Mapping to outline fonts

If your printer supports outline fonts and you have existing applications that use raster fonts, and you want to use outline fonts without changing the applications, you can request that PSF map fonts to outline fonts.

The Map to outline fonts parameter in the Printer Inventory (see Map to outline fonts), the MAP2OLN parameter on the PRINTDEV statement (see MAP2OLN), or XTP7MTOF in Exit 7 (see XTP7MTOF) controls whether PSF maps fonts to outline fonts. This option defaults to NO, which specifies that PSF is not to map fonts to outline fonts. If the option is set to YES, PSF attempts to map the font to a corresponding outline font by using user and system mapping tables. For more information, see Using the font mapping tables.

• The font is used on an auxiliary data set.
• The font is an inline font or a font from a user library.
• A double-byte raster font section is requested by character set and code page name.
  Note:

  Double byte raster coded fonts are prefix-mapped to equivalent outline coded fonts.
• PSF senses that the font is already an outline font.
• The target printer does not support outline fonts.

For performance considerations, see Using outline fonts.