AFP default font character set

[Adrian Cumiskey <ad...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have been looking at adding a new "No Operation" or 
<afp:no-operation/> extension to the AFP renderer.  I noticed that by 
default (in the absence of any configuration) the AFPRenderer sets up 
some base fonts which use the "CZH200  " character set.  This character 
set was not available on my IBM Infoprinter setup so I used "C0N20000" 
instead and it worked just fine.  I was just wondering if there was any 
particular reason why "CZH200  " was chosen?  Is this one of the most 
common font character sets that is available?

Adrian.

Re: AFP default font character set

[Manuel Mall <ma...@apache.org>]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:02, Adrian Cumiskey wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been looking at adding a new "No Operation" or
> <afp:no-operation/> extension to the AFP renderer.  I noticed that by
> default (in the absence of any configuration) the AFPRenderer sets up
> some base fonts which use the "CZH200  " character set.  This
> character set was not available on my IBM Infoprinter setup so I used
> "C0N20000" instead and it worked just fine.  I was just wondering if
> there was any particular reason why "CZH200  " was chosen?  Is this
> one of the most common font character sets that is available?
>
> Adrian.
It was chosen because the font was available to me at the time and seem 
to most closely match the equivalent Base14 fonts. Same applies to the 
default monospaced and roman font setup. Any way, it was never the idea 
for this to be a useful feature when using AFP in a real IBM 
environment. Just a convenience when developing and using the AFPViewer 
application.

Manuel