NEC Silentwriter SuperScript 610, User Manual

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Using Fonts 7–1
7
Using Fonts
FONTS IN GDI
MODE One benefit of SuperScript GDI’s WYSIWYG
(What You See Is What You Get) approach becomes
clear as you use fonts. In Windows 3.1, any font you
can see on the screen will print on your printer. This
includes TrueType, Type 1 (through Adobe’s ATM
software), and Intellifont (through Intellifont for
Windows).
TrueType is most common, since it is already built
into Windows 3.1. However, in most cases the
performance difference between TrueType and other
kinds of fonts is negligible.
One advantage of GDI mode becomes evident when
you work with documents that have multiple fonts.
A standard printer language such as PostScript must
fetch additional information every time it processes a
new font in a document. A document with a large
number of different fonts can take a noticeably long
time to print. In GDI mode, the work of fetching
font information takes place at the time the document
is retrieved and displayed to the screen. Printing the
document requires only a small amount of additional
processing, which means quick text printing no
matter how many fonts are included.