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Subject: Re: Windows Screen/Printer Fonts
Message-ID: <90262.005323CC65SRAD@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 19 Sep 90 05:53:23 GMT
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Fonts can be in two formats: bitmapped and outline.
Bitmapped fonts are only good for one point size, and a new copy must be
generated for each point. This is why you don't see more than three or four
point sizes available for a Windows font. The fonts that come with Windows are
bitmapped.
Understand that the resolution of your printer and your screen are different.
This matters to a bitmapped font.  To a bitmap, if your screen has a resolution
of 60 dots per inch, a character 60 dots high would be one inch high.  If you
have a laser printer, and print at 300 dots per inch, a character 60 dots high
would only meaasure 3/8 of an inch. Understanding that this is a very lay
definition (I am not an expert, by any means), this is the reason there are
different fonts for the screen and the printer.  Basically, any font you get
for Windows will serve both the screen and the printer.  If your printer alread
y has fonts in it , a PostScript printer for example, you cannot display these
fonts on the screen, because they reside only in your printer.  To allow
WYSIWYG, some companies provide Windows screen fonts to match the fonts
already in the printer.  These fonts will not print, as they were designed
for the screen. The printer company invested a lot of money in the fonts
installed in their printer, and it would be counterproductive to give them
away.
If you want more fonts, you must contact a company like Bitstream or Adobe.
The can set you up with many fonts, and control programs to use them.  These
companies also use outline fonts, which are fonts that can be resized to any
point size without needing a seperate font for each. They are slower, but
more space efficient than bitmaps.
If you attempt to use a screen font in a Windows app, it will display, but
when it prints, it will use a printer font closest to the screen font, usually
with undesirable resaults.
The (VGA Res) and (All) simply mean that the bitmaps are optimized to a
certain resolution (VGA,EGA,CGA,Herc) or are stroke fonts that can be used
with any resolution (all)
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