Macintosh Bible, 8th Edition, The

Enhancing Type

You have thousands upon thousands of Macintosh fonts from which to choose (see the “Where to Buy Fonts” section later in this chapter for a list of vendors). Even so, you might not find exactly the style or effect you're looking for. Don't despair. Because Mac fonts are essentially computer data, you can use a variety of programs to modify their shapes, angles, colors, and many other attributes.

If you have a PostScript graphics program such as Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia FreeHand, you can create any number of effects that modify a single character or a block of text. To a lesser extent, you can modify text in a page layout program—for instance, expanding or condensing it. You could stretch a headline vertically to make it ...