Linking font resources in a printing system

A method, computer program product and system for switching fonts without embedding font switching commands in the data stream (logical description of the print document) between a client and a print server. The client in a printing system may receive a character where the character is a modified character in a base font resource or is a character to be added to or deleted from the base font resource. The client may create a font resource that includes the received character. The client may further link the created font resource with the base font resource or vice-versa thereby allowing a user to use both the characters in the base font resource and in the linked font resource as if they were a single font resource without building or buying a special purpose font resource. Consequently, font switching commands are no longer necessary to be embedded in the data stream.