
>      value implied with each font style, a description of each font style,
> and whether the font
> is
>      supported on a particular printer is in ." 
> 
> Note the extra space at the end before the period.  It's as if something
> is missing.  I'm going
> to look in the Device Configuration Guide.
> 
> FWIW, I have the parm set to (11 *NONE)
> 
> -- 
> -Jeff
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