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  Glossary of (some) typographical terms
In traditional typography the ascent of a font was the distance from the top of a block of type to the baseline.
In traditional typography the descent of a font was the distance from the bottom of a block of type to the baseline.
In traditional typography a 10pt font was one where the block of metal for each glyph was 10 points high.
fontforge.sourceforge.net /glossary.html   (4273 words)

  
 Typography of Apple Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For at least 18 years, Apple's corporate font was a custom variant of the ITC Garamond typeface, called Apple Garamond.
Apple's partner in industrial design, Frog Design, was responsible for the choice of this typeface.
Shaston was described in Apple II technote #41 as "a modified Helvetica", but the similarities are not striking.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apple_typography   (1728 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Apple Computers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Apple is known for its innovative, well-designed hardware, such as the iPod and iMac, as well as software^ such as iTunes, part of the iLife suite, and Mac OS X, its current operating system.
Apple has still not made such an appointment, claiming that they instead appoint individuals to their board of directors based on qualification instead of ethnicity.
Apple was criticized for its vertically integrated business model, which runs against the "perceived wisdom" of some economists, particularly those who study the computer^ industry.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/apple_computers   (4168 words)

  
 Apple Computer Summary
Apple developed the Apple University Consortium in which Macs were sold for $1,000 if the university made a two million dollar commitment to resell them to their students.
Due in part to Apple's "counterculture" roots as a company that differentiates itself from IBM and others by encouraging people to "Think Different", Apple has fostered a high level of devotion to the brand amongst some of their users.
Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne (and later incorporated January 3, 1977 without Wayne, who sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak) to sell the Apple I personal computer kit at US$666.66.
www.bookrags.com /Apple_Computer   (9675 words)

  
 creativepro.com - Apple Mac OS 9
Those of you who haven't been following the ongoing Apple OS saga closely (and some of you who have) may be a bit confused by the company's offerings in the past year.
Code-named "Rhapsody," this technology was to form the foundation of OS X, a fully object-oriented operating system that would at long last deliver the true multi-tasking, multi-processing, multi-user and protected memory features that Macintosh users have demanded for years.
Apple optimistically planned for the OS X release in fall of 1999.
www.creativepro.com /story/review/3639.html   (1110 words)

  
 Advanced Typography tables
If there are any ligatures with an apple feature/setting (or which have an opentype tag which can be converted to an apple feature/setting) then this table will be output.
If there are any substitutions with an apple feature/setting (or which have an opentype tag which can be converted to an apple feature/setting) then this table will be output.
Since Apple's glyph substitutions can delete glyphs a contextual glyph substitution table can create two character ligatures (one glyph is converted to the ligature and the other is deleted), while OpenType tables can must use a ligature substitution to do this.
pfaedit.sourceforge.net /gposgsub.html   (3355 words)

  
 OpenType
OpenType was intended by Adobe and Microsoft as the successor to their previous warring font formats, TrueType (developed by Apple and Microsoft) and PostScript Type 1 fonts[?] (created by Adobe).
Apple Computers' proprietary "GX Typography" did similar things, and still exists today as "Apple Advanced Typography" or "AAT." However, OpenType has been much more successful than GX/AAT in the marketplace.
OpenType is one of the many font formats supported by the FreeType Open Source font engine.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/op/Opentype.html   (230 words)

  
 Daring Fireball: Tiger Details
Apple doesn’t support as many OpenType features as Adobe’s own applications (which render text using their own cross-platform code), but it’s a terrific start.
The Fitts’s Law benefits of using the targets of the screen as clickable targets — discussed fully in the entry on the Apple and Spotlight menus — are also taken advantage of by Dashboard.
After 20 years, Apple is finally taking maximum advantage of Fitts’s Law with regard to the Apple menu.
daringfireball.net /misc/2005/04/tiger_details#opentype   (7063 words)

