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Using a Common Font List

The METOPT utility lets you use common font lists at the beginning of a Metacode print stream. A common font list names all of the Xerox fonts that will be used by the print job.

By knowing all of the fonts up front, the Metacode driver can issue a single DJDE FONTS command once at the beginning of the job and avoid issuing DJDE FONTS commands on subsequent pages. This helps some Metacode printers print jobs at their highest rated speed.

In the CommonFonts control group, you will see a list of options similar to these:

< CommonFonts >
    Names=28
    Name1=FORMSX
    Name2=FXUNBD
    Name3=FXUNN6
    Name4=FXCON6
    Name5=FXUNN8
    Name6=FXUNN0
    Name7=FXUNBH
    ...
    Name28=FXUNI0

The first option, Names, defines the number of font name entries that follow. The following options specify the Xerox fonts which will be used in the print job.

CommonFonts Control Group

The format used for the CommonFonts control group is the same as that used by Documerge. Therefore, if you used this in Documerge, you can copy that INI control group into your Documaker INI file.

If there are more than 20 fonts (like in the previous example which includes 28 fonts), ensure that you set the MaxFonts option as shown here:

< PrtType:XER >
  MaxFonts = 28

This option is not needed if there are 20 fonts or fewer in the common font list.