Software Announcement October 28, 2003

IBM Print Services Facility V3R4 for z/OS incorporates TrueType/OpenType standard support

Overview • Support for OpenType in AFP provides the basis for future, At a glance Support for an important standard is more advanced support of now included in the Advanced complex non-Latin languages and Advanced Function Presentation Function Presentation (AFP ) (AFP) and Print Service Facilities architecture, and in the IBM Print (PSF) now support TrueType and Services Facility (PSF) V3R4 Key prerequisites OpenType standard font printing subsystem for z/OS and technology. This enables you to:  OS/390 : TrueType/OpenType font PSF runs on the following S390 and • technology. IBM zSeries processors: Create AFP applications using the same popular typefaces The TrueType font technology, • IBM zSeries 900 and 990 (z900 found in Windows , Macintosh, developed by Apple and  , and z990) and other presentation is the most prevalent font technology environments. • in the industry today. It is an open IBM zSeries 800 (z800) • Reduce the risks associated font standard that is widely • All models of the S390 Parallel with and published. The OpenType font Enterprise Server replacement format is an of the TrueType format allowing better • All models of the S390 • Implement a single font support for international character Multiprise 3000 technology standard and reduce sets, and broader multi-platform • the cost of maintaining an support. OpenType includes All models of the S390 Multiprise 2000 expansive font library across information needed to fully support diverse system environments data for multilingual print •  All models of the IBM ES/9000 • and presentation using a single font. Processor unit 9021, 9121, or 9221 Reduce training costs for It also provides the flexibility of technical professionals by allowing either TrueType outlines or PSF supports printing on IBM and converging from multiple font 1 outlines to be non-IBM AFP/IPDS printers that technologies in your enterprise packaged as a TrueType font. adhere to the IPDS specifications. to a single font technology Not all functions of PSF are • Enable globalization of The new support for TrueType and supported by all IPDS printers. To OpenType font technology in AFP applications in multiple use TrueType and OpenType , languages using a single font. provides significant benefits: the IPDS printer must support rasterization of the fonts in the • Position your print environment • More choices in selecting printer via a printer-resident to accept Unicode encoded typefaces, especially for TrueType rasterizer. applications. non-Latin languages • TrueType, and to an even greater extent OpenType, provide a truly Program number multilingual environment through support of Unicode, enabling the 5655-B17 globalization of applications Planned availability date • Inclusion of TrueType and OpenType standards in AFP December 12, 2003 allows customers to migrate toward a single font technology across all presentation environments

This summary announcement is provided for your information. Please refer to the complete letter for details or contact your IBM representative and/or IBM Business Partner.

IBM Asia Pacific IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. AP03-1287 resource library, which is used by the print servers to Description locate and access the fonts.

