Re: windows font on iseries?

[Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,
yes, I would be interested in that as well...

-gerald


On 12/22/2010 10:58 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Hi Bill -
>
> I'd be very interested in this. Thanks!
>
> - Michael
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Scott, Bill<Bill.Scott@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > Yes I'm testing some now, both True Type and Open Type. You have to
> > generate *AFPDS and have a relatively advanced IPDS printer that has advance
> > outline font support OR use HPT-Host Print Transform to convert the AFPDS.
> >
> > See the printer section of the DDS manual for FONTNAME.
> > For V5R2 and 3 see
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzau6%2Frzau6tt52.htm
> > For a V7R1 see
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzau6/rzau6.pdfPage 17 or so
> >
> > When this option was first made available, only True Type fonts could be
> > used. Open Type fonts were added later. Fonts MUST be Unicode capable and
> > acceptable to PSF/400, but the only easy way to tell is to use an installer,
> > which will filter out fonts that cannot be used. If you test to an IPDS
> > printer and get the font name wrong, it will complain in an error message.
> > If you use HPT, it is just like any other PCL, in that you will always get a
> > font, but it may not be the one you expected!
> >
> > I've loaded about 100+ fonts that I believe are in the public domain and
> > will make these available with a IBM_dataObjectFont.rat and a font catalog
> > program, if anyone is interested.
> >
> >
> > Bill Scott
> > Océ North America, Inc.
> > Tel.: (561) 997-3256
> > e-mail: Bill.Scott@xxxxxxx
> >
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