system uses PostScript file format to encode font information. "PostScript fonts" may also separately be used to refer to a basic set of fonts included as...
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in fonts was carefully guarded, and the hinted fonts were compressed and encrypted into what Adobe called a Type 1 Font (also known as PostScript Type...
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Arial (redirect from Arial font)
and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996. It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, free alternatives to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Helvetica)...
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outline fonts for printing only. These outline fonts could be printed in letter quality at any size. PostScript fonts came with two files; a bitmap font was...
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received from the user programs. Bitmap font support: DPS added the ability to map PS fonts onto hand-drawn bitmap fonts and change from one to the other on...
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TrueType (redirect from TrueType fonts)
TrueType outline fonts, four-weight families of Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier, and the pi font "Symbol" replicated the original PostScript fonts of the Apple...
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Adobe Type Manager (category Font managers)
to scale PostScript Type 1 fonts for the computer monitor, and for printing to non-PostScript printers. Mac Type 1 fonts come with screen fonts set to display...
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OpenType (redirect from OpenType font)
technology used in its Type 1 fonts. The joint effort intended to supersede both Apple's TrueType and Adobe's PostScript Type 1 font format, and to create a...
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Open-source Unicode typefaces (redirect from Free software unicode fonts)
a package of fonts by collecting existing free fonts and special donations, to support as many Unicode characters as possible. The font family is released...
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each glyph in each face and size. Vector fonts (including, and sometimes used as a synonym for, outline fonts) use Bézier curves, drawing instructions...
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