Fonts and Encodings
P Scott Horne
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Description for Fonts and Encodings
Paperback. The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone. Industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. This book explains information on fonts and typography that software and web developers need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly. Translator(s): Horne, P.Scott. Num Pages: 1016 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: UM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 232 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1654.
The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone. Today, industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard, and acceptance among developers is rapidly increasing. Yet much software and many web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This new reference book is a comprehensive guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. "Fonts & Encodings" shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number ... Read more
The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone. Today, industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard, and acceptance among developers is rapidly increasing. Yet much software and many web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This new reference book is a comprehensive guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. "Fonts & Encodings" shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA United States
Number of pages
1016
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
1651g
Number of Pages
1016
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9780596102425
SKU
V9780596102425
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About P Scott Horne
Yannis Haralambous is the founder of Atelier Fluxus Virus, a company specializing in the high-quality typesetting of books with specific requirements, such as dictionaries and critical editions. Since 2001 he has taught computer science at ENST Bretagne, in Brest (Brittany, France).In addition to being a translator, P. Scott Horne is also a typographer, and fluent in the LaTeX system used ... Read more
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