Composite Fonts

• Provides the basic machinery for non-Roman character sets. Enables the encoding of very large character sets and non-horizontal writing modes. Benefits: Enhanced functionality.
• Provides a page description language for international business. Composite font technology makes printers more international. The same font technology can be used worldwide, and will provide support for companies that must work in today's international business environment. Benefits: Enhanced functionality.
• Advantages not limited to foreign languages - also useful for strictly Roman printers: allows the creation of a single composite font that combines two or more fonts. For example, you may wish to combine a textual font (such as Times-Roman) with a graphical font (such as Zapf-Dingbats), and have all characters at their disposal within a single font. Other uses of composite fonts: IBM extended character set, and expert sets (such as Adobe Garamond). Benefits: Enhanced functionality and increased performance by minimizing switching between fonts.