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NAME
fdl - Font Downloader
SYNOPSIS
/usr/dt/bin/fdl
fdl is an application that helps system administrators and
ordinary users to install, remove, and find font information
on printers connected to Solaris hosts. Also, fdl allows
users to perform basic printer maintenance tasks.
Using fdl, you can download the following fonts and support
files to the printer:
o Postscript Type 1 fonts
o Postscript Type 9 fonts (CID Type 0 fonts)
o Postscript Type 10 fonts (CID Type 1 fonts)
o Postscript Type 11 fonts (CID Type 2 fonts)
o CMap files
o TrueType fonts with automatic conversion to Postscript
Type 42 fonts
The following fonts are not supported in the current
release:
o TrueType fonts with automatic conversion to Postscript
Type 11 fonts
o TrueType fonts with automatic conversion to Type 3
fonts
USAGE
The main application window contains a list of known
printers. Users must explicitly add printers to this list,
since fdl does not use UNIX-specific printing protocols to
communicate with the printers.
The main application window contains five menus:
The File menu contains:
o Exit (Alt-X) - Terminates the application.
The Edit menu contains:
o Font Bundle (Alt-B) - Opens the font bundle editor
window.
The Printer menu contains:
o Add (Alt-Insert) - Adds a printer to the list of known
printers.
o Delete (Alt-Delete) - Deletes a printer from the list
of known printers.
o Properties (Alt-Enter) - Presents a pop-up dialog box
containing the properties of a selected printer.
o Reset (Alt-R) - Resets a selected printer.
The Download menu contains:
o Font (Control-S) - Presents a pop-up dialog box
through which the user can select specific fonts to
download to a selected printer.
o Bundle (Control-B) - Presents a pop-up window through
which a user can select an existing font bundle to
download to a selected printer, create new bundles of
fonts, or modify an existing bundle of fonts.
The Help menu contains:
o About - Opens a help window containing basic informa-
tion about the application.
Managing Printers
A user can add and remove printers from the list of printers
known to the fdl application.
To add a printer, select the Printer=>Add menu item or press
Alt-Insert in the main window to open the "Add Printer" dia-
log box. This dialog box contains the following elements:
o Printer Name - The logical name of a printer. The
current release supports only TCP/IP printers, where
the logical name is their host name.
o Comment - Any comments about the printer.
o TCP/IP Printer Type combo box - Contains a list of
supported TCP/IP printers and a generic TCP/IP printer
that takes its Postscript input from TCP/IP port 9100.
o Add (Control-Enter) -Add a printer to the list of
known printers.
o Cancel (Esc) - Dismiss the window without saving
changes.
Getting Printer Properties
To get printer properties, select a printer in the list and
select the Printer=>Properties item, or select a printer in
the list and press Alt-Enter. Also, you can double-click a
selected printer with the left mouse button.
The subsequent Printer Properties window contains three
tabbed windows.
The General Properties tab includes:
o Printer Product - Identifies the type of the printer.
o Postscript Interpreter - Gives a version of the
Postscript interpreter on the printer.
o Postscript Level - Identifies the Postscript Language
Level. There are three levels currently defined by
Adobe - Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. While fdl
fully supports Level 2 printers, it has never been
tested with Level 1 and Level 3 printers. It is
expected that Level 3 printers will work flawlessly;
Level 1 printers might not work properly, or may cause
fdl to work incorrectly.
o Type 42 fonts supported - Identifies if the printer
supports Type 42 fonts. Type 42 fonts are fonts with
TrueType charstrings. If a printer does not support
Type 42 fonts, TrueType fonts must be converted to
Type 3 fonts, however this conversion is not supported
by this release of fdl. Most Level 2 printers support
Type 42 fonts.
o Type 11 fonts supported - Identifies if the printer
supports Type 11 fonts. Type 11 fonts are also known
as CID Type 2 fonts; they are CID fonts with TrueType
charstrings. If a printer does not support Type 11
fonts, TrueType fonts converted to CID will not be
supported by this printer. Many Level 2 and Level 3
printers support Type 11 fonts.
o Total Memory - Total amount of RAM (in bytes)
installed on the printer.
o Available Memory - Amount of available RAM.
o Number of Disks - Number of hard disks connected to
the printer
o Disk Size - Total number of bytes on all disks con-
nected to the printer.
o Available Disk Size - Amount of available disk space.
The Font List tab contains a list of fonts available on the
printer as well as the following information:
o Font Properties (Alt-F) - Opens a window that contains
the following properties of a selected font:
o Font name - The Postscript font name.
o Font type - The Postscript font type.
o Font location - The location of the font on the
printer.
