How Fonts Are Matched in Windows 95

When an application requests characters to print or display, Windows 95 must find the appropriate font to use from among the fonts installed on your computer. Finding the font can be complex. For example, a document might contain fonts that aren't available on the current printer, or there may be more than one font with the same name installed on the computer.

Windows 95 uses the following basic rules for matching a font:

• If the font is a TrueType font, then TrueType renders the character, and the result is sent to the display or to the printer.
• If the font is not a TrueType font, then Windows 95 uses the font mapping table to determine the most appropriate device font to use.

You can also choose from among fonts by comparing similar ones in the Fonts folder.

To manually match fonts

1. In Control Panel, double-click the Fonts folder.
2. In the Fonts folder, click the View menu, and then click List Fonts By Similarity.

   In general, if you choose a TrueType font, Windows 95 sorts the list of fonts in descending order with the least similar font listed last.

The following table shows the types of Windows 95 fonts that can be printed on different kinds of printers.