Apple 4500 important safety instructions Bitmapped fonts

How does a font look? To see what a TrueType or bitmapped font looks like on your screen, double-click the font’s icon to open it. A sample of that font appears (in three sizes for TrueType fonts and in the size you opened for bitmapped fonts).

You can also use the Key Caps desk accessory to examine fonts. See the documentation that came with your computer for instructions.

Bitmapped fonts

Bitmapped fonts consist of “pictures” of a typeface at specific sizes. For example, you might have bitmapped fonts at 10-, 12-, and 18-point sizes installed in your computer. For best results you need a separate font file for each size of character you want to use.

The icon of a bitmapped font (also called a fixed-size font or screen font) has the single letter A on it. The font’s point size appears at the end of its name.

When you request a bitmapped character, your looks for an installed bitmapped font in the size you specified. (See “How the Computer Looks for Fonts” later in this appendix.) If it can’t find that font, your computer tries to construct one by scaling a size that it does find.

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