Appendix C

Using Fonts With the Printer

A font is a collection of letters, numbers, and symbols in a distinctive typographic design. Your Macintosh computer and Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS printer come with a variety of fonts that look great both on your monitor and on paper.

Fonts come in such a variety of formats that problems can sometimes arise. This appendix provides the information you need to avoid such problems and to solve them if they come up.

Kinds of fonts

The Macintosh works with three main kinds of fonts: bitmapped, PostScript, and TrueType fonts.

Apple provides two kinds of fonts with your Macintosh and the

Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS printer, bitmapped and TrueType. However, your system can use PostScript fonts as well when it has the proper software installed.

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