PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Font Characteristics
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Font Characteristics A font is a set of characters that have similar characteristics. Fonts are
made up of the following characteristics:
Orientation – Portrait or landscape
Symbol set – Roman-8, PC-8, and so forth
Spacing – Proportional or fixed
Pitch – Characters printed per horizontal inch
Height – Character height (point size)
Style – Upright or italic
Stroke weight – Medium, bold, and so forth
Typeface – Courier, Times Roman, Helvetica, and so forth
Orientation. This characteristic defines the position of the logical page and
the direction of print with respect to the physical page as shown in the
following diagram.
Physical Page
Top Margin
(0, 0)
X
Y
Portrait Orientation
Physical Page
Landscape Orientation
Logical Page
(0, 0)
X
Y
ABCD...
ABCD...
Portrait Landscape