CHAPTER 3 : TEXT

1. Vector Font

1.1. - File size is much smaller than bitmaps

1.2. - TrueType, OpenType and PostScript are vector font formats.

1.3. Rasterization

1.3.1. - Process of converting text from a vector description to a rester or bitmap description

2. Character Sets

2.1. Extended Character Set (ISO Latin-1)

2.2. Unicode

2.3. Font Mapping

2.3.1. ~ Specifying which font to be substitution is called Font Mapping.

3. Font Editing and Design Tools

3.1. FontLab, Ltd

3.2. Creating attractive texts

3.3. Fontographer

3.3.1. - a specialized graphics editor.

4. Hypertext & Hypermedia

4.1. Hypertext

4.1.1. - Contains links to other texts.

4.1.2. Used for : Electronic publishing and reference works, Technical documentation, Educational courseware, Interactive kiosks, Electronic catalogs

4.2. Hypermedia

4.2.1. - Links , Nodes , Anchors.

5. Fonts and Typefaces

5.1. Font Styles

5.1.1. Boldface, Italic, Underlining, Outlining

5.2. Font Terminology

5.2.1. Baseline, Cap height, x-height, Ascender/descenders, Kerning, Tracking, Serif (eg: times new roman) , Sans serif (eg: Arial)

5.3. Cases

6. Using Text Elements in Multimedia Presentation

6.1. Menus For Navigation

6.2. Interactive Buttons

6.3. Fields For Reading

6.4. HTML Documents

6.5. Symbols and Icons

7. Bitmap Font

7.1. - File size increases as more sizes are added

7.2. - Require a lot of memory

7.3. - Non-scalable