MMA Quiz 2 Chapter 5
What is a PDF?
A portable document format developed by Adobe Systems
What is speech recognition?
When software analyzes human speech and puts it out into editable text
What are the different types of alignment?
left, right, centered, justified
What are the disadvantages to bitmapped fonts?
- Letters can't be easily scaled. - Requires separate bitmaps for each typeface, style, and point size to be used. - Requires large storage capacities. - Limits flexibility in use of text fonts to those stored on the computer.
What is a font?
A complete set of characters of a particular typeface, style, and size Ex: Times New Roman, Size 12, Bold
What is a browser?
A program running on the client's computer that displays information via a network from another computer that acts as a server.
When developing code for text, each character is assigned what?
A unique combination of bits
How many computers understand/process ASCII?
ALL OF THEM
What are the two most important coding schemes for computer text?
ASCII and Unicode
What is kerning?
Adjusting the space in between PAIRS of letters
What is tracking?
Adjusting the spacing of all the letters
What are two common outline font technologies?
Adobe Postscript and TrueType
What does ASCII stand for?
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Jaggies produce what?
An alias of the true form of the font.
What is graphics text?
Basically a picture... Text in the form of graphic to produce artistic effects.
What are the guidelines for use of text?
Be selective. Be brief. Make text readable. Be consistent. Be careful Be respectful. Combine text with other media. Make text interactive.
The techniques for displaying text are referred to as __________________.
Font technologies
What is HTML?
Hypertext Markup Language - Standard for the display of text and other media through browser software
Curved and angled lines in a font will produce what?
Jaggies
What are cases?
Lower or uppercase
What are the two different categories of fonts?
Monospaced and proportional fonts
Are fonts standard across computer platforms?
NO
What is the structure of a hypertext?
Nodes, link anchor, link marker
What is an example of a ASCII program?
Notepad
What are the different categories of typefaces?
Serif Sans serif Script Symbols
What is weight?
The line thickness of a type (NOT SIZE)
What is the purpose of PDFs?
To preserve the original formatting of text documents
Multimedia developers value text for what?
Universality Clarity Efficiency Powers of abstraction, engagement, and suggestion.
What are the disadvantages to outline fonts?
- Commands can't be edited to create unique characters. - Font families are controlled through license of Postscript and TrueType fonts.
What are the methods to incorporate text in an authoring application?
- Direct entry - Copy and paste - File import - Scan
What are the 2 advantages to bitmapped fonts?
- Font designers have precise control over the appearance of text - Letters can be edited at pixel level
What are the advantages to outline fonts?
- Fonts are easily scaled. - Requires smaller storage capacity
What are the limitations of HTML?
Limited set of tags to create a page. Difficult to precisely define a page appearance.
What solutions did developers come up with to deal with installed fonts?
1. Use only widely available fonts. 2. Package the unique font with the application.
What is Unicode?
16 bit code that allows for 65,000 characters to be represented - Multilingual text in digital coding standard
What are jaggies?
A stair step effect that produces jagged lines...
What is CSS?
An addition to HTML that makes it easier for developers to preserve consistency in the appearance of text - Separates content page from formatting commands
What are the 2 basic approaches to generating text display?
Bitmapped fonts and outline fonts
The more colors used in a font, the more ______.
Bits
What is antialiasing?
Blending the color of the text with the background on which it appears
What are the different styles of text?
Bold, italic, underlined
How are outline fonts created?
By storing a set of instructions to draw the character rather than a mapping of each pixel.
What are typefaces?
Characters grouped into families that share a common design. Ex: Times, Helvetica, Courier
What is the difference between condensed and extended text?
Condensed text is narrowing the width of characters and extended text is widening the width of characters
How is a bitmapped font created?
Each pixel of the letter to be displayed is described by a binary code and that code listed out creates the "mapping."
What are the benefits of editable text?
Easy to alter content. Can search and spell check.
What two forms are multimedia text?
Editable or graphics
What are proportional fonts?
Fonts that adjust the width of a letter or other character based on shape
What are monospaced fonts?
Fonts that assign the same width to each character
What is the cap height and x-height?
How tall the capital letter is and how tall the smaller letter is
What is hypertext?
Linked text that leads to other text.
What are the benefits of graphics text?
Make original word picture. Solves problem of installed fonts.
What is RTF?
Rich Text Format - A variation of ASCII - Developed by Microsoft to help cross application and cross platform use of text files - Reproduces the format of the original file
What is the difference between serif and sans serif fonts?
Serif fonts have the ticks at the end and sans serif fonts do not
What is speech synthesis?
Software that analyzes text and reproduces it as spoken words
What are styles?
The difference in the appearance of characters.
What is alignment?
The position of text relative to a document's margins
What is justification?
The process of adjusting line lengths to produce straight edges on both the left and right margins
What does ASCII produce?
Very basic text files (letters, numbers, symbols, etc.)
Do bitmapped fonts require a lot of memory?
YES
What is point?
The measure of the size of the type
What is leading?
The spacing between lines
What is editable text?
The text produced by basic text editors and word processors.
