> I don't remember ... IBM having an ARIAL font
ISTR there being a "UNIVERS" that was similar to Arial.
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:45:01 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Arial Font printing on Mainframe
> To: [email protected]
> 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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