Using fonts with Microsoft Publisher
| tinazerbo Aug 07, 2013 at 09:07 |
| Does anyone know how to use these font files with Microsoft Publisher? I have the file, I just don't know how to use the fonts now with my Publisher program. Thanks a bunch! |
| Arthurabc
Sep 03, 2013 at 02:24 |
| In 1968, American Type Founders produced OCR-A,[url]http://www.keepautomation.com/products/barcode_fonts/barcodes/ocr_a_ocr_b.html[/url], one of the first optical character recognition typefaces to meet the criteria set by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. The design is simple so that it can be easily read by a machine, but it is more difficult for the human eye to read.A font is a set of character shapes, or glyphs. For a computer to use a font then each glyph must be assigned a code point in a character set. When OCR-A was being standardized the usual character coding was the American Standard Code for Information Interchange or ASCII. Not all of the glyphs of OCR-A fit into ASCII, and for five of the characters there were alternate glyphs, which might have suggested the need for a second font. However, for convenience and efficiency all of the glyphs were expected to be accessible in a single font using ASCII coding, with the additional characters placed at coding points that would otherwise have been unused. |
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