A type of font made from basic outlines of each character. The outlines are scaled into actual characters (bitmaps) before printing. See scalable font. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Type 1 Files (Outlines and Metrics) Type 1 fonts are distributed as two files, one for the font outlines and another for font metrics (widths, heights, kerning, etc.). Windows uses PFB and PFM ...