
Host-Installed, Printer-Resident, and Embedded Fonts
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Standard versus ruby kana—KozMinPr6N-BoldTable 6-40.
Character type Sample text
Standard
Ruby
Note how their designs are quite dierent, although they are included in the same type-
face design. In order for ruby glyphs to be legible at small sizes, they are oen slightly
lighter or heavier than their standard counterparts, depending on the relative weight of
the typeface.
Chapter 7 explores the more practical aspects of ruby glyphs, such as how they are used
and typeset, and how they dier from their close cousins, pseudo-ruby glyphs.
Host-Installed, Printer-Resident, and Embedded Fonts
In the past, an important user and developer concern was how to map host-installed fonts
to printer-resident fonts. e host-installed font either needed to include information that
explicitly specied to which printer-resident font it corresponded, or else an OS-level da-
tabase had to exist that mapped host-installed fonts to printer-resident fonts. e sections
that follow describe how this font mapping took place on Mac OS, Windows (versions 3.1,
95, and 98), and to a limited extent, the X Window System.
e large size of typical CJKV fonts gave an advantage when mapping to printer-resident
fonts, because downloading such large fonts on a per-job basis was tedious. Subsetting
and PDF embedding have eectively resolved this issue. ...