Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the numerous typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts. The era of ASCII characters on green screens long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Part II discusses the font management, including installation, tools for activation / deactivation, and font choices for three different systems: Windows, Mac OS, and the X Window System (Unix). Learn about tools to make (or modifying) fonts, including FontLab and FontForge, and become familiar with OpenType properties and AAT fonts. Another place you'll find valuable technical information about fonts and typography that software developers, web developers, and graphic artists need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.