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TEXTUALMEDIA
EDC 601 Instructional Technologies
© Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D.
“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
EDC 601 Instructional Technologies
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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
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W IFIXED
W IPROPORTIONAL
Spacing
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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
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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
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Additional Type Measurements
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UPRIGHT UPRIGHT
ITALIC ITALIC
Style
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MEDIUM MEDIUM
BOLD BOLD BOLD
Stroke Weight
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Times RomanArial
Old EnglishSprint
Brush ScriptGigi
HarlowTwentieth Century
Typeface
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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
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Suggestion: always use TrueType fonts indicated by the T symbol
AND...
TT
Office 97
Font Substitution
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Office 2000
Font Substitution
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Office XP/2003
Font Substitution
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Office 2007
Font Substitution
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TEXTSOFTWARE
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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.
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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.
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TEXT FILEFORMATS
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.html (Web sites) .rtf **
.pdf + (Acrobat)
Text File Formats
Converters/Readers
..doc (Word).wps (Works)
.txt * (ASCII)
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Consider the following examples:
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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: