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Mac OS X text-manipulation APIs provide basic text input and display as well as text encoding conversions, text-search capabilities, and document summarizations. These APIs also enable sophisticated typography. Developers can, for example, precisely position individual glyphs and lines of text, draw Unicode text at any angle of rotation, kern text, and activate and deactivate fonts.
Text & Fonts Topics
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Carbon
C APIs for working with text and fonts, and rendering glyphs. 		 
Cocoa
Object-oriented APIs for working with strings and fonts, and rendering glyphs. 		 
Text Manipulation
Facilities for creating, manipulating, and storing text strings.
Typography
Resources for managing the display and arrangement of printed characters.