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How to add Font in iSeries(AS400) platform to use it in Postscript?

I have a requirement to add logo in postscript designed report where the characters in the logo need to be in FuturaBT-Bold.

I am able to print the logo with Fonts such Times, Helvetica etc., but i am not able to use Futura Family Font.

Please let me know the steps to be followed to get this font and use it from iSeries(AS400) platform for the reporting.

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Participating Frequently

If you have the font on your PC you need to determine the type. For example a PostScript Type 1 font can be included

in a ps (PostScript program). Others such as OpenType can't. You can get a free tool such as fontforge to convert

fonts. could also use the font in an email or document and print it to a file and extract the font.

Inspiring

It is an Open type font. I have got the postscript definition of the font (using ghostscript converted the ttf to ps).

How to include the font definition to a PS and use the font in the PS?

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One caution in using a font converted from a driver or ghostscript is the font may

a sub-set with just the characters used in the font unless you use e.g. the

-dSubsetFonts=false option.

The start of the font is e,g:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 Resource-Font or %%BeginResource: font SomeFont

The type of the font is e.g.:

/FontType 1 def

The name of the font is e.g.

/FontName /SomeFont def

The end of the font can vary but with gs is typically;

%%EndResource

If you copy just the font to a new file and add:

%!PS-Adobe

/Somefont 18 selectfont

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