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Topic: PDF2K1EAST> fonts
Conf: (P-PDF) Prepress and Print, Msg: 22270
From: Frankie Jordan
Date: 6/15/2001 09:22 AM

There are two reasons for fonts. The first is to make letters appear on your screen and the second is to make letters appear from your printer. Because these two are distinct, two types of fonts are needed. A font is basically a computer program. One program writes codes to the screen, called a screen font and the other is known as a printer or postscript font.
The two most widely used font types are Type 1 fonts and Truetype fonts. The difference being that Type 1 fonts have the screen and printer fonts separate and Truetype fonts have both types in one package.