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See Larger Image	Fonts & Encodings by: Yannis Haralambous List Price: $59.99 Amazon.com's Price: $51.93 You Save: $8.06 (13%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $19.85 Third Party New Price: $47.71 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 686.22544 EAN: 9780596102425 ISBN: 0596102429 Label: O'Reilly Media Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1040 Publication Date: September 26, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media Studio: O'Reilly Media Features: ISBN13: 9780596102425 Condition: USED - Good Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Related Items: Unicode Explained CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing Unicode Guide Laminated Reference Chart (Quick Study Computer) Unicode Standard, Version 5.0, The (5th Edition) Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard see more
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Average Rating: Rating: - Comprehensive book on fonts and encodings I doubt I will ever read this book cover to cover. However, I am sure I will look things up in it on many occasions. And, there are a number of introductory sections I plan to read immediately. Rating: - politically correct fonts On page 29 the author claims that ASCII was adopted "a few months after the assasination of President Kennedy" on June 17, 1963. I don't why the author would make such a careless and impertinant reference but it calls to question the proof readers at O'Reilly and the quality of the research that forms the basis for buying this book. Can I trust the information on Unicode if they can't bother to look up their facts? How many other things did they just make up and put in print? The reader is repeatedly referred to as "her" as a sop to political correctness. This is a computer book and not the editorial page. These girls should have married a doctor. Rating: - A labor of love - authoritative book on subject I've read and reread this book a number of times. It is now dogged eared, book marked, and tagged more than any other book in my library. It contains great anecdotal stories, unmatched technical information, and is clearly a work of true devotion. If you are a designer, typographer, or IT support for font intensive workflows, this book is required reading for mastery of the subject. Run to get this book. Another glowing example of the quality books released by O'Reilly. Rating: - Thick book, sometimes already outdated, not didactic It's a good book, it's a thick book. But it does not deserve 5 stars. Three main problems: 1) it is too thick and often goes in far too many details 2) some of the material is out-of-date: for instance how to create keyboard drivers under Mac OS. 3) It is not didactic, Yannis obviously wants to impress his colleagues and his readers, not necessarily be understood by the below-average geek like me. Where is a simple introduction to OpenType before going in all the gory details? This being said the book is interesting and some chapters are fascinating. Rating: - Great book lots of errors though This is a terrific book for the technically minded person either designing type or dealing with its use from a technology perspective. I read the English translation and found the writing good and informative. My problem is that there appear to be numerous typos particularly in the hundreds of code examples. This may only be in the translation since I have not seen the original French. I hope the publisher can give it a thorough proof reading!

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