Managing fonts in Mac OS X is all too often like herding cats (all those Fonts folders!), but you can now corral your serif and sans-serif felines with our new "Take Control of Fonts in Snow Leopard." Written by Sharon Zardetto, this 225-page ebook covers not only everything you need to know about fonts in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard, but also special font situations in software such as Adobe CS4 and CS5, Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008, iLife, and iWork.
Important topics covered include:
Where your fonts reside, in what order they load, and what - if anything - you should do about it
The ins and outs of different font installation methods
Using Font Book to manage, validate, and organize fonts
Making the most of character-rich Unicode fonts
Using Apple's Character Palette/Viewer and Keyboard Viewer to insert and explore special characters
The quirks of fonts from Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008, and which ones you should keep around
Organizing fonts from Adobe CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5 so they are available where you need them
The ebook costs $15 and includes a coupon worth 20 percent off on any purchase from Ergonis Software, makers of the font utility PopChar X and other software.
