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Chapter 6: Font Formats, Glyph Sets, and Font Tools
Installation for PostScript File Systems) and #5175 (CID-Keyed Font Installation for ATM
Soware), which provide the necessary technical details for performing these tasks.
Given that the current PDF-based document workow removes the font burden from the
printer, the need to download the fonts to the printer has been eectively eliminated, or
at least signicantly minimized. e current workow paradigm also has the benet of
guaranteeing that the document prints exactly as it is displayed because the same font,
and perhaps more importantly the same version of the font, is used for both purposes.
The PostScript Filesystem
PostScript devices use a hierarchical lesystem composed of several directories, along with
some subdirectories. Exactly where font components are installed depends on the vintage
of the font format. Table 6-41 illustrates how a PostScript Japanese OCF font is distributed
across a PostScript lesystem. Note that the base font name, such as “HeiseiMin-W3,” has
been replaced by an “X” for the sake of brevity and readability.
OCF font le structureTable 6-41.
Directory Contents
fonts X-83pv-RKSJ-H, X-83pv-SuppA-H, X-83pv-SuppB-H, X-Add-H, X-Add-RKSJ-H, X-Add-RKSJ-V, X-Add-SuppA-H,
X-Add-SuppA-V, X-Add-SuppB-HV, X-Add-V, X-EUC-H, X-EUC-V, X-Ext-H, X-Ext-RKSJ-H, X-Ext-RKSJ-V, X-Ext-
SuppA-H, X-Ext-SuppA-V, X-Ext-S ...