HPOS 3.5 - Generating the font entries file and update the mffpcl.pro file

HP Output Server 3.5 1
Technical Note
Generating the font entries file and
update the mffpcl.pro file
This technical note describes how to generate the font entries file and update the mffpcl.pro file.
Problem
If different fonts are referenced in input Printer Control Language (PCL) documents, a few ASCII characters may
overlap, spacing may appear incorrect, or the appearance of styles may be different. PCL transformers must be able to
properly utilize Unicode font sets, or subsets, to properly process Unicode-encoded PCL documents and produce
non-Unicode-dependent PCL files or non-Unicode-transformed documents. The different steps for generating and
updating the font entries file, and the error messages you may encounter are described in the next section.
Solution
1. Generate the font entries file
Execute the following command:
$DAZEL_HOME/bin/cpm_copy –fontentries <output xml file name> –i <input PCL
file> -q
Example
/home/dazel/bin/cpm_copy –fontentries fonts.xml –i input.pcl –q
Execute the above command to get the different fonts referenced in the input pcl file. All the font entries are
available in the fonts.xml file.
NOTE: Set the DAZEL_HOME variable correctly before invoking this binary or the system server
displays the following error message: Environment Variable DAZEL_HOME is
not set. If the DAZEL_HOME variable does not have the right value, then the following
error message is displayed: Failed to generate the font entries file.
After successfully executing the above command, the system server displays the following message:
Successfully generated the font entries file.