Web typography - just my style

Article Abstract:

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body appeared a few years ago to have lost control over Web technical specifications as Microsoft and Netscape battled for market dominance and introduced proprietary HTML tags, but the W3C has recently turned the tables with such specifications as Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2). CSS2 promises to enable advanced typographic control on the Web, although low screen resolution will continue to severely limit its quality. Web developers will be able to perform many of the typographic feats possible in a DTP program. Cascading Style Sheets work much like their counterparts in word processors. Users can specify such parameters as line length, type size, margin widths, indents and line spacing. CSS2 will allow Web designers to specify particular fonts or typefaces by generic style qualities. It poses a serious challenge for browser vendors, who will need to build in hyphenation and justification engines.

Standards, Column, World Wide Web, Internet/Web technology, Web authoring software, Font management software, Internet server software

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The Incubator: the Incubator makes new faces out of TrueType, but quality control is lacking

Article Abstract:

Incubator $149.95 software package from Type Solutions Inc can modify the design of the TrueType fonts, but the quality of the resulting fonts is often poor. The software creates custom fonts by varying the slant, weight and other features of TrueType fonts. It does a good job creating oblique versions of faces that lack an italic form and preserving stroke weights when modifying monoline faces. Unfortunately, the editing controls modify every member of the font equally which often results in distorted characters. Important facilities that Incubator lacks include character-by-character editing and control over counters and letter height. There is also no assurance that Incubator works with all the fonts offered by major font vendors.

Computer programming services, Evaluation, Product information, Graphics software, Font Package, Type Solutions Inc., Incubator! (Computer font)

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The invisible network

Article Abstract:

A critique of Apple Computer's Appleshare network two weeks after its installation at Publish! magazine is presented. The 15-station network is easy to use and transparent to end users. The network file server is a dedicated Macintosh Plus with a 45-megabyte hard disk; IBM PCs are linked to the server with software and a board from Tangent Technologies. Appleshare requires an administrator, and certain tasks such as backing up files or changing file access privileges are cumbersome to execute.

Usage, AAPL, Apple Inc., End users, Networks, Microcomputer, End User, Performance, Management of EDP, File Server, AppleShare (Network operating system)

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