Chapter 27. Working With Global Resource Identifiers; Uses Of Grid Files; Grid Files That Come With Infoprint Manager - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

Chapter 27. Working with global resource identifiers

InfoPrint can identify the fonts required for a job, access AFP font files that are
installed on or NFS-mounted to your Windows system, and download the
appropriate fonts to an InfoPrint-managed printer device. However, some InfoPrint
printers can use fonts that are resident in the printer, which saves the time it takes
to download these fonts. Because the font files on the Windows system do not
share the same names as the printer-resident fonts, InfoPrint uses global resource
identifiers (GRIDs) to map the system-resident fonts to the printer-resident fonts.

Uses of GRID files

GRID files contain preassigned mappings that you can modify to map
system-resident font file names to printer-resident font identifiers. These
preassigned mappings include both single-byte character set (SBCS) and
double-byte characters set (DBCS) outline fonts.
If you have a printer that supports outline fonts, you can use the GRID files to
map raster character-set names to outline font global identifiers.
GRID files also support Mixed Object Document Content Architecture for
Presentation (MO:DCA-P) files that specify fonts using GRIDs rather than
character-set names. You can customize the GRID files to define which fonts
InfoPrint uses when the data stream of the job specifies GRIDs.
Note: If a data stream specifies only GRID parts instead of specific names, the
fgid.grd table is used to find the name of the font to download or the outline font
to activate. In this case, the data stream must specify a specific width value

GRID files that come with InfoPrint Manager

InfoPrint Manager provides four GRID files that you can customize to use with the
types of printer devices that you have and the types of jobs that you print. These
files are charset.grd.sample, codepage.grd.sample, cpgid.grd.sample, and
fgid.grd.sample, and they are installed in the <install path>\grd directory.
Note: You can either shut down and restart the InfoPrint server (pdserver process)
or shut down and restart all your printers to make sure that .grd file changes are
applied.
Descriptions of each file are provided below.
charset.grd.sample
Specifies which printer-resident fonts are activated for the character-set names
found in the data stream of the job.
This file maps the font character-set name to a:
v Font global identifier (fgid)
v Graphic character set global identifier (gcsgid)
v Font width
v Vertical size value
v Set of font attributes (bold, italic, and doublewide)
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