Setting up your SAP R/3 system to support new OTF user fonts
Use this procedure when using the sap2afp transform to print with a new font that you have created for the job:
- From the R/3 main menu, access the Font window so you can
create a font family for this new, customized font, by selecting the Tools main menu and then selecting the Word Processing → Font path. or typing
/nSP73in the ok-Code field. - From the SAPscript Font Maintenance: Initial Screen window, select the Font families option and click Change.
- Click Create and fill in the font information on the Create/Change Font Family window as shown in Figure SAPScript Font Maintenance: Create/Change Font Family window:
- Click Continue.
- When the system prompts you for a Change Request Query request, click Cancel.
- From the SAPscript Font Maintenance: Initial Screen window, select the System Fonts option and click Create.
- Fill in the information from the Create System... window as shown in Figure SAPScript Font Maintenance Create System... window:
- Click Continue.
- When the system prompts you for a Change Request Query request, click Cancel.
- From the SAPscript Font Maintenance: Initial Screen window, select the Printer fonts/AFM metrics option and click Change.
- From the Create/Change... window shown in Figure SAPScript Font Maintenance (Create/Change)
window for OTF Fonts, select the intended device type (
ZDOCOGF) and fill in the remaining information: - Click Continue.
Before you can use this new Output Text Format (OTF) font, you must define a layout set that contains this new font to use your device type.
- Add an entry in the fonts.tab configuration file that identifies this new OTF font and make sure that these resources are on the InfoPrint server where your InfoPrint actual destination is located.