In addition to the suggestions you've received, a few more comments: 1. I cannot find that printer model number you mention, so could you double check that?
2. Windows is capable of printing all fonts using bitmaps. (There's a checkbox in the printer driver settings that enables that.) The size of the print job will grow, so that's one disadvantage. If you can transfer and print bitmaps in some form, this is one option. 3. According to Wikipedia, Arial is just the new Microsoft-created name for Sonoran Sans Serif. Arial/Sonoran Sans Serif was designed by Monotype. It's very close in appearance to Linotype's Helvetica, and it is a variation of Monotype's Grotesque font. Triumvirate, Helios, Megaron, and Newton fonts are other substitutes for Arial and Helvetica. 4. Both the InfoPrint Fonts (5648-E76) and the AFP Font Collection ( 5648-B33) include Helvetica. The former includes only outline Helvetica while the latter includes both outline and raster (bitmap) Helvetica (240 and 300 dpi). You can still order Sonoran Sans Serif (5771-ABB) -- just checked -- but I think that's 240 dpi raster format only (e.g. 3820 laser printing). That may be sufficient, depending on your output device and appearance goals, but I think I'd look at outline Helvetica first. Also, PSF for z/OS supports OpenType/TrueType font formats directly. See this guide (IBM Publication No. G544-5876) for more details: http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/g3a00mst.pdf Assuming you license Monotype's Arial -- it is available for purchase -- presumably you could use it in PSF for z/OS. I don't have too much information on Exstream Dialogue, but presumbly you could do something similar. Hope all that helps. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
