Some Basic Facts About Fonts

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Appendix

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Bit-mapped Fonts and Scalable Fonts

There are two types of fonts available, and these fonts are distinguished by the type
of data from which they are formed.

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Bit-mapped fonts

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Scalable fonts

Bit-mapped Fonts

Each character of bit-mapped fonts are composed of grid of small dots and stored
in the machine’s memory in dot matrix.
Bit-mapped fonts are fixed in size and specified by the characteristics called
“attributes,” such as typeface, stroke weight, style and so on. Various types of bit
mapped fonts are produced by the combination of these attributes.

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Bit-mapped fonts

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