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A font is a group of characters that possess unique traits.
For example:
This sentence was composed using a 10-point
Century Gothic™ font.
This sentence was composed
using a 16-point Britannic
Bold™ font.
In print typography, the measuring unit “point” is equal
to 1/72-inch; a capital A in a 72-point font is roughly one
inch high.
In video typography, absolute point sizes are not used,
since every viewer “sees” the same picture, whether it is
on a 3” portable or a 55” projection screen. Therefore,
video typography uses the measuring unit “Scanline” for
font height. A size 50 font is 50 scanlines high, or
roughly 1/10th the full-screen height in NTSC.
iNFiNiT! Family systems are supplied with a minimum
of 20 Master Fonts, which are digitized outlines of type-
faces. (These are stored on the supplied Master Font
disk.) To be used on iNFiNiT! Family systems, the type-
faces (Master Fonts) must be converted into Machine
Fonts, which have a particular font size, edge style, etc.
There are two methods of conversion:
Flash Font,
which is on-line font conversion, and allows immediate
use of the font; and
Font Create Utility, which, off-line,
can convert “batches” of fonts. Flash Font is described
in Section 13; Font Create Utility in Section 18.
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