Using standard PostScript fonts

Displaying text is just a special case of defining paths and filling them. But fonts are ubiquitous, and displaying them elegantly and efficiently was a major factor in the development of PostScript. So a font is a special kind of object, not just a general array.

Several fonts are built into PostScript, and others are defined in special font files that can be imported into a program. I'll deal only with the first.

This method can be used when the text has no mathematical symbols, only standard ascii characters.