Type Technicalities

PostScript Fonts (Type 1 Fonts)

PostScript= programming language created by Adobe

Describes appearance of page

PostScript fonts are most professional-looking format

Many print shops require them

Type 1 fonts include

• Bitmapped "screen" font
• Printer "outline" font

Bitmapped fonts

• Represented by pixels (bitmaps).
• 72 dots per inch
• "jaggies"
• Only a few sizes included with screen fonts
• ATM

Outline

• Outline of each character as mathematical formula
• "Scalable"

Postscript fonts (Type 1 fonts)

• Work best on PostScript printers
• Font management software allows nonPostScript printers to use them
• Adobe Type Manager

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