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I Use PostScript or TrueType Fonts? TrueType fonts have proven to print inconsistently on different systems. The spacing can be inconsistent between letters, words and paragraphs and, as a result, columns of text can reflow in page-layout program documents. When columns of text reflow, it can push some text into a border or off a page entirely and mess up carefully prepared type alignment. PostScript fonts, conversely, give a designer consistent control over their text and layouts everytime. What one sees on-screen is what will appear on the page. What prints on my PostScript-enabled laser printer will print on yours. Every time. That's the wonderful thing about PostScript that TrueType can't offer. Some printers and service bureaus will not even accept jobs using TrueType fonts because they can bind up their imagesetter when outputting film for professional printing. Still, TrueType fonts are popular. Part of the reason is that they're cheap and are often given away. The other reason is that they're easier to manage. A TrueType font comes with one file while a PostScript font comes with at least two. TrueType fonts also work well with inexpensive inkjet printers and in word-processing documents where precision letterspacing is not an option. As far as professional design is concerned, however, PostScript fonts
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TrueType fonts are easy to obtain and come with many software applications,
why would a designer need more expensive 
