> Arial is a proportionally spaced font, so pitch is probably not the right
> word. Usually these fonts are measured by point size.
Pitch is a horizontal measure, characters per inch, so GT12
is Gothic characters that are one twelfth of an inch wide.
The higher the pitch number, the smaller the characters.
Point size is a vertical measure, where 72 points equal one inch,
so Arial 12 should print at six lines per inch.
The higher the point size, the larger the characters.
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:14:42 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Arial Font printing on Mainframe
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:06:30 -0500, Lizette Koehler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am trying to help out an application group that is designing forms on a
> PC and then uploading them to the mainframe for printing.
> >
> >We have an Infoprint 4445 Printer (?) and what they want to see is an Arial
> >Font that is about a 12 pitch. I do not have a pitch ruler so I am
> guessing at
> >the 12, it maybe smaller.
>
> Arial is a proportionally spaced font, so pitch is probably not the right
> word. Usually these fonts are measured by point size.
>
> >I have been looking for manuals or archives that might help me understand
> >how
> >to print Arial on the Mainframe in 12pitch font.
> >
> >I remember that there are Pagedef and Formdefs that can help, but I have not
> >located a manual that says a GT12 is this or a GF15 is that.
>
> Those names are part of the IBM naming scheme for fixed pitch fonts.
>
> >I am just looking for documentation that identifies the normal core fonts
> >that
> >exist on the mainframe (or how to find them) and what ?defs I need to use to
> >get the same page print on the infoprint that I get on a windows attached
> >printer.
>
> Arial is basically the same font as IBM's Sonoran Sans Serif. It is (duh) a
> sans serif font, with proportional spacing, and all those fancy things like
> kerning and such, that make printed output easier on the eyes.
>
> >We are using ExStream Dialogue drivers on the mainframe to do the print the
> >files from the PC, I am just thinking that perhaps the JCL needs a little
> Output
> >tweaking.
> >
> >The test I will use is printing a word doc with Arial 12. Then printing
> the same
> >file to the mainframe printer. If they are identical, then I have the right
> >combination of stuff (that is the technical term? Stuff?).
>
> Yup - stuff is the right term. But the kind of stuff you need is the
> question. I would do some Googling on terms like AFP, Arial, Sonoran,
> Infoprint. But first, I would start with the doc for your ExStream product.
> That must surely explain how to print Arial-like fonts on your
> mainframe-attached printer.
>
> Tony H.
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