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" Beyond The Mac is not a typewriter : "
Robin Williams.
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BL
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874290
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Williams, Robin,1953-
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Beyond The Mac is not a typewriter : : more typographic insights and secrets /\ Robin Williams.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley, Calif. :: Peachpit Press,, ©1996.
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xiii, 222 pages ;; 24 cm
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0201885980
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: 9780201885989
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1201885980
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Anatomy of Type -- 1. Centuries of Type -- Aldus Manutius -- 2. The Art of Readability -- 3. The Art of Legibility -- 4. Quotation Marks and not Quotation Marks -- 5. Hang that Punctuation -- 6. Punctuation Style -- 7. When to Shift that Baseline -- 8. Expert Sets -- 9. Small Caps -- 10. Oldstyle Figures -- 11. Ligatures -- 12. Condensed and Extended Type -- 13. Display Type -- 14. Kerning -- 15. Linescaping (leading) -- 16. Paragraph Spacing -- 17. Alignment -- 18. Headlines and Subheads -- 19. Pull Quotes -- 20. Captions -- 21. Emphasizing Type -- 22. Line Breaks and Hyphenation -- 23. Swash Characters -- 24. Initial Caps -- 25. Typographic Color -- 26. Ornaments and Dingbats -- 27. Pi and Picture Fonts -- 28. Don't be a Wimp! -- 29. Evocative Typography -- 30. Multiple Masters -- 31. Choosing a Typeface -- 32. Telltale Signs of Desktop Publishing -- 33. Trends in Type / John Tollett -- Appendix A. font vendors -- Appendix B. fonts used in this book.
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Since 1989, hundreds of thousands of Macintosh users have learned the basics of creating good-looking type from Robin Williams' classic primer, The Mac is not a typewriter. In this sequel, Robin guides you beyond the basics with hundreds of useful tips, techniques, and secrets for making any document beautiful and distinctive. Ranging from traditional typographic information such as how to improve the readability and legibility of a typeface, to tips on new technologies such as Adobe's multiple master fonts, Beyond the Mac is not a typewriter provides an unprecedented wealth of exciting and practical information.
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Computerized typesetting.
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Desktop publishing.
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Computerized typesetting.
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Desktop publishing.
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Computers.
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Typografie.
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| Dewey Classification
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686./22/544
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Z253.3.W55 1996
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54.82bcl
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| Parallel Title
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Mac is not a typwriter
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