i5/OS™ - AFP™ Compatibility Fonts is included free of charge in the iSeries base operating system. It can be installed as an option on any iSeries system. The fonts are downloadable 240-pel raster fonts and are installed in font library QFNTCPL.
The 240- and 300-pel versions of the AFP Compatibility Fonts are provided in the IBM® AFP Font Collection for Workstations and OS/400® licensed product.
When your operating system was loaded, you chose to install or not install IBM-supplied fonts. If you did not install the fonts and now want to install them, see the Install, upgrade, or delete i5/OS and related software PDF for instructions.
The compatibility set is provided to allow i5/OS applications that use resident fonts to print on the 3820, 3825, 3827, 3828, 3829, 3831, 3835, and 3900 model 1 printers. The numeric font identifiers specified in the application are translated into one of the fonts in the compatibility set.
The AFP Compatibility Fonts feature includes both uniformly spaced and mixed-pitch type families at 240-pel resolution. These font families are included:
In addition to these 240-pel raster fonts, the compatibility set includes a number of code pages that are downloadable to printers. For use on printers that support outline fonts, the compatibility set also includes a Letter Gothic outline font that contains the euro symbol.
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