## 4.7 Base14 fonts

Base14 fonts are built into PDF and all viewer applications can display these fonts. An application can get a Base14 font handle any time by invoking doc:GetFont(). PDF files which use base14 fonts are smaller than those which use other type of fonts. Moreover, PDF processing is faster because there is no need to load external fonts. However, Base14 fonts are only able to display the Latin-1 character set. To use other character sets, an application must use other fonts.

The following are built-in Base14 fonts. They are available in every PDF viewer:

    Courier
    Courier-Bold
    Courier-Oblique
    Courier-BoldOblique
    Helvetica
    Helvetica-Bold
    Helvetica-Oblique
    Helvetica-BoldOblique
    Times-Roman
    Times-Bold
    Times-Italic
    Times-BoldItalic
    Symbol
    ZapfDingbats

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