Fonts

This chapter describes which font packs are available.

See List of available and optional fonts.

Roman fonts

The Adobe font set of 136 Type 1 fonts are supported for Roman languages.

Utility fonts for error page and banner page

The following fonts are always available for printing Unicode strings in the error page and in the banner page. These fonts allow support of the 18 languages.

• KozGoPro-Medium

• KozMinProVI-Regular

Those fonts are CID fonts provided by Adobe.

NOTE

Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Traditional Chinese are supported only partially.

Asian fonts

Asian font packs are only available with a software option. All fonts are deployed on disk but they are only accessible with the appropriate options.

The Asian languages cover four regional options:

• Japanese

• Simplified Chinese

• Traditional Chinese

• Korean

All fonts are CIE keyed fonts provided by Adobe.

• Japanese: 5 Morisawa fonts. (No Heisei fonts)

• Chinese: 2 fonts for simplified Chinese and 1 font for traditional Chinese

• Korean: 1 font for Korean

NOTE

Applications are allowed to download fonts inside the PS stream.

Font substitution

PostScript offers a mechanism for font substitution. When font substitution is enabled, any missing font is replaced by the Courier font. Any missing Asian character is replaced by a rectangular box since the Courier font does not contain Asian characters. When font substitution is disabled, any missing font interrupts the print job. An error page is generated for each missing character. The 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. You must restart the print server when you enable or disable font substitution in the Settings Editor.

User fonts

User fonts can be installed by uploading the user fonts via the Settings Editor. The fonts are stored on disk together with PostScript resources in the following location:

%PSIROOT%/userfonts

You must restart the print server once the fonts are stored on disk.

The list of accepted font formats are:

Font format	Typical file extension	Description
PFA	.pfa	PostScript Type 1 fonts Printer Font ASCII (PFA) is the unpacked version of a PFB file. Printer Font Binary (PFB) is a storage format in which Adobe Type 1 fonts are distributed. Many applications 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	The TrueType specification is available online: http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/index.html NOTE TrueType collection files (.ttc) are not supported.
OpenType	.otf .ttf	The OpenType specification is available online: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/