Print Property Dialog Boxes

10-10 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services The primary PPD file is datap462.ppd. Administrators should change the name of the included file to conform to their sites default printer type. When a local customization file includes a primary PPD file, there might be several instances of the same keyword in the composite file. Hence, the location of the primary file in the customization file beginning or end is important and effects the changes made by the customization file.

10.4.3 HPD Files

HPD files provide functionality for PCL printers that is similar to what PPD files provide for PostScript printers. HPD or HP glue files provide information on what fonts are available for a PCL printer. The HPD file format can be found in the HP PCL5 Developers Guide. Just as PostScript has AFM files, every HP font must have an associated TFM file. The font vendor should provide TFM files and new fonts should be added to the HPD file for your printer when installed. For a new font, you should specify the following fields in the HPD file: FONT={fontname} tfm={tfm-filename} where fontname is a descriptive name for the font. tfm-filename is the base file name for the TFM file. If the TFM file isnt specific enough, you can also specify the following after the FONT field: ptsize={size {size ...}} If the specified font is a bit mapped font but is listed in the TFM file as a scalable font, you can limit the point sizes used by listing the acceptable sizes as follows: symset={symset {symset ...}} This field limits the supported symbol sets to those listed. See the HP PCL documentation for a list of recognized symbol sets. Oracle Reports also supports the defaultpaper field for printing to PCL format. This field can be used to set the defaultpaper to be used by the Toolkit. The format of this field is: defaultpaper={papername} For example, the following sets the paper name to A4: defaultpaper=A4 The paper name is case insensitive. If you specify defaultpaper in more than one place, then the last instance of defaultpaper is used. If you specify a paper name that is not supported by the printer, defaultpaper is ignored and LETTER is used as the paper name instead. Similarly, if the paper name is incorrect, then LETTER is used.

10.4.4 Font Metrics Files

Oracle Reports supports two kinds of font metrics files: