Programming Announcement December 17, 2002

IBM Infoprint Fonts for z/OS V1.1 Extends Global AFP Font Support

Overview V1.1 does not include raster fonts. The current AFP Font Collection At a Glance IBM Infoprint Fonts for z/OS V1.1, products (5648-B33 and 5648-B45) a new font program, is intended for will continue to be made available Infoprint Fonts for z/OS V1.1 the OS/390 and z/OS platforms. for those who desire raster fonts. includes all the outline fonts in the IBM AFP Font Collection for This program enhances the Key Prerequisites S/390 V2.1 (5648-B33) with the outline-only fonts that are currently following enhancements: available in the IBM Advanced A z/OS or OS/390 system with Print • Functions Printing (AFP ) Font Services Facility (PSF) Euro support for Eastern Collection. The enhancements European and Asia Pacific include: languages Planned Availability Date • Euro support for Eastern • SAP support for Asia Pacific European and Asia Pacific languages December 20, 2002 languages • GB 18030 support for China • SAP support for Asia Pacific • JIS X0213 support for Japan languages • GB 18030 support for China • JIS X0213 support for Japan

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative.

IBM Europe, Middle East, Africa IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ZP02-0594 language group also provides the euro currency Description symbol and all Latin9 (ISO 8859-15) characters. • The Latin2 language group (ISO 8859-2) includes IBM Expanded Core Fonts Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbocroatian, Slovak, and Slovenian. The IBM Expanded Core Fonts are provided with Infoprint Fonts. Code pages and coded fonts compatible with the • The Latin3 language group (ISO 8859-3) includes Expanded Core Fonts are also provided. Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, and Turkish. The IBM Expanded Core Fonts combine the IBM Core • Interchange Fonts, IBM Coordinated Fonts, and IBM The Latin4 language group (ISO 8859-4) includes BookMaster Fonts. Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Lap, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, and Norwegian. The IBM Expanded Core Fonts are all derived from Adobe • The Latin/Cyrillic language group (ISO 8859-5) includes Type 1 font technology and are provided in the Advanced Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English, Macedonian, Functions Printing (AFP) outline format supported by AFP Russian, Serbocroatian, and Ukrainian. software for Single-Byte Set (SBCS) fonts. • The Latin/ language group (ISO 8859-6) includes The Expanded Core Fonts include the following font Latin and Arabic scripts. families: • The Latin/ group (ISO 8859-7) includes • Boldface in Roman Bold typeface Latin and Greek scripts. • BookMaster Latin1 in Roman Medium, Roman Bold, • The Latin/ group (ISO 8859-8) Italic Medium, and Italic Bold typefaces includes Latin and Hebrew scripts. • BookMaster Reverse in Roman Medium typeface • The Latin5 language group (ISO 8859-9) includes • BookMaster Specials in Roman Medium, Roman Bold, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Irish, Italian, Italic Medium, and Italic Bold typefaces Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. • BookMaster Specials Reverse in Roman Medium • typeface The Latin/ group provides support for the Lao language. • Courier in Roman Medium, Roman Bold, Italic Medium, • and Italic Bold typefaces The Latin/Thai language group provides support for the Thai language. • Courier APL2 in Roman Medium and Roman Bold typefaces Note: Not every font provides characters for every language listed. • Gothic in Roman Medium typeface • Gothic Text in Roman Medium typeface Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) Fonts • Helvetica in Roman Medium, Roman Bold, Italic The DBCS fonts are derived from the Adobe CID-Keyed Medium, and Italic Bold typefaces font and Type 1 technologies. The DBCS fonts are • IBM Logo in Roman Medium typeface available in AFP outline format. • Letter Gothic in Roman Medium and Roman Bold DBCS Core Fonts: The DBCS Core Fonts are available for typefaces use with IBM Print Services Facility (PSF) licensed • programs. These fonts contain the following typefaces OCR-A in Roman Medium typeface suitable for printing a variety of Chinese, Japanese, and • OCR-B in Roman Medium typeface Korean documents: • Prestige in Roman Medium, Italic Medium, and Roman • Japanese Bold typefaces − Japanese Heisei Kaku Gothic − Japanese Heisei Maru Gothic • Times New Roman in Roman Medium, Roman Bold, − Japanese Heisei Mincho Italic Medium, and Italic Bold typefaces • Korean − Korean Gothic Courier, Helvetica, and Times New Roman contain − Korean Myengjo characters for the International Standards Organization • Simplified Chinese (ISO) language groups listed under the Languages − Fang Song (GB) Supported section. Each of these three type families also − Hei (GB18030) contain a symbols collection of scientific, mathematical, − Kai (GB) and special-purpose characters in Roman Medium and − Song (GB18030) Roman Bold typefaces. • Traditional Chinese − Kai Languages Supported: The IBM Expanded Core Fonts − Sung include characters for the following language groups defined in ISO Standard 8859: DBCS Simulation Fonts: The DBCS Simulation Fonts are • The Latin language group includes Latin1 through available for use with IBM PSF licensed programs. The Latin5 and Vietnamese. DBCS Simulation Fonts are provided in AFP Outline Font format that simulates the following raster font products: • The Latin1 language group (ISO 8859-1) includes Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, • Japanese German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, − AFP Japanese Font V2 (5771-AGB) Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin1 − AFP Japanese Heisei Font (5648-104) • Korean

