Intermate iSeries, i5, AS/400 manual Working with Fonts, Resident Fonts

Working with Fonts

InterForm400® exploits resident and down loaded PCL fonts of HP compatible printers independent of their attachment to the AS/400.

Intermate InterForm400® has a built-in conversion table between IBM font ID’s, known from the IBM 3812 page printer, and the substituted “look-alike” PCL fonts of the HPII (PCL4), HPIII (PCL5) and HP4 (PCL5e) compatible printers.

This means that the native font conversion tables of interfaces, the Client Access printer sessions, or other protocol converter functions, are NOT used for selection of fonts in the forms (overlays) or the spool entries being used for filling of the forms.

RESIDENT FONTS

Appendix F (refer to page 382) displays a list of the emulated IBM font ID’s which are selectable in InterForm400® as default.

Note, that font outlines might vary between the different printer models attached to your system, depending on their HP compatibility and their PCL emulation level.

It is therefore advisable to print a font reference on all the different printers in your AS/400 environment, and base your corporate standard on fonts that looks the same on all of your printers.

You can also define new font numbers based on typefaces known by the printers using option 1. Description of additional fonts.

SOFT FONTS

Should you require to use fonts which are not currently available among the resident fonts of your printers, you can choose to import fonts to InterForm400® from your PC environment.

InterForm400® supports import of True Type Font files (TTF). These can be converted to a soft font by InterForm400®.

You need to install/create the soft font for each kind of possible output, that you want to use i.e. PCL, PDF and ZPL (for Zebra printers).

If you want to use barcodes for PCL output you will need to create a soft font for the barcode (in InterForm400). Barcode soft fonts are not necessary for PDF and Zebra output.

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