Epson POS Internal Printer Fonts - FileMaker Non-TrueType Fonts

[jones_corey]

Hello. I am new to the forum and am hoping someone can help me out. I am developing a filemaker POS for a friends restaurant. We have purchased a few used Epson TM-T88II receipt printers. I have downloaded the latest drivers and the printers work great. Only problem is that I have just discovered that FileMaker 7 and above does not support non truetype fonts. Does anyone know anyway to work around this? I really need to print to the printers using the internal font. The receipts print soooo slow without this. Surely there is a workaround or plugin or something. I know I am not the only one using FileMaker as a POS. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks -Corey

[Leb i Sol]

deploy your non-truetype fonts along with solution. It would be as easy as embeding your font.zip or fonts.exe into containter filed that will self install/extract.

script could be in logic of:

-detect OS

-extract fonts into predetermined path eg. C:WINDOWSFonts

XP ->(ensure that tools-->folder options--> TryeType Fonts (unchecked)

All the best!

[jones_corey]

Hi. Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, I think I need a little more information. I have two specific problems really. One, the epson internal printer fonts only show up in a program if that printer is set to the default. As far as I can tell, it does not actually install a font anywhere. If it does, I can't find it. And my second problem is that everything I read says that FileMaker 7.0 and Higher does not support any font other than truetype. Therefore, even if I could install the fonts, I still couldn't use them because they're not truetype. If you or anyone else could help further, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks -Corey