Apple Getting Started With Type

• Getting started with type Apple Computer, Inc. From pen and ink to TrueType What's ln.thls for you? Many of the fonts, as well as most of the terms and customs we Typesetting began 10 replace calligraphy in Apple wants you to get the most out of the TrueType fonts in your the middle of the fifteenth century. Type have today about their use, originated hundreds of years ago. foundries made individual pieces of type Apple Font Pack. That's why we made this booklet. It contains This long history has been punctuated with radical changes in the by pouring molten lead imo handcrafted information about type, graphics, and technology that will help technology used to produce type. molds and providing printers with sets of you to produce more effective documents. Whether you write The latest of these revolutionary changes was Apple's intro- these pieces. These sets were called fonts. A font was made up of the capiral and low- business letters, compile spreadsheets, give presentations, or duction of the Macintosh computer in 1984, and a year later, the ercase letters-es weU as the numerals, produce newsletters-if you need to get your words into LaserWriter printer. Before these products were introduced, the symbols, and punctuation marks-for a print, there's useful information in here for you. selection, organization, and placement of type on a page was particular st)1e and size of type. 1b compose a publication-whether it strictly the domain of design, printing, and publishing profession- was a single sheet or an entire book-the als. With the advent of the Macintosh and the LaserWriter, anyone typesetter hand-selected one leuer at a could produce high-quality type and page layouts at a low cost. time. After placing the assembled type in a The desktop publishing revolution was born. printing press, the printer applied i…