Specifications

Introduction
Whether you’re producing sophisticated type effects for print layouts or selecting
an easy-on-the-eyes font for online readers, you know how crucial typography is for
successful visual communications. Recognizing this fact, Apple has made typography
a top priority in every Macintosh operating system from the very beginning. More
than any other platform, Mac OS X gives you exceptional creative options for
typography and makes your fonts easy to access and manage.
With Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther,” Apple has set a new benchmark for desktop
typography. High-fidelity rendering both on screen and in print makes Panther the
most visually rich and consistent typography platform available today. Because it’s
built on the Quartz graphic rendering engine, Mac OS X allows you to do more with
fonts than ever before. You can manage fonts, create unlimited collections, use any
font format, and modify fonts for perfect typography—all with ready-to-use Mac OS X
tools. Mac OS X v10.3 also includes more than 100 fonts—28 for different languages—
giving you more creative leeway and making it easier to create materials for
international consumption.
Advanced typographical capabilities in Mac OS X v10.3 remove the barriers to creativity
and give you the freedom to get your job done with exceptional flair and ease.
What’s New in Panther: The Highlights
When it comes to typography, Panther has a number of options to help you make
your creative vision a reality:
No limits. There are no font limits in Mac OS X. You can place an entire font library in
a single folder and use it. Virtual memory in Mac OS X simply draws on more memory
when necessary.
More fonts. Mac OS X v10.3 includes more than 100 fonts and supports more
non-Roman languages and bidirectional fonts than ever before.
Richer font support. For more predictable cross-platform and cross-media publishing,
Mac OS X supports all of the major font formats, including PostScript Type 1 (with the
double-byte PostScript fonts required for non-Roman languages), Multiple Master,
Windows TrueType, and OpenType—the font format of the future.
Font Book. New to Mac OS X v10.3 is the versatile Font Book application for finding
and managing fonts from a single, central location. Managing fonts in Mac OS X is
now as easy as managing songs in iTunes or images in iPhoto.
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Technology Tour
Advanced Typography
with Mac OS X
New fonts in Mac OS X Panther
New Roman fonts in Panther include:
• Apple Chancery
• Apple Symbol
• Chalkboard
• Euphemia
• Hoefler Text
• Plantagenet (includes the Cherokee
character set)
•Skia
New or improved language support
in Panther includes:
• Cherokee
• Geeza Pro (Arabic)
• Hindi
• Inuktitut
• LiSong Pro and LiHei Pro (Chinese)
• Mshtakan (Armenian)