ZP02-0594 -2- − AFP Korean Font (5771-AFW) -- T1000848: Personal Computer, Cyrillic, Ukraine • Simplified Chinese with euro − AFP Simplified Chinese Font (5771-AEK) • Traditional Chinese -- T1001125: Personal Computer, Cyrillic, Ukraine − AFP Traditional Chinese Font (5771-AFZ) -- T1001158: EBCDIC Cyrillic, Ukraine with euro

Differences Between Infoprint Fonts and AFP Font − Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia (Cyrillic) Collection -- T1000872: Cyrillic Personal Computer with euro − Kazakhstan

This section lists the enhancements of Infoprint -- T1001166: EBCDIC Cyrillic, Multilingual with Fonts V1.1.0 compared with the AFP Font Collection euro V2.1.1 (5648-B33). The following applies to the Infoprint Fonts product in Latin general: • Created a new Latin character compliment to remove • With Infoprint Fonts, there are fewer installation divisional boundaries of the Latin1, Latin235, and selections, components, and procedures. Latin4 character compliments. • • Infoprint Fonts does not include raster fonts. Created 12 new AFP Outline Character Sets for: − All Latin characters General Font Library: The General Font Library contains − Euro for Latin235 the fonts referred to as single-byte fonts in the AFP Font − Baltic Collection. The General Font Library also contains fonts − Vietnam that were not labeled in the AFP Font Collection, such as Arabic, Cyrillic/Greek, Latin, OCR, and Thai. Infoprint • Added 18 new code pages as follows: Fonts includes the following regional enhancements for − Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Serbia the General Font Library: (Latin), Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania (Latin) Arabic -- T1E00852: Latin2 Multilingual Personal • Enhanced the existing 12 AFP Outline Characters Sets Computer with euro as follows: -- T1001153: Latin2 Multilingual with euro − Added euro support -- T1001250: Windows Latin2 − Height of Arabic and Latin numbers now match the − Turkey height of Latin letters -- T1E00857: Latin5 Turkey Personal Computer • Added four new code pages that support the euro: with euro − T1E00420: Arabic Bilingual with euro -- T1001155: EBCDIC Turkey with euro − T1E00864: Arabic Personal Computer with euro − T1E01008: Arabic ISO with euro -- T1001254: Windows Turkish − T1E01046: Arabic Extended ISO with euro − Estonia Cyrillic/Greek -- T1000902: 8-bit Estonia with euro • Enhanced the existing 12 AFP Outline Characters Sets -- T1000922: Estonia, Personal Computer as follows: -- T1001157: EBCDIC Estonia with euro − − Added euro support Latvia, Lithuania − Added Kazakhstan support -- T1000901: Personal Computer Baltic − Added Microsoft Windows support Multilingual with euro • Added 14 new code pages as follows: -- T1000921: Personal Computer Baltic − Greece Multilingual -- T1E00813: Greece — ISO 8859-7 -- T1001156: EBCDIC Baltic Multilingual with euro -- T1E00869: Greece — Personal Computer -- T1E00875: Greece — EBCDIC -- T1001257: Windows Baltic Rim -- T1001253: Windows Greek − Vietnam − Russia -- T1001129: Vietnamese ISO-8 -- T1000808: Personal Computer, Cyrillic, Russian -- T1001130: Vietnamese EBCDIC with euro -- T1001163: Vietnamese ISO-8 with euro -- T1001154: EBCDIC Cyrillic, Multilingual with -- T1001164: Vietnamese EBCDIC with euro euro -- T1001258: Windows Vietnamese

