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)
Arial MT) is a sans-serif typeface and set of computer fonts in the neo-grotesque style. Fonts from the Arial family are included with all versions of...
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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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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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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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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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Open-source Unicode typefaces (redirect from Free software unicode fonts)
original 35 fonts available under LPPL, tug.org, retrieved 2010-05-06 Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts., archived from...
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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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Multiple master fonts (or MM fonts) are an extension to Adobe Systems' Type 1 PostScript fonts, now superseded by the advent of OpenType and, in particular...
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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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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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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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consists of various fonts that share an overall design. In the 21st century, with the advent of computer fonts, the terms "font" and "typeface" are often...
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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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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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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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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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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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Bitstream Vera (redirect from Vera (font))
repackaged as a Type 1 PostScript font, called Bera, for LaTeX users. Vera consists of serif, sans-serif, and monospace fonts. The Bitstream Vera Sans...
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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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CorelDRAW (category Font editors)
outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as Adobe Type Manager; paired with a photo-editing program (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager...
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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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PDF (redirect from Base 14 fonts)
Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics...
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Nimbus Sans (redirect from Nimbus (font))
Nimbus Sans L is one of the Ghostscript fonts, a set of free alternatives to the 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Helvetica). It is a standard...
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range of fonts than Microsoft's ClearType, which was then limited to TrueType fonts, whereas Adobe's CoolType also supported PostScript fonts (and their...
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Zapf Dingbats (category Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1978)
The font first gained wide distribution when ITC Zapf Dingbats, which consists of the subset chosen by ITC, became one of 35 PostScript fonts built...
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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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