Windows 2000 installation fonts

A font is a set of characters with a uniform style. Its glyph features include "style" and "depth", where the style of the font refers to whether the font is regular or italic; the depth of the font refers to the depth of the font stroke, most Common depths are normal and bold. The size of English fonts is usually measured in "points", which are usually expressed in "font size". The number of pounds is a measure of the printer. It simply measures the height of the font without involving the width of the font, so there is no absolute meaning between the number of pounds of the font and the size of the display. The width of a font can be compressed or expanded, and fonts designed for dot matrix printers are typically measured using width instead of pounds, which is measured in characters per inch.

Windows supports GDI fonts that recognize three types of GDI fonts, which are vector fonts, dot bitmap fonts, and outline fonts:

? Vector font: A very monotonous font organized by line segments that has no outlines to fill, and must have a number of tiny line segments to represent the curve of the glyph when it is being typed. Modern, Script, and Roman are commonly used vector fonts. Their greatest advantage is that they can be scaled without distortion and distortion. And because the set of line segments describing the glyphs is very small, the vector fonts take up less disk space. .

? Dot bitmap font: It is a non-scalable font, which may cause distortion and distortion when zooming. The information it stores on the hard disk is the relative position of each point in each character. In the process of generating the font, in order to repeatedly determine the size of the glyph, a large amount of calculation is required, but the font generation only needs to be performed once. Open the "Font" folder of Windows 2000 Server, you will see some font names with numbers below, which represents the font size that has been generated by this font.

? Outline font: is a scalable font that is converted to a bitmap by a scan manager before the characters in the font are copied to the screen or printer. To avoid jagged lines or other distortions, the font manager uses the "implicit" algorithm to produce the best visual effects for the scan conversion process.

Windows 2000 GDI fonts are stored in the Fonts subdirectory of Windows 2000 Server. To use new fonts in Windows 2000, new fonts must be installed in the Fonts subdirectory. Otherwise, they cannot be used. To install a new font, follow the steps below:

1. Open the Start menu and select Settings