Configure Your Environment 3.5
Accessing Font Information
The standard fonts (also known as the Base 14 fonts) are assumed to be present on any machine handling
PDF or PostScript documents. Those fonts are:
• Courier
• Courier-Bold
• Courier-Oblique
• Courier-BoldOblique
• Helvetica
• Helvetica-Bold
• Helvetica-Oblique
• Helvetica-BoldOblique
•Times-Roman
•Times-Bold
• Times-Italic
• Times-BoldItalic
• Symbol
• ZapfDingbats
It’s important to understand that the Base 14 fonts are not provided in the Adobe PDF Library release; it
is assumed that you already have them on your system, and that they are available to Adobe PDF Library
and Adobe Acrobat (or Adobe Reader) applications.
OS/400
Font resources must be placed in the Integrated File System (IFS) and referenced by the application via the
dirList pointer within the PDFLDataRec structure passed to the PDFLInit function.
The minimum set of resources consists of two Multi-Master fonts (Serif and Sans Serif), Symbol and
ZapfDingbat fonts. All of these are known by name to the code and must be present in resources.
NOTE: PDF files that do not have embedded Base 14 fonts will have smaller file
sizes. However, the Base 14 fonts are the only fonts which may be reliably omitted
from PDF files. Adobe and Datalogics recommend that applications embed and
subset all fonts wherever possible. See the accompanying Adobe PDF Reference
Manual for more information.
