Using non-Latin code pages with Outline fonts

These non-Latin code pages are supported:

• 259
• 290
• 420
• 423
• 424
• 833
• 836
• 838
• 870
• 875
• 880
• 892
• 893
• 904
• 1025
• 1026
• 1027
• 1097
• 1112
• 1122
• 1130
• 1132
• 1153
• 1154
• 1155
• 1156
• 1157
• 1158
• 1160
• 1164

When an AFP document contains text written in one of the supported non-Latin code pages, the afp2pdf transform uses a corresponding AFP Outline Font. Each code page has a corresponding AFP Outline font. The location of the AFP Outline fonts is specified in the configuration file using the Foca_Font_Path option. To display the text written with the non-Latin code-pages within the PDF, the afp2pdf transform extracts the PFB file from the AFP Outline Fonts and creates a PFM file. The resulting files are embedded within the PDF stream. When a non-Latin code page does not find the corresponding AFP Outline Font, the afp2pdf transform converts the text to a default code-page. This default code page is set in the cpdef.fnt file. The default code page is one of the base-14 Standard PDF fonts.

To accommodate the non-Latin code pages, these options have been added to the afp2pdf.cfg file. The configuration file (afp2pdf.cfg) has these new options:

For AIX or Linux

Foca_Font_Path = /usr/lpp/psf/fontlib specifies the path for the AFP Outline fonts.

For Windows

Foca_Font_Path = \install_path\fontlib specified the path for the AFP Outline fonts.