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Font Types
Adobe wanted both Apple and Microsoft to license its PostScript code, which was
capable of handling this role, but both companies were concerned about having a third
party control key parts of their operating systems. Apple and Microsoft agreed to a
cross-licensing and product development deal, with Microsoft creating a
PostScript-style graphics engine and Apple creating a font system. Apple developed
what was to become TrueType, which proved superior to other competing
technologies on performance and rendering quality. Apple and Microsoft announced
their strategic alliance against Adobe, where Apple would do the font system,
Microsoft the printing engine. Apple released TrueType in March 1991 and the first
TrueType fonts:
■ Times Roman
■ Helvetica
■ Courier
Microsoft introduced TrueType into Windows with version 3.1 in early 1992. They
created a core set of fonts:
■ Times New Roman
■ Arial
4.6.5 Barcode Fonts
4.6.6 CID Fonts
■ Courier
Both Apple's and Microsoft's TrueType fonts showed that scalable fonts could generate
bitmaps virtually as though each size had been designed by hand.
Barcode fonts can be quite confusing. Some industries have chosen a specific barcode
type. If this is what you need, then using the appropriate barcode font should work.
For example, if you are interested in putting barcode on retail packages or books, the
choice of a barcode is simple. Retail packages in North America use the UPC-A bar
code. European retail articles use the EAN barcode .
All book ISBN numbers use the Bookland barcode (an EAN 13 bar code with a 5 digit
supplement). Fonts are one way to obtain barcode, but not the only way. Oracle
Reports offers another solution for producing barcodes using a Java barcode bean. The
Java barcode bean is capable of creating barcodes based on the most popular barcode
types.
Character IDentifier (CID) fonts are a format of composite (multibyte) Type1 fonts
used to better address the requirements of Far East markets. Adobe developed the
CID-keyed font file format to support large character set fonts for use with PostScript.
It is the ideal format for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean fonts and can also be used for
roman fonts with very large character sets. CID-keyed refers to the character identifier
(CID) numbers used to index and access the characters in the font. A CID (character
identifier) font consists of a large font file containing all the character outlines and a
small CMap file that contains a list of characters, encodings, and character identifiers.
The combination of the font file and the CMap file yields a font that is a specific
character set and encoding information. Each CID font can support many character set
and encoding combinations.
Managing Fonts in Oracle Reports 4-25