-- T1001251: Windows Cyrillic • Latin235 was updated with an IBM character name to Adobe Character Name mapping that better reflects − Belarus the IBM Corporate Standards. -- T1000849: Personal Computer, Cyrillic, Belo • Latin1 and Latin4 are unchanged. Russian with euro Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- T1001131: Personal Computer, Cyrillic, Belo Russian • OCR-A was not changed. • OCR-B was updated as follows: − Ukraine

-3- ZP02-0594 − New Letterpress design using the objectives of the Traditional Chinese Font Library following specifications: The Traditional Chinese Font Library was enhanced as -- CEN/TC304 N992 specification (draft dated October 29, 2001) follows: • -- ISO 1073 II Added new support for SAP • Improved glyph designs for better clarity − Added euro support Note: The use of the IBM Logo fonts is restricted to − Added two new OCR-B code pages: printing softcopy documents provided by IBM or such other use as may be consistent with IBM softcopy -- T1E00893: OCR B with euro publication distribution. -- T1E00877: OCR B Personal Computer with euro

Thai Product Positioning Enhanced the existing 12 AFP Outline Character Sets as follows: Host-resident fonts are not included with IBM IPDS printers. They must be purchased separately. Infoprint • Added euro support Fonts provide a wide range of outline fonts for use with • Added Microsoft Windows support current IBM IPDS printers. Older IBM IPDS printers use • Added three new code pages: raster fonts, which are included with the IBM AFP Font − T1001160: Thailand EBCDIC with euro Collection program product. − T1001161: Thailand Personal Computer with euro − T1001162: Windows Thailand Reference Information The following character compliments remain unchanged from the AFP Font Collection: IBM Infoprint Fonts for z/OS V1.1 includes the same fonts • as IBM Infoprint Fonts for Multiplatforms V1.1 (5648-E77), APL   • BookMaster which is intended for the AS/400 , AIX , and Windows • Hebrew platforms. For more information about IBM Infoprint • Katakana Fonts for Multiplatforms V1.1, refer to Programming • Lao Announcement letter ZP02-0593 dated December 17, • Symbols 2002. For information about the font formats supported by IBM Japanese Font Library printers, refer to IBM Printing Systems: Printer Information, S544-5750. The Japanese Font Library was enhanced as follows: For more information on fonts, visit the Printing Systems • Enhanced to support the new Japanese standard for Font Database that you can access through the Printing JIS X-0213 Systems Information Center at: • Added new support for SAP http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/printer/psindex.htm • Added four new code pages as follows: From the pull-down list under “Select Navigation View”, select FONTS. − Full-width code page for the JIS X0213 standard − Full-width code page for the HYOGAI Trademarks JITAIHYO z/OS, AFP, Print Services Facility, and IPDS are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United − Two full-width code pages for IBM unique character States or other countries or both. shapes Infoprint, OS/390, S/390, BookMaster, APL2, AIX, and AS/400 are registered trademarks of International Business Korean Font Library Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. The Korean Font Library was enhanced as follows: Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. • Added support for Euro Phase 2 Other company, product, and service names may be • Added support for a registered trademark trademarks or service marks of others. • Added new support for SAP • Enhancements to full- and half-width code pages

Simplified Chinese Font Library

The Simplified Chinese Font Library was enhanced as follows: • The Hei and Song typefaces are enhanced for GB18030 Phase 1 Support, including the euro. • Fang Song and Kai typefaces are enhanced with the euro. • Added new support for SAP. • Enhancements to full- and half-width code pages.

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