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Fonts & Encodings (c) by O'Reilly Media, Inc.<br />
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The type of the release is: eBook<br />
In the PDF format with ISBN: 0596102429 and Pub Date: September 26, 2007<br />
The size of the release is: 13 disks x 2.88mb<br />
And released on: 01/05/2008<br />
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This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and <br />
typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and <br />
application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full <br />
advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, <br />
with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to <br />
developing software that creates and processes fonts. The era of ASCII <br />
characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as <br />
Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide <br />
Character Standard. Yet, many software applications and web sites still <br />
use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, <br />
Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This book explores <br />
each option in depth, and provides background behind the processes that <br />
comprise today's "digital space for writing": <br />
- Part I introduces Unicode, with a brief history of codes and <br />
encodings including ASCII. Learn about the morass of the data that <br />
accompanies each Unicode character, and how Unicode deals with <br />
normalization, the bidirectional algorithm, and the handling of East <br />
Asian characters. <br />
- Part II discusses font management, including installation, tools for <br />
activation/deactivation, and font choices for three different systems: <br />
Windows, the Mac OS, and the X Window System (Unix). <br />
- Part III deals with the technical use of fonts in two specific <br />
cases: the TeX typesetting system (and its successor, W, which the <br />
author co-developed) and web pages. <br />
- Part IV describes methods for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini, <br />
and Panose-1, which is used by Windows and the CSS standard. Learn about <br />
existing tools for creating (or modifying) fonts, including FontLab and <br />
FontForge, and become familiar with OpenType properties and AAT fonts. <br />
Nowhere else will you find the valuable technical information on fonts <br />
and typography that software developers, web developers, and graphic <br />
artists need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly. <br />
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596102429/
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