Re: ttf fonts on iseries - part 2

Hi Tim,

I don't know whether this issue might be impacting your DDS or not. True Type
font support on the System i is case sensitive. You must specify the name of the
font exactly as it is named in the file you uploaded to the System i (into the
qibm\UserData\OS400\Fonts\TTFonts folder) when using the FONTNAME keyword. If
you create a reference abbreviation to point to the actual name because it is
very long, the reference abbreviation still needs to declare the font
name correctly (case sensitive) and the FONTNAME keyword will still treat
the reference abbreviation as having case sensitivity as well.

I have worked with a number of different TT typestyles for a few customers and I
have found the System i error messages to be very direct about whether the
problem you have encountered when a TT font is not selected is that the host
program searching the folder could not find a match of the font name given with
the font source files in the folder.

Best Regards,

/Paul
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date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:26:25 -0500
from: "tim" <tim.dclinc@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: ttf fonts on iseries - part 2

I just discovered the ability to use ttf on the iseries by copying them to
"qibm\UserData\OS400\Fonts\TTFonts" and specifying the FONTNAME keyword. I
copied 2 ttf to this folder OLDENGL and GOUDOS.



But when I run the program, I don't get both fonts. Only 1. I tried
different variations of writing data1/data2, data2/data1, etc, but couldn't
figure out whats up.



Anyone else have this issue.

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