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Origin item: 00009,998,668
Topic thread:
Printer Systems
PSF/AIX
PRINT XPSF6000
Q:
On customer site I installed the PSF/6000 2.1 with the latest
PTFs and AIX V4. I created print queues, one as a system queue,
and one as a PSF queue. Using the system queue I am able to
print Latin 2 characters with no problem, but I am not able
to setup the PSF queue to print these characters as well.
Can you provide me step-by-step guide, how to setup PSF queue
to print Latin2 characters?
Thank you for your support.
A:
I don't have a generic step-by-step guide I can provide you because
it really depends on your customer's environment. I need more specific
information from you in order to be able to assist:
1) What kind of printer?
2) What is the input data stream? Are you using any of the PSF for
AIX transforms, like acif/line2afp or pcl2afp or ps2afp?
3) When you try printing a job that calls for Latin2 characters, are
you getting errors? If so, what are the errors (please include the
message number and the text of the message), and where do the errors
appear (are they printed out at the end of the job or appear in the
jobmessage.log or are they reported by a transform)?
4) Did you install the Latin2 fonts from the PSF product tape on to
the hard disk of the system (change to the root directory and use the
command "lslpp -h psf.fnt.lat2345\*" to check)? Or are you trying to
use the fonts from the AFP Font Collection CD-ROM?
5) What level of AIX?
6) What is the value of the LANG variable ("echo $LANG")? This could
be important if you're trying to use acif/line2afp to format data with
a pagedef.
7) Which language and what specific fonts are you trying to use?
8) If you're trying to print to a PCL or PPDS printer, did you install
the 300-pel versions of the Latin2 fonts from the PSF product tape?
Please give as much detail as you can, and I'll do my best to help.
Q:
1) I am using the following printers:
- on IBM 3116 and 3130 I am able to print english characters
- on IBM 3160 I am not able to print at all (the output from
the error log follows)
2) I am printing files like /etc/hosts or /etc/motd using standard
AIX commands like qprt or enq
3) On 3116 and 3130 I do not get any error when I try to print Latin2
ASCII file.
On 3160 I got the following errors in the /var/psf/printer_name/
error.log file:
07/27/97 13:28:01 0420-235: PSF Error Log created for printer qaix.
2.1 ainmain compilation date: Jul 9 1997 22:55:15
--------------------------------------------------------------------
07/24/97 13:28:01 0420-237 Starting the Error Log for printer qaix.
07/24/97 13:28:01 0420-885 PSF is establishing communications with
qaix, aub3ddii.c 475
07/24/97 13:28:04 0420-252: The sense bytes received from the printer
are: X'01000D000002B0020000000000000000000
07/24/97 13:28:11 0423-279 PSF mapped the code page name T1000850 to
the CPGID, GCSGID combination: 850,980. The
CODEPAGE.GRD mapping file specified that this
mapping mapping be performed.
Job Name=/etc/motd Job ID=00010
Node ID=prgsap2 User ID=root
07/24/97 13:28:11 0423-256 PSF could not map the font character set
name C0PCLR12 to a resident font character
set ID. Job Name=/etc/motd JobID=00010
Node ID=prgsap2 User ID=root
07/24/97 13:28:12 0423-292 PSF cannot use a resident outline FCS nor a
library outline FCS, because no width or
vertical size was provided, either on a Map
Coded Font (MCF) Structured field or in the
CHARSET.GRD mapping table.
07/27/97 13:28:12 0423-275 PSF cannot use the printer-resident code page
identified by Code Page Global ID 850 and
Graphic Character Set Global ID 980 together
with the FOCA2 raster font character set
file C0PCLR12
07/27/97 13:28:12 0423-281 A code page with the name T1000850 was speci
fied by name on a Map Coded Font or Coded Fo
nt Index structured field, but could not be
located in the resource library.
0423-290 A Map Coded Font (MCF) structured field could
not be processed because PSF could not select
an appropriate code page
0423-302 The font reference in the MCF1 structured fie
ld, repeating group number 1, with sequence
number 4, at file offset 44, could not be
processed successfully. Additional error
and diagnostic messages follow.
0420-729 The error occurred in file /etc/motd. The
structured field in error was structured fie
ld EAG with code X'D3A9C9' and sequence
number 8 located at file offset 151
4) I installed AIX 4.1.5 on 3116 and 3130 and I was able to install
psf.fnt.lat2345. I installed AIX 4.2.1 for use with 3160 and I
was not able to install psf.fnt.lat2345 (I always got error opening
file). I copied all files from cdrom AFPFONTS/LAT2345 into /usr/lpp/
afpfonts directory, for 3160 I also copied files from AFPFONTS/COMPA
TS directory
5) See above
6) For 3130 and 3116 I tried both en_US and cs_CZ, for 3160 I tried
only en_US
7) I want to use czech langugage (i.e. LANG=cs_CZ) and ISO8859-2
fonts to print. I am not sure about 3130 and 3160, but 3116 is
printing only PC Latin2 fonts (i.e. code page 852, not ISO Latin2).
A:
The error messages you provide aren't generated because of a problem
with Latin2 fonts. Rather, the font for which you are receiving the
problem (C0PCLR12) is the font used for the header, separator, and
trailer pages. Based on the error messages you provide, I can conclude
that the 3160 is a model 002 (InfoPrint 60) which supports outline
fonts only. The 3116 and 3130, on the other hand, support raster
fonts, so the problem doesn't appear on those printers.
The problem that you're seeing on the 3160-002 with the font for the
header page can be fixed through the installation of current PSF/AIX
maintenance and the procedure I describe below. (Or you can turn off
the header and trailer pages for the 3160, but that's not acceptable to
every customer¢)
An additional font mapping table for just the case you describe is
provided in APAR IX67132 for psf.base. It is called
"charset.grd.outline". It contains new mappings for three character
sets (including C0PCLR12) that were not correctly mapped before.
In order for these new mappings to take effect, this file must be
renamed "charset.grd" and have minimum permissions of 444, owner of
root, and group of printq. It can be placed into either the
/usr/lpp/psf/grd subdirectory or the /var/psf/
subdirectory.
If charset.grd is installed in the subdirectory /var/psf/,
only that printer is affected by the charset.grd file.
If the file is installed in the /usr/lpp/psf/grd subdirectory, *all*
printers will use this file. Header page problems will occur on the
printers that do not support outline fonts in this scenario. Therefore
IBM recommends placing this file in the subdirectory
/var/psf/, in your case, /var/psf/qaix.
You will need to recycle PSF/AIX for the affected queues (psfctl -dtu
) so that the printer profile is re-read and processed.
In your 4th response, you mention that you got error messages when
trying to install the psf.fnt.lat2345 file under AIX 4.2.1. I have
not heard of that problem before, but will look into it further.
You can certainly copy fonts from the CD-ROM, but they will need to
have upper case names in order to work; the easiest way to address this
is to use the /usr/lpp/psf/bin/link_to_upper shell script provided.
Instructions for its use are in the shell script file itself. It
creates a link to the font names in upper case, thus avoiding the need
to manually rename them.
| The latest version of the AFP Font Collection CD has the fonts
| available in installp format as well as the format described in
| the previous paragraph. 9/98
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
C0PCLR12 0423-279 0423-256 0423-292 0423-275 3160-002 InfoPrint 60
IP60 header trailer outline fonts 600 Latin 3160 font psf/aix psf/6000
psf aix
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000107006 ITEM: RTA000107006
Dated: 01/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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