Apple Type Services for Fonts Programming Guide

Apple Type Services for Fonts Programming Guide provides an overview of font management in Mac OS X, describes the concepts needed to understand font management, and shows you how to perform the most common font management tasks. The Apple Type Services for Fonts programming interface is a collection of functions and data types that you can use to access and manage font data. It is designed to handle all the font formats and associated data models supported in Mac OS X. The programming interface is designed with performance, scalability, and consistency in mind, and is available to Cocoa and Carbon applications through the Apple Type Services (ATS) framework in Mac OS X.

Apple Type Services for Fonts offers better stability and enhanced performance than previous versions, and features the following improvements:

Who Should Read This Document

You should read this document if you plan to write a Mac OS X application that

Organization of This Document

This document is organized into the following chapters:

See Also

In addition to this document, you may find the following documents useful:

The following website provides font-related information, including the TrueType Reference Manual and links to other typography and font websites:

http://developer.apple.com/fonts