QuickDraw GX Typography
QuickDraw GX provides a very rich set of typography primitives, allowing
applications to show text with kerning, tracking, ligatures and swashes,
automatic fractions, and many other features. To give you an example, here
is the title of this page when rendered using a nice GX font (Apple
Chancery):
This page shows the simple lines of code needed to get quite complex
typographic effects. It takes off from the classic "C" starter program.
This is a document that describes how QuickDraw GX fonts should behave.
Its intended audience is font developers.
This document describes the currently defined set of typographic and
design features supported by Quickdraw GX line layout. It is a dynamic
document, as new kinds of features are being added by font developers.
This is the up-to-date reference source for the detailed formats of all
the font tables that make up a QuickDraw GX font.
Change Log
- 3 May 1995
- Cleaned up some relative reference problems.
Dave Opstad (opstad@apple.com)
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