EUROCOM 3400 UltraLite User Manual page 140

Glossary: –
E F
1
2
3
4
5
A
B
G
G
G – 6
erased and written in fixed
blocks, typically ranging from
512 bytes up to 256KB.
Flash chips are used for
updatable BIOSs (like this
system's). They are also used
as solid state disks in
palmtops, digital cameras and
other consumer products.
Font
A set of type characters of a
particular typeface design
and size. Usually, it is avail-
able in four variations: nor-
mal weight, bold, italic and
bold italic. Thus,
bitmapped fonts, which are
fully generated ahead of time,
four fonts would be required
for each point size used in
each typeface. For scalable
fonts, which are generated in
any point size on the fly, only
four fonts would be required
for each typeface.
bitmapped font – A set of
pre-generated dot patterns
for each letter and digit in a
particular typeface for speci-
fied type size (10 points, 12
points, etc.). Bitmapped
fonts take up disk space for
each point size.
scalable font – The dot pat-
terns (bitmaps) are gener-
ated as needed for display or
printing from a set of outline
fonts, or base fonts, which
contain a mathematical rep-
resentation of the typeface.
The two major scalable fonts
for
are Adobe's
PostScript
Microsoft's TrueType. Al-
though a bitmapped font al-
ways look the best, scalable
fonts save a lot of disk space.
In most cases, only the
trained eye can tell the dif-
ference.
Type 1
and Apple/