Font technology : methods and tools / Peter Karow ; foreword by Gerard Unger.
Font technology : methods and tools / Peter Karow ; foreword by Gerard Unger.
Font technology : methods and tools / Peter Karow ; foreword by Gerard Unger.
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Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1994.
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N686.221/1
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Physical content
xiv, 457 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Computer, like you and me -- 3. Typeface Market -- 4. Font Production in past and present / G. Flake -- 5. Third Abstraction / Ralf Funke -- 6. Font Technology -- 7. Intelligent Font Scaling -- 8. Effects of Rasterization -- 9. Letter Spacing / Bodo Kammle -- 10. Display, Text...
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Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1994.
Date Published
c1994.
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Summary
Computers have profoundly changed prepress technology. Typefaces are manufactured by 'digital punch cutters' with a PC and no longer by metal punch cutters. Typefaces are constructed and output by a new technology - font technology. This book by Peter Karow covers the whole area of font technology. It offers chapters on such issues as intelligent f...
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Font technology : methods and tools / Peter Karow ; foreword by Gerard Unger.
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Font technology : description and tools.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-448) and index.
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c1994.
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N686.221/1
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ISBN
0387572236
9783540572237 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
3540572236 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
9780387572239 (New York : acid-free paper)
0387572236 (New York : acid-free paper)
9783540572237
3540572236
9780387572239
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686.221
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991022585389702626
