December 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1280 pages
28h 56m
English
Starting with this chapter, we are going to explore fonts and texts in Windows graphics programming. Fonts and their use in text printing have a long and interesting history. Long ago, in 2400 B.C., Indians started to use engraved seals; in 450 A.D. Chinese stamped seals with ink on paper, the beginning of true printing; later, in 1049, Chinese used movable type made from clay; in 1241 Koreans started to use metal type. Two centuries later, by 1452, Gutenberg opened a new era in printing with the development of a punch-and-mold system, which allowed the mass production of movable type used to reproduce pages of text. A complete set of type of one face and one size was called a font in the printing industry after that.
In 1976, ...