The section covers the procedure to link a font number with one or more installed soft fonts for PCL/PDF output.
You reach the Autodownload configuration via these options in InterForm400:
80. Administering InterForm400
4. Work with fonts
8. Auto download soft fonts
This menu enables you to create groups of printers and fonts which should have ordinary soft fonts and bar code soft fonts downloaded automatically when the font numbers are addressed in an overlay.
Auto download for PCL soft fonts
The printers are defined for auto download according to their System i printer queue names.
The soft fonts will be downloaded as temporary fonts in the beginning of a spool entry and deleted after the job is printed.
It is recommended to keep the amount and size of downloaded fonts to a minimum in order to reduce the traffic on the network and the workload on the System i.
For each printer group you define a number of printer queues and a number of fonts to be downloaded automatically. For PCL is it recommended to create only 1 printer group and add the output queue *ALLPCL via option 6=Update output queues. Only PCL printer groups with *ALLPCL can be exported/imported. Refer for details about export/import here.
Note: The queue you define for automatic download must be the one with the physical printer attached. I.e. when using Auto Forms Control the Auto download queue is the AFC output queue, not the AFC input queue.
Refer to the section: True Type font for PCL/PDF for the full setup.
Please note this, when adding printers to a printer group: You can specify either of these values instead of an output queue:
*ALLPCL:
Download the soft fonts in a printer group (if used) to any printer or file (if merging to *OUTDOC with the command APF3812/APF3812). Use this if in doubt.
*OUTDOC:
Download the soft fonts in a printer group (if used) to all files, if merging to *OUTDOC with the command, APF3812/APF3812.
Work with auto download soft fonts PGR300
Start with . . . . . . . . __________
Type option, press Enter 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 6=Update output queue 8=Update fonts
Opt Printer group Description _ *PDF Output to PDF files _ *PCL All PCL output (*ALLPCL)
F3=exit F5=Refresh F6=Add F12=Cancel
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In order to select the soft font from an overlay, it has to be defined as a font number.
Auto Download for PDF output
If it is required to use True Type Fonts in PDF output, the TTF file has to be installed. Following you can specify, if a certain font number is used when creating PDF output, then a specific PDF soft font member should be used.
You add a new font to be used in PDF, by using option 8-Update fonts. If you then press F6 to add a new font, you get the screen below:
Add Auto download Soft Font PGR332D
Printer group name . . . : *PDF
Font number . . . . . . . ____ F4=List Symbol set number . . . . _ 1 = Western 2 = Central European 3 = Baltic 4 = Turkish 5 = Cyrillic 6 = Greek 7 = Arabic 8 = Hebrew U = UCS2 unicode
Font member name 0° . . . __________ F4=List
When to embed font . . . . *ALWAYS___ *ALWAYS *PRI *SEC *NEVER
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F12=Cancel
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The font number must have the same characteristics as the soft font (bold, italic, condenced, proportional/fixed).
With 'When to embed font' you can state when you want to download the font. *PRI will download the soft font only when you do a primary merge and *SEC will download the soft font only when you do a secondary merge.
In this manner you can include the soft font only in PDF files, where it is needed and save the space if the soft font is already installed on the PC's that are to open the PDF files.
TIP: Even though the same font member can not be used for both PCL and PDF output, you can associate one font number to a PCL font member and a PDF font member. Therefore if you install a TTF as a PCL font member and a PDF font member you can get the same output on both PDF and PCL using one font number.
Auto Download for InterWord400 PDF output
If you use InterWord400 and you want to use soft fonts for the PDF output you need to install the soft fonts in InterForm400 (and InterWord400) and setup auto download for this printer group via option 8=Update fonts for the *IWPDF printer group:
Soft Fonts to be downloaded automatic PGR330D
Printer group name . . . : *IWPDF
Start with . . . . . . . .
Type option, Press Enter. 2=Update 4=Delete
Opt IW-fontnbr Symbol set Number of fonts Font embedding _ 9999 1 Western 4 *ALWAYS
End F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Add F12=Cancel
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Press F6 to add new soft fonts to the list:
Add Auto download Soft Font PGR332D
Printer group name . . . : *IWPDF
InterWord font number . . 9998 F4=List Symbol set number . . . . 1 1 = Western 2 = Central European
Font member normal . . . . FONT_NM F4=List Font member bold . . . . . FONT_BD F4=List Font member italic . . . . FONT_IT Font member bold italic . FONT_BD_IT When to embed font . . . . *ALWAYS *ALWAYS *PRI *SEC *NEVER
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F12=Cancel
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