Distributing user-defined files

You can distribute user-defined files with the IBM OnDemand AFP Web Viewer software that is supplied by IBM so that when a user views an AFP document, the document is displayed with the correct fonts.

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To distribute user-defined files with the AFP Web Viewer, you must package the files into an installation file and store the installation file in a shared location. When a user runs the installation file, the Setup program automatically installs the AFP Web Viewer and the user-defined files on the user's workstation.

You can distribute the following types of user-defined files with the AFP Web Viewer:
  • AFP font files. These files are copied to the FONT subdirectory of the AFP Web Viewer destination directory on the workstation.
  • TrueType font files. These files are copied to the Windows FONTS directory and installed in Windows by the Setup program.
  • Miscellaneous user-defined files. These files are copied to the AFP Web Viewer destination directory on the user's workstation.
Tip: The Setup program copies user-defined files to the workstation after the AFP Web Viewer files that are supplied by IBM. If you name a user-defined file the same as one of the files supplied by IBM, then the user-defined file replaces the file supplied by IBM. You can take advantage of this feature, for example, to distribute an updated FTDPORT2.INI file or to distribute IBM AFP font files that your organization modified.