Using AFP Workbench Viewer with ACIF
Although ACIF is a stand-alone utility, it was designed for use with the AFP Workbench Viewer.
AFP Workbench Viewer shows how AFP Workbench Viewer can display documents on a workstation that is running Microsoft Windows operating systems. These documents can contain an index object file and a resource group.
AFP Workbench Viewer
AFP Workbench Viewer uses Adobe Type 1 or TrueType and OpenType outline fonts when it displays documents. If the document references an AFP font for which no Type 1 font is available at the workstation, AFP Workbench Viewer can substitute an outline font for the requested font. AFP Workbench Viewer matches the requested point size and attempts to match the typeface as closely as possible. Font definition files are available with AFP Workbench Viewer so you can define which Type 1 fonts are to be substituted for your FOCA fonts.
Because AFP Workbench Viewer uses font substitution for AFP font resources instead of retrieving fonts from a resource file, you do not need to specify the RESTYPE=FONT or RESTYPE=ALL ACIF parameter when you are preparing a document to use with AFP Workbench Viewer. However, if you include AFP fonts in your document, the current version of AFP Workbench Viewer uses the font metrics to control character spacing. If you use AFP outline fonts, AFP Workbench Viewer also uses the font characters and substitutes fo