AFP font structure

The font structure of FOCA outline and raster fonts is made up of these font components (see Figure 9):

Coded font
A coded font consists of a character set and a code page.
Character set
A character set specifies characters, character properties, and printing attributes.
Code page
A code page defines character IDs and code points.

Font components

This picture shows the three font components: coded font, character set, and code page. A coded font consists of a character set and a code page. A character set has characters, character properties, and printing attributes. A code page has character IDs and code points.

WorldType outline fonts are organized by subsets and grouped by character blocks as defined by Microsoft Unicode format. Instead of using a character set, WorldType fonts map a code page to a Unicode point or use an extended code page that contains the Unicode point.

In this section:

  1. Coded font
  2. Character set
  3. Code page
Parent topic: AFP Fonts