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OCR: Where are fonts kept? Macintosh TROUBLE To make a certain font available, just pop it and it's printer font into the Fonts folder. Then Usually they're located in the System Folder, inside the Fonts folder. You can have as many as 256 screen fonts open at any one time (you'll run into memory problems, with so many open). SHOOTER Printer/Screen Fonts quit the program you need it for, so that it will recognise the new font upon it's next relaunch. - Each printer font file contains all the postscript code for one style of that particular typeface, eg. Italics, or Bolditalics. If you noticed, the filename often gives some clue as to which GaramITCbyBTLigNar style it belongs to, in this case "ITC Garamond Light Narrow". .……… RubbeStaLT Info B www. RubbeStaLT ICAPS 1 M₁ GG TYPE 1 Kind: PostScript™ font Size: 104K on disk (106,261 bytes) PS1 800 FB FONT Where: Macintosh3: fonts+: These are all "Printer Fonts", different publishers (or foundries) usually have different icons Printer Fonts, what are they exactly? Printer fonts are usually Postscript font files that are downloaded by the Mac to a postscript printer (if it does not have that particular font in memory). Created: Wed, May 8, 1991, 7:17 pm Modified: Wed, May 8, 1991, 7:26 pm Version: 19:26 Wednesday, May 8, 1991 Comments: All postscript fonts need a suitcase (bitmap fonts, or "screen fonts") file, so that the System can handle the font (screen fonts have unique IDs so that they can be recognised) properly. Also, printer fonts have to be located in the same folder as the screen font, otherwise the printer font will not be downloaded to the printer. Adobe Type Manager (ATM) makes use of the printer fonts, so that it can render fonts on screen to a high degree of accuracy. Locked This window tells you that is is a Postscript printer font, uder the title KIND 411