  
 Adding Apple Typography Information to an Opentype Font
Apple's native typography support in OS X is driven by a set of special tables stored in Truetype and Opentype fonts.
However with my test Adobe OTF font I found that the Apple tools don't seem to be able to see the names, so I had to use the glyph index.
By default, Apple does justification by expanding the space both within words and between them.
www.nbcs.rutgers.edu /~hedrick/typography/aat.html   (1099 words)

  
 AppleInsider | Macworld: Apple unveils iWork '05 productivity suite
Apple today unveiled iWork '05, productivity software designed to take advantage of both Mac OS X and iLife '05 to help users easily create, present and publish professional-looking documents and presentations.
Apple smart phone project rests on Mac OS X...
Ripe in Cupertino: an Apple with 8 cores
www.appleinsider.com /article.php?id=827   (924 words)

  
 Apple font foundry : MyFonts
Apple Fonts Group commissions fonts to exploit its new technologies: TrueType versions of Helvetica and Times Roman with excellent low-resolution characteristics accompanied TrueType’s launch; Skia showed off GX’s font morphing, and Hoefler Text made use of its automatic character substitution.
GX technology is no longer supported by Apple but the font portions have been re-used within Apple’s new Unicode rendering technology ATSUI (Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging), which has been present in the System since OS version 8.5 (Aug 1998).
Apple also produces and distributes system fonts for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Indic and Greek scripts, as well as variation encodings of the Roman fonts for Icelandic, Romanian, Turkish, Croatian and the Central European (Slavic) languages.
www.myfonts.com /foundry/apple   (353 words)

  
 About Apple Advanced Typography Fonts
Apple's text imaging technology, Apple Advanced Typography (AAT), enables applications to provide users with fonts having special typographical effects, such as cursive connection, ornateness, and complex ligatures.
Apple currently provides support for drawing using AAT fonts via Apple Type Services for Unicode™; Imaging (ATSUI).
Apple has defined a set of text features in the AAT Font Feature Registry.
developer.apple.com /fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6AATIntro.html   (5331 words)

  
 Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : A
anti-aliasing or antialiasing In electronic communication and typography, the term refers to the adding of additional images or parts of images so as to decoy the eye into seeing something that cannot be represented digitally.
Apple Language Kit A software package which is installed under Macintosh System 7.x to enable the use of a non-Roman (non-Latin) script.
Apple Type Services or ATS The font management interface on newer Macintosh operating systems.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/a.htm   (4052 words)

  
 About al-Nashir al-Sahafi Dibaj
This is because with AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) fonts are no longer just a collection of points which describe a character outline.
Achieve professional transparency, shading and tinting effects for all typography and graphics by choosing from seven transfer modes-copy, add, blend, migrate, and, or and invert.
Moving typography and graphics between al-Nashir al-Sahafi Dibaj documents is as simple as dragging and dropping.
www.diwan.com /english/pages/inside/products/dibaj.htm   (593 words)

  
 bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Apple
Apple’s own Guidelines for Using Apple Trademarks and Copyrights has the answer in the first paragraph.
It describes exactly how the Apple logo on a Mac fits in with unicode (it is stuck on a private code page).
Tar Wrappers” in the mid to late ’90s until Apple (Wilfredo Sanchez) took over and added it to Mac OS X. The scars run deep, hence the slightly knee jerk reaction.
www.friday.com /bbum/category/science/technology/apple/page/2   (3891 words)

  
 | TrueType | Typophile
TrueType is a digital type technology originaly developed by Sampo Kaasila of Apple Computer, whose remit was to create a custom technology so as to avoid paying royalty fees to use font technologies developed by other parties, as well as to solve some technical limitations of Adobe’s PostScript based Type 1 font format.
A few years later the format was extended to support Unicode and more complex linguistic and typographic behaviours such as automatic ligature substitution and Indic vowel rearrangement.
However the new extensions, called AAT (Apple Advanced Typography), were not licensed to Microsoft, who then set about creating their own extensions to TrueType (along with Adobe), which they called OpenType.
typophile.com /wiki/TrueType   (194 words)

