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A.2
Style
Style refers to the design of the characters in the font. The
name of the font reflects the style of the font. Hamilton
Medium and Hamilton Medium Italic are two different
fonts that have the same style (Hamilton). As you gain
experience with the fonts in your QMS laser printer, you
will recognize names and styles of fonts.
A.3
Size
The size of the fonts in your QMS laser printer is measured
in points and in cpi (characters per inch). A "point" is
approximately In2nd inch and measures the height of the
font. This measurement is actually the distance from the
bottom of a character such as "y" that descends below the
line to the top of a character such as "k" that is taller than
the other characters. The number of characters per inch
gives the width of the characters in a font (narrower fonts
have a higher cpi number).
Some fonts are "proportional" fonts. These allot space to
characters based on the width of the character. In a pro-
portional font, the character "m" is given more space than
the character "i". Proportional fonts, therefore, cannot be
categorized in terms of a "fixed" number of characters per
inch.
A.4
Orientation
Orientation is the direction in which characters appear on
the page after the page is printed. This page is an ex-
ample of text printed in portrait orientation. Landscape
orientation places the text on the page perpendicular to
what you are reading now. If this page had been printed
in landscape orientation, you would have to turn the page
so that the left edge was at the top before you could read
it.
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