By Yannis Haralambous
This reference is an interesting and whole consultant to utilizing fonts and typography on the internet and throughout a number of working structures and alertness software program. Fonts & Encodings exhibits you ways to take complete good thing about the outstanding variety of typographic thoughts on hand, with complex fabric that covers every thing from designing glyphs to constructing software program that creates and approaches fonts.
The period of ASCII characters on eco-friendly displays is long past, and leaders akin to Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have followed the Unicode world wide personality average. but, many software program functions and websites nonetheless use a bunch of criteria, together with PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This publication explores every one choice extensive, and gives history at the back of the procedures that include today's "digital house for writing": * half I introduces Unicode, with a quick historical past of codes and encodings together with ASCII. know about the morass of the information that accompanies each one Unicode personality, and the way Unicode offers with normalization, the bidirectional set of rules, and the dealing with of East Asian characters.
* half II discusses font administration, together with install, instruments for activation/deactivation, and font offerings for 3 assorted platforms: home windows, the Mac OS, and the X Window procedure (Unix).
* half III bargains with the technical use of fonts in particular situations: the TeX typesetting procedure (and its successor, W, which the writer co-developed) and net pages.
* half IV describes tools for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini, and Panose-1, that is utilized by home windows and the CSS regular. know about latest instruments for growing (or editing) fonts, together with FontLab and FontForge, and familiarize yourself with OpenType houses and AAT fonts.
Nowhere else will you discover the precious technical details on fonts and typography that software program builders, net builders, and photograph artists want to know to get typography and fonts to paintings safely.
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FindObject(Type,ArrayList)—Enables us to use an array list, rather than an array, for the primary keys. NET Criteria object that specifies how to select an object. We will be looking more at Criteria objects later in this chapter. FindObject(Type,String)—Accepts a SQL query, which should be used to select the object. We will use this later in the book. GetType method to get a Type object for the class we want) and the primary key. The persistence service then retrieves the object so that we can return it.
If it is not in the cache, the persistence service will query the database to get the data for the object. Let’s now look at what we do when we want to get several objects from the persistence service. Scroll down to the GetGlobalSections method, which we use for getting all of the sections that are not owned by a Exploring the Code In this case, we are using one of several overloads of the FindObject method. This one takes a Type object for the type of object we want to find and an array of integers that specifies the primary key of the object we want.