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Adventures in TrueType - typefacesHome Office Computing , Sept, 1993 by Kay Yarborough NelsonThere`s a Lot More to Life Than Courier Windows brings out the hidden graphic designer in us all--especially when it comes to using lots of fonts for different looks in our documents. Even if you`re not doing desktop publishing, you might find yourself using certain fonts for letters and reports and others for attention-getting presentations. TrueType fonts are unique typefaces for Windows and the Macintosh. Windows comes with 15 of these fonts, such as Arial and Times New Roman. No matter what kind of printer you have-- an inexpensive dot matrix or a professional PostScript laser printer--you can use TrueType fonts. TrueType fonts have several advantages over PostScript and others: They are usually cheaper, take up much less space on your harddisk drive, and show onscreen what you`ll get when you print the document, with no jagged edges. TAKE YOUR PICK I`ve always been a fan of SWFTE`s TypeCase collections--I, II, and III-- which include more than 100 fonts at the low price of $50 each. Get I and H for text and display fonts; IH is primarily display fonts. Each collection comes with a bonus symbol or icon font--III has a holiday symbol font, H has an international symbol font, and I has a PC keys icon font (SWFTE, 724 Yorklyn Rd., Hockessin. DE 19707; [302] 243-1740, [800] 237-9383). Microsoft`s TrueType Font Packs (1 and 2) each provide 44 TrueType fonts, and most of them are suitable for general business documents and presentations. The small manual that comes with Font Pack 2 can answer almost any question you may have about fonts--resident vetsus downloadable fonts, serif and sans serif, good type design basics, or creating special effects. That manual is a little gem (Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052; [206] 882-8080, [800] 426-9400; For whimsical headlines--and also for attention-getting presentation graphics-- check out the Li`l Bits Font Packs from Bitstream (215 First St., Cambridge, MA 02142; [617] 497-6222, [800] 522-3668). These give you Star Trek fonts, Flintstones characters, and winter holiday graphic images; you probably won`t use them a lot, but they`re only If you have a mixed PC-Macintosh setup, you`ll find several vendors making matching TrueType fonts for each system. Two good sources are Microsoft`s TrueType Master Set ($100), which gives you matching Windows fonts (such as Arial and Lucida) for your Mac, and Image Club`s New Faces collections (Image Club, 729 24th Ave. SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada I2G IP5; [403] 2628008, [800] 66 9410; FONT CONFUSION If you install a lot of fonts, your font menus will get so long that they`ll be hard to use. If you`re frequently switching between fonts, such as Courier New (near the top of the menu) and Times New Roman (near the bottom of the list), it`s easy to get lost. One easy thing you can do to slim down weighty Font menus is click the TrueType button in the Fonts control panel and then click both Enable TrueType fonts and Show Only TrueType Fonts in Applications. Then, after you restart Windows, only TrueType fonts will be listed. Many font collections, such as SWFTE`s TypeCase I and III and Microsoft`s TrueType Font Packs 2, come with font-management utilities that let you create sets of fonts for different types of jobs, such as headline fonts and decorative fonts. HOW ABOUT SOME GOSSIP? Expect M.Y.O.B, both Mac and Windows versions, to add a payroll application in the next release, rumored to ship around the first of next year. This will be good news for those of you who use the popular M.Y.O.B. financial program and have a few employees. Watch for a Windows version of WordPerfect`s DataPerfect-- it`s on the way (as is an updated WordPerfect Works). If you`re thinking about getting into desktop publishing, keep an eye out for a program called PagePlus from Serif Inc. (P.O. Box 803 Nashua, NH 03061; [603] 889-8650, [800] 6973743; $60), which claims to do almost everything Aldus PageMaker can do. COPYRIGHT 1993 Freedom Technology Media Group COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group Code 128 Barcode Fonts 3.0The Code 128 Font Advantage Package is much more than a few bar code fonts. This barcode package contains several font versions in many font formats (including TrueType, PostScript, BDF, FON and PCL) for Windows, Macintosh, UNIX and a variety of other operating systems. You also receive font tools, macros (for Microsoft Access, Word mail-merge and Excel) and source code in Visual Basic, C and Java. Visit homepage of Code 128 Barcode Fonts Project index
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