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Leopard Guides: Text & Fonts
Typography is the arrangement and display of printed characters. Mac OS X provides applications with sophisticated support for font handling, text styling, line layout, image rendering, and Unicode text handling.
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Apple Type Services for Fonts Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to access fonts using the ATS-based font management API. Includes implementing the Fonts window.
 2007-12-11
ATSUI Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to lay out, process, and draw Unicode text.
 2007-07-10
Core Text Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to do text layout and font-related operations using the Core Text programming interfaces.
 2008-06-09
Font Handling (HTML) (PDF)
Explains the Cocoa font management system and how users select fonts.
 2008-02-08