word processing fonts and styles. fonts an array of pictures indexed by an ascii character code
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Word Processing
Fonts and Styles
Fonts
• An array of pictures indexed by an ASCII character code
Arial
Arial[99] =
Arial[97] =
Arial[110]=
99 97 110
49 150 251 352 4
. . .
65 A66 B67 C
. . .
87 W88 X89 Y90 Z
. . .
97 a98 b99 c
100 d101 e
ArialItalic
ArialItalic[99] =
ArialItalic[97] =
ArialItalic[110]=
99 97 110
49 150 251 352 4
. . .
65 A66 B67 C
. . .
87 W88 X89 Y90 Z
. . .
97 a98 b99 c
100 d101 e
Analisa Bookman Footloose Wingdings
Each font is a different array of pictures
Analisa Bookman Footloose Wingdings
To change the font, use a different array
Where are Fonts Stored?
• With each document?– Where do new documents get them from?
• With each application (EXCEL, Word, Netscape)?– Why do the same fonts appear in all
applications?
• In the operating system– Shared by all applications and all documents
Fonts and document sharing
• If I have the font (ABRACADABRA) and I use it in a document, and I email that document to you, what will happen?
• What if you don’t have (ABRACADABRA)?– Tries to substitute a different font
PDF – Portable Document Format
• You can print documents into a PDF file
• PDF stores the fonts so that they will always be correct when they arrive on a new computer.
Properties of Fonts
• Type face– Times, Ariel, Helvetica etc.
• Spacing– Fixed (all characters the same width)
– Proportional (each character has its own width)
Properties of Fonts
• Serifs– Serifs - simplifies reading lines of text
R
– Sans Serif - good for headings or posters
R no little feet
Serifs are the little feet
Styles
• A style is a named collection of style attributes including– Font face and size, color, bold, underline,
indentation, etc.
• Applying a style will apply all of the attributes at once.
Creating a Style
Creating a Style
Creating a Style
Give your style a name
Two types of styles
Creating a Style
Creating a StyleFont
Color
Size
Style
Using a Style
Using a Style
Changing a Style
Changing a Style
Changing a Style
Changing a Style Changes all of the uses of the style
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This is a lot of text that we are going to use to show how styles work. There are many things that you can do with
styles.
style
They can be used to create highlights, special type, and other
coolthings.
style
HighlightColor: RedFont: BookmanStyle: BoldAll caps: No
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This is a lot of text that we are going to use to show how styles work. There are many things that you can do with
STYLES.
style
They can be used to create highlights, special type, and other
COOLthings.
style
HighlightColor: blueFont: BookmanStyle: regularAll caps: Yes
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This is a lot of text that we are going to use to show how styles work. There are many things that you can do with
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style
They can be used to create highlights, special type, and other
coolthings.
style
HighlightColor: RedFont: BookmanStyle: boldAll caps: No
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Document treedocument
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This is a lot of text that we are going to use to show how styles work. There are many things that you can do with
ST
style
They can be used to create highlights, special type, and other
COOLthings.
style
Highlight
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ES.
black
Color: blueFont: BookmanStyle: regularAll caps: Yes
What is a paragraph style?
• A style that can only be applied to paragraphs– Indentation, tabs, alignment, and other
paragraph attributes
Review
• Font is an array of pictures indexed by the ASCII code for a character– Bold, Italic are just different pictures for same
letters– To change the font just change the array being
used.
• Fonts are stored on each computer. – If you send a document to a computer that
doesn’t have that font, a substitute will be supplied
Review
• Styles– Named groups of attributes– Change a style changes all uses of that style– Styles can be overridden by other attribute
settings
• Character styles and paragraph styles