GCM 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Paul Brainerd, Susan Kare, Laser Printing
25 Dec 2015
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Computer graphics experimentation explore electronic techniques while turning through modern and postmodern design ideas, retro revivals, and eccentric work. Period of pluralism and diversity in design. Adobe systems - postscript programming language that underlies page layout. Macintosh bitmapped graphics, dots called pixels (72 dpi) on black and. Apple software for word processing, drawing, painting, Early bitmapped fonts susan kare from apple. Postscript fonts are generated as outlines that are then filled as solid forms, B zier splines (vectors) can create complex shapes and smooth endpoints. 1985 apple introduced first laser printer, 300 dpi output of postscript fonts, software and electronically generated typography white screen better typographic proofs. Paul brainerd formed aldus software for making newspaper and ads more efficiently. Pagemaker, uses posscript to design pages on the computer screen, used on. Position everything more traditionally, like offset printing, integrated text. Apple type with other elements (type size, font, columns ), lines, headlines, borders.
