NEC SuperScript 610 User Manual

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Using Fonts 8–5One benefit of SuperScript GDI's WYSIWYG (WhatYou See Is What You Get) approach becomes clearas you use fonts. In Windows, any font you can seeon the screen will print on your printer. This includesTrueType, Type 1 (through Intellifont for Windows).TrueType is most common, since it is already builtinto Windows. However, in most cases theperformance difference between TrueType and otherfonts is negligible.One advantage of GDI mode becomes evident whenyou work with documents that have multiple fonts.A standard printer language such as PostScript mustfetch additional information every time it processes anew font. A document with many different fonts cantake a noticeably long time to print. In GDI mode,the work of fetching font information takes place atthe time the document is retrieved and displayed tothe screen. Printing the document requires only asmall amount of additional processing, which meansquick text printing no matter how many fonts areincluded.Note: Windows includes some special built-in fontsthat were not meant for printing, including MS Serifand MS Sans. These special fonts were designed forscreen display, and so their resolution (number ofdots per inch) is coarser than the fonts that normallyappear on a printed page. It is recommended thatyou do not select these fonts when creating yourdocuments.FONTS IN GDIMODE