PC
On the PC, the valid fonts and character sets depend on whether you print using Windows drivers or MATLAB's built-in drivers.
The built-in MATLAB drivers support only fonts that are compatible with the Windows Latin-1 character set. If you use a built-in MATLAB driver, you should choose fonts that match the standard set of supported PostScript fonts (such as Times or Helvetica). TrueType fonts are acceptable as long as they meet this requirement. For example, the TrueType Symbol font works. MATLAB also accepts the TrueType fonts Arial, New Times Roman, and New Courier, and maps them to their PostScript equivalents (Helvetica, Times Roman, and Courier, respectively).
The native Windows drivers support Windows Latin-1 as well as a wide variety of other Windows character sets. If you print using the Windows drivers, Windows requires that you use TrueType fonts for text to be printed correctly. (You can tell if a font is TrueType by looking at the Fonts Control Panel. The icon for a TrueType font has "TT" on it, and the filename extension is "TTF".)
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