PSF/AIX, PSM, InfoPrint 4000 & Resident Fonts

ITEM: RTA000154501

Q:                                                                              
Topic thread:                                                                   
Printer Systems (PRINT - NA/ATS)                                                
 PSF/AIX                                                                        
                                                                                
A user required use of an exclamation point using coded fonts which             
point to code page T1V10500.  They modified the IBM-distributed                 
T1V10500.  (Let's ignore for a moment the advisability of this action.)         
What they did worked for them in their PSF/MVS environment.  (In                
post-mortem analysis, I am assuming that this is because they never             
marked their fonts in their host libraries to indicate they are resident        
on the printer.)                                                                
                                                                                
When they began to use MVS Download to move work down to a  PSF/AIX &           
PSM platform, they began to notice that their exclamation points became        
right brackets.  This was an indicator that "their" T1V10500 was not            
being used.  They tried changing resource-contexts and search orders and        
nothing helped.  In fact, they even swept through the system and renamed        
every copy of T1V10500 they could find, hoping to at least cause an             
error.  Instead, their print job just kept on printing the same way and         
never complained about T1V10500 being missing.                                  
                                                                                
When I heard this, I began to suspect that whatever they were doing at          
the RS/6000 was overridden by the printer, in other words, the code page        
must have been resident on the printer.  I suggested they rename the            
"nores" sample GRD file for code pages to codepage.grd and fortunately,         
that cleared up the problem.                                                    
                                                                                
I just want to verify that my analysis is correct; that their inability         
to use their version of T1V10500 was because T1V10500 was considered by        
PSF/AIX to be resident.  Any other pertinent thoughts would also be             
appreciated.  Thanks.                                                           
                                                                                
A:                                                                              
Your analysis is correct -- PSF/AIX and InfoPrint Manager for AIX by            
default try to use printer-resident fonts whenever possible.  In effect,        
it's the reverse of the host environment where you have to take                 
explicit action to mark fonts resident.  In the AIX environment, you            
have to take explicit action to disable use of printer-resident fonts.          
                                                                                
Thanks for using ViewBlue.                                                      
                                                                                
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:                                                  
psf/6000 psf/aix infoprint ipmgr afccu 4000 psm resident codepage               
code page font psm character set                                               



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Dated: 01/1999 Category: XPSF6000

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