TrueType

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe''s Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered font developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular pixels, at various font heights. On the Macintosh, fonts were originally stored in hand-tuned bitmap font files that specified individual pixel locations for a font at a particular size. If the user wanted to see a font at another size, the Font Manager would find the closest match and apply a basic scaling algorithm. When scaled to large sizes the algorithm was of limited use, with the output becoming blocky.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered font developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular pixels, at various font heights. On the Macintosh, fonts were originally stored in hand-tuned bitmap font files that specified individual pixel locations for a font at a particular size. If the user wanted to see a font at another size, the Font Manager would find the closest match and apply a basic scaling algorithm. When scaled to large sizes the algorithm was of limited use, with the output becoming blocky.