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This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts.

The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Yet, many software applications and web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This book explores each option in depth, and provides background behind the processes that comprise today’s “digital space for writing”:

• Part I introduces Unicode, with a brief history of codes and encodings including ASCII. Learn about the morass of the data that accompanies each Unicode character, and how Unicode deals with normalization, the bidirectional algorithm, and the handling of East Asian characters.
• Part II discusses font management, including installation, tools for activation/deactivation, and font choices for three different systems: Windows, the Mac OS, and the X Window System (Unix).
• Part III deals with the technical use of fonts in two specific cases: the TeX typesetting system (and its successor, W, which the author co-developed) and web pages.
• Part IV describes methods for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini, and Panose-1, which is used by Windows and the CSS standard. Learn about existing tools for creating (or modifying) fonts, including FontLab and FontForge, and become familiar with OpenType properties and AAT fonts.

Nowhere else will you find the valuable technical information on fonts and typography that software developers, web developers, and graphic artists need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.

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Think Like a Data Scientist presents a step-by-step approach to data science, combining analytic, programming, and business perspectives into easy-to-digest techniques and thought processes for solving real world data-centric problems.

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Develop SVG functionality for use within websites quickly and natively, using basic tools such as HTML and CSS. This book is a project-oriented guide to creating and manipulating scalable vector graphics in the browser for websites or online applications, using little more than a text editor or free software, and the power of JavaScript.

You’ll use a starting toolset to incorporate into your existing workflow, develop future projects, and reduce any dependency on graphics applications for simple projects. This book is an excellent resource for getting acquainted with creating and manipulating SVG content.

We live in an age where speed and simplicity are of the essence. Beginning SVG provides a perfect alternative when creating web-based projects that challenges the norm and encourages you to expand your resources and not resort to what “everyone else uses” (such as Illustrator). You’ll discover that there is indeed a different way to achieve the same result. Stop thinking you must always resort to using graphics packages; there is always another way!

What You’ll Learn

• Create powerful, optimized content that can be quickly and easily manipulated within the browser
• Get up to speed with SVG quickly, with minimal effort and maximum results
• See how easy it is to apply SVG content and effects, without the need for lots of additional tools.

Who This Book Is For

Website developers and agile development teams who are keen to learn how to add and manipulate SVG quickly.

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Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is the definitive guide to PowerShell, now revised to cover PowerShell 6.

About the Technology

In 2006, Windows PowerShell reinvented the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. Today, PowerShell is required knowledge for Windows admins and devs. This powerful, dynamic language provides command-line control of the Windows OS and most Windows servers, such as Exchange and SCCM. And because it’s a first-class .NET language, you can build amazing shell scripts and tools without reaching for VB or C#.

About the Book

Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is the definitive guide to PowerShell, now revised to cover PowerShell 6. Written by language designer Bruce Payette and MVP Richard Siddaway, this rich book offers a crystal-clear introduction to the language along with its essential everyday use cases. Beyond the basics, you’ll find detailed examples on deep topics like performance, module architecture, and parallel execution.

What’s Inside

• The best end-to-end coverage of PowerShell available
• Updated with coverage of PowerShell v6
• PowerShell workflows
• PowerShell classes
• Writing modules and scripts
• Desired State Configuration
• Programming APIs and pipelines

About the Reader

Written for intermediate-level developers and administrators.

About the Authors

Bruce Payette is codesigner and principal author of the Power-Shell language. Richard Siddaway is a longtime PowerShell MVP, author, speaker, and blogger.

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Learn the essentials of Scalable Vector Graphics, the mark-up language used by most vector drawing programs and interactive web graphics tools. SVG Essentials takes you through SVG’s capabilities, beginning with simple line drawings and moving through complicated features such as filters, transformations, gradients, and patterns.

This thoroughly updated edition includes expanded coverage of animation, interactive graphics, and scripting SVG. Interactive examples online make it easy for you to experiment with SVG features in your web browser. Geared toward experienced designers, this book also includes appendices that explain basic concepts such as XML markup and CSS styling, so even if you have no web design experience, you can start learning SVG.

• Create and style graphics to match your web design in a way that looks great when printed or displayed on high-resolution screens
• Make your charts and decorative headings accessible to search engines and assistive technologies
• Add artistic effects to your graphics, text, and photographs using SVG masks, filters, and transformations
• Animate graphics with SVG markup, or add interactivity with CSS and JavaScript
• Create SVG from existing vector data or XML data, using programming languages and XSLT

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The cryptic science of Windows Installer can seem far off from the practical task of simply getting something installed. Luckily, we have WiX to simplify the matter. WiX is an XML markup, distributed with an open-source compiler and linker, used to produce a Windows Installer package. It is used by Microsoft and by countless other companies around the world to simplify deployments.

