Bitmapped And Scalable Fonts - Dell 3115 Color Laser User Manual

The poin of a font is defined as the distance from the top of the tallest cha n the font to the
bottom of the lowest character in the font. Due to nition of point size, different fonts printed
at the same point siz pear quite different in size. This is because there are other font that
affect how the font looks. However, the point size of a font ellent specification of the relative
size of a font. The followi es illustrate two very different proportional fonts at 14 point:

Bitmapped and Scalable Fonts

The multifunction p both bitmapped and scalable fonts.
Bitmapped fonts are stored in mory as predefined patterns of bits that represent a typeface
at a size, style, and resolution. The following illustration shows an exa a character from a
bitmapped font.
Bitmapped fonts are available in different type styles a sizes as downloadable fonts.
Scalable fonts (also outline fonts) are stored as com ograms that define the outlines of the
characters in the font. Each print characters from a scalable font, the multifunction printer
cre bitmap of the characters at the point size you choose and saves it te in print memory.
These temporary bitmappe are deleted when you turn off or reset the multifunction printer.
S onts provide the flexibility of printing in many different point size