CL Command Reference - CHGFNTRSC
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Description:
The Change Font Resource (CHGFNTRSC) command allows you to mark font character sets and code pages as eligible to be captured. Fonts and code pages that are marked with FNTCAPTURE(*YES) are eligible to be captured after downloading on printers that support font capturing. This allows IPDS printers that support font capturing to dynamically capture or cache a host downloaded font which has been marked with font capture *YES. The captured font then appears to Print Services Facility (PSF) like a printer-resident font and remains in the printer even after it has be powered off and then on again. Printing performance is improved by eliminating subsequent font downloads to the printer
Caution must be used when marking security sensitive fonts as FNTCAPTURE(*YES). It is possible that someone could access the captured font in the printer from another print job on the same system or another print job on a different system if the printer is attached to a LAN.
To use a host font referenced in a print job, you must have authority to the font object and its library on the system regardless if it is marked as eligible to be captured or not.
In addition to marking the font character set and code page, you must also activate font capturing on the printer you are using. To activate font capturing on an IPDS printer, you must specify FNTCAPTURE(*YES) on the CRTPSFCFG or CHGPSFCFG command.
Notes:
. Font character set and code page pairs that are marked as eligible to be captured will be downloaded to printers that do not support font capturing.
. Marking coded fonts is not supported. No change will take effect when attempting to mark a coded font.
Examples:
CHGFNTRSC FNTRSC(QFNT61/X0G16F) FNTCAPTURE(*YES)
This example marks font character set X0G16F in library QFNT61 as eligible for font capturing.