In its standard configuration, the PRISMAsync comes with the Adobe® PostScript ® 3™ font. The PRISMAsync supports the Adobe Fontset for Roman languages.
Fonts can be installed permanently using a font downloading program or via the Settings Editor.
The Adobe font set of 136 Type 1 fonts are supported for Roman languages.
Optionally, four extra Adobe font sets can be used for Asian languages for the varioPRINT 140 Series:
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Japanese
Korean
This means that Kanji fonts and Unicode fonts are supported.
The following fonts are used for printing Unicode strings in the banner and error pages:
KozGoPro-Medium-*
KozMinProVI-Regular-*
Above fonts are provided by Adobe as CID fonts.
When font substitution is enabled, any missing font is replaced by the Courier font. When jobs use Asian fonts, any missing Asian characters are replaced by a rectangular box since the Courier font does not contain Asian characters.
When font substitution is disabled, any missing fonts cause the job print to be interrupted and an error page is generated. The corresponding error page is an ‘invalid font’ error and the name of the missing font appears in the Operand Stack.
By default, font substitution is enabled. This can be changed via the Settings Editor.
User fonts can be installed by uploading fonts via the Settings Editor (Workflow / Fonts). The user fonts are stored on the disk. Once fonts are stored on the disk, the interpreter must be restarted.
User fonts can also be deleted via the Settings Editor. The controller must be restarted for the fonts deletion to take effect.
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Font format |
Typical file extension |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
PFA |
.pfa |
Used to package PostScript Type 1  NOTE
"PFA" stands for Printer Font ASCII which is the unpacked version of a PFB file. NOTE
"PFB" stands for Printer Font Binary and is a storage format in which Adobe Type 1 font programmes are distributed. Many application programmes support fonts in PFB format and refer to them as "downloadable". Reference: Supporting Downloadable PostScript Language Fonts Technical Note #5040, 31 March 1992, Adobe Systems Incorporated |
|
PFB |
.pfb |
|
|
TrueType |
.ttf |
NOTE
TrueType collection files (.ttc) are not supported. Reference: The TrueType specification is available online. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/index.html |
|
OpenType |
.otf |
Reference: The OpenType specification is available online. See http://www.mircosoft.com/typography/otspec/ |
When a user installs a new font by uploading a font file, the name of the font is displayed in the list of fonts in the Settings Editor.