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  The Evolution of Font Technology   In general, fonts are of three types: PostScript Type 1 (Type1) or TrueType (TT), which came along about six years later, and then a blending of the two previous fonts called OpenType (OT) or Unicode.  Type1 Fonts   PostScript font formats Adobe Type 1 fonts are stored in two common formats: .pfa  (PostScript Font ASCII) and .pfb  (PostScript Font Binary). These contain descriptions of the character shapes, with each character being generated by a small program that calls on other small programs to compute common parts of the characters in the font. In both cases, the character descriptions are encrypted. Before such a font can be used, it must be rendered into dots in a bitmap, either by the PostScript interpreter, or by a specialized rendering engine, such as Adobe Type Manager, which is used to generate low-resolution screen fonts on Apple Macintosh and on Microsoft Windows systems. The Type 1 binary files ( .pfa  and .pfb ) contain charact