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Ikarus is a type design and production software developed by URW and Brendel Informatik foundries, for converting existing typefaces and logos into digital format for use on computer driven printing, plotting and sign cutting devices.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 35 relations: Adobe Inc., Agfa-Gevaert, ATypI, Bézier curve, Berthold Type Foundry, Character (computing), Compugraphic, Desktop publishing, Digital data, Dutch Type Library, Graphics tablet, Icarus, Image scanner, International Typeface Corporation, Laser printing, Letraset, Logos, Mac (computer), Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Metafont, Microcomputer, Minicomputer, Monotype Imaging, Peter Karow, Photographic paper, PostScript, Rasterisation, Software, Spline (mathematics), Stempel Type Foundry, Stobart (logistics company), TrueType, Typeface, URW Type Foundry, VAX.

  2. 1975 software
  3. Font editors
  4. Typesetting software
  5. Typography software

Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.

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Agfa-Gevaert

Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products, software, and systems.

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ATypI

The ATypI or Association Typographique Internationale (the International Typography Association) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design.

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Bézier curve

A Bézier curve is a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields.

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Berthold Type Foundry

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Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

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Compugraphic

Compugraphic Corporation, commonly called cg, was an American producer of typesetting systems and phototypesetting equipment, based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where it was founded.

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Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using dedicated software on a personal ("desktop") computer.

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Digital data

Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.

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Dutch Type Library

Dutch Type Library is a digital font foundry based in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, established in 1990 by Frank E. Blokland.

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Graphics tablet

A graphics tablet (also known as a digitizer, digital graphic tablet, pen tablet, drawing tablet, external drawing pad or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images, animations and graphics, with a special pen-like stylus, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper.

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Icarus

In Greek mythology, Icarus (Íkaros) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete.

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Image scanner

An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.

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International Typeface Corporation

The International Typeface Corporation (ITC) was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin and Edward Rondthaler.

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Laser printing

Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process.

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Letraset

Letraset was a company known mainly for manufacturing sheets of typefaces and other artwork elements using the dry-transfer lettering method.

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Logos

Logos (lit) is a term used in Western philosophy, psychology and rhetoric, as well as religion (notably Christianity); among its connotations is that of a rational form of discourse that relies on inductive and deductive reasoning.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

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Metafont is a description language used to define raster fonts.

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Microcomputer

A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor.

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Minicomputer

A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.

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Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with consumer electronics devices.

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Peter Karow

Peter Karow (born 11 November 1940) is a German entrepreneur, inventor and software developer.

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Photographic paper

Photographic paper is a paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, like photographic film, used for making photographic prints.

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PostScript

PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.

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Rasterisation

In computer graphics, rasterisation (British English) or rasterization (American English) is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (a series of pixels, dots or lines, which, when displayed together, create the image which was represented via shapes).

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Spline (mathematics)

In mathematics, a spline is a function defined piecewise by polynomials.

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Stempel Type Foundry

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Stobart (logistics company)

Eddie Stobart Limited is a British multimodal logistics company, with interests in road haulage, rail freight, deep sea and inland waterway transport systems and deep sea port, inland port and rail connected storage facilities, along with transport, handling and warehousing facilities in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium.

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TrueType

TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript.

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Typeface

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

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URW Type Foundry

URW Type Foundry GmbH (formerly URW++ Design & Development GmbH) is a type foundry based in Hamburg, Germany.

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VAX

VAX (an acronym for Virtual Address eXtension) is a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century.

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See also

1975 software

Font editors

Typesetting software

Typography software

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_(typography_software)