1. Fontographer -is a specialized graphic editor -compatible with both Macintosh -can be used to develop PostScript,TrueType and OpenType fonts
2. Extended Character Set(ISO Latin-1) -extra 1 bit in ASCII -up to 256 character
3. Bitmap font and Vector font
3.1. Bitmap font -consists of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image
3.2. Vector fonts -drawing use instruction and mathematical formulae to describe each glyph -smaller than bitmaps
3.3. Rasterization -is the process of converting text from a vector description to a raster or bitmap description -jaggies are the jagged edges you see when a bitmapped image is resized
3.4. Anti-aliasing -blend the font into background colour
4. Character set
4.1. -Computer can only understand numbers -ASCII(American Standard Code for Information Interchange)code is the numerical representation of a character -represent by a unique 7-bit banary code word -that are 128 character
4.2. Unicode -is a 16 bit architecture for multilingual text and character encoding -covers 96,382 characters
5. Font editing and design tools
5.1. FontLab,Ltd
5.2. Creating attractive texts
6. Hypertext and Hypermedia
6.1. Hypertext is a text which contains links to other texts
6.1.1. used for: 1.Electronic publishing and reference works 2.Technical Documentation 3.Educational courseware 4.Interactive kiosks 5.Electronic catalogs
6.2. -Hypermedia is not constrained to be text-based -It can include graphic ,image,sound,and video
6.2.1. Links -connection between conceptual elements -the navigation pathway and menus
6.2.2. Nodes -are accessible topics,documents,messages,and content elements -from the backbone of a knowledge access system
6.2.3. Anchors -defined as the reference from one document to another document ,image ,sound or file on the web.
7. Important of text in a Multimedia Presentation
7.1. Text is obviously the simplest of data types and require the least amount of storage
7.2. Text in the form of symbols,words,sentences,and paragraph
7.3. Text is a vital element of multimedia menus,navigation system and content
8. Fonts and typefaces -Typeface is a family of graphic character Ex:Arial Style -Fonts is a collection of characters of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family Ex: Arial 18 point Bold
8.1. Font style
8.1.1. Boldface
8.1.2. Italic
8.1.3. Underlining
8.1.4. Outlining
8.2. Font terminology
8.2.1. Baseline -the line on which the bases of character are arranged
8.2.2. Cap height -refers to the height of the capital letter
8.2.3. X-Height -the distance between the baseline and the top of a lower-case letter x
8.2.4. Ascenders/descenders -strokes that rise above the X-height/drop below the baseline
8.2.5. Kerning -adjustment of space between certain pairs of letters to make them look more uniform EX:AV
8.2.6. Tracking -adjustment of space for group of letters
8.2.7. Serif versus Sans Serif
8.2.7.1. Serif -is the little decoration at the end of a letter stroke -used for printed media or documents that have large quantities of text
8.2.7.2. Sans Serif -does not have decoration at the end of a letter stroke -used for headlines and bold statement -better computer display
8.3. Cases
8.3.1. Capitalized letter is refer to as uppercase
8.3.2. Small letter is refer to as lowercase
8.3.3. placing an uppercase letter in the middle of a word is refer to as CamelCase