Chapter 13 -- Installing and Using Fonts

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Chapter 13

One of the great advantages of creating text documents in a graphical operating environment such as Windows is that you can employ a variety of fonts and typographical styles and judge their impact before committing your work to paper. Within limits and with some exceptions, what you see on the screen is what you'll get from any output device, whether it's a dot-matrix printer, a laser printer, a plotter, or a fax machine.

In this chapter, we'll look at the fonts supplied with Microsoft Windows 2000, we'll check out the procedures for adding and deleting fonts, and we'll use Character Map and Private Character Editor. Character Map is a handy utility that makes it easy to insert special characters—accented letters, commercial symbols, and so on—into your documents. Private Character Editor lets you extend the character sets of your fonts with user-defined symbols.