Submitted by Kim Egekjaer on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 00:00
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When using a TTF (True Type Font) or a barcode soft font in InterForm400 you might have a problem where it seems, that the auto download information does not seem to be used. When you have such a situation you should focus on the auto download setup in InterForm400. Generally you should have *ALLPCL for the output queues for the PCL printer group and for barcode soft fonts you should make sure, that you have activated the barcode for all code pages. For TTF support you can use the table below to find what ASCII code page to use for a specific EBCDIC code page:

 

Code page:                              PCL                 PDF

37 to 297                                   Codepage850            Western

420                                          Arab-864               Arabic

424                                                                 Hebrew

500                                          CodePage850            Western

838                                          Unicode                Unicode

870                                          CodePage852            Central European

871                                          Codepage850            Western

875                                          ISO 8859/7             Greek

880                                          Cyrillic               Cyrillic

1025                                         Cyrillic               Cyrillic

1026                                         ISO 8859/9             Turkish

1097                                         Unicode                Unicode

1112                                         Baltic                 Baltic

1122                                         Unicode                Unicode

1140 to 1153                                CodePage858            Western 

 

If you e.g. have made a TTF setup, that works fine for code page 273 (german non-euro code page) and then change the code page for the merges into 1141, then you will need to install the TTF for ASCII codepage858 and set that up as well in auto download. If you forget it, the TTF will not be used for PCL output.