Konica Minolta micropress release 6 User Manual

The Fonts menu contains commands for installing, deleting, and proofing fonts within the 

RIP. All fonts the RIP uses to process jobs must be installed to disk or embedded in the job. 

The RIP provides tools to install fonts, list currently installed fonts, and print or display a proof 

of installed fonts.

The MP-RIP comes with the 35 standard PostScript printer fonts, plus several special-pur-

pose fonts you can install from "\MicroPress\Rip\Trsysm01\SW\Fonts" folder.

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HP Times-Roman and HP-Courier fonts—used for PCL emulation. PCL is Hewlett-
Packard's Printer Control Language.

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Stick font—used for HPGL emulation. HPGL is a plotter language. The MP-RIP sup-
ports HPGL2 with this font.

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The NotDefFont—used by composite fonts.

You can use several different font types with MP-RIP: 

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Type 1—the most common font; can contain hints, or metrics, that vary with the size of 
the characters and improve output quality on low-resolution devices (< 600 dpi).

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Type 3 and Type 4

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Type 0 (composite)—special fonts designed to support large character sets such as 
Japanese or Chinese; can include many Type 1, Type 3, or Type 4 fonts and may 
require special installation procedures. See Appendix D, Composite Fonts.

Note: MP-RIP converts Type 1 fonts (and those contained within composite fonts) into the DLD font format, which 
stores font data more efficiently. Font operations are much faster and use less virtual memory.

Use this method to pre-load composite fonts, if they have been installed according to the 

instructions in Appendix D, Composite Fonts. The RIP always pre-loads the 35 standard 

fonts. If you use other fonts frequently, the RIP can pre-load them at start-up as well. Start-up 

will take slightly longer but the fonts will be in memory when needed, saving processing time. 

To pre-load a font, use a text editor to edit the "C:\MicroPress\Rip\Trsysm01\SW\Sys\Hqn-

Start" file. Look for the following segment:

% The remaining fonts are also loaded up on startup but need not be.

/AvantGarde-Book HQNloadfont

/AvantGarde-BookOblique HQNloadfont

/AvantGarde-Demi HQNloadfont

Add a line of PostScript code for each font to pre-load. For example,

/ZapfChancery-MediumItalic HQNloadfont

/ZapfDingbats HQNloadfont

loads Zapf Chancery Medium Italic and Zapf Dingbats. 

The RIP substitutes Courier for any font not installed or embedded in the job. Substitution is 

controlled from the check box Abort the job if any fonts are missing in the Page Setup 

Options dialog. A font substitution table substitutes specific fonts for missing fonts.

HelveticaNeue-Bold Helvetica-Bold

BookAntiquaBoldItalic

Palatino-BoldItalic

HelveticaNeue-Roman Helvetica

BookAntiquaBold

Palatino-Bold

HelveticaNeue-Italic Helvetica-Oblique

BookAntiquaItalic

Palatino-Italic

HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic Helvetica-BoldOblique

BookAntiqua

Palatino-Roman

FranklinGothic-Demi Helvetica-Bold

BookmanOldStyleBoldItalic

Bookman-DemiItalic

TimesNewRoman Times-Roman

BookmanOldStyleBold

Bookman-Demi