On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Hal Merritt wrote:
You print on printers, not the mainframe ;-)
Seriously, the printer doc is where you need to look. You send
directives to the printer to load whatever fonts, overlays, or
action sequences (page eject, etc). If the device can't do that
font, then you are out of luck.
Printing subsystems (VPS is one example, AFP another) might offer
some facilities to simplify/complicate the process. You would
consult that doc to fund out the 'right stuff'.
And, yes, the correct technical term is 'stuff' ;-) I have used
some other terms, but they are not suitable for this list :-))
Another possibility is that you may have to route the print data
through another program (XMITIP, for example) to get what you want.
Now, IMHO, printing is a career path and my comments may or may not
apply to any known reality.
HTH and good luck
OK I have not worked in a few years having said that I don't remember
of IBM having an ARIAL font in the 10+ years I worked on the
3800/3820. At the time I thought it was strange. There was at least 1
font book out there that listed most (not all) of IBM's fonts. I was
lucky that I stumbled across a font early on in the 3800 world that
was exactly what they were using on the XEROX machines the 3800
displaced. One bit of information that caused me no end of confusion
is that a printers(professional type) name for a font did not
necessarily equal the IBM font name (not all just some) so if you
find one you like find a printer expert (a real one not the sales
type) at IBM and ask him what the corresponding IBM font name is.
I was pretty lucky as we only had to order one set of fonts. The
problem I had with it was that it was *NOT* SMPe installable. I hope
they changed that,
but in IBM's defense SMP might not have supported fonts (nicely yea I
know they can do IEBCOPY).
Ed
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