- Industry: Computer
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
A font designed to use unbounded character boxes. See also bounded-box font.
Industry:Software
A font in which the character increment for each graphic character is the same. See also proportionally spaced font.
Industry:Software
A font in which the character increment for each graphic character varies. Proportionally spaced fonts provide the appearance of even spacing between presented characters and eliminate excess blank space around narrow characters, such as the letter i.
Industry:Software
A font in which the characters are defined by 2 bytes. The first byte defines the coded font section; the second byte defines the code point in the code page specified for that section.
Industry:Software
A font in which the characters are defined by a 1-byte code point. A single-byte coded font has only one coded font section.
Industry:Software
A font in which the characters are defined directly by the raster bit map. See also outline font.
Industry:Software
A font that simulates a proportionally spaced or typographic font. The characters are in a limited set of pitches (for example, 10 pitch, 12 pitch, and 15 pitch).
Industry:Software
A font with multiple entries in the Map Coded Font (MCF) structured field. The only fonts that have multiple entries are double-byte fonts that are defined dynamically. (The MCF points directly to a set of code page and font character set pairs.) See also single-entry font.
Industry:Software
