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Multimedia Systems

notes 13.2 font editing and Design tools

There is several software that can be used to create customized font. These tools help a multimedia
developer to communicate his idea or the graphic feeling. Using these software different typefaces
can be created.

In some multimedia projects it may be required to create special characters. Using the font editing
tools it is possible to create a special symbols and use it in the entire text.
Special font editing tools can be used to make your own type so you can communicate an idea
or graphic feeling exactly. With these tools professional typographers create distinct text and
display faces.
13.2.1 Making pretty text

To make your text look pretty you need a toolbox full of fonts and special graphics applications
that can stretch, shade, color and anti-alias your words into real artwork. Pretty text can be found
in bitmapped drawings where characters have been tweaked, manipulated and blended into a
graphic image.

13.2.2 Hypermedia and Hypertext
Multimedia is the combination of text, graphic, and audio elements into a single collection or
presentation – becomes interactive multimedia when you give the user some control over what
information is viewed and when it is viewed.

When a hypermedia project includes large amounts of text or symbolic content, this content
can be indexed and its element then linked together to afford rapid electronic retrieval of the
associated information.
When text is stored in a computer instead of on printed pages, the computer’s powerful processing
capabilities can be applied to make the text more accessible and meaningful. This text can be
called as hypertext.

13.2.3 Hypermedia structures
Two Buzzwords used often in hypertext are link and node. Links are connections between
the conceptual elements, and the nodes is mainly consists of text, graphics, sounds or related
information in the knowledge base.

13.2.4 searching for Words
Following are typical methods for a word searching in hypermedia systems: Categories, Word
Relationships, Adjacency, Alternates, Association, Negation, Truncation, Intermediate words,
Frequency.

Design games by using multimedia concepts.

13.3 text editing and Word processing tools

A word processor is usually the first software tool computer users rely upon for creating text.
The word processor is often bundled with an office suite.
Word processors such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect are powerful applications that include
spellcheckers, table formatters, thesauruses and prebuilt templates for letters, resumes, purchase
orders and other common documents in the following top 10 Word Processing Tools.

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