Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP InfoPrint Manager - Page 285
Working with global resource identifiers, Uses of GRID files
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Chapter 27. Working with global resource identifiers InfoPrint can identify the fonts required for a job, access AFP font files that are installed on or NFS-mounted to your Windows system, and download the appropriate fonts to an InfoPrint-managed printer device. However, some InfoPrint printers can use fonts that are resident in the printer, which saves the time it takes to download these fonts. Because the font files on the Windows system do not share the same names as the printer-resident fonts, InfoPrint uses global resource identifiers (GRIDs) to map the system-resident fonts to the printer-resident fonts. Uses of GRID files GRID files contain preassigned mappings that you can modify to map system-resident font file names to printer-resident font identifiers. These preassigned mappings include both single-byte character set (SBCS) and double-byte characters set (DBCS) outline fonts. If you have a printer that supports outline fonts, you can use the GRID files to map raster character-set names to outline font global identifiers. GRID files also support Mixed Object Document Content Architecture for Presentation (MO:DCA-P) files that specify fonts using GRIDs rather than character-set names. You can customize the GRID files to define which fonts InfoPrint uses when the data stream of the job specifies GRIDs. Note: If a data stream specifies only GRID parts instead of specific names, the fgid.grd table is used to find the name of the font to download or the outline font to activate. In this case, the data stream must specify a specific width value GRID files that come with InfoPrint Manager InfoPrint Manager provides four GRID files that you can customize to use with the types of printer devices that you have and the types of jobs that you print. These files are charset.grd.sample, codepage.grd.sample, cpgid.grd.sample, and fgid.grd.sample, and they are installed in the \grd directory. Note: You can either shut down and restart the InfoPrint server (pdserver process) or shut down and restart all your printers to make sure that .grd file changes are applied. Descriptions of each file are provided below. charset.grd.sample Specifies which printer-resident fonts are activated for the character-set names found in the data stream of the job. This file maps the font character-set name to a: v Font global identifier (fgid) v Graphic character set global identifier (gcsgid) v Font width v Vertical size value v Set of font attributes (bold, italic, and doublewide) 267