Most items you see in SongWriter are created with font characters. In addition to items created with text, musical symbols (such as noteheads, clefs, and expressions) are font characters as well.
All fonts included with SongWriter come with a Type 1 PostScript font (with a corresponding screen font) and a True Type font. A PostScript font does not appear on screen and will only print to PostScript printers, where it provides superior printed output. PostScript fonts have accompanying screen fonts which allow the user to have an idea what the font will look like in printout. These screen fonts don’t resize smoothly on the computer’s screen, meaning that a 24 point font will look okay at 100 percent, but jagged at other point sizes, page reductions or view percentages. TrueType fonts allow you to print to non-postscript printers as well as resize smoothly in both printout and on screen. A full installation of SongWriter installs both the PostScript and TrueType fonts in your system.
The SongWriter Installer automatically installs the Maestro Fonts TrueTypes directly into your Fonts folder located in your Windows folderSystem folder: the screen fonts and TrueType fonts are both placed in folders entitled SongWriter Screen Fonts and SongWriter TrueType Fonts. The PostScript fonts are placed loose in your Fonts folder. The PostScript fonts are installed in a folder called PS fonts, located on your root directory (usually c:\). If, when you open SongWriter, large text symbols like & and Ï appear instead of clefs and notes, Windows is unable to locate the Maestro font. The solution is to go to the Fonts Control Panel and manually add the Maestro font to your system. (Note that PostScript font installation is printer specific and that the PostScript fonts are only visible to the printer that was selected as the default printer when the fonts were installed.)
PostScript fonts often have abbreviated names like Maest. If you click on the font and choose Get Info from the File Menu, you’ll see an icon of a laser printer with a page sticking out of it. The number on the page tells you what version of PostScript the font is: current font technology would be a type 1 font.
Screen or bit-mapped fonts come in specific sizes and are recognized by the number: for example, Maestro 24 would be a screen font. If you “Get Info” on a screen font, you’ll see an icon consisting of a page with a corner folded over with a single A on it.
TrueType fonts are usually identified by a full name without a number, like Maestro. If you “Get Info” on a TrueType font, the icon will display a page with a corner folded over and three A’s on it.
PostScript fonts are recognized by .PFM or .PFB extensions. TrueType fonts have a TT icon, and .TTF extensions, and Windows will create corresponding files with .fot extensions.
Additional discussions of fonts and font selections appear in individual entries, such as Lyrics; Expressions; Text; and so on.
For a list of all the characters in each font that comes with SongWriter, see the Character Sets for Maestro and Jazz.
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