Adobe 65011817 - Fireworks CS4 - Mac Using Manual page 98

USING FIREWORKS CS4
Working with text
A type style is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain (the actual name
varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular,
bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic.
In addition to the fonts installed on your system, you can also use the fonts installed in these folders:
Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts
Windows
Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts
Mac OS
If you install a Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, or CID font into the local Fonts folder, the font appears in Adobe
applications only.
Previewing fonts
You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the
application from where you can choose fonts. The following icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts:
• OpenType
• Type 1
• TrueType
• Multiple Master
• Composite
You can turn off the preview feature or change the point size of the font names or font samples in Type preferences.
Specify a typeface size
By default, typeface size is measured in points (a point equals 1/72 of an inch). You can specify any typeface size from
0.1 to 1296 points, in 0.001-point increments.
Select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don't select any text, the typeface size applies to new
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text you create.
Do one of the following:
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• In the Character panel or Control bar set the Font Size option.
• Choose a size from the Type > Size menu. Choosing Other lets you type a new size in the Character panel.
You can change the unit of measurement for type in the Preferences dialog box.
Make missing fonts available
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Do any of the following:
• Install the missing fonts on your system.
• Activate the missing fonts using a font-management application.
• Place the missing fonts in the Fonts folder, which is located in the application folder. Fonts in this folder are
available only to the application. For Mac OS, fonts can be installed to the HD > Library > ApplicationSupport >
Adobe > Fonts folder. Fonts installed here can only be used by Adobe products.
If you don't have access to the missing fonts, search for and replace missing fonts.
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