IBM Licensed Programs: Office and Printing Products 685
IBM Licensed Programs: Office and Printing Products
Optical Character Recognition, which contains OCR-A and OCR-B, allows the IBM customer
to produce machine-readable documents in postal, manufacturing, and distribution
applications.
Fonts consist of digitized alphabetic and other character forms in sizes ranging from 4 to 72
points (approximately one-eighteenth inch to 1 inch in height). Character patterns are
designed for printers with a resolution of 240 x 240 dots (picture elements or pels) per square
inch.
Typically each font feature is provided in four typefaces: Roman medium, Roman bold, Italic
medium, and Italic bold. Sonoran Serif, Sonoran Serif Headliner, Sonoran Sans Serif,
Sonoran Sans Serif Headliner, Monotype Garamond, Century Schoolbook, Pi and Specials,
ITC Souvenir, and ITC Avant Garde Gothic contain all four typefaces. The remaining features
contain less than four typefaces.
Typically, each typeface is provided in 14 point sizes: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24,
30, and 36. Sonoran Serif, Sonoran Sans Serif, Sonoran Sans Serif Condensed, Sonoran
Sans Serif Expanded, Monotype Garamond, Century Schoolbook, ITC Souvenir, and ITC
Avant Garde Gothic contain all 14 point sizes. The remaining features contain other
combinations of point sizes.
IBM Advanced Function Printing DBCS Fonts for AS/400 V4R3, 5769-FN1
IBM Advanced Function Printing (AFP) Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) Fonts for AS/400
is a rich selection of DBCS font families for use on 240 dots-per-inch, non-impact printers
supported by AFP software integrated in the OS/400. This program includes:
• Japanese fonts
• Korean fonts
• Traditional Chinese fonts
• Simplified Chinese fonts
• Thai fonts
This program is designed to allow printing on Page Printers. These fonts allow customers
more flexibility in printing. Some common uses for these families are for printing books,
brochures, business plans, handbooks, magazines, manuals, operating schedules, price lists,
presentation materials, headlines, subtitles, and reports.
Some of the features of this product are:
• Expands customer business solutions by providing a System/370 equivalent
double-byte font library for use with 240 dots-per-inch, non-impact printers attached to
an AS/400 system.
• Enhances system management flexibility with AFP resources transfer.
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