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North Las Vegas, Nevada 89030
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Fonts |
| PostScript Fonts |
| Type 1 |
Each Type 1 font has two separate parts, a bitmapped, screen portion (that appears in your menu and on your monitor screen) and an outline printer font (that the output device uses to create the font on the finished document). Both screen and printer fonts must be installed. They must reside in the same folder, if not the computer will not see the printer font. A message will appear on the screen, when printing, saying that the printer font is missing. A PostScript interpreter (RIP) takes an outline and rasterizes it. A Type 1 font can be printed in whatever resolution the output device can produce. |
| Type 2 |
There is no such thing as a Type 2 font. It was a proposed font technology that was abandoned early in its life. |
| Type 3 |
Type 3 fonts can be more ornate than Type 1 fonts. Type 1 fonts use a hinting technology that was not originally public information, so no other vendor could create a real Type 1 font, although anyone could use the PostScript language to create Type 3 outlines. When Adobe Systems made their proprietary hinting techniques public, all type vendors began converting their Type 3s to Type 1s. Very few vendors create Type 3 fonts anymore. |
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Type 3 fonts have several disadvantages: they take up more disk space then Type 1, do not print well at smaller sizes, take longer to print, and ATM cannot rasterize their outlines. | |
| TrueType Fonts |
| TrueType is a scalable font technology developed by Apple. As with PostScript fonts, TrueType uses a mathematical outline to describe characters. TrueType fonts appear smooth on the screen at any size, and they print smooth to any printer, PostScript or non-PostScript. |
| TrueType fonts do not have separate parts. The screen information and the printer information is contained in one file. |
| Type 1 versus TrueType |
| People that use type extensively and professionally, or who are involved in graphics, use PostScript printers, ATM, and Type 1 fonts. High-end output service bureaus prefer PostScript Type 1 fonts. |
| People who have PostScript printers, for any reason, can use either TrueType or Type 1 fonts, but it is generally preferable and more reliable to use PostScript font technology (Type 1) with the PostScript printer. |
| People whose only involvement with type is to get words on the page, and do not have PostScript printers, can be very happy with TrueType. |
| It is not recommended to mix Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one document. |
| ATM (Adobe Type Manager) |
| ATM is a utility software that rasterizes the outlines of Type 1 PostScript fonts. What this means is that ATM gets the outline and rasterizes it into dots - but instead of doing it in the printer it outputs dots to the screen. So your type on the screen appears almost as smooth and clean as it does from the printer. Since it rasterizes the outline, it does not work with resident fonts where the outline is stored in the printer. |
| Special Note On Mac Fonts!
When sending us Mac Fonts please send them on a Mac disk. We require the actual Mac Resource fork to properly capture the font. If they are simply copied to a disk or CD the Resource Fork does not come through. | | |
