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Contents:

1. FONTS
2. FONTS AND TYPEFACES
3. PRINTER DRIVERS
4. PRINTER FONTS
5. THE WINDOWS APPROACH
6. TRUETYPE FONTS
7. FINDING YOUR FONTS
8. ENTER POSTSCRIPT
9. TYPE 1 FONTS
10. FONTS AND THE WEB
11. OpenType and TrueDoc
12. FOR MORE INFORMATION

TRUETYPE FONTS
Microsoft took another page (so to speak) from Apple by including a set of standard fonts, known as TrueType, with all current versions of the Windows operating system. Just as all Windows applications can use a common printer driver, they can also use the set of TrueType fonts to get a much greater selection than those that are resident in the average printer. These fonts work very much like those additional fonts that Lotus added to 1-2-3 for DOS: the characters are sent to the printer as graphics. rather than text

TrueType fonts also offer an additional advantage over most resident fonts: scalability Scalable (or outline) fonts can be set to print at almost any point size, and they remain sharp at all sizes. Scalable fonts are drawn with a series of mathematical calculations that allow them to rise the maximum resolution of a given printer. (Older, bit-mapped fonts, in contrast, print characters as a set, of dots within a fixed rectangular matrix. This "rectangularity" is always present, so that these fonts tend to look blocky and jagged if printed much larger than their optimum size.) The ability of TrueType fonts to produce sharp, sizable characters means Windows users can create clean, professional output not only on laser printers, but inkjet and high-end dot matrix printers as well.