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© Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D.

TEXTUALMEDIA

EDC 601 Instructional Technologies


“Text is the written language. Every one expects to communicate through the use of the written word. While graphics, video, audio, and animation help to explain the text, they are often dependent upon text. Text may be used alone, however, other elements enhance and help explain text and improve understanding. In multimedia, text can be plain, fancy, funny, large, small, colored, texturized, or animated. The ways to present text are endless. What a change from the limited typewritten word. Most text should be easily read and interpreted. This means that the majority of text must be plain, and the fancy text should be left for titles and emphasis.”

Sprankle and Johnson




Some Font Characteristics

Spacing - Proportional or fixed

Pitch - Characters per horizontal inch

Point size - Character height

Style - Upright or italic

Stroke weight - Medium or bold

Typeface - Courier, Times Roman, Arial

Color



W IFIXED

W IPROPORTIONAL

Spacing



This pitch is 10 characters/inch

This pitch is 12 characters/inch

This pitch is 16.67 characters/inch

Number of Characters per horizontal inch

Pitch



Times Roman 2 pt

Times Roman 6 pt

Times Roman 12 pt

Times Roman 24 pt

Times Roman 36 pt

Times Roman 72 pt

Point Size

(1pt = 1/72 inch)

Absolute character height



Additional Type Measurements



UPRIGHT UPRIGHT

ITALIC ITALIC

Style



MEDIUM MEDIUM

BOLD BOLD BOLD

Stroke Weight



Times RomanArial

Old EnglishSprint

Brush ScriptGigi

HarlowTwentieth Century

Typeface



When using PowerPoint (or most products for that matter) you have to be aware of “font substitution”. This can happen if you develop a product using a font found on one computer, and then transfer it to the same product, but in another computer. If the receiving computer does not have that font, then Windows will automatically substitute another font for the non-existing one.

Font Substitution

See Table 4-1 for common fonts and Table 4-2 for font mapping between Windows and Mac

See Table 4-1 for common fonts and Table 4-2 for font mapping between Windows and Mac



Suggestion: always use TrueType fonts indicated by the T symbol

AND...

TT

Office 97

Font Substitution



Office 2000

Font Substitution



Office XP/2003

Font Substitution



Office 2007

Font Substitution



TEXTSOFTWARE



Text SoftwareBasically any word processing (Word, WordPerfect, Microsoft Works, or AppleWorks) or text editing (NotePad, WordPad, or TextEdit) package can be used to create and edit text. Most packages allow you to cut, copy, and paste between it and another product. You can also cut, copy, and paste Internet sources using any of the current browsers (FireFox or Internet Explorer). However, there are a couple of potential problems when using more than one product or machine.



If the source and destination fonts are different, which is used when copying and pasting? Some products use the source font, while others use the destination font.

Potential Problems

If a text document is created and saved in one product, then the file may not be able to be opened by another product.



TEXT FILEFORMATS



.html (Web sites) .rtf **

.pdf + (Acrobat)

Text File Formats

Converters/Readers

..doc (Word).wps (Works)

.txt * (ASCII)



EDC.doc (41k)

EDC.htm (11k)

EDC. mht (64k)

EDC.pdf (16k)

Consider the following examples:



www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs (54k)

www.tirerack.com (562k)

Ch07.pdf (809k)

CIT2000program.pdf (683k)

Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader is a helper and not a plug-in. That is, it can be used both within and outside of a browser.

Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader is a helper and not a plug-in. That is, it can be used both within and outside of a browser.

Consider the following examples:

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