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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 287
3. Auto download Soft Fonts
This menu enables you to create groups of HP compatible printers which should have
ordinary soft fonts and bar code soft fonts downloaded automatically when the soft fonts
are addressed in an overlay.
The printers are defined for auto download according to their AS/400 printer queue
names.
The soft fonts will be downloaded as temporary fonts in the beginning of a spool entry and
deleted after the job is printed.
It is recommended to keep the amount and size of downloaded fonts to a minimum in
order to reduce the traffic on the network and the workload on the AS/400.
An alternative is to create spool entries containing the soft fonts to be downloaded
manually e.g. in the morning when the printer is powered on (refer to the previous section
2. Download soft fonts). The fonts will then be downloaded as permanent soft fonts into
the HP printer. The soft fonts will only be removed from the printer memory at power off,
and on some printer models when switching between PCL and PostScript emulations.
When downloading into Flash SIMM modules the font will stay resident also after power
off, and emulation switching.
For each printer group you define a number of printer queues and a number of fonts to be
downloaded automatically.
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The queue you define for automatic download must be the one with the physical printer
device attached. I.e. when using Auto Forms Control the Auto download queue is the
AFC output queue, not the AFC input queue.
Refer to section Getting familiar with soft-fonts and barcodes and page 301, Define
auto download of fonts for an example of how to define the underlying menus.
Please note this, when adding printers to a printer group: You can specify either of these
values instead of an output queue:
*ALLPCL: Download the soft fonts in a printer group (if used) to any printer or file (if
merging to *OUTDOC with the command APF3812/APF3812). Use this if in doubt.
*OUTDOC: Download the soft fonts in a printer group (if used) to all files, if merging to
*OUTDOC with the command, APF3812/APF3812.