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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

TYPE 1 FONTS
Fonts are the other big part of the PostScript picture. The most common are known as Adobe Type 1 fonts; there are similarities between them and TrueType fonts. Type I fonts must be installed on disk (although there is only one Type I file per font, rather than two); they are copied to the printer as needed; they are outline fonts and can be scaled to any number of sizes (but the algorithm used is different from that in TrueType). Since Type I fonts don't come with Windows, they must be acquired and installed separately.

Most graphics and desktop publishing programs, like CorelDraw and Adobe PageMaker, come with a set of Type I fonts. Unlike TrueType fonts, Type i fonts must normally be printed using a PostScript printer. (But not always. Adobe usually includes with its applications a utility called Adobe Type Manager. Among other things, this program lets you use PostScript fonts on a non-PostScript printer.)