Fontographer: Type By Design PDFs found
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
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.