FONTS

1- What is a font?
A font is essentially the design for a set of characters.
2- What is a pitch? And fixed pitch?

The width is measured by pitch, which refers to how many characters can fit in an inch. The width is measured by pitch, which refers to how many characters can fit in an inch.

3- What is a font family? Name some...

A font family is a group of fonts that have similarities in design. One member of the font family may be bold, while another member of the same family may be italic

4- What is the difference between font and typeface?

The term font is often used as a synonym for typeface, which is not technically correct. For example, some may refer to Times Roman as a font, but it is actually a typeface that defines the shape of each character. Within the Times Roman typeface there are many fonts to choose from — different sizes and styles (e.g., italic, bold and so on).

5- What is the difference between vector and bitmap fonts?

bit-mapped font where every character is represented by an arrangement of dots. To print a bit-mapped character, a printer simply locates the character's bit-mapped representation stored in memory and prints the corresponding dots. Each different font, even when the typeface is the same, requires a different set of bit-maps.

The second method uses a vector graphics system to define fonts. In vector graphics systems, the shape or outline of each character is defined geometrically. The typeface can be displayed in any size, so a single font description really represents innumerable fonts. For this reason, vector fonts are called scalable fonts as they can be scaled to any size.

6- What are the synonyms of vector and bitmap fonts?
7- Which of these two is scalable? An outline font is scalable because, given a geometrical description of a typeface, a printer or other display device can generate the characters at any size.
8- What are the most widely used scalable font systems? bit-mapped fonts
9- What kind of printers use scalable fonts? Post script
10- What is tha main problem using fonts on the web? One reason is that small vector fonts do not look very good on low-resolution devices, such as display monitors
11- How do you call the web-safe fonts?
12- What are the safest fonts on the web?
13- Why should you choose "sans serif" fonts for the screen? sans serif fonts are more difficult to read. For this reason, they are used most often for short text components such as headlines or captions.
14- What is the simplest solution if you want to use a very specific font?
15- Choose your favorite font.

John´s Speech

Yearbook:
The first yearbook ASB made, children were involved. It was hardcover (designed by an artists)with bright sheets of paper. It was printed grayscale because it costs 3/4 less. A yearbook a school of California made (that had 3000 students) was very profesionally made. It had grayscales, colors, designs...It even had an index where you could find the person you wanted to look. It was fantastic!
Computer:
The school has bought two powerful computers. There are Mc´s, and it is very thin and has everything you need. You can put firewires which is very good because it is better and faster. You can lisen to music or DVD´s, or you can copy the CD´s to have an extra copy. It is very special becauser you can put both microsoft and windows at te same time. If it has 300 GB, you can put 100 to microsoft and 200 to windows and viceversa.

Desktop Publishing

Desktop publishing is the use of the computer and software to create visual displays of ideas and information.The difference between Desktop publishing and web editing is that desktop publishing is publishing it only on your computer, so that only you are able to see it. The most powerful desktop publishing systems enable you to create illustrations, while less powerful systems let you insert illustrations created by other programs.Web publishing is so that everyone can see it. It allows you tu use different typefaces, margins and illustrations, through desktop publishing you have more control. It allows you to see the document on the screen how it is going to be printed, system that allows you to do that are called WYSIWYG. 3 applications that use DTP are:

• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe FrameMaker
• Adobe PageMaker

Essential hardware items you need for desktop publishing are digital cameras, monitors, printers, scanners, and other peripherals. DTP allows you to eliminate manual work.

Offset printing is for full color printing. The processes involved in this printing method, is based on 4 colors which are known by cymk cyan, magenta, yellow and black. More than 16 million of colors can be obtained by mixing these 4 colors together. Offset printing is the most popular printing process used today and is used for printing magazines, books, business cards...A laser printer is a common type of printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper.Laser printers work in a manner similar to a photocopier. A roller is charged with electricity, then a laser is used to remove the charge from portions of the roller. Powdered ink (toner) sticks to the parts of the roller that were hit by the laser, and this toner is transferred from the roller to the paper. Then the ink is baked into the paper using a heater. Laser printers produce very high quality output and are very fast.

Ink jet
These work in a similar manner to a dot-matrix printer, but instead of pressing a dry ink against the page, the print head sprays drops of liquid ink onto the page. Ink jet printers have better image quality and are faster than dot-matrix printers.


Laser
These work in a manner similar to a photocopier. A roller is charged with electricity, then a laser is used to remove the charge from portions of the roller. Powdered ink (toner) sticks to the parts of the roller that were hit by the laser, and this toner is transferred from the roller to the paper. Then the ink is baked into the paper using a heater. Laser printers produce very high quality output and are very fast.


Dot-matrix
In a dot-matrix printer, a print head moves across the page. Characters or graphics are created by using a cluster of pins. These pins press an inked ribbon to the paper to create a dot. Each character or image is made out of a series of dots. These printers are usually cheap and durable, so they are still used by many businesses as invoice printers. They tend to be slow and noisy, and the output quality is the lowest of all types of printers.

My summer holidays

First, I went to a summer camp in Arcachon (France). I liked it a lot because I went with Pablo and Bruno and then I saw Irene there. All the afternoons I went to the beach with all of the camp. After at 7:30 we had to go to see our ¨French families¨. We had dinner with them at 8 :30 P.M. and then I went to bed at 10:30 P.M. In the summer camp I did a lot of things like:
-Go to an Aquapark
-Go to an Adventure park
-Go to Bordeaux
-And many more activities that were very fun

The camp was very well organized and all the monitors were very nice. There were many international students from other countries such as:
- Norwegians
- Russia
- Germans
- Italians
- Americans
- English



After the summer camp in Arcachon I went to Fuenterrabia because we couldn´t find any hotel in Biarritz. It was very fun there. First we went for a walk in Fuenterrabia which is very pretty. Then we went to the beach in Biarritz which has a lot of waves and a lot of surfers. We were all the day in the beach. I was very happy because I love the beach. We went to the Casino to buy ¨French stuff¨, because I love the French milk. Then we went for a walk in Biarritz because it is also a lovely city. Then we had to go to Fuenterrabia to sleep. We rested there for 4 days, and then we came back to Bilbao for all of the vacations.

Biarritz´s beach Fuenterrabia´s typical fisher´s house

http://www.esp.cityvox.fr/bonnes-adresses_biarritz/BonnesAdresses

http://www.locasun.es/guia-turistica/Arcachon

http://www.hondarribia.com/turismo.htm