Apple 6500 manual How TrueType fonts work with other kinds of fonts, TrueType and bitmapped fonts

Certain printers are designed specifically to work with PostScript fonts. While your Color StyleWriter 6500 is not a PostScript printer, it can use PostScript fonts if you have Adobe Type Manager software installed. Adobe Type Manager uses printer fonts to generate clean-looking screen text at any size. (This software is included with some installations of system software 7.5. It is available from your local Apple-authorized dealer for version 7.1.)

IMPORTANT Adobe Type Manager is not an Apple product. It is made and supported by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Only the version that comes with Apple Macintosh system software version 7.5 is supported by Apple.

PostScript printer fonts have no numbers associated with their names, because a single font can be scaled to any size. Many companies make PostScript fonts; the following illustration shows icons for Adobe, Bitstream, and Fontek PostScript fonts, plus a generic PostScript font icon.

How TrueType fonts work with other kinds of fonts

Although TrueType fonts offer distinct advantages, your Color StyleWriter 6500 printer can also use other kinds of fonts.

TrueType and bitmapped fonts

Mac OS computers running System 7 come with both bitmapped (screen) fonts and TrueType fonts installed. This maintains consistency with documents created on Mac OS systems that don’t have TrueType fonts.

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