Software Announcement October 28, 2003

IBM printers and print software now support TrueType/OpenType and print data

Overview IBM now offers support for TrueType/OpenType fonts in printer hardware, print server software on various platforms, and new offerings. The TrueType font technology, developed by Apple and  , is the most prevalent font technology in the industry today. It is an open font standard that is widely published. The OpenType font format is an of the TrueType format that allows better support for international character sets, and broader multi-platform support. OpenType includes information needed to fully support Unicode data for multilingual print and presentation using a single font. It also provides the flexibility of allowing either TrueType outlines or the other standard font technology, 1, to be packaged as an OpenType font. These new offerings provide significant benefits: • You will have more choices in selecting , especially for non-Latin languages • They provide a truly multilingual environment through support of Unicode, enabling the globalization of applications • You can print from Windows applications with the same fonts that appear on the screen

Planned availability dates • Already available − IBM Infoprint 4000 High-Speed Printer Models IS1, IS2, ID2, ID4, ID6, IR2, and IR4 − IBM Infoprint 4100 High-Speed Printer Models HS1, PS1, HD2, PD4, HD4, and HS2. • December 12, 2003 − IBM Print Services Facility for z/OS V3R4 − IBM Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms − IBM Printer Formatting Aid/370

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com.

IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 203-301 How are TrueType and OpenType fonts referenced in AFP Description applications?

IBM now announces support for TrueType/OpenType fonts One difference that will become immediately apparent in print hardware and software products across multiple between the use of FOCA fonts and the use of TrueType platforms. and OpenType fonts in AFP applications is the manner in which they are referenced. There are two major Why are the new WorldType fonts important? differences: These new fonts position customers for the future: • FOCA fonts are referenced in AFP applications by a • Map Coded Font (MCF) structured field, whether it is They provide customers with more choices for generated by a composition program, or in a page typefaces, particularly for non-Latin languages. definition. The TrueType and OpenType fonts are • They allow customers to migrate toward a single font referenced in a Map Data Resource (MDR) structured technology across all of their presentation field. environments, rather than having to use different fonts •  The second major difference is that TrueType and for AFP printing and viewing in Windows or Web OpenType fonts are referenced by their full font name, browser environments. rather than by a six or eight character name • They provide a truly multilingual presentation representing a font member in a partitioned data set. environment with the support of Unicode encodings. The full font name is an identifier that is defined within the font file, is unique, and is the name that the • They provide the basis for future, more advanced Windows operating system uses to identify the font. support of complex non-Latin languages and It consists of a name, such as Times New typefaces. Roman, and the style name, such as Bold. The Resource Access Table uses this information to map The WorldType fonts are based on TrueType/OpenType the full font name in the application to information font formats. Both the AFP font architecture and used to find and process the font on a given system. TrueType/OpenType fonts have a structure that defines how the characters (called ) are mapped to the Support for TrueType/OpenType fonts is being added to code points in the application data. The equivalent of an the following IBM products: AFP in the TrueType technology is called a character map, or cmap. TrueType fonts can support • IBM Print Services Facility for z/OS V3R4 (5655-B17), multiple data encodings with a single font by including which is a new release subtables in the cmap. In the AFP implementation of • IBM Page Printer Formatting Aid/370 V1R1 (5688-190). TrueType fonts, the Unicode subtables are supported to Support will be available in no-charge maintenance enable the printing of Unicode data. Migration mappings APAR PQ77786. are provided to enable the printing of legacy data with the Unicode-enabled TrueType and OpenType fonts. • IBM Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms V1R1 (5648-E77). This product will have three new optional features: So what is Unicode and why is it important? − WorldType Fonts for AFP Print Servers, which is a To understand the difference between Unicode and legacy rich set of TrueType/OpenType fonts licensed from computer data formats, it is necessary to understand the Agfa/Monotype for installation on a Print Services concept of encodings. Character data in Facility for z/OS V3R4, Infoprint Manager for AIX computer-generated print files is represented as a V4R1, or Infoprint Manager for Windows V2R1 sequence of hexadecimal bytes (code points) in server accordance with some predefined encoding scheme. Common legacy encoding schemes are EBCDIC, used − WorldType Fonts for AFP Clients, which is the same primarily in IBM and compatible mainframe systems, and fonts as above, but intended for installation on an ASCII, used in Windows, UNIX , and other individual workstation running an AFP application. environments. In Latin-based and other languages that − Font Installer for AFP Systems, which allows you to use fewer than 256 characters, a single-byte encoding install the fonts and create the Resource Access scheme is adequate. In far eastern languages, such as Table necessary to use TrueType/OpenType fonts Japanese, that may contain thousands of characters, or on an IBM print server. ideographs, a double-byte encoding scheme is required to uniquely represent each character. Unicode is the • IBM Infoprint 4000 Models IS1, IS2, ID2, ID4, ID6, and universal standard encoding that defines a single IR4 high-speed printers. These printers must have the encoding scheme to represent all of the characters used Enhanced Operator Console (#9450 or #4450) and in every language in the world. V11.7 or later microcode. How are TrueType and OpenType fonts installed in an AFP • IBM Infoprint 4000 Model IR2 high-speed printer with system? the Enhanced Operator Console (#4450) and V11.7 or later microcode. TrueType fonts which IBM has licensed from Agfa/Monotype Corporation under the name WorldType • IBM Infoprint 4100 Models HS1, PS1, HD2, PD4, HD4, fonts will be shipped as part of the Infoprint Fonts for and HS2 high-speed printers. These printers must Multiplatforms (5648-E77) IBM program product. have V11.7 or later microcode. Available with the fonts is a Font Installer for AFP Systems utility program that runs in Windows systems Software Maintenance, which consists of voice “how to” and helps install TrueType and OpenType fonts in support and entitlement to new versions and releases resource libraries for print servers on IBM during the contract period will also be available for Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms. z/Series, IBM iSeries , IBM pSeries , and Windows systems. The utility generates a Resource The printer support is available now. The software Access Table for the resource library, which is used by support will be available December 12, 2003. the print servers to locate and access the fonts.

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It is IBM′s intent to add support for TrueType/OpenType fonts to the following IBM products: • IBM Infoprint Manager for AIX • IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows • IBM AFP Viewer • IBM Windows AFP Driver • IBM Print Services Facility for iSeries

Reference information

For additional information on: • Print Services Facility for z/OS V3R4 refer to Software Announcement 203-300, dated October 28, 2003, entitled Print Services Facility V3R4 Supports TrueType/OpenType Fonts. • Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms V1R1 refer to Software Announcement 203-299, dated October 28, 2003, entitled Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms V1R1 Now Supports Unicode with TrueType/OpenType Fonts • Infoprint Manager for AIX V4R1 refer to Software Announcement 202-118, dated May 21, 2002, entitled Infoprint Manager for AIX V4R1 Boosts Productivity in a Multi-Vendor Environment. • Infoprint Manager for Windows V2R1 refer to Software Announcement 202-119, dated May 21, 2002, entitled Infoprint Manager for Windows V2R1 Boosts Productivity in a Multi-Vendor Environment.

Trademarks

Print Services Facility, AFP, and iSeries are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Infoprint, z/OS, pSeries, and AIX are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States and other countries. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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