Fonts provided by IBM i

IBM® i AFP Compatibility Fonts is included free of charge in the IBM i base operating system.

AFP Compatibility Fonts can be installed as an option on any IBM i system. The fonts are downloadable 240-pel raster fonts and are installed in font library QFNTCPL.

The 240- and 300-pel versions of the AFP Compatibility Fonts are provided in the IBM AFP Font Collection for Workstations and OS/400® licensed product.

When your operating system was loaded, you chose to install or not install IBM-supplied fonts. If you did not install the fonts and now want to install them, see Installing, upgrading, or deleting IBM i and related software for instructions.

The compatibility set is provided to allow IBM i applications that use resident fonts to print on the 3820, 3825, 3827, 3828, 3829, 3831, 3835, and 3900 model 1 printers. The numeric font identifiers specified in the application are translated into one of the fonts in the compatibility set.

The AFP Compatibility Fonts feature includes both uniformly spaced and mixed-pitch type families at 240-pel resolution. These font families are included:
  • APL
  • Boldface
  • Courier
  • Document
  • Essay
  • Format
  • Gothic
  • Orator
  • Prestige
  • Proprinter Emulation
  • Roman
  • Script
  • Serif
  • Symbol Set
  • Text

In addition to these 240-pel raster fonts, the compatibility set includes a number of code pages that are downloadable to printers. For use on printers that support outline fonts, the compatibility set also includes a Letter Gothic outline font that contains the euro symbol.

To determine the fonts that are available on your system, use the WRKFNTRSC command.