TEXT INFORMATION AND MEDIA Flashcards
simple and flexible format of presenting information or conveying ideas whether hand-written, printed or displayed on-screen
TEXT
any ‘’human-readable
sequence of characters’’ that
can form intelligible words
TEXT
oldest form of Filipino Writing
Alibata or Baybayin Typography
TYPES OF TEXT
HYPERTEXT
PLAINTEXT OR UNFORMATTED TEXT
FORMATTED TEXT
serve to link different electronic documents
and enable users to jump from one to other in a nonlinear way
HYPERTEXT
fixed sized characters having essentially the same type of appearance
PAIN TEXT OR UNFORMATTED TEXT
appearance can be changed using font parameters (bold, underline, italic, font size, font color, etc.)
FORMATTED TEXT
COMMON FILE FORMATS
TXT RTF DOC/DOCX XLS/XLSX PPT/PPTX PDF
plain text file with no formatting
TXT
default format for the notepad app in Windows, as well as most other text editors
TXT
RTF
Rich Text Format
widely accepted generic word processing format
RTF
include all basic text formatting options
RTF
current format for MS word documents
DOC/DOCX
earlier format in MS Word in 2003
DOC
default format of Microsoft Excel
XLS/XLSX
earlier version in MS Excel in 2003
XLS
default format of MS Powerpoint
PPT/PPTX
earlier format in MS Powerpoint in 2003
PPT
Portable Document Format
default format for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader
make document formatting consistent
make document formatting consistent
also called font, font type, or type
typeface
representation or style of a text in the digital format
typeface
comprised of alphabets, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols, and other special characters
typeface
Types of typefaces
Serif Sans Serif Slab Serif Script Decorative
connotes formality and readability in large amounts of text
Serif