When you select this option all installed soft fonts for Zebra printers are shown.
You reach this option from the InterForm400 Menu if you select:
80. Administering InterForm400, followed by 4. Work with fonts, and finally 12. Work with ZEBRA soft fonts.
After you have installed the necessary soft fonts, you can create label fonts based on soft fonts.
Work with ZEBRA soft fonts FNT461D
Position to . . . . . . __________ Member name
Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Print
Opt Member Symbolset Description _ FRUTBOCE Central European TrueType Frutiger-Bold _ FRUTBOWE Western TrueType Frutiger-Bold _ LOGOFONT Special TrueType Company Logo
End F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Create F12=Cancel
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5=Display
You can choose option 5=Display to display a sample of the font in SwiftView (if installed). You are prompted for the codepage to use. State the codepage with preceding zeroes.
6=Print
Some few characters in some soft fonts cannot be printed on a Zebra printer. To make sure, that an installed soft font can be used it is recommended always to do a test print before using the soft font in production.
Press F6 to install a True Type Font file as a new soft font for Zebra:
The True Type font must be uploaded to the IFS inside /APF3812Home/Work.
(Make sure that you do not violate any copyrights when installing the font).
Install TrueType font to ZEBRA from /APF3812Home/Work FNT465D
Document name . . . . . . : FONT.TTF
Font name . . . . . . . . : Font
Font name PCL . . . . . . . Font____________
Symbol set . . . . . . . . 1 1 = Western 2 = Central European 3 = Baltic 4 = Turkish 5 = Cyrillic 6 = Greek 7 = Arabic 8 = Hebrew 9 = Special
Member name in FONT file . Font______ F4=List
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
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When installing you are prompted for what symbol set to use. Use the symbol set, that you want to use this soft font for. If the font is a specially designed font including e.g. the company logo you should use 9 = Special.
The procedure to install a True Type Font for unicode output is different.