- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
The set of typographic and layout characteristics that create a specific appearance for a glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
A setting identified by the font’s designer that matches specific values along the available variation axes and gives those values a name.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of specific information in a font object about a font, such as its family name, style, copyright date, version, and manufacturer. Some font names are used to build menus in an application, whereas other names are used to identify the font uniquely.
Industry:Software; Computer
A contiguous (in memory) sequence of characters having the same font.
Industry:Software; Computer
An algorithmic way to produce a range of typestyles along a particular variation axis.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, an attribute in an entity that gives it access to rows in another entity. This attribute must be the primary key of the related entity. For example, an Employee entity can contain the foreign key deptID , which matches the primary key in the entity Department. You can then use deptID as the source attribute in Employee and as the destination attribute in Department to form a relationship between the entities. See also primary key, relationship.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A stream of data that can be opened and accessed individually under a common filename. The Macintosh Standard and Extended file systems store a separate data fork and a resource fork as part of every file; data in each fork can be accessed and manipulated independently of the other. (2) In BSD, fork is a system call that creates a new process.
Industry:Software; Computer
A television video broadcast format standard. DVD Playback Services supports two format standards: the NTSC format used in North America and Japan, and the PAL format used in Europe and other continents.
Industry:Software; Computer
The printer displayed in the “Format for” pop-up menu in the Page Setup dialog. The default formatting printer is the generic Any Printer. The printing system provides default page and paper sizes for this printer.
Industry:Software; Computer
Four bytes of data that can be expressed as a string of four characters in the Mac OS Roman encoding. In AppleScript, used to uniquely identify terms and other items in an application’s scriptability information.
Industry:Software; Computer
