Font Substitution

Font Substitution settings can be accessed by selecting Preferences from the File menu.

Illustration 1: Font Substitution

This window controls the way the RIP performs substitutions when it can't recognize a font requested by a PostScript job file.

When a font request is unresolved, the RIP looks first in the "Specific Font Substitutions" window. If the font is found there, the specified substitution is performed. If the font is not found there, the font specified in Default Font will be used. The Default Font can be chosen from all the fonts installed on Wasatch SoftRIP.

It is particularly important that fonts using large character sets, such as Japanese, are always substituted by other fonts that contain similarly large character sets. If you allow Helvetica to be substituted for an Asian font, you will lose a lot of characters.

Anytime the RIP performs a font substitution, a line for that substitution is placed in the Specific Font Substitutions window. This is done whenever SoftRIP previews a file or processes for output. After previewing, clicking on any line in the Specific Font Substitutions window allows it to be edited (Illustration 2).

Illustration 2: Edit Font Substitution

This window displays the current substitution and a list of all the fonts installed on Wasatch SoftRIP. You may select a new font to be substituted or delete a specific substitution by clicking that button.

Important note for Asian typesetting users: When choosing substitutions, try to match the Encoding extension of the original. That is -83pv-RKSJ-H in most Japanese files from Macintosh.