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Thus, what you saw (on the screen) is what you got (when you printed it out). Once Microsoft Windows and the new windows-based word processors came on the scene, we no longer had to use our imagination as to what the finished text would look like it was immediately visible on the screen. That’s because the text-based word processors could not display on the screen what those attributes and properties of the text would look like. These special characters would indicate such attributes and properties as bolding, underlining, and italics to name a few.
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Word processors from the pre-Windows era were not “WYSIWYG” in that in a text-only display you would see embedded or “special” characters along with the real text.
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It stands for “What you see is what you get”, indicating that what you see on the screen is exactly what you will get with the finished product. WYSIWYG is an acronym that has been around the computer industry since the advent of the Windows operating system.
#Cast wysiwyg photometer software#
WYSIWYG is a lighting design software package produced by Cast Software Ltd. Experienced designers have most likely developed the ability to design with a real good idea of what the finished product will look like, but what about those of us that are either new to lighting design or have very little experience? That’s where WYSIWYG comes in. One of the most difficult aspects of stage lighting design is that without a tremendous amount stage lighting knowledge and experience, it’s very difficult to know exactly how your design will look until you actually hang and test it, let alone, the difficulties of trying to pre-cue your show.