RE: ttf fonts on iseries - part 2

Paul,

Here is the actual file names in the folder

GOUDOS.TTF
OLDENGL.TTF

Here is the dds

OLDENGL 40 1FONTNAME('OLDENGL' +
(*POINTSIZE 10) +
(*CODEPAGE T1V10037) +
)
SPACEB(2)

GOUDOS 40 1FONTNAME('GOUDOS' +
(*POINTSIZE 20) +
(*CODEPAGE T1V10037) +
)
SPACEB(2)


The only thing I didn?t put in was the .ttf extension.

In addition, I didn?t see any messages in regards to invalid font name.
Where would these messages be?

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Tykodi
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 1:17 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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
-- Paul Tykodi
Principal Consultant
TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC

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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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