Appendix B
Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter 6500
A font is a collection of letters, numbers, and symbols in a distinctive typographic design. Your Mac OS computer and Color StyleWriter 6500 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 Mac OS computer works with three main kinds of fonts: TrueType, bitmapped, and PostScript fonts.
Two kinds of fonts come with your computer and the Color StyleWriter 6500 printer: TrueType and bitmapped. However, your system can use PostScript fonts as well when it has the proper software installed.
TrueType fonts
A TrueType font is scalable, describing a typeface without rigidly specifying a size. So it looks good whatever size you choose. TrueType fonts provide sharp text at any size on screen or on paper. You can mix and match TrueType fonts from various font vendors.
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