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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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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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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Multiple master fonts (or MM fonts) are an extension to Adobe Systems' Type 1 PostScript fonts, now superseded by the advent of OpenType and, in particular...
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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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Open-source Unicode typefaces (redirect from Free software unicode fonts)
Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. (TXT), tug.org, retrieved 2010-05-06 "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2010-05-06...
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This technology is largely obsolete. Vector fonts (including, and sometimes used as a synonym for, outline fonts) use Bézier curves, drawing instructions...
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to be used in composing accented letters. Display PostScript (DPS) NeXT character set PostScript fonts Czyborra, Roman (1998-06-27). "Codepage & Co"....
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Ghostscript (redirect from Ghostscript fonts)
the standard PostScript 3 font complement. A miscellaneous set including Cyrillic, kana, and fonts derived from the free Hershey fonts, with improvements...
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Typeface (redirect from Proportional fonts)
Fluent Fonts. Fluent Fonts became mostly obsolete with the creation of downloadable PostScript fonts, and these new fonts are called Fluent Laser Fonts (FLF)...
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ITC Zapf Chancery (category Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1979)
with computers running Apple's Mac OS. It is also one of the core PostScript fonts. Zapf Chancery was announced in 1979 in six styles from light to bold...
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used by the Royal Navy and the Argentine Navy Type 42, a font format, see PostScript fonts#Type 42 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Nimbus Roman No. 9 L (category Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1982)
Type 1 fonts. (TXT), retrieved 2010-05-06 "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2010-05-06. Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects...
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Nimbus Mono L (category Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1984)
Type 1 fonts. (TXT), retrieved 2010-05-06 "Fonts and TeX". 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2010-05-06. Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects...
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set up to produce fonts, in the form of image files (in .gf format) with associated font metric files (in .tfm format), whereas MetaPost produces EPS, SVG...
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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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PageMaker 1.2 for Macintosh was released in 1986 and added support for PostScript fonts built into LaserWriter Plus or downloaded to the memory of other output...
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LaserWriter contained four built-in PostScript font families: Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol. These fonts became very popular as a result, being...
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Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language to generate on-screen...
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predominantly PostScript Type 1. Version 10. Marketed as Font Folio Opentype Edition, released August 11, 2003, claiming "more than 2,000" fonts in OpenType...
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Apple Advanced Typography (category Font formats)
the font itself. This allows fonts to be added for new scripts without requiring any specific support from the OS. Third parties can produce fonts for...
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Pkfix (category PostScript)
scalable fonts (if possible). Technically speaking, pkfix is a Perl script which searches the PostScript file for comments on bitmapped PK fonts (introduced...
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Courier (typeface) (redirect from Courier (font))
system font with Windows 3.1, which also included raster Courier fonts. The fonts were also sold commercially by Ascender Corporation. The Ascender fonts have...
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includes fonts "Roman" (or "regular"), "bold" and "italic"; each of these exists in a variety of sizes. In the digital description of fonts (computer fonts),...
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Computer Modern (redirect from Computer Modern font)
publishing technology (PostScript, PDF, laser printers) has reduced the need for bitmap fonts. The preferred formats are now outline fonts such as Type 1, TrueType...
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This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their...
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range of fonts than Microsoft's ClearType, which at the time was limited to TrueType fonts, whereas Adobe's CoolType also supported PostScript fonts (and...
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understands PostScript Level 2, is a color device, and so forth. The PPD can describe allowable paper sizes, memory configurations, the minimum font set for...
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