Abstract: This book serves the practical requirements of all those who are involved in specifying type for books. More than 100 currently available filmset typefaces are displayed in large-format, double-page specimen settings, in several different sizes and spacings, showing also display sizes bold, roman, italic, small caps and figures. The authors also provide an introduction, including notes on the technical and visual development of typefaces, a comprehensive "family tree" of types related to their historical models, and a long illustrated essay in which many examples of widely various typographic problems and their solutions (all of relevance to today's book designers) are discussed. The book itself is set in a new Monotype face designed by Michael Harvey. Alan Bartram is a book designer and author of several books on lettering and type, the most recent being "The English Lettering Tradition". James Sutton is a graphic designer. They have previously collaborated on "An Atlas of Typeforms".

Abstract: Bit-mapped drawings are normally created by using the so-called "Paint Editor" through the provided image primitives. A set of operation tools are also available for interactive manipulation of primitive objects. Window-based operating environments, such as the IBM OS/2 Presentation Manager,1M provide an Application Programming Interface to send messages to modules that actually carry out bitmap generation. We observed that this message-driven architecture can facilitate the "capture and reapplication of user operations" for application programs. Therefore, it is possible to create a set of bit-mapped drawings that conform to certain properties through the same sequence of operations. Two applications are described in this paper. The first is the creation of fonts with a consistent typeface. The sequence of operations used in designing the typeface is automatically recorded. The user can then generate bitmaps of other characters with the same typeface by repeating the same sequence of operations. The second application is the generation of shadows of 3D objects. If a profile of an object is given, the shadow can be synthesized by bitmap manipulation primitives. When the same sequence of primitives is applied to different objects, shadows can be generated correctly.© (1990) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Abstract: PURPOSE:To simply and surely prevent typeface information from being copied from a storage medium without permission by permitting the reading of the typeface information from the storage medium only when a random-numbered identification(ID) number read out form the storage medium coincides with the ID number of an information processor. CONSTITUTION:This system is constituted of the storage medium 1 previously storing typeface information and an information processor 2 for outputting information obtained by reading out typeface information from the storage medium 1 and applying processing to the typeface information by a typeface based upon the typeface information. The ID number of an information processor 2 permitted to read out the typeface information from the medium 1 is previously stored in the medium 1 as a random number, and only when the ID number read out from the medium 1 coincides with the ID number of the information processor 2, the information processor 2 is permitted to read out the typeface information from the medium 1. Consequently, the typeface information can be simply and surely prevented from being copied from the storage medium 1 without permission.