Specify an AFP font

There are many different tools you can use to specify Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) fonts in your document. Each tool has different capabilities. Use the tool that best fits your needs. These tools are discussed in greater detail in other topics and related publications.

DDS

You can use keywords in your Data description specifications (DDS) application to specify fonts, including how they look and how they are placed. The example in the Example: Specify a font topic uses DDS.

IBM® Infoprint® Designer for iSeries™

This graphical tool lets you use menus to specify fonts and font properties, such as size and weight. You can also specify placement properties, such as alignment and orientation.

AFP printer driver

This device driver can be used to produce AFP documents, overlays, and page segments from any Windows® 2000/XP application that supports printing to AFP printers.

IBM Advanced Function Printing™ Utilities for iSeries

You can specify fonts in the components of AFP Utilities.

Third-party applications

Several third-party applications exist that you can use to work with fonts in a document. Some such products are Papyris, Elixir, Opus, StreamServe, and DOC1.

DDS keyword finder

AFP fonts

Related tasks

Example: Specify a font

Related information

Infoprint Server for iSeries User's Guide PDF

iSeries Guide to Output PDF