AFP compatibility fonts and font substitution

This section contains information about Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) compatibility fonts, character identifiers and other printing characteristics as well as several tables to help you understand font substitution.

Font substitution is done by the IBM® i when the application specifies a font ID that is not supported by the designated printer or cannot be downloaded from the system to the designated printer.

Notes:
  1. IBM i supports Font Object Content Architecture (FOCA) 2 font character sets. This means it does not support the font character sets used by the various models of the IBM 3800 printer. For more information about FOCA 2 fonts, see the Font Object Content Architecture (FOCA) Reference PDF.
  2. Font global identifier (FGID) is used interchangeably with font ID in these tables.