2. © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. TEXTUAL MEDIA

3. 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

4. © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. 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

5. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. WI FIXED WI PROPORTIONAL Spacing

6. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. 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

7. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. 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

8. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Additional Type Measurements

9. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. UPRIGHT ITALIC Style

10. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. MEDIUM BOLD BOLD BOLD Stroke Weight

11. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Times Roman Arial Old English Sprint Brush Script Gigi Harlow Twentieth Century Typeface

12. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. 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

13. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Suggestion: always use TrueType fonts indicated by the T symbol AND...T Office 97 Font Substitution

14. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Office 2000 Font Substitution

15. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Office XP/2003 Font Substitution

16. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Office 2007 Font Substitution

17. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. TEXT SOFTWARE

18. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. Text Software Basically 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.

19. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. 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.

20. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. TEXT FILE FORMATS

21. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D..html (Web sites).rtf **.pdf + (Acrobat) Text File Formats Converters/Readers..doc (Word).wps (Works).txt * (ASCII)

22. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. EDC.docEDC.doc (41k) EDC.htmEDC.htm (11k) EDC. mhtEDC. mht (64k) EDC.pdfEDC.pdf (16k) Consider the following examples:

23. EDC 601 Instructional Technologies © Anthony J. Nowakowski, Ph.D. www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs (54k) www.tirerack.comwww.tirerack.com (562k) Ch07.pdfCh07.pdf (809k) CIT2000program.pdf CIT2000program.pdf (683k) 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: