Using The Resource Installer To Install Opentype Fonts - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

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OpenType Fonts have these three characteristics in the font file:
1. A Microsoft Unicode version of Version 3 Release 1.
2. Microsoft Unicode Full Font Names
3. A Unicode character map (CMAP)
If your fonts do not contain all these elements, they cannot be used with InfoPrint
Manager. If the InfoPrint AFP Resource Installer (Program Number 5639-EE2) does
not install a font, that font does not meet this criteria.
Note: You can use the standard AFP code pages you use for other font resources
with OpenType fonts. For more information about doing this task, see Using
OpenType Fonts in an AFP System.

Using the Resource Installer to install OpenType fonts

If you have OpenType fonts, you must install them using the InfoPrint AFP
Resource Installer (Program Number 5639-EE2). If you create a new library or
subdirectory for these fonts, you must also update the global search path on your
InfoPrint Manager server. If you place them in an existing subdirectory, InfoPrint
Manager should already have this location in its global search path.
Each time you either add new OpenType fonts or modify existing ones, you must
reinstall them with the Resource Installer to make sure that InfoPrint Manager can
access them correctly. The search order of directories for a data object font
resources is the same as the search order for AFP font resources. Make sure that
the path where you install the OpenType Fonts is in the font search order that
InfoPrint Manager uses. For more information about how the font search order is
defined see "The search order for AFP resources" on page 58.
An administrator installs the OpenType fonts in a particular directory on each
system. On an AIX server, the default path for installing these fonts is the
/usr/lpp/ipfonts directory. On a Windows server, the default path is set up by the
administrator who configured the system.
Once the OpenType fonts have been installed through the IBM Infoprint Fonts for
Multiplatforms product, you must run the Resource Installer to create the Resource
Access Table (IBM_DataObjectFont.rat) and store it in the same directory where
the fonts reside. The Resource Installer does not prompt you to do this task
because the Resource Installer is not aware of changes to the directory. As a result,
the system administrator who installed the new fonts must do this task whenever
fonts are either added or removed from the directory.
The Resource Access Table contains an entry for each installed font so that
InfoPrint Manager can access it.
For more information about how to use the Resource Installer of Infoprint Fonts,
either access the online help system of the Resource Installer or see Using OpenType
Fonts in an AFP System.
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A CMAP defines the mapping of code points to glyph indices, which are used
to index the actual character shape information.