Chapter 3 Text

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1. Bitmap vs Vector

1.1. Bitmap @ Consist of pixels @ File size increase as more size are added @ Require a lot of memory @ Non-scalable

1.2. Vector @ Mathematical formulates @ File size smaller than bitmaps @ True Type, Open Type & PostScript

2. Rasterization

2.1. Process of converting text from vector to bitmap

3. Character sets

3.1. 。Computers can only understand number 。ASCII is the numerical representation of character 。Each character represented by 7-bit binary 。Binary stand by 0 & 1 ------------------------------------------------ Unicode: ~16-bit architecture for                                     multilingual text                ~Exp: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic,                        Korean, Bengali

4. Font Mapping

4.1. If the fonts is not available in people's computer, font will be used for substitution

5. Font Editing & Design Tools

5.1. -> FontLab, Ltd -> Creating attractive texts -> Fontographer

6. Hypertext vs Hypermedia

6.1. Hypertext * Text which contains links to other texts

6.2. Hypermedia * Not constrained to be text-based * Graphic, Video or audio * Structure: LINKS, NOTES, ANCHORS

7. Fonts & Typefaces

7.1. Font Styles

7.1.1. -Boldface -Italic -Underlining -Outliing

7.2. Font terminology

7.2.1. >Baseline >Cap Height >x-Height >Ascenders/ decenders >Kerning >Tracking

7.2.2. Serif >> Little decoration               Used for printed media                                       vs Sans serif >> Do not have decoration                       Used for headlines & bold statements

7.3. Cases

7.3.1. Capitalized--> Uppercase Small letter--> Lowercase Uppercase in middle--> Intercap / CamelCase

8. Text Elements

8.1. Menus for navigation ~Simple menu consists a list of topics

8.2. Interactive buttons ~Executes a command

8.3. Fields for reading ~Document can be printed in portrait or landscape

8.4. HTML documents ~Hypertext Markup Language used to create web pages

8.4.1. Commonly used tags: <B> <DL> <IMG>

8.5. Symbols & icons

8.5.1. Symbols >> Convey human emotions Icon >> Symbolic representations of objects