Infoprint information, provided by Richard Sims

This page provides information on IBM's Infoprint Manager software and Infoprint printer hardware products, based upon my experience with this complex arena. The intention is to provide insights and nuances, to particularly guide those who are new to this product.

Infoprint QuickFacts

Details, details...an administrator's life is full of them. Multiply that by the number of subsystems administrator has to administer, compound by the evolution of each, and your brain hurts. There's simply no way to remember all this stuff — and who wants to? What we need is a quick way to get at those factoids, particularly the ones that took a long time to research and you need to retrieve again, without reinvention of the information. I had gotten into the habit of creating QuickFacts alphabetical references for technical areas I had previously entered. Embarking upon the intricate Infoprint Manager product in 2002, I carried forward that work habit to compile information in this area as I learned. Its obvious intention is to supplement, not replace, any vendor-provided information. I cannot stress strongly enough that in any subject area, the information provided by the supplier of the product should be your principal reference, particularly as the product evolves.

The Infoprint QuickFacts cover Infoprint Manager, Infoprint printers, AFP, transforms programming, PostScript, PDF, error messages, and much more.

See the Infoprint QuickFacts reference

Infoprint Manager PostScript fonts sampler

Here is a self-contained PostScript program to produce samples of all the PostScript fonts resident in the Infoprint Manager server. The samples are produced one per 10-point line on the page, with a reasonable number of lines per page, resulting in approximately three pages of samples.

Simply submit this file to a suitable logical destination to produce the sampler output. I like to send it through an Email DSS rather than print it, so that it will email me a PDF which I can store on my Mac and then quickly refer to in OS X Preview rather than go hunt for some pieces of paper I printed some time ago; and, font detail can be seen with the Zoom In tool. (Note that Ghostscript may be used to view the structure of the resulting page, but whereas Ghostscript employs its own fonts, the content of the imaged page will not match the results obtained by using the fonts provided by the IPM software base.)

Here is the PostScript program file

(The Web page filename has its natural .ps suffix removed to keep browsers from trying to process the content of the PostScript file into an image.)

If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email me: rbs at bu.edu