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Adobe Font Folio 11 : Type Reference Guide / [Adobe Systems, Inc.]

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Description: Choosing the right font can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designerthere are literally thousands to choose from. One of the largest and most respected collections of high-quality fonts is the Adobe Type Library, now available entirely in the cross-platform OpenType® format, which promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Any designer who has struggled to find just the right typeface for a project will find this comprehensive reference an indispensable guide to Adobe's vast selection of over 2,200 typefaces. Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and updated Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition provides: <ul><li>Specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe's enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces</li></li><li>Typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers</li></li><li>Design inspiration and expert advice on type selection</li></li><li>An expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the most of its expanded character set and layout capabilities </li> </li><li>Explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type stylesfrom a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe's new Opticalsas well as ornaments and symbols</li></li><li> A chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right keyboard combinations to access different characters</li></li><li>Listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe </li></li></ul>

Added: Tuesday, Sep 30 2008

IDEAlliance 2007 Guidelines & Specifications / International Digital Enterprise Alliance

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Added: Friday, Sep 19 2008

Magazine Production / Jason Whittaker

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Added: Wednesday, Sep 17 2008

Fonts & Encodings / Yannis Haralambous ; Translated By P. Scott Horne

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Description: This reference is a fascinating and complete 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 of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts. The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Yet, many software applications and web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This book explores each option in depth, and provides background behind the processes that comprise today's "digital space for writing": <ul> <li>Part I introduces Unicode, with a brief history of codes and encodings including ASCII. Learn about the morass of the data that accompanies each Unicode character, and how Unicode deals with normalization, the bidirectional algorithm, and the handling of East Asian characters.</li></li> <li>Part II discusses font management, including installation, tools for activation/deactivation, and font choices for three different systems: Windows, the Mac OS, and the X Window System (Unix).</li></li> <li>Part III deals with the technical use of fonts in two specific cases: the TeX typesetting system (and its successor, W, which the author co-developed) and web pages.</li></li> <li>Part IV describes methods for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini, and Panose-1, which is used by Windows and the CSS standard. Learn about existing tools for creating (or modifying) fonts, including FontLab and FontForge, and become familiar with OpenType properties and AAT fonts.</li></li> </ul> Nowhere else will you find the valuable technical information on fonts and typography that software developers, web developers, and graphic artists need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.

Added: Thursday, Sep 4 2008

Censorship / Mark Paxton

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Description: Ever since the Bill of Rights became the cornerstone on which individual Americans' rights and liberties rest, the practical realities of honoring the grand principles of the First Amendment have been hotly contested, and none more so than freedom of expression. From governmental limits on robust, even vicious, colonial- and Federal-era newspaper attacks to the USA PATRIOT Act to efforts to rein in the vast and anarchic Internet, the First Amendment protection of free expression has been virtually under siege by various forms of censorship, some clearly pernicious and others evidently benign. This book guides the reader through these many-faceted historical controversies, always with an eye toward contemporary and future challenges. Series features: BLTimeline anchoring the discussion in time and place BLBibliography of print and Internet resources guiding further exloration of the subject BLCharts and tables analyzing complex data, including survey results

Added: Thursday, Sep 4 2008

Copyright Policies / Compiled By Patricia Keogh, Rachel Crowley

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Added: Monday, Aug 25 2008

Dispersions : Characterization, Testing, and Measurement / Erik Kissa

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Description: Explaining principles essential for the interpretation of data and understanding the real meaning of the result, this work describes carious methods and techniques used to characterize dispersions and measure their physical and chemical properties. It describes a variety of dispersions containing particles ranging from submicron sizes to aggregates and from hard particles to polymer latices.

Added: Thursday, Aug 7 2008