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Unit 7: Multimedia Software Tools

nedit notes
NEdit stands for Nirvana Editor. It was another popular visual text editors as well as source
code editor used by programmers. Its interface quite resembles to Mac and Windows editors. It
was one of the first editors that supported automatic indentation on the basis of code language
that you are editing.
Mined

Mined stands for MINIX-Editor. Mined is a terminal based editor that is available for Unix,
Linux, Windows and MSDOS. It was one of the first text editors to support Unicode inside
a terminal. It also had implementation of smart quotes and had extensive support for
Unicode
Questions:

1. What was the main cause for developing the text editors?
2. Differentiate between Ed and CRiSP editors.

self assessment

fill in the blanks:
8. .................... is a design software.
9. An example of painting software is .................... .

10. .jpg is an .................... format.

7.4 summary

• Text editors geared for professional computer users place no limit on the size of the file
being opened.

• Text editors often provide basic formatting features like line wrap, auto-indentation, bullet
list formatting, comment formatting, and so on.

• Source code editors are text editors with additional functionality to facilitate the production
of source code.

• A word processor is usually the first software tool computer users rely upon for creating
text.
• The OCR software turns bitmapped characters into electronically recognizable ASCII
text.
• Painting software, such as Photoshop, Fireworks, and Painter, is dedicated to producing
crafted bitmap images.
• Drawing software—CorelDraw, FreeHand, Illustrator, Designer, and Canvas—is dedicated
to producing vector-based line art easily printed to paper at high resolution.

7.5 Keywords

Macros: A macro is a character or word that represents a series of keystrokes. The keystrokes can
represent text or commands.
oCr software: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program can convert the characters on the
page into a text document that can be read by a word processing program.

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