1. Text

2. Overview Importance of text in a multimedia presentation
Understanding fonts and typefaces
Using text elements in a multimedia presentation
Computers and text
Font editing and design tools
Multimedia and hypertext

3. Importance of Text in a Multimedia Presentation
Text is very important in communication. It provides information to the audiences.
Text is a very important element of multimedia. Can be used as menus for navigation, and a body of information, or content. Also can be used as a page titles, labels for pictures or for giving instruction.

6. Understanding Fonts and Typefaces
Typefaces : Graphic representation of the alphabet, numbers and special characters.
Font : A particular sizes of typefaces (ex; “32 point Times New Roman”). .
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7. Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)
The study of fonts and typefaces includes the following:
Font styles
Font sizes
Cases
Serif versus sans serif

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Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)
Font styles include:
Boldface Boldface
Italic Italic
Underlining Underlining
Outlining Outlining

9. Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)
Font sizes
Font size is measured in points.
1 point  1/72”
For multimedia presentation use at least 24 font size.
Kerning is the spacing between character pairs.
Cases
A capitalized letter is referred to as uppercase, while a small letter is referred to as lowercase.

10. Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)
Serif versus sans serif
A serif is the little decoration at the end of a letter stroke.
Serif fonts are used for body text.
Sans serif fonts do not have a serif at the end of a letter stroke.
These fonts are used for headlines and bold statements.
serif san serif
body headlines

11. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Choosing text fonts
Consider legibility.
Avoid too many typefaces.
Use color purposefully.

12. Importance of Text in a Multimedia Presentation
Factors affecting legibility of text:
Size
Background and foreground colors
Style
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Selamat maju jaya

13. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Choosing text fonts
Consider legibility.
Avoid too many typefaces.
Use color purposefully.

14. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Choosing text fonts
Consider legibility.
Avoid too many typefaces.
Use color purposefully.

15. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Choosing text fonts
Use anti-aliased text.
Minimize centered text.
Use white space.
Use animated text to grab attention.

16. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation
The text elements used in multimedia are:
Menus for navigation
Interactive buttons
Fields for reading
HTML documents
Symbols and icons

17. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Menus for navigation
A list of commands or options from which you can choose.
A user navigates through content using a menu.
A simple menu consists of a text list of topics.

18. A button is a clickable object that executes a command when activated.
Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Interactive buttons
A button is a clickable object that executes a command when activated.
Users can create their own buttons from graphics.
Interactive buttons are a graphical, interactive alternative to use when you need to link people to other pages.

19. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
HTML documents
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.
HTML documents are marked using tags.
Some of the commonly used tags are:
The <B> tag for making text boldfaced
The <OL> tag for creating an ordered list
The <IMG> tag for inserting images

20. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Symbols and icons
Symbols are concentrated text in the form of stand-alone graphic constructs.
They are used to convey meaningful messages.

21. Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)
Symbols and icons
Symbols used to convey human emotions are called emoticons.
Icons are symbolic representations of objects and processes. Cth Trash

22. Computers and Text (continued)
Character sets
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a 7-bit coding system.
The extended character set is commonly filled with ANSI standard characters.
Unicode is a 16-bit architecture for multilingual text and character encoding.

23. Computers and Text (continued)
Mapping across platforms
Fonts and characters are not cross-platform compatible.
They must be mapped to the other machine using font substitution.

24. Font Editing and Design Tools
FontLab, Ltd.
Creating attractive texts

25. Font Editing and Design Tools (continued)
Fontographer
Fontographer is a specialized graphics editor.
It is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
It can be used to develop PostScript, TrueType, and OpenType fonts.
It can also modify existing typefaces and incorporate PostScript artwork.

26. Multimedia and Hypertext
Hypertext systems
Using hypertext systems
Searching for words
Hypermedia structures
Hypertext tools

27. Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)
Multimedia is defined as the combination of text, graphics, and audio elements into a single presentation.
When the user assumes control over the presentation, it is called interactive multimedia.
Interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia when a structure of linked elements is provided to the user for navigation and interaction.

28. Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)
Hypertext systems
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display with references (hyperlinks) to other text which the reader can immediately access. The hypertext pages are interconnected by hyperlinks
A hypertext system enables the user to navigate through text in a non-linear way.

29. Multimedia and Hypermedia
Hypermedia structures
Links
Nodes
Anchors
Navigating hypermedia structures

30. Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)
Links
Links are connections between conceptual elements that is nodes.
Links are the navigation pathways and menus.

31. Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)
Nodes
Nodes are accessible topics, documents, messages, and content elements.
May consist of text, graphics, sounds or related information.
Nodes and links form the backbone of a knowledge access system.

32. Multimedia and Hypermedia
Anchors
An anchor is defined as the reference from one document to another document, image, sound, or file on the Web.
Navigating hypermedia structures
The simplest way to navigate hypermedia structures is via buttons.
Location markers must be provided to make navigation user-friendly.

33. Other Resources
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