Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide

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The Paris Conversion Manager has been designed to make converting Xerox
centralized legacy fonts into Paris as simple as possible. Once in the Paris internal
format, these fonts can be used on Paris supported PCL and Postscript printers.

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Because of Windows limitations legacy bitmap fonts cannot be printed to GDI
devices.

Before printing any converted legacy applications to a Windows GDI device you
must replace the bitmap fonts with either TrueType or Adobe PostScript fonts in
the Paris Designer system.

There are some very important differences in font handling between Paris and
Xerox centralized printers. It is important that these differences are clearly
understood before the conversion process is commenced.

Xerox Centralized fonts are Bitmap fonts, that is, a different set of bitmaps is
required for every pointsize, style, character set and orientation of every font.

Scaleable fonts, as the name implies, do not require a different font for every size,
style, character set and orientation, instead the font is calculated when needed.

Paris is able to use both Bitmap and Scaleable font technologies. Paris’s ability to
use scaleable font technologies is one of the main reasons why Paris does not
output to Xerox Metacode printers.