To open this window and view font properties, you can also
double click on the name of a specific font.
o Remove (Alt-R) - Use this button to remove a font
which is located on a hard disk connected to the
printer.
o Print Sample - Prints a glyph sample of the selected
font.
o Print List - Prints the list of available fonts.
The Advanced tab contains the following controls:
o Sample Page Radix - Determines the notation in which
the code positions of the characters on a font sample
page will be represented.
o Sample Page Size - Specifies the dimensions of the
paper used to print a font sample page.
o exitserver Password - Specifies a password that must
be used with certain privileged Postscript commands.
If the printer does not have the password security
mode enabled, the value of the exitserver password
does not matter.
o Format Disk - Formats a disk connected to a Postscript
printer.
Resetting a Printer
To reset a printer, select the Printer=>Reset menu item or
use its shortcut (Alt-R) to perform a soft reboot of the
printer.
Downloading Fonts
To download fonts to the printer, select the Download=>Font
menu item or use its shortcut (Control-T) to open a Download
Font dialog box. The Download Font dialog box contains a
list of currently selected fonts for downloading as well as
several command buttons, described below.
o Add (Alt-A or Ins) - Adds a font or a file to the
list. You can add only the following:
o Type 1 fonts in PFA format
o Type 1 fonts in PFB format
o TrueType fonts
o CID fonts
o CMap files
o Remove (Alt-R or Del) - Removes a font from the list.
o Properties (Alt-P) - Opens a font properties window,
which contains two tabbed menus: Basic and Advanced.
The Basic Font Properties tab displays the following
font information:
o Font Name (Postscript name), Full Font Name,
Font Type, Font Copyright
The Advanced Font Properties tab displays several modifiable
parameters specific to the selected font and printer:
o Type Conversion - This parameter is enabled for
TrueType fonts only and is disabled for other
fonts. In this release the only supported value
is "Type 42" which specifies that the font is to
be converted to Postscript Type 42 font.
o Encoding - This parameter is enabled for TrueType
fonts only and is disabled for other fonts. It
specifies the encoding vector that the resulting
Postscript Type 42 font will have.
o Destination - This parameter is enabled only if
the selected printer has multiple destinations
for downloading (like RAM or hard disk) and dis-
abled otherwise.
o Include CMap files - This parameter is enabled
only for CID fonts. fdl is shipped with an exten-
sive set of Adobe CMap files. If this checkbox is
selected, all of these CMap files will be
automatically downloaded with the CID font.
o Save (Alt-S) - Assigns a name to the currently
selected list of fonts.
o Download (Alt-D or Control-Enter) - Downloads fonts to
the selected printer. It applies all conversions
specified in the Font Properties dialog for each font
in the list.
o Cancel (Esc) - Dismisses this window without download-
ing any fonts.
Downloading and Editing Font Bundles
fdl defines a font bundle as a named collection of fonts
downloaded together in a single download job. Each font in
this collection has its own conversion properties. There are
several ways users can add, modify and remove font bundles.
Edit=>Font Bundle opens a Font Bundle List dialog box con-
taining a list of all known font bundles. Using the Font
Bundle Edit dialog box, a user can add, remove, or view and
modify properties of the member fonts. Font properties of
the font bundle member fonts are the same with the following
exception: Destination is always enabled and contains the
following items:
o RAM - This member font will be always downloaded to
the RAM of a target printer.
o Disk Only - This member font will be always downloaded
to a hard disk of a target printer. If the printer
doesn't have a hard disk connected to it, this font
will not be downloaded.
o Disk or Memory - If a target printer has a hard disk
connected to it, the member font will be downloaded to
the hard disk. Otherwise, the member font will be
downloaded to RAM.
The Font Bundle List dialog box also contains the following
buttons:
o Add (Alt-A or Ins) - Adds a new font bundle to the
list. The new font bundle is named "New Bundle" by
default, and contains no fonts.
o Clone (Alt-L) - Creates a copy of the selected font
bundle. The name of this copy is "Copy of " by
default, and it contains all the fonts from the origi-
nal font bundle.
o Remove - Removes the selected font bundle from the
list.
o Rename - Changes the name of the selected font bundle.
Download=>Font Bundle opens a Download Font Bundle dialog
box. The only difference between this dialog box and the
Font Set List dialog box is the presence of the Download
button, which downloads a selected font bundle to a selected
printer. The shortcut for Download is Control-D.
The Save button of the Download Font dialog box saves the
list of the selected fonts as a new bundle with a name "New
Bundle." A Font Bundle List dialog box will appear, with
this newly created font bundle selected. You can then change
its name with the "Rename" button.
BUGS
The following bugs and issues have been identified in this
release:
o "Print List" does not print CID fonts.
o Once downloaded to the hard disk, CMap files cannot be
removed.
o Several important conversions are not supported.
o Changing the encoding of a Postscript Type 1 font is
not supported.
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