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Fontographer: Type By Design PDFs found
Posted by t1mmy in
29 Jan 2003 — 6:39pm
29 Jan 2003 — 6:39pm
The only reason I'm posting this is because there's been so much talk of it lately. I found it on an Italian web site, so don't get scared about the book being in Italian, it's in english. I don't want to be attacked personally for this. Like I said in one of my other posts, "I feel like I'm opening Pandora's box."
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/dtp/papers/type_by_design/manuale.htm
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29 Jan 2003 — 6:56pm
Pandora was the coolest party chick.
BTW, it's interesting that this isn't the same set of PDFs as last time (which was from Brazil). I remember that the previous one had the text in the "authentic" Goudy Italian Old-Style, although not the specially modified one Moye used - I remember doing a test on the lc "y" to find out, since I was wondering if Moye had leaked the original docs, for some reason, maybe out of frustration at the dumbass publishers.
hhp
29 Jan 2003 — 7:10pm
Holy smokes! You know Pandora too?
29 Jan 2003 — 9:05pm
Last antiquarian price I saw on the book was something like $1,300+!
And, with the emergence of FontLab and its OpenType capabilities, its not all that useful anymore.
30 Jan 2003 — 10:14am
not to throw fuel on the fire, but i found type by design useful. i'm very new to the field, and after reading it i feel much more confident. it's one of those books that should be required reading in the design schools.
30 Jan 2003 — 10:27am
Tim: It's VERY useful. Maybe for a professional type designer is pretty basic but there are very important topics there like postcript drawing and spacing-kerning issues.
30 Jan 2003 — 12:00pm
Oh, this is the dealer whose got the book at $1,348 (in very good condition)!
www_getanyrarebook_com
Found this on Amazon by doing a search on Fontographer.
30 Jan 2003 — 12:11pm
I remember letting this one slip away.
(From Microsoft's news archives)
Remainder of the day
Falls Village, CT. - 28 July 1998
Hamilton Books are offering Stephen Moye's Fontographer: type by design title for just $3.95 plus shipping. Although slanted towards PostScript Type 1 font production, at the price it represents good value for money.
30 Jan 2003 — 1:27pm
That's when I got mine! :-)
Day traders, eat your hearts out.
hhp
30 Jan 2003 — 3:09pm
>Oh, this is the dealer whose got the book at $1,348 (in very good
>condition)!
Are you kidding me?! I'll gladly sell my copy (a few dog-earred pages, tiny creases on lower right corner of front cover and upper right corner of back cover; otherwise fine, clean tight copy) for a mere $1,200! ;-)
-- K.
10 Feb 2003 — 8:26pm
Intriguing price, $1,348.00. Although I doubt they have a copy of the book, if they do then their price is mostly wishful thinking. Examination of their feedback doesn't reveal them to be a very upstanding vendor, overall.
A careful search for the book would probably turn up a very nice copy for substantially less money. A large number of libraries across the US show copies in their collections.
My copy, though, is not for sale.
7 Mar 2010 — 1:31pm
Could any body share the pdf please?
7 Mar 2010 — 2:55pm
The value of this book has dropped considerably. You can get it for less than $10 now on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1558284478/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&q...
7 Mar 2010 — 3:20pm
I've got a copy of the book... it's in pretty good condition. If you didn't know it's age, you would think it was less than a year old by looking at it.
-RL
7 Mar 2010 — 6:39pm
Please stop promoting piracy.
7 Mar 2010 — 6:53pm
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8 Mar 2010 — 12:01am
I assume Steve is referring to the PDF sharing. As the link in the original post is dead anyway, I neither can check whether it contained illicitly shared copyrighted material, nor do I see the need to remove it.
8 Mar 2010 — 6:12am
I just thought it was a strange comment, seeing as most of the discussion here is (and was, six years ago) about obtaining printed copies of the book.