Carbon ATSUI text APIs
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Carbon ATSUI text APIs were Apple’s legacy Mac OS X text layout and rendering interfaces designed to support advanced typography during the transition from classic Mac OS to modern OS X technologies.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple developer technology
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Carbon API ⓘ text layout and rendering API ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ATSUI ⓘ |
| APIStyle | procedural API ⓘ |
| basedOn | Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Mac OS X graphics and text technologies ⓘ |
| designedFor | transition from classic Mac OS to Mac OS X ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| documentationType | Apple Developer Documentation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early Mac OS X era ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS X
NERFINISHED
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classic Mac OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Carbon framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
text layout
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text rendering ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| provides |
font metrics access
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glyph layout control ⓘ low-level text shaping ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Core Graphics
NERFINISHED
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Quartz 2D NERFINISHED ⓘ QuickDraw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Cocoa text system
NERFINISHED
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Core Text NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deprecated ⓘ |
| supports |
AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) features
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OpenType layout features ⓘ Unicode text ⓘ advanced typography ⓘ bidirectional text ⓘ complex text layout ⓘ font features ⓘ glyph substitution ⓘ international text rendering ⓘ kerning ⓘ ligatures ⓘ vertical text layout ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Mac OS X
NERFINISHED
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PowerPC Macintosh NERFINISHED ⓘ early Intel-based Mac computers ⓘ |
| usedBy | Carbon applications ⓘ |
| usedFor |
desktop publishing applications
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rendering localized user interfaces ⓘ word processing applications ⓘ |
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