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What is PostScript Type 1 Fonts?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

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PostScript fonts are based on the Adobe PostScript language. There are lots of font formats. Type 1 fonts, one of the PostScript formats, are presently widely used in desktop publishing. Type 1 fonts use a subset of the PostScript language. Type 1 font files consist of two files — a screen font with bitmap information for on-screen display and a file with outline information for printing the font. For commercial printing, both of the Type 1 font files must be included with the application file.

Due to differences in their structure, Mac and Windows PostScript Type 1 fonts are not cross-platform compatible.

In addition they also known as: PostScript fonts | PS fonts

Examples: “Each Windows Type 1 font will have a .pfm (Printer Font Metrics, your screen font) and a .pfb (Printer Font Binary, your printer font) file. The icon for both files is a dog-eared page with a lower case script a (for Adobe). On a Mac, the bitmap font icon appears as a dog-eared page with the letter A. The outline file icon appears as a letter A front of horizontal lines.”

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Do you know Open Type Fonts?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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Developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft, OpenType fonts technology is an extension of the TrueType font format but also can contain PostScript data. OpenType fonts are cross-platform, the similar font file works under both Macintosh and Windows Operating systems. This digital type format offers extended character sets and more advanced typographic controls. Like TrueType, a single file contains all the outline, metric, and bitmap data for an OpenType font. Although any program that supports TrueType fonts can use OpenType fonts, not all programs can access the full features of the OpenType font format at this time.

OpenType fonts install in the similar way as TrueType fonts and co-exist peacefully with TrueType & PostScript Type 1 fonts.

In addition they also known as: OTF fonts

Interchange Spellings: Opentype

Examples: In Windows, OpenType fonts can have an .otf or .ttf suffix. The .otf fonts are ones that contain PostScript data.

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How will you install Gimp fonts?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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How will you denote font styles for text within tables, the simplest way!

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

If you are using font tags within large tables to modify the style of the text within cells, you may be making your pages larger than needed.

Let’s look at the following sample table. Note how the FONT tags are being used to set the font style of text inside each cell. If you have a large table, these font style tags could multiply the size of your page, especially if the texts inside the cells are smaller than the font tags.

<table border=1>

<tr><td>
  <font face=”Arial”>test 1</font>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
  <font face=”Arial”>test 2</font>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
  <font face=”Arial”>test 3</font>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
  <font face=”Arial”>test 4</font>
</td></tr>

</table>

If your visitors are using Cascading Style Sheets enabled browsers such as {X_CSSBROWSERS} or compatible, you could use the TD{font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;} style sheet tag as follows. Doing so will make text inside all TD tags use the specified font face and other specified attributes such as the font size.

<html>
<head>

<STYLE TYPE=”text/css”>
<!–
TD{font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;}
—>
</STYLE>

</head>
<body>

<table border=1>
<tr><td> test 1 </td></tr>
<tr><td> test 2 </td></tr>
<tr><td> test 3 </td></tr>
<tr><td> test 4 </td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

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