Why is it important for AFP to support TrueType and In z/OS and OS/390, TrueType and OpenType fonts are OpenType? installed in path libraries in either a UNIX System Services (USS) file system or a Hierarchical File System The addition of TrueType and OpenType support to the (HFS). They cannot be installed in partitioned data sets. AFP architecture provides significant benefits to AFP Fonts can be installed singly, in collections consisting of customers today, and positions them for the future: multiple TrueType and OpenType fonts, or linked to form • an ordered list of fonts that are processed as a single font. It provides customers with more choices for typefaces, TrueType and OpenType fonts are not resident in the particularly for non-Latin languages. Literally printers that support TrueType and OpenType fonts, but thousands of typefaces can be purchased in TrueType they can be captured by the printer and subsequently and OpenType format from a variety of vendors. handled as a printer resident font. • It allows customers to migrate toward a single font How are TrueType and OpenType fonts referenced in AFP technology across all of their presentation applications? environments, rather than having to use different fonts for AFP printing and viewing in Windows or Web One difference that will become immediately apparent browser environments. between the use of FOCA fonts and the use of TrueType • It provides a truly multilingual presentation and OpenType fonts in AFP applications is the manner in environment with the support of Unicode encodings. which they are referenced. There are two major The AFP FOCA font architecture, based predominantly differences: on EBCDIC encoding, could not easily be extended to • FOCA fonts are referenced in AFP applications by a fully support Unicode. Map Coded Font (MCF) structured field, whether it is • It provides the basis for future, more advanced generated by a composition program, or in a support of complex non-Latin languages and definition. The TrueType and OpenType fonts are typefaces. referenced in a Map Data Resource (MDR) structured field. Both the AFP font architecture and TrueType fonts have • a structure that defines how the characters are mapped The second major difference is that TrueType and to the code points in the application data. The equivalent OpenType fonts are referenced by their full font name, of an AFP in the TrueType technology is called rather than by a six or eight character name a character map, or cmap. TrueType fonts can support representing a font member in a partitioned data set. multiple data encodings with a single font by including The full font name is an identifier that is defined within subtables in the cmap. In the AFP implementation of the font file, is unique, and is the name that the TrueType fonts, the Unicode character maps are Windows operating system uses to identify the font. supported to enable printing of Unicode-encoded data. It consists of a name, such as Times New Migration mappings are provided to enable the printing Roman, and the style name, such as Bold. The of legacy data with Unicode-enabled TrueType and Resource Access Table uses this information to map OpenType fonts. the full font name in the application to information used to find and process the font on a given system. So what is Unicode and why is it important? Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) support To understand the difference between Unicode and legacy computer data encodings, it is necessary to understand The TrueType/WorldType font support in PSF V3R4 has the concept of encodings. Character data in no limitations for DBCS data. computer-generated print files is represented as a sequence of hexadecimal bytes (code points) in Product positioning accordance with some predefined encoding scheme. Common legacy encoding schemes are EBCDIC, used PSF provides IBM′s strategic enterprise print support in primarily in IBM and compatible mainframe systems, and z/OS and OS/390. It supports AFP/IPDS printers with ASCII, used in Windows, UNIX , and other speeds from under 10 to over 1,000 per minute, in environments. In Latin-based and other languages that both and non-impact technologies. Printers can use fewer than two hundred fifty-six characters, a be attached via channel, TCP/IP, or SNA networks. single-byte encoding scheme is adequate. In far eastern languages such as Japanese that may contain thousands With this announcement, AFP architecture continues to of characters, or ideographs, a double-byte encoding maintain its leadership position as a de facto standard for scheme is required to uniquely represent each character. production printing and presentation solutions. Unicode is the universal standard encoding that defines a single encoding scheme to represent all of the characters used in every language in the world. Hardware and software support services How are TrueType and OpenType fonts installed in an AFP system? SmoothStart /installation services

TrueType fonts which IBM has licensed from IBM Installation Services can be provided for PSF by IBM Agfa/Monotype Corporation under the name WorldType Printing Systems Professional Services at an additional fonts will be shipped as part of the Infoprint Fonts for cost. For additional information, contact your IBM Multiplatforms (5648-E77) IBM program product. representative and ask for Installation Services for Print Available with the fonts is a Font Installer for AFP Services Facility Version 3 for z/OS. Systems that runs in Windows systems and helps install TrueType and OpenType fonts in resource libraries for print servers on IBM z/Series, IBM iSeries , IBM pSeries , and Windows systems. The utility generates a Resource Access Table for the

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Print Services Facility V3R4 5655-B17

Reference information

For additional information on Print Services Facility, refer to Software Announcement AP98-1432, dated October 13, 1998, entitled Print Services Facility V3 Delivers New Enterprise Print Capability, Software Announcement AP00-1191, dated July 18, 2000, entitled Print Services Facility V3R2 Delivers New Application Formatting Capability, and Software Announcement AP02-1051, dated March 5, 2002, entitled Print Services Facility V3.3 Brings XML Capability to Advanced Function Printing .

Trademarks

Advanced Function Presentation, AFP, Print Services Facility, IPDS, iSeries, SmoothStart, and Advanced Function Printing are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. The e-business logo, OS/390, z/OS, zSeries, Multiprise, ES/9000, Infoprint, and pSeries 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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