Retired Document

Important: Apple Type Services is a legacy technology in Mac OS X v10.6 and later. Please use Core Text instead.

Document Revision History

This table describes the changes to Apple Type Services for Fonts Programming Guide.

Date	Notes
2008-09-29	Moved document to Legacy.
2007-12-11	Changed the title and added information about deprecated functions.
	Changed the title from Managing Fonts: ATS.
	Added information about using `ATSFontActivationFromFileReference` instead of `ATSFontActivateFromFileSpecification`. See Activating and Deactivating Fonts, Notifying ATS for Fonts of Actions, and Handling Font Queries.
2007-08-07	Corrected a typographical error.
2007-03-06	Updated terminology.
	Changed Fonts window to Fonts panel.
2006-09-05	Corrected typographical errors.
2005-07-07	Changed the parameter type for kEventParamFontColor to typeFontColor.
2003-12-10	Changed title from Managing Fonts to Managing Fonts: ATS.
	Reorganized the introduction.
2003-01-24	First release of this document. Includes conceptual and task information.
	Supersedes these technical notes:
	Technical Note TN 2024, “The Mac OS X Font Manager”
	Technical Note TN 2058, “The Font Panel for Carbon API”