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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia

by T.M. Savage, K.E. Vogel
October 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
335 pages
13h 31m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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5.2 Computer Text
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5.2 Computer Text
Left Aligned
Centered Right Aligned Justified
Figure 5.9 Alignment and justification.
Text as it is treated by the computer shares many features with traditional text. Word
processing programs allow their users to easily change the appearance of text and its
size by changing typeface, style, and
points, for example. In almost all pro-
grams, however, typefaces are listed,
somewhat inaccurately, as “fonts”
(Figure 5.10). Strictly speaking, a font is
not the whole collection of characters
with a single design—this is a typeface.
Instead, a font is a set of characters
within the typeface ...
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