Managing photo book fonts

Hi
This topic may not be in the posted in the best discussion, please let me know if I should post elsewhere, thanks!
I am in the process of editing a book together, I have applied font attributes as I like i.e. bold, colour, size. This has lead to the inclusion of several different styles of text.
What is the best way to manage these styles so I could copy/apply them to future similar books? I'm guessing 'Font Book' is the key here, but how do I use it? - Where's the manual?! What is the difference between libraries & collections etc.? Any tips, links greatly appreciated!
TIA Steve

You certainly can set up a collection of Favorites in Font Book. But I'm not aware any way of setting up a way of applying a set of fonts and styles to a book except to go into the Setting pane when you first enter the book mode and set them there.
You might ask your Font Book question in the Tiger forum - Using OS X Tiger. There are some Font Book threads in there.
Just found out where the settings for the books are recorded by iPhoto. It's in the Library.iPhoto file. Each book will have all of the info recorded for it. However, the info will not be there until you create the book. The it will be in that file with the default fonts listed. The following is some of the content for a book with Blacklight as the font:
Album 1 BookÜì°ìÑûù£íÅõ?,ÆúgÜÜÜì?ì?ìÑööBookDataÜìÑóíìÑöö'CoverHeightÜìÑûùÑÑf±ÅdÜìÑööVer sionÜìÑöö50ÜìÑööDefaultZoomLevelÜìÑûùÅ§±ÜìÑöö
TextStylesÜìÑóíìÑööRule2ÜìÑööDCover Subtitle,BlacklightD,
16.000000,27.000000,BlackColor,Center,TopÜìÑööRule4ÜìÑöö:Paragraphs,BlacklightD,
12.000000,20.000000,BlackColor,,TopÜìÑööPageNumberStyleÜìÑöö@Page Numbers,ArialMT,
12.000000,9.000000,BlackColor,Center,BottomÜìÑööRule1ÜìÑööACover Title,BlacklightD,
28.000000,48.000000,BlackColor,Center,TopÜìÑööRule5ÜìÑöö@Photo Titles,BlacklightD,10.000000,17.000000
I had to make some changes so the content would show properly.

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Please...I am seeking an answer that is something more substantial than just the 'it will match' answer I have seen most people get to this question.
As it appears censorship runs rampant hereabouts, I'll repeat: Larry...leave it alone....move on to another post. Let someone else answer.
Sorry that you do not want the only answer that IF you do the preview correctly (and were given the link to the correct method) that is is unconditionally guaranteed to match - which is the correct answer - and pretty simple to most people.
And note that While you think you are REALLY BIG STUFF - it is too bad that you simply can not understand simple and correct answers - and that your only way of expressing your limited intellect is to post personal attacks - that is HIGHLY inappropriate
And it is really interesting to see that you have only had TWO (2) post in history and in both you are nasty and make personal attacks against the people who are taking their personal time to help you out of your lack of understanding simple things
Have a great retirement - it does not seem to be agreeing with you (or maybe that is why you are retired)
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2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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