Available Raster Fonts

DBCS PM provides both SBCS fonts and MBCS fonts.

DBCS PM provides the Courier, Roman and Swiss font. These fonts have only the font data for SBCS characters. They are the same fonts that are provided in SBCS OS/2. Application programs can use them like in the SBCS OS/2. The problem is that the DBCS characters are not displayed by these fonts. If you use them to display a mixed SBCS and DBCS text, the DBCS characters will disappear from the text.
DBCS PM provides the Mincho and Gothic fonts as the MBCS fonts. These fonts are provided by the font device drivers. The Font Drivers and their fonts in OS/2 J2.0 shows the font device drivers and the MBCS fonts provided in OS/2 J (from version 2.0).

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│Table1 .FontDriversandtheirfontsinOS / 2J2 . 0 │
├───────────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────────────┤
│ FONT DRIVER │ FACE NAME │ POINT SIZE IN │ POINT SIZE IN │
│ (REQUIRED MEMORY) │ │ HIGH-RES DISPLAY │ VGA/DBCS DISPLAY │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PMNLSFD1.FDR *1 │ MINCHO Propor- │ 10, 12, 14 │ 12, 15, 18 │
│ *2 │ tional │ │ │
│ ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ MINCHO System │ 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, │ 8, 10, 12, 14, │
│ │ │ 14 │ 15, 18 │
│ ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ MINCHO │ 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, │ 8, 10, 12, 14, │
│ │ │ 14 │ 15, 18 │
│ ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ MINCHO Terminal │ 6, 8 │ 8, 10 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PMNLSFD2.FDR *2 │ MINCHO DRAFT │ 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, │ 8, 10, 12, 14, │
│ (350 KB) │ │ 13, 19, 22, 29 │ 15, 17, 24, 27, │
│ │ │ │ 36 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PS55DM28.FDR (300 │ MINCHO System │ 17, 18 │ 21, 23 │
│ KB) ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ MINCHO │ 17, 18 │ 21, 23 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PS55DM32.FDR (250 │ MINCHO System │ 19 │ 24 │
│ KB) ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ MINCHO │ 19 │ 24 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PS55DM36.FDR (700 │ MINCHO System │ 22, 24 │ 27, 30 │
│ KB) ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ MINCHO │ 22, 24 │ 27, 30 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PMNLSFD3.FDR (600 │ GOTHIC Propor- │ 10, 12 │ 12, 15 │
│ KB) │ tional │ │ │
│ ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ GOTHIC System │ 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, │ 8, 10, 12, 14, │
│ │ │ 14 │ 15, 18 │
│ ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ GOTHIC │ 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, │ 8, 10, 12, 14, │
│ │ │ 14 │ 15, 18 │
│ ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ GOTHIC Terminal │ 6, 8 │ 8, 10 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PS55DG28.FDR (300 │ GOTHIC System │ 17, 18 │ 21, 23 │
│ KB) ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ GOTHIC │ 17, 18 │ 21, 23 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PS55DG32.FDR (250 │ GOTHIC System │ 19 │ 24 │
│ KB) ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ GOTHIC │ 19 │ 24 │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ PS55DG36.FDR (700 │ GOTHIC System │ 22, 24 │ 27, 30 │
│ KB) ├───────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ │ GOTHIC │ 22, 24 │ 27, 30 │
└───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────────────┘

Note:

PMNLSFD1.FDR is used by the system and is always loaded as public fonts. Other font device drivers are need to be installed and loaded by end users before application can apply them.
Both PMNLSFD1.FDR and PMNLSFD2.FDR are provided in all DBCS OS/2. But the rest of the font drivers are only available for OS/2 J version.

Because the DBCS font drivers require memory and slow down the system performance, they are not always be loaded to the system, except for the basic font driver PMNLSFD1.FDR. Before an application uses a specified MBCS font, it must check the availability of that font. If the font is not available, the application must display a warning message before applying a substitute font (system default font is recommended), or must request user to install the necessary font driver.

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