InterForm Manual - System & Method

A ppendix D - Support for unicode spooled files
In order to use unicode in InterForm400 you need to do a few things:
1. Activate Unicode in InterForm400 via this screen:
Configure InterForm 400 APF101D
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Do you want to be able to use UCS2 (unicode) in your spooled files.
Use UCS2 . . . . . . . Y (Y N)
F3=Exit F12=Cancel
The screen is found from the InterForm400 main menu if you select 70. Configuration and
licences followed by 2. Configure InterForm 400 and press several times.
2. You need to install at least one soft font: True Type Font (TTF) for unicode. Refer to
page 310 for more information of how to do that.
3. Create font numbers and link the fonts with the installed soft fonts (TTFs) via auto
download - additional information can be found on page 311. Remember to specify
U=Unicode.
4. The spooled file you merge with must be identified as a special unicode spooled file
in order to contain unicode. This can either be an AFPDS spooled file (recommended)
or a special *SCS spooled file.
Introduction to the AFPDS unicode format
If you want to use unicode spooled file as input for InterForm400 the easiest way is simply to
define a unicode AFPDS spooled file. You can do that in these steps:
1) Install a Unicode True Type Font (TTF) e.g. Arial unicode into the IFS, so that AFPDS
can 'see' it. This is done by copying it into the IFS within:
/qibm/UserData/OS400/Fonts/TTFonts
2) Make sure that the AFPDS printer file is referring to the name of the installed True
Type Font name exactly as written inside the font e.g. as below, where the field, FLD1
is written
A FLD1 2G 10 5FONTNAME('Arial Unicode MS Regular+
A ' (*POINTSIZE 15.1)) +
A CCSID(13488 *NOCONVERT)
InterForm A/S 411