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Selecting fonts
Most popular software packages, particularly word pmcessots, let you
choose fonts from within the program. They send the appropriate commands
to the printer and you don’t need to understand how they do it. MultiMate
uses pitch to identify different fonts, for example, while WordPer$ect uses
print formats. The point is, you may not even have to worry about selecting
which font to use.
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But not all packages do the job for you. If you are in this situation, you can
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select any font attribute mentioned above, either from the front panel or by
sending an Escape sequence command in one of the emulation modes.
If you use the front panel in program mode, you’ll see these attributes under
the Font Attributes level of the EMULATION ATTRIBUTES menu. Just
press the NEXT button to get to the font attribute you want to set, press
ENTER to get to its possible values, press NEXT to scan through them, and
finally press ENTER to slap in the value you want
The procedures for selecting a font from a computer program is a bit more
complicated, and depends on which emulation mode you are using. These
font selection methods are detailed in the next three chapters.
Hints: Desktop publishing and page design
l Desktop publishing systems help you automate your specifications for
margins, cover design, typefaces, font sizes, placement of graphics and
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regular features. You build the specifications you want in templates,
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standard page designs you later simply call up on your screen and fill in
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with text.
l Some desktop publishing systems, such as Aldus’s PageMaker, are page-
oriented: you put each page together individually. These are great for
shorter documents, such as newsletters, brochures and letters. Other
systems, such as Xerox’s Ventura Publisher, are document-oriented. That
makes them better suited to technical manuals and long proposals or
reports that go through many drafts.
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Other ways in which such systems differ include whether they show on
your screen what you will get on paper (code-based programs don’t), how
well they handle pictures, and how hard they am to learn. Think about your
needs before choosing a desktop publishing system.
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