For specific information on fonts on your system you can
1. Browse the fonts directly. There is some readable descriptive
information
2. If you have Document Composition Facility and run the DSMFLIP program,
then you get a listing of the fonts with lots of information.
For example, the names you give: GT18, GT12, CB12, and CB18 refer to
coded fonts.
A coded font is a small file that links a character set to a code page.
The names you give in the CHARS are actually shortened forms of the real
coded font names which always begin with X. So, for example, if I browse
the SYS1.FONTLIBB library and look inside X0GT18, I can read the name of
the character set and code page in this line:
!..Lð«...C0D0GT18T1D0BASE.........
If you browse the character set C0D0GT18, and the code page T1D0BASE you
will see some more descriptive fields in there.
Best is the DSMFLIP listing. Where I can see:
CHARACTER SET : C0D0GT18 GOTHIC
CODED FONT CODE PAGE
X0GT18 T1D0BASE DCF REL 2 COMPATIBILITY
and also
DESCRIPTIVE NAME: GOTHIC
CHARACTER POINT
SET SIZE WEIGHT WIDTH STYLE
DEVICE
C0D0GT24 04 Medium Normal Roman 3820
C0D0GT20 05 Medium Normal Roman 3820
C0D0GT18 06 Medium Normal Roman 3820
There's more to each line, but I didn't want to make lines here that would
wrap.
On these old compatibility fonts, the numbers in the names are pitch, not
point size. You can see above how the point size decreases the more
characters per inch to the pitch (18 per inch, 20 per inch, 24 per inch).
Regards,
Roger Bolan
IBM Printing Systems Division
Visit our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/printers.
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:05:30 -0600, Pommier, Rex R.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi.
> >
> >I have what is probably a basic question regarding AFP fonts. I have
> >dug through the manuals I can find and can't seem to get a good answer
> >to this. In looking at my PSF JCL member for starting a couple virtual
> >printers, I see in the PRINTDEV statement, CHARS=(GT18,GT12). I have
> >figured out these are default fonts. In another member, it is referring
> >to CHARS=(CB12,CB18). Can someone tell me what these fonts actually
> >are? I have figured out the G tells me it is a gothic font and the C
is
> >a Courier. I assume the 12 and 18 are the point sizes (right?). What
> >does the second character mean in the names?
> >
> >TIA and have a relaxing DST weekend.
> >
> >Rex
> >
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