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The class was surprised to find that today's postscript fonts often include a set of true small caps (specially designed capital letters the same size or "x-height" as the lower case characters of a font) as well as old-style numbers (numerals that go above and below the baseline).

This assures accurate printing of PostScript fonts and improved halftone reproduction.

Vector graphics are important to the web, because unlike bitmapped images - and like PostScript fonts - they are easy to resize without getting jagged around the edges.

The company's proprietary, high-resolution Postscript fonts are capable of producing sharp, near-publication-quality printouts of scores and parts.

The chapter offers intermediate and advanced page designers a sidebar discussion on printers and the differences between Type 1 and Type 3 PostScript fonts. Boldly going where most texts dare not, the chapter concludes with a short discussion of Mac-versus-Windows cross-platform issues.