To work with the True Type Fonts for PCL/PDF you select these options from the InterForm400 main menu:
80. Administering InterForm400
4. Work with fonts
and then one of these options:
4. Work with soft fonts for PCL
5. Work with TrueType font for PDF
6. Work with TrueType font for UCS2 / DBCS
The option to select depend on the output for which you want to use the soft font for.
The complete procedure for implementing a True Type Font is covered here.
The screen looks like this:
Work with PCL Soft Fonts FNT310D
Position to . . . . . . __________ Font member name
Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Print 8=Dsp. attributes 9=Download
Opt Member Font description _ TTFFONT TrueType TTFFONT _ BARCODE39 Code 39, HPIII 7.69CPI 72.0 Heigh _ BAR128 Code 128, Portrait 9.09CPI 72.0 Heigh _ CODE128 Code 128, Portrait 9.09CPI 48.0 Heigh _ CODE128_0 Code 128, Portrait 6.81CPI 42.48Heigh _ CODE39 Code 39, Portrait 5.76CPI 48.0 Heigh _ EAN8_MICRO EAN 8/13, UPC-A, PCL5 14.28CPI 41.76Heigh _ EAN8JJ EAN 8/13, UPC-A, Portrait 10.71CPI 79.68Heigh _ FONT2501 Interleaved 2 of 5, HPIII 4.68CPI 32.4 Heigh _ IF_OCRA OCRA PC-850 _ IF_OCRAEXT OCR A Extended PC-850 _ IF_OCRB InterForm 400 - OCRB portrait _ IF_OCRB_L InterForm 400 - OCRB landscape More... F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Create F12=Cancel
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Here you can specify :
2=Change:
The description of a soft font can be changed. You cannot change the size of the barcode here - even though it might seem so!
4=Delete:
Delete a soft font. This will also delete the corresponding member from the apf3812/font file. Note that you cannot delete a soft font, if it is specified to be auto downloaded.
5=Display:
Displays a soft font. This will prompt you for what code page to use, and then open up the PCL Viewer, SwiftView on a PC showing a sample of the soft font. Note, that the current version of SwiftView does not support True Type Fonts.
6=Print:
Prints out a sample of the soft font. You are prompted for which code page, output queue and form type to use.
8=Dsp. Attributes:
Shows the attributes of the soft font e.g. pitch and height. For True Type Fonts it will also show you the type face used. The type face should be referred to, when creating font numbers using this soft font.
9=Download:
This function gives you the possibility of downloading soft fonts to HP-printers or printers emulating a HP-printer via System i spool entries.
In order to select the soft font from an overlay is has to be linked in Autodownload with a font number.
Import a True Type Font
From the Work with PCL Soft Fonts menu you can also import a True Type Font uploaded from a PC to the /APF3812Home/Work directory in the IFS.
If you want to use the font in normal, bold, italic etc., then you need to install the variations of the font as separate True Type Fonts.
If you press F6-Create, you get this screen:
Install TrueType font to PCL from /APF3812Home/Work FNT431D
Document name . . . . . . . ____________ F4=List
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
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Now you can either specify the name of the uploaded TTF file or press F4 to get an overview of all files in the /APF3812Home/Work directory, and then select the TTF file.
Press Enter and this screen is presented:
Install TrueType font to PCL from /APF3812Home/Work FNT431D
PC file . . . . . . . . . : arial.ttf
Font name . . . . . . . . : Arial
Font name PCL . . . . . . . Arial
Symbol set . . . . . . . . 2 1 = Western w/o Euro 2 = Central Europe w/o Euro 3 = Baltic 4 = Western with Euro 5 = Cyrillic w/o Euro 6 = Cyrillic with Euro 7 = Turkish 8 = Greek 9 = Central Europe with Euro A = Arabic
Member name in FONT file . ARIAL870 F4=List Type Face . . . . . . . . . (0 65535)
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
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Here you fill in the symbol set, a type face and a member name for the FONT file. Use 1=Western w/o Euro as default (used for e.g. EBCDIC codepages 37, 273, 277 etc.). Use 2=Central Europe w/o Euro if you intend to use the font for the codepage 870 and use 4=Western with Euro if you intend to use it for a western europe euro codepage (EBCDIC codepages in the range 1140 - 1164), .
The typeface is only relevant for customers, that are using InterWord400.
Finally specify what to call the soft font. This is the same as the member name. Before you can use the soft font you need to create font number, that fits the soft font attributes and specify autodownload of the soft font.
