1. Chapter 2 TEXT

2. 2.1 Different Text Attributes
Font
a set of printable or displayable text characters in a specific style and size
Typeface
the type design for a set of fonts
Arial
Times New Roman
Courier

3. 2.1 Different Text Attributes
A typeface family may contain a number of fonts
Arial typeface family
Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Arial Unicode MS
Find the number of fonts of Lucida family.

4. 2.1 Different Text Attributes
Font typefaces are either
Serif
for decoration
enhance readability
e.g. Times New Roman
Sans serif
without decoration --- “serif”
clean and simple
e.g. Arial A A
Serif
Sans serif

5. 2.1.1 Typeface (Cont’d)
Find two others fonts that are Serif and two that are Sans Serif.
Book Antiqua, Courier Arial, Tahoma

6. 2.1.3 Font Style Boldface Shadow Italics Emboss Underline Engrave
Bold, italic and underline are common type styles of a font.
Boldface Shadow
Italics Emboss
Underline Engrave
Different font styles for Times New Roman

7. 2.1.4 Font Size Font sizes are usually expressed in points.
One point is about 1/72 inch.
Font size (in points)
Font

8. 2.1 Different Text Attributes
Font Size
On web pages, font sizes are specified either on,
an absolute scale of 1 to 7, or
a relative scale of -1 to +7

9. 2.2 Text Layout Text Layout Alignment
The arrangement of text in a document
Alignment

10. 2.2 Text Layout Line spacing single line spacing 1.5 line spacing
double line spacing

11. 02-17
In using a word processor, which of the following may affect the number of lines in a document?
Changing the margins of the document
Changing the line spacing
Changing the justification of the text
Underlining the text

12. Activity Make a Poster using MS Word (A4 size, 1 page)
Your poster should include as much text format as possible.
Your poster should include some photos.
Submit your poster to Mr. Lam’s netdrive account.

13. 2.3 Different Text File Formats

14. 2.3 Different Text File Formats
Plain Text File (TXT)
contains only ASCII characters
little or no page formatting codes
Notepad

15. 2.3 Different Text File Formats
Word Processing Document (DOC)
produced by Microsoft word processor
contain plain text together with formatting codes
Microsoft Word Document (DOC)
OpenOffice document (ODT)

16. 2.3 Different Text File Formats
Rich Text Format (RTF)
exchange documents across different platforms
preserve all (most) formatting features at the same time

17. 2.3 Different Text File Formats
Portable Document Format (PDF)
preserve all the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of the source document.
For sharing documents
Difficult to edit
Smaller file size

18. 2.3 Different Text File Formats
HTML Document
Can be created using
Web authoring software
Word processors
Notepad
To view the document, use browsers such as
Internet Explorer
Netscape Browser
FireFox

19. 2.4 Conversions of Text File Formats
Word processor
File type
Microsoft Word
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Writer
Plain Text File (TXT)
Import 
Export
Word Processing Document (DOC)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
HTML Document (HTML)

20. 2.4 Conversions of Text File Formats
Word processor
File type
WordPad
Notepad
PDF995 Suite
Plain Text File (TXT)
Import 
Export
Word Processing Document (DOC)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
HTML Document (HTML)

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