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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TrueType |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Once Apple developed TrueType technology, the company included it in Mac OS System 7 and later and released an add-on package for System 6 to allow use of TrueType fonts. Although TrueType is still fully supported, Mac OS X also has native support for Adobe's Type 1 and Microsoft and Adobe's OpenType formats.
TrueType was launched during a disagreement between Apple and Adobe; in fact, Apple licensed TrueType to Microsoft in exchange for a license for a Microsoft-developed PostScript compatible driver that Apple planned to use in laser printers. This driver was apparently never actually included in any Apple products.
Microsoft has aggressively pushed TrueType into the Windows operating system and includes a fairly useful library of TT fonts with their systems. In addition, they have recently added a number of new font smoothing technologies, including ClearType which can significantly improve readability on LCD based displays. Like Apple, Microsoft has in recent years added Adobe-provided support for Type 1 and OpenType to their operating system, with Windows 2000 and XP.
The characters (or glyphs) in TrueType fonts are made of straight line segments and other quadratic Bézier curves. The standard includes a virtual machine that executes programs inside the font, processing the "hints" of the glyphs (that is, modifying them slightly so that the outline rasterizer produces fewer artifacts when drawing a glyph at a low resolution).
The FreeType project attempts to create an independent implementation of the TrueType standard (as well as other font standards). There are potential patent infringement in FreeType 1 because parts of the TrueType hinting virtual machine were patented by Apple, a fact not mentioned in the TrueType standards. (Patent holders who contribute to standards not published by a major standards body such as ISO are not required to disclose the scope of their patents.) More recent FreeType releases include an automatic hinter that analyzes glyph shapes and corrects them, thus avoiding the patented technology. [1]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "TrueType."
Crosswords: TRUETYPE |
| Specialty definitions using "TRUETYPE": outline font. (references) |
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| "TRUETYPE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.17% of the time. "TRUETYPE" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 52.17% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 39.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
truetype font | 90 | convert postscript truetype | 3 |
free truetype font | 74 | convert truetype | 3 |
truetype | 37 | font free japanese truetype | 2 |
fuentes truetype | 19 | editor font truetype | 2 |
truetype font download | 13 | create font truetype | 2 |
download font free truetype | 5 | font mac truetype | 2 |
bar code truetype font | 4 | font truetype window | 2 |
japanese truetype font | 4 | broadway truetype | 2 |
truetype converter | 4 | bar code font pack truetype | 2 |
harry potter truetype | 3 | font slashed truetype zero | 2 |
linux truetype | 3 | font font free truetype | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: petter, pretty, puttee, putter, repute, retype, tuyere. | |
-3 letters: erupt, peery, peter, petty, puree, putty, rupee, rutty, tutee, tuyer, utter. | |
-4 letters: eery, eyer, eyre, peer, pert, pree, prey, pure, putt, pyre, rete, tree, tret, trey, true, tyee, tyer, type, tyre, yett, yurt. | |
-5 letters: ere, eye, pee, per, pet, pry, pur, put, pye, ree, rep, ret. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-t-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: perpetuity. | |
+5 letters: hypereutectic, pretentiously, repetitiously, supersubtlety, unrepentantly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010010 01010101 01000101 01010100 01011001 01010000 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T R U E T Y P E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0052 0055 0045 0054 0059 0050 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5452553954595039 |
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