  
 Journal : Mark Boulton
This time I’ll be on one panel: ‘Web Typography Sucks’ with the guy behind The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web and fellow Britpacker, Richard Rutter of Clearleft.
When I left the BBC a few months ago, they were kind enough to give me an Amazon voucher with which I bought a new Apple iPod Shuffle.
Well, Amazon took two months to actually get the stock in from Apple (don’t know whose fault that was, but the delivery date kept on going back and back with no word from either party.) But all that aside, I received it yesterday and it’s a little thing of beauty.
www.markboulton.co.uk /journal/category/Typography   (467 words)

  
 Reprint Article - Latest Features of Apple Computer
Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) is Apple Computer's computer software for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s.
Latest Features of <b>Apple</b> Computer Latest Features of Apple Computer
Author: Emp Emp

Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) is Apple Computer's computer software for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s.

Apple: Macintosh, based on the Alchemy architecture, features a 250 MHz PowerPC 603e processor, an ATI 3D RAGE II graphics accelerator, Video input, a TV/FM radio card, a side-mounted CD-ROM drive, a custom Bose speaker system complete with subwoofer, and a unique keyboard with an integrated Italian leather palm rest.
www.article99.com /reprint-article/index.php?art=9394   (487 words)

  
 Microsoft Typography - News archive
On April 12 Apple are holding a technology briefing covering their font directions for Mac OS 8.x and Mac OS X. I am the technology manager in Apple's Worldwide Developer Relations organization with responsibility for fonts, type, and international technologies.
We will be holding a special briefing on Apple's font directions for Mac OS 8.x and Mac OS X. This will be held on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., on April 12.
Some of you may not be able to able to attend the upcoming font briefing but would like to be included in future mailings regarding fonts on the Mac OS.
www.microsoft.com /typography/links/News.aspx?NID=704   (678 words)

  
 | Save Apple Typography! | Typophile
The Apple Typography Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apple_typography seems to have been messed up, half the content has disappeared and heretics are ranting about Apple Garamond!
Regardless of the Apple Garamond slant, missing are additions and clarifications I made regarding Espy Sans and other eWorld bitmap faces and Newton system fonts.
All that happened is that he thought that it was strange to mix a discussion of Apple’s corporate identity with a discussion of their bundled fonts and rendering technology, so he unilaterally decided to split the article in two.
typophile.com /node/27518   (314 words)

  
 Seventeenth International Unicode Conference
Adobe Systems and Morisawa began work on the Adobe-Japan1-4 character collection in early 1996, and was completed in early 2000 with the cooperation of companies such as Apple Computer and Fontworks.
Apple, working with Dainippon Screen, has developed several Adobe-Japan1-4 OpenType fonts for Mac OS X. Statement of Purpose:
Attendees will become familiar with the structure and intent of the Adobe-Japan1-4 character collection, along with advanced typographic features and system-level support in Mac OS X. Participants will be able to draw on the experiences from both Adobe Systems and Apple Computer, in order to significantly simplify their own development efforts.
www.unicode.org /iuc/iuc17/a331.html   (256 words)

  
 bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive »  (Shift-opt-k)
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 4:27 pm and is filed under Technology, Apple.
The matias tactilepro keyboard (which is a pretty good approximation of the Apple Extended Keyboard II - my favorite keyboard of all time), has the option and shift-option glyps printed on it, which makes finding things like that (and the euro symbol) easier.
The open apple glyph is also in Lucida Grande.
www.friday.com /bbum/2006/08/16/shift-opt-k   (548 words)

  
 Related Web Links
Apple Typography home page - Apple typography related information, tools, links, etc.
Apple Font Tools - Apple conversion, diagnostic, editors and other font tools.
Typography resources - Information on OpenType, Multiple Master and other font formats.
www.asy.com /links.htm   (380 words)

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