From the course: Learning Print Production
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Understanding font formats
- [Instructor] When it comes to font formats, there are actually three different formats. PostScript fonts were created by Adobe as part of the PostScript page-description language. That's what gave birth to the desktop publishing revolution. Now, a PostScript font consists of two separate parts: the screen font that's used for displaying on screen, and then a printer font that's a separate file that's downloaded to an imaging device. Now, PostScript fonts are a little bit limited in that they are not cross-platform. So a separate font version would be required for a Mac and a PC. And PostScript fonts are limited to 256 characters. TrueType fonts were developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to PostScript. And TrueType fonts were first released as part of Mac System 7 in 1991. And then ultimately TrueType was added to the Windows Operating System. Now, TrueType font is a single file format. No separate…
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