Quick Start

The material in this book is presented with the mild assumption that you’ll read it linearly, but that doesn’t mean that you have to read it that way. You could, instead, start with font installation techniques, or troubleshooting procedures, or why you can’t seamlessly share documents with a PC user.

Beginning at the beginning:

• Whether you’re a font minimalist with nary a problem or a font fanatic with nothing but, covering the basics is a good place to start. Check out the Supported Font Types (page 2), and the oh-so-many places you can store them, in Where Tiger Stores Fonts (page 10).

Explore the Unicode Universe (page 16), discover the wealth of characters stored in fonts with The Joy of Character-Rich Fonts (page 10), get ...

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