A soft font installer is not available yet for the PostScript printer driver. Therefore, it is up to the printer manufacturer to install additional fonts as soft fonts by adding the appropriate WIN.INI entries.
The softfontn settings in WIN.INI can be used for several different purposes. Basically, they inform the driver that a given printer has extra fonts available and, if necessary, indicate a file that needs to be downloaded to make that font available. If there is a second file listed in a softfontn setting, it is assumed that it needs to be downloaded to activate the given font. Thus, soft fonts can be used to support resident printer fonts that have been downloaded previously, that reside on a printer's hard drive, or that are available in some other form.
The softfonts setting indicates how many soft fonts are installed and listed. The maximum number of soft fonts allowed is based on available memory and other considerations. The maximum number of soft fonts is at least 450.
Each softfontn setting references the PFM file associated with a soft font and, optionally, the soft font that will be downloaded to the printer at print time. Each filename may be a complete pathname. The two forms of soft fonts supported are described in the following subsections.