Understanding Fonts; Fonts; Scalable Fonts; Bitmap Fonts - Minolta PAGEWORKS 20 User Manual

5. Understanding Fonts

Font
A font is a specific group of characters that have common style and
size characteristics. Your printer can store a variety of different fonts
in its memory for printing. Since these fonts reside in printer mem-
ory, they are called resident fonts.
The PageWorks 20 uses two types of resident fonts: scalable fonts
and bitmap fonts. Appendix B of this User's Manual contains a table
that shows samples of all the available resident fonts.
In addition to resident fonts, you can also download non-resident
soft fonts for printing.

Scalable Fonts

Scalable fonts (also called outline font) can be enlarged or reduced
(scaled) to suit your printing needs. There are few limitations on the
sizes that you can specify for scalable fonts.

Bitmap Fonts

A bitmap font is stored in printer memory as a set of characters and
symbols with a specific size and unique design. Each bit of the font
is precisely mapped, so this type of font cannot be scaled to different
sizes.
The PageWorks 20 maintains 10 TrueType fonts and 35 Intellifont
typefaces in memory.

Minolta Font Manager

The Minolta Font Manager has screen fonts for Windows 3.1x and
Windows 95, and contains 96 True Type fonts. They can all be dis-
played and printed as scalable fonts.
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