There are several software that can be used to create customized font. These tools help an multimedia developer to communicate his idea or the graphic feeling. Using these software different typefaces can be created.
In some multimedia projects it may be required to create special characters. Using the font editing tools it is possible to create a special symbols and use it in the entire text.
Following is the list of software that can be used for editing and creating fonts:
• Fontmonger
• Cool 3D text
Special font editing tools can be used to make your own type so you can communicate an idea or graphic feeling exactly. With these tools professional typographers create distinct text and display faces.
1. Fontographer: It is macromedia product, it is a specialized graphics editor for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. You can use it to create postscript, truetype and bitmapped fonts for Macintosh and Windows.
2. Making Pretty Text: To make your text look pretty you need a toolbox full of fonts and special graphics applications that can stretch, shade, color and anti-alias your words into real artwork. Pretty text can be found in bitmapped drawings where characters have been tweaked, manipulated and blended into a
graphic image.
3. Hypermedia and Hypertext: Multimedia is the combination of text, graphic, and audio elements into a single collection or presentation – becomes interactive multimedia when you give the user some control over what information is viewed and when it is viewed.
When a hypermedia project includes large amounts of text or symbolic content, this content can be indexed and its element then linked together to afford rapid electronic retrieval of the associated information.
When text is stored in a computer instead of on printed pages the computer’s powerful processing capabilities can be applied to make the text more accessible and meaningful. This text can be called as hypertext.
4. Hypermedia Structures: Two Buzzwords used often in hypertext are link and node. Links are connections between the conceptual elements, that is, the nodes that consists of text, graphics, sounds or related information in the knowledge base.
5. Searching for words: Following are typical methods for a word searching in hypermedia systems: Categories, Word Relationships, Adjacency, Alternates, Association, Negation, Truncation, Intermediate words, Frequency.