“WiX 3.6: A Developer’s Guide to Windows Installer XML” promises a friendly welcome into the world of Windows Installer. Starting off with a simple, practical example and continuing on with increasingly advanced scenarios, the reader will have a well-rounded education by book’s end .

With the help of this book, you’ll understand your installer better, create it in less time, and save money in the process. No one really wants to devote a lifetime to understanding how to create a hassle-free installer. Learn to build a sophisticated deployment solution targeting the Windows platform in no time with this hands-on practical guide. Here we speed you through the basics and zoom right into the advanced. You’ll get comfortable with components, features, conditions and actions. By the end, you’ll be boasting your latest deployment victories at the local pub.

Once you’ve finished “WiX 3.6: A Developer’s Guide to Windows Installer XML”, you’ll realize just how powerful and awesome an installer can really be.

What you will learn from this book

• Register with Add/Remove Programs and build in a consistent way to uninstall your software.
• Customize an easy to navigate install Wizard.
• Gain an understanding of the order in which events happen during an install and how to hook into this process.
• Learn how WiX builds and links your files into the final MSI package and how to fine tune this process.
• Make your project more modular with Fragments, Components, and ComponentGroups.
• Prevent users from installing your software on unsupported operating systems and introduce other prerequisite checks.
• Install, start, stop, and uninstall Windows services at the time of setup.
• Bootstrap required dependencies before installing your own software.

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Pixel shaders are some of the more powerful graphic tools available for XAML programmers, but shader development bears little resemblance to traditional .NET programming. With this hands-on book, you’ll not only discover how to use existing shaders in your Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight applications, you’ll also learn how create your own effects with XAML and Microsoft’s HLSL shading language.

In the process, you’ll write, compile, and test custom XAML shaders with the Shazzam Shader Editor, a free utility developed by author Walt Ritscher. The book includes XAML and C# sample code, and Shazzam contains all of the sample shaders discussed.

• Learn how shaders help you extend the GPU’s rendering capabilities
• Explore prevailing shader types, such as color modification, blurring, and spatial transformation
• Get a quick tour of the shader features, and use pre-built effects on image elements in your application
• Examine the XAML ShaderEffect class to understand how WPF and Silverlight use shaders
• Learn about the shader-specific tools available in Visual Studio and Expression Blend
• Get up to speed on HLSL basics and learn how to create a variety of graphics effects

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A practical guide to creating and managing your own website with this proven Java/JSP based content management system. This book takes you through the process of creating content rich websites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book does not cover¿extending the operations of OpenCms with¿Java development.¿The focus is on OpenCms as a complete CMS platform in itself. It does use some JSP for extensions where required. This book is for anyone who wants to get an OpenCMS website up and running as quickly as possible, whether you are a user, administrator, designer or webmaster. You do not have to be a Java developer to benefit from this book, although a working knowledge of Java, JSP, and XML will help you to get the most from OpenCMS, and this book.

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WiX is a dialect of XML used to make installers for Windows. Its declarative style avoids the complexity and limitations of procedural code, providing you with everything you need to package up an entire application into a single MSI file.

This book gives you a good overview of WiX’s capabilities to develop your own installer packages with functionalities beyond those available in Windows Installer. In the recipes of this book, you will see ways in which WiX can cut down on your installation time and help you streamline your deployment processes. You will see how to make customized installer UIs, write custom actions, create shortcuts, and also set your application as the default for a file type.

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As software testing is maturing, the focus is shifting towards test automation. The key is to learn and grow skills in framework designing and start contributing to project organization goals.

Through a helpful mix of conceptual and practical aspects, you will learn everything you need to know related to the implementation of frameworks using QTP. Through simple examples, you will gradually develop the skills needed to execute concepts and code blocks used to design and implement the test automation framework.

This tutorial-based guide demonstrates an easy way to implement concepts to create a portable framework across the various versions of QTP. You will learn about the automation lifecycle and gradually develop technical concepts related to each phase. Within a short amount of time, you will be able to deal with challenges in test automation. “Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP” uses a simple, yet elegant approach and gives the reader all the skills and knowledge they need to implement the framework.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the test automation lifecycle, as well as the goals that drive and guide its framework design
• Grasp the basic features of QTP that help in creating frameworks
• Learn about the various goals of each level of framework and how they drive the designing of the framework
• Create basic building block supports
• Understand the types of framework and how to design and use them
• Use Javascript and HTMLDOM effectively
• Capture lessons learnt in framework designing and share those experiences
• Deploy and maintain frameworks
• Build an XPath expression, locate the elements and perform an action on it