Word Processing Fonts and Styles

Fonts An array of pictures indexed by an ASCII character code

Arial Arial[99] = Arial[97] = Arial[110]=

ArialItalic ArialItalic[99] = ArialItalic[97] = ArialItalic[110]=

AnalisaBookmanFootloose Wingdings Each font is a different array of pictures

AnalisaBookmanFootloose 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 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

Give your style a name Two types of styles

Creating a Style

Font Color Size Style

Using a Style

Changing a Style

Changing a Style Changes all of the uses of the style

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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