Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

Font Utility
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Running the Font Utility
Considerations
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The collector process used by the Font utility is the first collector process in the
active state that is configured in the spooler.
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Error messages are described in Appendix D, Font Utility Messages.
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After loading a font job into the spooler, you can check its contents by using the
Peruse LIST command. If you specify the octal and control modifiers, you can see
the nonprintable characters and any embedded procedure calls. For example, the
following command displays the entire contents of job 45:
55> PERUSE
_JOB 45; LIST ALL O C
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Font jobs are not usually used to download fonts; rather, the font job is sent by the
spooler to the device for every print job that actually prints.
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Font jobs typically control the following operations involved in printing:
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Selecting paper from several input bins
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Specifying page orientation, landscape or portrait
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Specifying simplex or duplex printing
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Selecting a different font (already installed in the printer)
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Enabling transparent printing mode
Considerations
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Because the Font utility modifies the spooler configuration, you must be the owner
of the spooler or a system operator (user ID 255, n) to use this utility.
Example
The following example illustrates how to run the Font utility and shows output from the
script file described in the Script File Example on page 4-17.
FONT /IN FSCRIPT / $SPLS
Welcome to the FONT loader
Spool supervisor = $SPLS
Collector = $S
FONT: PORTRAIT = JOB: 0369
FONT: TRANSP = JOB: 0370
Location: #LX.PORT Device: $LASER.#A Font: PORTRAIT
Location: #LX.GLASS Device: $LASER.#A Font: TRANSP
FONT loading is complete