User Guide

composite.
Rendering: The actual placement of rasterized pixels on
the monitor’s display. Refers both to graphic objects and
type, particularly for fonts using hints. Also
called “rasterization.”
Resolution: The number of dots in an image’s screen
display or printed output. A monitor’s resolution refers to
the number of pixels per linear inch. Printed resolution
refers to dots per linear inch. (See dpi.)
Right justified: Type aligned with its right margin. Also
known as “flush right.”
Sans serif: A typeface with no counterstrokes at the end
of each stroke.
Scale: To change the size of a character or image by
altering it proportionally.
Scan: To digitally capture an image and save it in a format
that can be manipulated or altered from within a computer
application; the image can be autotraced in Fontographer,
thus creating a character with editable outlines.
Screen font: Bitmap fonts used for screen display.
Script: Letters are joined and should not be confused with
cursive, which are not connected. Since script is difficult to
read, its use should be limited to a few lines at a time. Early
script typefaces were developed in the sixteenth century,
and were based upon formal cursive handwriting.
Scroll bar: The window bars containing arrows that allow
the document to be moved so that other parts of it become
visible.
Serif: A typeface with counterstrokes at the end of each
stroke.
Set-width: The width of a letter and its surrounding space;
the space needed to set a line of text in a specific typeface.
Some programs have tracking to adjust the typeface to
make it set looser or tighter. Also known as “advance width.”
Sidebearings: The distance between the origin and the left
edge of a character (left sidebearing) and the distance
between the width line and the right edge of a character
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