Digital Typefaces : Description and Formats

Peter Karow

ISBN 10: 3642781071 / ISBN 13: 9783642781070

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Summary his book was written primarily for people who intend or wish to develop new machines for the output of typefaces. It is practical to categorize equipment into three groups for which digital alphabets are required - 1) display devices, 2) typesetting machines and 3) numerically controlled (NC) machines. Until now, development of typefaces has been overly dependent upon the design of the respective machine on which it was to be used. This need not be the case. Digitization of type should be undertaken in two steps: the preparation of a database using hand-digitization, and the subsequent automatic generation of machine formats by soft scanning, through the use of a computer-based program. Digital formats for typefaces are ideally suited to system atic ordering, as are coding techniques. In this volume, various formats are investigated, their properties discussed and rela tive production requirements analyzed. Appendices provide readers additional information, largely on digital formats for typeface storage introduced by the IKARUS system. This book was composed in Latino type, developed by Hermann Zapf from his Melior for URW in 1990. Compo sition was accomplished on a Linotronic 300, as well as on an Agfa 9400 typesetter using PostScript. v Preface Preface his book was brought out by URW Publishers in 1986 with the title 'Digital Formats for Typefaces;). It was translated into English in 1987, Japanese in 1989 and French in 1991.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digital Typefaces : Description and Formats
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642781071
• ISBN 13: 9783642781070
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 242W x 170H x 26D millimeters 242 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 794 grams

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Synopsis

This is a state-of-the-art book on digital typefaces from the technical point of view. Based on his experience of more than 20 years of developing digital fonts and digitizing systems, Peter Karow presents this difficult subject in a clear and instructive way.