Micrografx Designer was first released for Windows 1.0 in 1986. The first version was launched as In*A*Vision graphic software. This vector graphics editor was renamed to Micrografx Designer when the version 2 was launched. Micrografx Designer 9 was the final version of this software which was released in 2001. In that year Corel purchased this graphics software from Micrografx and renamed it Corel Designer. Now CorelDRAW Technical Suite is the representing package of Micrografx Designer. The features of Micrografx Designer 9 are more improved in CorelDRAW Technical Suite and it provides a complete solution for technical designers and publishers.
Today, most Web designers who want attractive typefaces are forced to turn their type into bitmapped graphics that are memory-intensive, take a long time to download, cannot be updated easily, cannot be resized by the user, and are invisible to search engines looking for text. By extending TrueType to the Web, Microsoft will expand the typographic options for Web designers. TrueType is already integrated into the Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows
95 and Windows NT
operating systems as well as the Apple Macintosh
, making it the most-used font technology in the world, with over 3 billion TrueType fonts shipped. Unlike other font technologies that optimize type for the printed page at the expense of the screen, anti-aliased TrueType fonts provide the highest-quality text on screen as well as on the printed page.
With TrueType font-embedding technology, Web designers and users can access high-quality fonts without having to download entire font files across the Internet. Authoring tools will provide the option to download only the characters used, saving bandwidth and enabling pages to download faster. Users can view Web sites as intended by the designer, without having to purchase special font software. In addition, a font manufacturer can specify an embedded font as read-only, for viewing and printing; editable within that particular document; or fully installable, therefore helping protect the intellectual property of font designers. The technology will be incorporated into Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft authoring tools later this year.
Microsoft will also freely license the technology for downloading fonts to developers of browsers, authoring tools and other applications, enabling the thousands of TrueType fonts already on the market to be used on the Web.
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