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Leopard Reference: 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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NSATSTypesetter Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a typesetter that places glyphs for text layout.
2009-03-04
NSGlyphStorage Protocol Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the interface between a glyph generator and glyph storage.
2009-01-06
Apple Type Services for Fonts Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for ATS-based font access and management.
2007-12-11
Core Text Reference Collection (HTML) (PDF)
Describes an API providing text and font services.
2007-12-04
ATSUI Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for rendering Unicode-encoded text with advanced typographic features.
2007-06-28
NSFont Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a representation of a font.
2007-06-08
NSTypesetter Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the interface for typesetter objects that perform text line layout.
2007-03-26
NSGlyphGenerator Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a glyph generator for text layout.
2006-05-23
NSSimpleHorizontalTypesetter Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Deprecated - Describes the deprecated technology replaced by NSATSTypesetter.
2006-05-23
FontSync Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for content-based font identification and comparison.
2002-10-01