GRID files that come with InfoPrint Manager

InfoPrint Manager provides four GRID files that you can customize to use with the types of printer devices that you have and the types of jobs that you print. These files are charset.grd.sample, codepage.grd.sample, cpgid.grd.sample, and fgid.grd.sample, and they are installed in the <install path>\grd directory.

Note: You can either shut down and restart the InfoPrint server (pdserver process) or shut down and restart all your printers to make sure that .grd file changes are applied.
Descriptions of each file are provided below.
charset.grd.sample
Specifies which printer-resident fonts are activated for the character-set names found in the data stream of the job.

This file maps the font character-set name to a:

  • Font global identifier (fgid)
  • Graphic character set global identifier (gcsgid)
  • Font width
  • Vertical size value
  • Set of font attributes (bold, italic, and doublewide)
The next figure shows an example of the format of a line in the character set sample file.

Sample File for a Character Set

#  FCS name -> fgid gcsgid width vsize attr                      #
#----------------------------------------------------------------#
   C0L00GSC    398    -     96    120   -   # GOTHIC CONDENSED   1
codepage.grd.sample
Specifies which printer-resident fonts are activated for the code page names found in the data stream of the job.

This file maps a code page to the:

  • Code page global identifier (cpgid)
  • Graphic character set global identifier (gcsgid)
The next figure shows an example of the format of a line in the code page sample file.

Sample File for a Code Page

#  code page name -> cpgid  gcsgid                             #
#--------------------------------------------------------------#
       T1000038       38     123   # US-ASCII Character Set    1
fgid.grd.sample
Specifies which font character set InfoPrint should download when substituting for a global resource identifier that it finds in the data stream of the job.

This file maps these to a font character set (FCS) name:

  • A font global identifier (fgid)
  • A graphic character set global identifier (gcsgid)
  • A font width
  • A vertical size value
The next figure shows an example of the format of a line in the font global identifier sample file.

Sample File for a Global Identifier

#  fgid  gcsgid width vsize -> FCS name                        #
#--------------------------------------------------------------#
    3      0     144   240     C0E0DE10  # DELEGATE 12 POINT   1
cpgid.grd.sample
Specifies which code page InfoPrint should download when substituting for a global resource identifier that it finds in the data stream of the job.

This file maps a code page global identifier and a graphic character set global identifier to a code page name. The next figure shows an example of the format of a line in the code page identifier sample file.

Sample File for a Code Page Identifier

#  cpgid  gcsgid -> code page name                         #
#----------------------------------------------------------#
    29      0        T1V10871  # OLD ICELANDIC             1

For a detailed explanation of how the different types of identifiers combine to produce fonts, see AFP Fonts: Font Summary.

If you have a job that specifies a font that is not resident on your printer, you can use the GRID files to map the missing font to one with the same point size that does reside on your printer. To understand what resident fonts your printer device has, see both your printer documentation and Advanced Function Presentation: Printer Information.

Parent topic: Working with global resource identifiers