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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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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 the C API providing text and font services to applications and application environments.
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 the class that represents fonts to an application.
2007-06-08
NSTypesetter Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the abstract superclass that defines the interface for typesetter objects that perform text line layout.
2007-03-26
NSATSTypesetter Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a concrete subclass of NSTypesetter that places glyphs during text layout.
2006-07-10
NSGlyphGenerator Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the class used to perform the initial, nominal glyph generation phase in the text layout process.
2006-05-23
NSGlyphStorage Protocol Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the formal protocol that defines the methods a glyph storage object must implement to interact properly with NSGlyphGenerator.
2006-05-23
NSSimpleHorizontalTypesetter Class Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Deprecated - Describes the class used for text line layout that has been replaced by NSATSTypesetter.
2006-05-23
FontSync Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for content-based font identification and comparison.
2002-10-01