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Using TrueType fonts in AFP documents

Using TrueType fonts in AFP documents

The marketing department of a large insurance company is developing a campaign to sell new services to existing clients. Their AFP statement application incorporates specific marketing messages to sell other services they offer. The marketing department uses standard Windows or Macintosh-based word-processing products to create the marketing messages. The department wants to use these messages in the AFP statements and it wants the messages to look the same, but it also wants to minimize the conversion effort.

Here is how this insurance company can use PSF for z/OS® to meet its requirements:

1. The marketing department creates the marketing messages by using various TrueType and OpenType fonts commonly available in PC-based word-processing applications, such as Microsoft Word.
2. A programmer merges the marketing messages into the AFP application, referencing the same TrueType and OpenType fonts that are used in the original marketing messages and sends the messages to the printer.
3. PSF uses a resource access table to map the font references to the fonts on the z/OS system.
4. The TrueType rasterizer in the InfoPrint 4100 prints the text by using the original TrueType fonts.

Figure 11 shows how PSF sends AFP documents that contain TrueType and OpenType fonts to printers.

Figure 11. Using TrueType fonts in AFP documents