Mapping raster fonts to outline fonts

The AFP to PCL transform includes all raster fonts in the output data stream. This transform rasterizes outline fonts to 300-dpi raster fonts and includes them in the output data stream.

The AFP to PDF transform includes all outline and raster fonts in the output data stream to make sure they are available. You can use the AOP_OUTLINES environment variable to control which fonts are included in PDF output.

The AFP to PostScript transform includes all outline fonts in the PostScript output when the AOP_EMBED_OUTLINES environment variable is set to yes, which is the default. When AOP_EMBED_OUTLINES is set to no, the transform rasterizes outline fonts to 300-dpi raster fonts and includes them in the output data stream. When the transform includes outline fonts in the PostScript output, the output fidelity is improved; however, each typeface increases the size of the PostScript output file by approximately 175 KB. When the transform includes raster fonts in the output data stream, the output files are smaller than when outline fonts are included.

Because the transforms include all required fonts in the data streams or the output, there is typically no need for font mapping. However, the AOP_FONTMAP_TABLE environment variable lets you improve the output quality of the AFP to PDF transform by mapping raster fonts to outline fonts. Mapping raster fonts to outline fonts provides sharper characters when viewing PDFs on a monitor or printing on a high resolution printer. You can specify the AOP_FONTMAP_TABLE environment variable to point to the location of a file that contains a font-mapping table.