User`s manual

disk, so that you can reconstruct your font files if you make a mistake or change your mind.
Also, be sure that the fonts you’ve selected for removal are on the startup disk rather than the
font disk.
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Chapter 4: All About Fonts
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With your Macintosh and a LaserWriter II, you have all the basic hardware you need to produce
finished, publication-quality documents or superior proofs and layouts. What it used to take
paste-up artists and typesetters to accomplish, you can now do yourself. That’s what desktop
publishing is all about.
This chapter covers some essentials of Macintosh typography and introduces the LaserWriter II
fonts. Chapter 5 gives some rules of thumb for design, as well as examples of documents
produced with a LaserWriter IInt and a Macintosh.
If you’re an experienced designer, much of this material will be too elementary for you, but
you may find these chapters valuable anyway, as an introduction to the capabilities of your new
printer.
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Screen fonts, printer fonts, and PostScript
All the LaserWriter II fonts are already installed in your printer’s memory as printer fonts or
outline fonts. What you installed using the LaserWriter IInt/ntx Fonts Disk were the screen
fonts that the Macintosh uses to produce the screen displays.
When you click Print, the Macintosh sends a description of the screen display to the
LaserWriter II in the PostScript page-description language. The internal computer in the
LaserWriter II interprets these commands to create bitmaps—dot-by-dot representations of
each character—from its outline fonts. The bitmaps are then used to form the final printed
output.
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Sizes and styles
You installed the screen fonts in 9-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 18-, and 24-point sizes (or a selection
of these, if you were conserving disk space), but you can actually print in a much wider range
of sizes. The LaserWriter II can scale an outline font into whatever size is needed. The only
limitations are resolution (below a certain size all parts of a letter "run together"), and the
size of the paper.
You installed the fonts in plain style only, but you can also print in bold, italic, or bold italic.
Just as the computer can create these styles on the screen, the LaserWriter II can create them
for printed output.
Depending on the application you’re using, you may have access to a number of other styles as
well. These may include
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