Text dan Hypertext Pertemuan 05 & 06 Matakuliah: O Computer / Multimedia Tahun: Feb

Bina Nusantara Learning Outcomes Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa akan mampu : Menerapkan penggunaan berbagai jenis teks pada aplikasi multimedia

Bina Nusantara Outline Materi Text Definition Text Technology Fonts & Faces Text Data File Working with Text Hypertext and Hypermedia

Bina Nusantara What is Text Basic media for many multimedia systems Text WordsSentencesParagraphs is used to communicate thoughts, ideas and facts in nearly every aspect of our lives is used to communicate thoughts, ideas and facts in nearly every aspect of our lives

Bina Nusantara What is Text Multimedia products depends on text for many things: –to explain how the application work –to guide the user in navigating through the application –deliver the information for which the application was designed

Bina Nusantara Text Technology Based on creating letters, numbers and special characters. Text elements can be categories into: –Alphabet characters : A - Z –Numbers : –Special characters : Punctuation [., ; ‘ …], Sign or Symbols [* & ^ % $ £ ! /\ ~ –Also known Character Sets May also include special icon or drawing symbols, mathematical symbols, Greek Letter etc.

Bina Nusantara Typefaces, Fonts and Points Typefaces –The graphic representations of the alphabet, numbers and special character. –Usually includes many type sizes and styles. Fonts –A collection of characters of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family –The sizes are measured in points 1 point = 1/72 or inch –Measuring distance from the top of a capital letters (e.g. ‘A or P’) to the bottom of a descenders (e.g. ‘y, ‘p’, ‘q’).

Typefaces Arial Calibri Courier Tahoma Times New Roman Verdana Fonts Arial 12 point italic Arial 8 point bold Verdana 10 point underline Bina Nusantara

Fonts Effects A numbers of effects that are useful for bringing viewer’s attention to content: –Case: UPPER and lower letter –Bold, Italic, Underline, superscript or subscript –Embossed Shadow –Embossed or Shadow –Colours

Bina Nusantara Font Anatomy

Bina Nusantara Tracking, Kerning and Leading AvvA Unkerned Kerned

Bina Nusantara Tracking, Kerning and Leading Reading Line One Leading  Ascender: an upstroke on a character  Descender: the down stroke below the baseline of a character  Leading : spacing above and below a font or Line spacing  Tracking: spacing between characters  Kerning: space between pairs of characters, usually as an overlap for improvement appearance

Bina Nusantara Jaggies and Antialiasing

Bina Nusantara Types of Fonts Two classes of fonts: Serif or Sans Serif A A A A

Bina Nusantara Serif use decorative tips or flags at the ends of a letter strokes are usually used for documents or screens that have large quantities of text Sans Serif don’t have these features is considered better for computer displays because of the sharper contrast (This is because the serif helps guide the reader’s eye along the text)

Font Editing and Design Tools Fontographer Font Creator Bina Nusantara

Text Data Files The common data encoding schemes for text are: Plain text (ASCII) is text in an electronic format that can be read and interpreted by humans Rich text is similar but it also embeds special control characters into the text to provide additional features Hypertext is an advance on rich text which allows the reader to jump to different sections within the document or even jump to a new document

Bina Nusantara Text Data Files Plain text This is plain text. It is readable by humans. It can contains numbers (01234) and punctuation since it uses the ASCII character set. Plain text This is plain text. It is readable by humans. It can contains numbers (01234) and punctuation since it uses the ASCII character set. Rich text This is rich text. It is also readable by humans but contains additional tags which control the presentation of the text. Rich text This is rich text. It is also readable by humans but contains additional tags which control the presentation of the text. Hypertext This is hypertext. It uses the rich text format shown above but adds the ability to hyperlink to other documents. Hypertext

Bina Nusantara For Titles and Headlines For Menus For Navigation For Content Using Text in Multimedia

Bina Nusantara Working With Text Considerations and guidelines when we are working with text: –Be Concise –Use the appropriate typefaces and fonts –Make it readable –Consider type styles and colors –Use restraint and be consistent

Bina Nusantara Make It Readable Can you read me?

Bina Nusantara Make It Readable The buzzword being splashed around is Convergence and by it we mean the convergence of multimedia technology with the telecommunications industry.

Bina Nusantara Working With Text Large amounts of text –Alternatives? - animation, video, narration. –Show a preview and allow user to request more Hyper linking Pop-up messages, scroll bars, drop-down menus

Bina Nusantara How text can be used effectively Communicating Data –Customer names and address –Pricing information of products Explaining concepts and ideas –A company mission statement –A comparison of medical procedures Clarifying other media –Labels on button, icons and screens –Captions and callouts for graphics

Bina Nusantara Advantages and Disadvantages of using texts Advantages –Is relatively inexpensive to produce –Present abstract ideas effectively –Clarifies other media –Provides confidentiality –Is easily changed or updated Disadvantages –Is less memorable than other visual media –Requires more attention from the user than other media –Can be cumbersome

Bina Nusantara Hypertext and Hypermedia Hypertext –Text based documents with the addition of static data such as images and tables. –Cross referencing between sections via a keyword acting as an anchor, linked to another section. –Consists of a network of nodes, connected via links that can be visited by the user. Hypermedia –Multimedia data types stored in a hypertext networked structure. –Each node is a presentation. Users can jump from presentation to presentation.

Bina Nusantara AF ED CB A Small Hypertext Structure (having six nodes and nine links)

Exercises Explore the Insert tab on Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, especially the Table and Chart functions Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to make a list of your five favorite books. Each name is linked to another slide in PowerPoint which shows the book’s summary, author, and other information related to the book. Bina Nusantara