Files Supplied for Mapping Fonts

Font Files and Subdirectories lists the AFP2PDF Plus Transform font support files and the subdirectories of the installation directory in which they are installed.

Font Files and Subdirectories

File File Name Subdirectory Description
Alias file Alias.fnt \font Maps the font type families to PDF font name and optionally specifies the font metric file to use during the transform.
Character set definition file csdef.fnt \font Defines AFP character set attributes, such as point size. It also maps the font character set to the font global identifier.
FND name defaults file csdef.def \font Provides default processing for FND names.
Coded font files icoded.fnt, coded.fnt \font Specify which AFP code page and AFP font character set make up the coded font.
Code page definition file cpdef.fnt \font Maps each AFP code page to indicate which code page map file to use for the AFP2PDF Plus Transform.
Code page map file cpgid.cp \font\maps Defines character identifier mappings. It matches the AFP code page character identifiers and their hexadecimal code points with a corresponding character identifier and ASCII code point available in the PDF environment. The default is Code Page 1252.
Font mapping file afpfont.fnt \font Defines the fonts where the raster character images for the AFP font files are extracted and placed as images in the output PDF.
Custom font metric files Custom-metrics-xx.met \font\Type1 The default location for metric information for custom fonts (optional).

In this section:

  1. Using the country.cfg configuration file
    The afpfont.fnt, alias.fnt, cpdef.fnt, csdef.fnt, icoded.fnt, and coded.fnt font configuration files can be renamed using a different extension by adding a country.cfg configuration file in the font directory. The font directory path is specified either by the -n flag or the Font_path entry in the a2pxopts.cfg file.
  2. Coded Font Files
    The coded font files (coded.fnt and icoded.fnt) map AFP coded fonts to their AFP character sets and code pages.
  3. Character Set Definition File
    The character set definition file (csdef.fnt) specifies the character set attributes and font global identifier of the font. It is split into two sections, one for character sets (CHARSET) and one for font global identifiers (FGID).
  4. Code Page Definition File
    The code page definition file (cpdef.fnt) maps the AFP code page name to its code page global identifier (CPGID) and, optionally, to an encoding classification and an encoding type for Asian languages.
  5. Code Page File Map
    AFP2PDF Transform provides one code page map file for each AFP code page supplied with Print Services Facility (PSF) and the Data1 and Sonoran licensed programs. These files are installed in the \font\maps subdirectory.
  6. Alias File
    The alias file (alias.fnt) lists the font metric file name and the font family name aliases in the FONT section. Font family name aliases let you change all of the requested instances of a font family name (as defined in the character set definition file) to another font family name.
  7. Font Mapping File
    The afpfont.fnt file specifies the AFP font objects (coded fonts, code pages, and character sets) that should be explicitly processed by the AFP2PDF Plus Transform. AFP raster fonts can be converted to Adobe Type 3 fonts and embedded in the output PDF file. AFP outline fonts can be converted to Adobe Type 1 fonts and embedded in the output PDF file.
Parent topic: Working with AFP Resources