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Shayla

Shayla

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I'm wishing there was a site like Google Translate,
but for identifying font types. One could scan their
document, submit a photo of the text, and voila.
Does such a thing exist, or is my mind its only habitat?
 
Thanks for the links. I looked from A-Z on
our computer, and it turned out to be Zelda.
I'll try your suggestions next time. :thumbsup:
 
If it is on your computer you can highlight the font and the font bar should tell you what font it is. PC's do have to have the font installed, but most Macs and Mac files have all the font info embedded in the resource file attached to the document file. Makes for big files, but the files are complete that way ;)
 
But with a Mac there are only two fonts: Crayon and #12 pencil

In Microsoft Word, since 1993, all you have to do is click inside
of a word to have it tell you the font, size, pitch and emphases.
 
Bob Doyle said:
If it is on your computer you can highlight the font and the font bar should tell you what font it is. PC's do have to have the font installed, but most Macs and Mac files have all the font info embedded in the resource file attached to the document file. Makes for big files, but the files are complete that way ;)
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That is true if the document is a PDF. Otherwise, if you open a document and don't have the proper font installed, you will get a substitution.

Baer Charlton said:
But with a Mac there are only two fonts: Crayon and #12 pencil
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You seem to be forgetting that it was the Mac that made desktop publishing possible to begin with, in 1984.
:icon9: Rick
 
Rick Granick said:
You seem to be forgetting that it was the Mac that made desktop publishing possible to begin with, in 1984.
:icon9: Rick
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While desktop publishing was made popular by PageMaker which ran on a Mac, the origins of Desktop Publishing came from the PC and Linux world. Note that PageMaker was written by Adobe - not Apple. A more accurate statement might be that it was PageMaker running on a Mac that made desktop publishing popular.

"Desktop publishing began in 1983 with a program developed by James Bessen at a community newspaper in Philadelphia. That program, Type Processor One, ran on an IBM PC using aHercules Graphics Card for a WYSIWYG display and was offered commercially by Bestinfo in 1984. (Desktop typesetting, with only limited page makeup facilities, had arrived in 1978–9 with the introduction of TeX, and was extended in the early 1980s by LaTeX.) The DTP market exploded in 1985 with the introduction in January of the AppleLaserWriter printer, and later in July with the introduction of PageMaker software from Aldus which rapidly became the DTP industry standard software."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker

I used the earliest versions of PageMaker on PCs in the 80s. Clunky and hard as h3ll to use. It had a special graphics card and monitor like the one described above. In the same time frame, I used LaTex which used it's markup language in a similar manner to the way HTML is used today.
 
This was something we printed off about seven years ago,
and it wasn't kept as a file. That 'What The Font' site looks
pretty handy.

Interesting conversation, too. :popc:
 
Rick Granick said:
That is true if the document is a PDF. Otherwise, if you open a document and don't have the proper font installed, you will get a substitution.



You seem to be forgetting that it was the Mac that made desktop publishing possible to begin with, in 1984.
:icon9: Rick
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Maybe a little company called Adobe had more to do with Desktop publishing.

Oops, sorry, just read Larry's post.
 
OK, OK, let's just say that the Mac platform made DTP accessible to the public, taking it far beyond the few professional users of the early systems you described.
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick
 
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