Creating Font Mappings

Use the Font Mappings page to define mappings for fonts used in your templates to desired published fonts. Font mapping is performed only for PDF output.

There are two types of mappings:

The mapping can then be defined at the site level, the template level, or the data definition level, using the Configuration tab. See FO Processing Properties for setting the FO to PDF mapping. See PDF Template Properties for setting the PDF to PDF mapping.

Within a Font Mapping Set you can define multiple font mappings. Therefore you can use the same Font Mapping Set for multiple templates using different fonts, or to support multiple fonts in a single base document.

To create a Font Mapping, first create a Font Mapping Set, then create Font Mappings within the set. The Font Mapping fields will vary depending on the type of mapping you choose (FO to PDF or PDF Form).

Creating a Font Mapping Set

  1. Select the Create Font Mapping Set button from the Font Mappings page.

  2. On the Create Font Mapping Set page, enter a Mapping Name and Mapping Code. Enter any unique name and code you choose.

  3. Select the mapping Type:

  4. Select Apply. If there are no errors, you will receive confirmation that your mapping set was successfully created and the Font Mappings page will launch.

arrow icon   Creating a Font Mapping:

  1. Select Create Font Mapping.

  2. On the Create Font Mapping page, enter the following as appropriate and select Continue:

    If your font mapping type is FO to PDF

    Base Font

    Locale

    Target Font Type

  3. Enter the following as appropriate:

Once you have created your font mapping it is now available for use in your templates. You can make this font available at one of three levels, Template, Data Definition and Site.

For Template and Data Definition

  1. Query back your template or data definition in the Template Manager and select the Edit Configuration button.

  2. Expand the FO Processing properties group and use the LOV for the Font mapping set property to select the font mapping you want to make available for this level.

If you add the font to an individual template then only that template can use that font. If you add it to a data definition, then all templates associated with that definition can use the font.

For Site Level

  1. Navigate to the Administration tab then select the Configuration subtab.

  2. Expand the FO Processing properties group and use the LOV for the Font mapping set property to select the font mapping you want to make available for this level.

The font will now be available across all data definitions and templates in the system.