Fonts

The following fonts are included in i5/OS®. Other font products, such as Infoprint® Fonts, are available and can be purchased separately.

• TrueType and OpenType fonts (Option 43 - Additional fonts)
• AFP compatibility fonts (Option 8 - AFP™ compatibility fonts)

These fonts can be supplemented by installing IBM® licensed programs that provide additional fonts, creating your own fonts on the iSeries™ server, or purchasing them from other companies.

Fonts are a family or assortment of characters. Three elements typically provide a font identity:

• Type family

  Courier is an example of a type family.

• Typeface

  Style, weight (for example, italic or bold), and width (normal or expanded) define typeface.

  Normal means the typical size of characters, while expanded means that the character is wider than normal.

• Type size

  Fonts can range from small (4 point) to large (72 point).

Some printers have fonts built into them and some do not. If the printer does not have fonts built into it, the server can send (download) character sets and code pages to the printer with the document or independent of the document, to be stored for future use.