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What is PostScript Type 1 Fonts?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Description:

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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FontFamily Class -> Technical Support

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Defines a group of type faces having a similar basic design and certain variations in styles. This class cannot be inherited.

For a list of all members of this type, see FontFamily Members.

System.Object
System.MarshalByRefObject
System.Drawing.FontFamily

[Visual Basic]
NotInheritable Public Class FontFamily
   Inherits MarshalByRefObject
   Implements IDisposable
[C#]
public sealed class FontFamily : MarshalByRefObject, IDisposable
[C++]
public __gc __sealed class FontFamily : public MarshalByRefObject,
   IDisposable
[JScript]
public class FontFamily extends MarshalByRefObject implements
   IDisposable

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Drawing

Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family, .NET Compact Framework

Assembly: System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)

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