Apple - Mac OS X - Features

New Features

Overview

Get the most from the exquisite selection of resolution-independent fonts in Mac OS X Panther with the new Font Book, which lets you install, preview, search, activate and deactivate the fonts you need.

Font Book screen

One or many
Double click any font in the Finder to see a preview in Font Book. Install it with a single click. You can manage fonts individually or as groups, and you don’t have to bother with special folders or locations. Working with fonts is now as easy as playing songs in iTunes or opening pictures in iPhoto.

Enable fonts dynamically

Interactive activation
Font Book lets you enable and disable fonts, individually or in groups, to customize which fonts you see in an application. Font Book lets you shorten the list of fonts to the ones you want to use, and you don’t need to restart an application to see the change. If you’re working with many fonts, you can specify the right fonts for any project. This is particularly helpful when you have multiple version of the same font families.

Advanced typography
In addition, the Font Panel provides advanced typographic features, allowing you to take advantage of font ligatures, kerning, number spacing, rendering fractions, swashes, number and letter casing and more. Want more flexibility? The Character Palette of the Font Panel gives you a new easy way to preview a character rendered in every active font.

Fast searching
Looking for a special font? You can search for fonts by family and typeface name within Font Book. Available from many applications, the Font Panel also lets you search for fonts, enabling you to quickly find the font you want, even in a library of thousands of fonts.

Create styles
The Font Panel also lets you group effects with fonts to create styles, including color, strikethrough, underline, shadow, size and more. You can use these styles across multiple applications.

Fonts in Mac OS X
Technology Brief

Top New Panther Features

Finder Everything you need, just a click away.

Exposé Find the window you need. Now.

iChat AV Video conferencing for the rest of us.

FileVault Safe, secure, and speedy.

Fast User Switching Share well with others.

Mail Follow the thread of any discussion.

iDisk Your online hard drive. Available offline.

Preview Tear through PDFs in no time.

Font Book Letter-perfect type management.

UNIX Mac OS X is based on rock-solid UNIX.

Xcode Ground-breaking new approach to developer productivity.

See the Video

Visit the Apple Store at the Grove, virtually, to see highlights of Panther’s new features.

Advanced features
Take advantage of font ligatures, kerning, number spacing, rendering fractions, swashes, number and letter casing and more.

Typography Palette