Click to expand.Microsoft Word, like every other Mac application, will automatically recognize your font if it is placed in any of three Fonts folders: the Fonts folder in your Classic System Folder, /Macintosh HD/System Folder/Fonts/, your MacOS X global Fonts folder, /Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts/, or the Fonts folder in your home directory, /Library/Fonts/. You can install the font by doubling-clicking on it and launching Font Book. You can also simply drag the font file to your desired Fonts folder. Just because you are using MS Word doesn't mean that you have to do anything special for it to recognize your fonts. Click to expand.Wrong. TrueType fonts are not bitmapped.

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TrueType fonts are standalone outline fonts. OTOH, PostScript fonts often require at least a companion bitmapped font or TrueType font to be recognized by the OS. TrueType: This is an outline font format developed by Apple Computer. TrueType outlines are quadratic splines.

For a given number of control points, quadratic splines are rendered faster than the cubic splines used in PostScript fonts. OTOH, quadratic splines require more control points to render a character of equal quality to PostScript. Each TrueType character is an object holding the control points which establish the character's outline as well as the executable code which the renderer uses to draw the character. PostScript Type 1: This is an outline font format developed by Adobe.

Adobe also developed the largely defunct Type 3 format. Type 3 lost out to Type 1 because it could not be hinted. At any rate, PostScript fonts are pure data with no embedded intelligence. Each character is defined by a set of points which defines the cubic spline required to draw the character's outline.