Adding a Font Metric - AFP Input Filter - Foundation 24.1 - Foundation 24.1 - Ready - OnBase - Essential - Premier - Standard - external - Essential - Premier

Adding a Font Metric - AFP Input Filter - Foundation 24.1 - Foundation 24.1 - Ready - OnBase - Essential - Premier - Standard - external - Essential - Premier - Standard

AFP Input Filter

Platform

OnBase

Product

AFP Input Filter

Release

Foundation 24.1

License

Essential

Premier

Standard

You can create modifications, such as positioning overrides and character alterations, to a specific font called the font metric. A font metric is applied to a font that matches a combination of the code page name, font character set name, and coded font name.

AFP documents may need to use a font, which may be specific or custom to that document. You can specify a font metric override to adjust the output of that particular font.

If the override is applied to every font using a particular code page, the mappings or modifications you make may leave the font character set name or coded font name blank.

Note:

You must be logged on to the OnBase Configuration module and have accessed AFP Customize Fonts. If you have not yet logged on to the OnBase Configuration module, please complete the instructions under Customizing Fonts Used to Render AFP Documents.

To customize font metrics:

From the AFP Customize Fonts dialog box, click Add Metric.
The Customize Font Metric dialog box is displayed.

Configure the following options as required:

Setting	Description
Code Page Name	This value specifies the AFP Code Page Name this override should apply to.
FCS Name	This value specifies the AFP Font Character Set Name this override should apply to.
Coded Font Name	This value specifies the AFP Coded Font Name this override should apply to.
Font Width	This value specifies the width of the font character boxes to override.
XPos	This value specifies the X positioning of the character box to offset by.
YPos	This value specifies the Y positioning of the character box to offset by.
Blank Increment	This value specifies the width override for space characters or empty strings.
Suppress Render	Select this setting to specify if the font should be suppressed.

Click Add Mapping. This adds a character remapping and generates the remapped character glyph while attempting to render a specific character value.
The Add/Edit Character Mapping dialog box is displayed.
In the Original Character field, enter the value of the character to be mapped in hexadecimal format.
In the Remapped Character field, enter the value of the character that is mapped onto the original character in hexadecimal format.
Click OK.
The values are added under the Character Modifications list box.
Click Add Suppress. This allows you to stop rendering specific characters.
The Add/Edit Character Suppress dialog box is displayed.
In the Character field, enter the value of the character to stop rendering in hexadecimal format.
Click OK.
The values are added under the Character Modifications list box.
Click Add Adjust. This adds a horizontal (x) and vertical (y) offset adjustment for specific characters in the font.
The Add/Edit Character Adjust dialog box is displayed.
In the Character field, enter the value of the character to offset in hexadecimal format.
In the X Adjust field, enter the distance (in pixels) that you would like to offset the character horizontally.
In the Y Adjust field, enter the distance (in pixels) that you would like to offset the character vertically.
Click OK.
The values are added under the Character Modifications list box.
To edit the selected font/character customizations or font overrides shown in the Character Modification list box, click Edit.
To remove character customizations, select one or more font or character customizations/font overrides in the Character Modifications list box and click Remove.
Click OK.
The configuration for the font metric is saved.