Fonts

Most items you see in PrintMusic are created with font characters. In addition to items created with text, musical symbols (such as noteheads, clefs, and expressions) are font characters as well.

PostScript, TrueType and ATM (Adobe Type Manager)

All fonts included with PrintMusic come with a Type 1 PostScript font (with a corresponding screen font) and a True Type font. A PostScript font does not appear on screen and will only print to PostScript printers, where it provides superior printed output. PostScript fonts have accompanying screen fonts which allow the user to have an idea what the font will look like in printout. These screen fonts don’t resize smoothly on the computer’s screen, meaning that a 24 point font will look okay at 100 percent, but jagged at other point sizes, page reductions or view percentages. TrueType fonts allow you to print to non-postscript printers as well as resize smoothly in both printout and on screen. A full installation of PrintMusic installs both the PostScript and TrueType fonts in your system.

Where are the fonts installed?

The PrintMusic installer automatically places the TrueType Maestro Fonts directly into your Fonts folder located in your Windows folder: the screen fonts and TrueType fonts are both placed in folders entitled PrintMusic Screen Fonts and PrintMusic TrueType Fonts. The PostScript fonts are placed in your Fonts folder. The PostScript fonts are installed in a folder called PS fonts, located on your root directory (usually c:\). If, when you open PrintMusic, large text symbols like & and Ï appear instead of clefs and notes, Windows is unable to locate the Maestro font. The solution is to go to the Fonts Control Panel and manually add the Maestro font to your system. (Note that PostScript font installation is printer specific and that the PostScript fonts are only visible to the printer that was selected as the default printer when the fonts were installed.)

How to identify font types

PostScript fonts are recognized by .PFM or .PFB extensions. TrueType fonts have a TT icon, and .TTF extensions, and Windows will create corresponding files with .fot extensions.

Additional discussions of fonts and font selections appear in individual entries, such as Lyrics; Expressions; Text; and so on.

For a list of all the characters in each font that comes with PrintMusic, see the Character Sets for Maestro and Jazz.

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