macOS Sonoma For Dummies

Chapter 19

Creating Documents and Printing

IN THIS CHAPTER

Choosing and managing your macOS fonts

Creating text and word-processing documents

Connecting a printer and printing your documents

Your Mac is great for creating attractive documents and for printing them to create hard copies that you can share with others. In this chapter, you learn the three key aspects of the document-creation process. First, using the Font Book app to get the fonts you need onto your Mac so that you can use them in your documents. Second, working in apps such as Apple’s TextEdit, or more powerful alternatives, to create text-based documents. Third, connecting one or more printers to your Mac, and then printing documents that look the way you want them to.

Font Mania

You can jazz up your documents, or make them a little more serious, with different fonts. To a computer user, font means typeface — what the text characters look like. Although professional typographers will scream at this generalization, this chapter uses that definition.

Tens of thousands of fonts are available for the Mac. macOS comes with hundreds of fonts, which range from staid fonts, such as Times New Roman, to arty fonts, such ...