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10. Macintosh: With the text still selected, open the Font menu in the Control
panel and choose ATC Oak>Italic.
Different styles of the same font appear as submenus to the main font list; the primary
font is listed in the menu, and variations are listed in the attached submenu.

Note:
There are three primary
types of fonts:
PostScript (Type 1)
fonts have two file
components (outline and
Windows: Open the Font Family menu and choose ATC Oak, and then printer) that must both
open the Font Style menu and choose Italic. be available for output.
Windows does not display different font styles in submenus. You have to choose the font TrueType fonts have
first, and then use the secondary menu to choose the appropriate style. a single file, but (until
recently) were primarily
used on the Windows
platform.

OpenType fonts are
contained in a single file
that can include more
than 60,000 glyphs
(characters) in a single
font. OpenType fonts are
cross-platform; the same
font file can be used on
11. Click the Up-Arrow button for the Font Size field until you see a red icon on both Macintosh and
the right edge of the frame. Windows systems.
Each time you click, you increase the type size by one point. The red X is the overset InDesign identifies the
text icon; it indicates that more text exists than will fit into the frame. font types with different
icons in the Font menu.
Click these buttons to change
the type size by 1 point. Overset text icon TrueType font
OpenType font

PostScript font

There are other types
of fonts, including
PostScript Type 3 and

When you see an overset text icon, you can: Multiple Master, but
• Edit the text to fit the space, which is usually not allowable for a graphic designer. these should generally be
avoided.
• Make the frame larger to fit the text, which is not always possible.
• Add more frames to the story and thread the text into the extra frames, which is
also not always possible.
• Reduce the type size or adjust other formatting options to make the type fit into
the available space, which can make text unreadable (depending on how small
you have to make it).

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