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

2 HP Output Server 3.5

Generating the font entries file and update the mffpcl.pro file

Solution

The font entries file is generated.

NOTE: (a) If the -fontentries attribute is misspelled, then the cpm_copy command

displays the following error message:

cpm_copy -fontentry o.xml -i 399534.1 -q

This program is not designed to use outside Output Server

Environment.

(b) If the specified path for the input file is incorrect, then the cpm_copy command

displays the following error message:

cpm_copy -fontentries o.xml -i 1.pcl -q

Failed to generate the font entries file.

displays the following error message:

Failed to generate the font entries file.

2. Update the mffpcl.pro file

After successfully generating the font entries XML file, update the mffpcl.pro file. This file is located in the

$DAZEL_HOME/etc directory.

NOTE: Once this information is updated, the font referenced in the mffpcl.pro file should be

installed using the setupfont.pl script.

For example, perl setupunicode.pl -a helr45.ttf

Example

<font family="Helvetica" serifstyle="SANSSERIF" spacing="PROPORTIONAL"

typeface="24580">

<font family="Helvetica" serifstyle="SANSSERIF" spacing="PROPORTIONAL"

typeface="24580">

This XML file contains font information between the XML tags and . One pair of

these tags makes one font entry in the mffpcl.pro file. One generated output XML file can contain many of these

pairs based on the number of fonts used in the input PCL document. All these pairs need to be added to the

mffpcl.pro file.

NOTE: Before adding the font entries to mffpcl.pro file, you need to make a change in the

generated output. Inside the … tags, locate the <face

…> tag. Add two entries, fontfile=“font_file_name” and

fontfiletype=”TrueType”, in this tag.

Ensure that you specify the font names without any spaces.