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Fonts
The Fonts tab sheet

This sheet is surely the most important of them all. It holds your list of fonts and the sample-window.

To select a font from the list, simply click on the name. The samplewindow reflects the fontchange immediately.

You can also view the standard Windows 95 sample (using the fontview.exe program) by right-clicking a font and choose 'View Font' from the popup-menu. If you want to print a sample of the font, right-click and choose 'Print Font' instead.

In the samplewindow, you can choose to have the text written with Bold, Italic or Underlined. Just click the appropriate character (B, I or U). As default, FontSelector has five different texts. If you want to change the sampletext, click on "Change Text" and a menu pops up with the different choices.

It's possible to write your own text in the samplewindow. Right-click in it and choose "Select All" from the menu. Now press Del on your keyboard. You're now ready to type in your own text. You can also paste some text in this window. Right-click and select paste from the menu. If the item is disabled, you have no text in your clipboard. After you have written your own text, you can try to click on the "Change Text". The selected item is the "Custom Text"-item, which means you're not using one of the five default texts. When you close the program, your entered text is saved for later use.


Information
The Information tab sheet

This tab gives your extended information about the selected font.

In the top, you'll see the name of the font drawn using the font itself. If you're viewing a font with no normal characters (e.g. 'Symbols'), you can read the name of the font below the rendered one.

In the Full Names combobox, you'll see all the different names associated with the selected font, e.g. Arial Bold and Arial Italic.

A font may contain multiple scripts. You'll see them all in the Scripts combobox.

You'll also have the possibility to view all characters in the font. By moving the character scrollbar left or right, you can find all 256 characters in the font. In the lower right of the characterwindow, you'll see the ASCII-value. If you find a character you want to use in the sampletext, but can't find it on the keyboard, note the ASCII-value. Switch to the samplewindow, press and hold ALT while tapping 00 and the ASCII-value for the character.

If you want to change the size of the view character, just use the scrollbar above the character window. Minimum value is 10 points and maximum value is 144 points.


Options
The Options tab sheet

In this sheet, it's possible to change e.g. color- and size of the sample text.

There's three groupboxes on this tab:

Selector (options related to the list of fonts on the Fonts-tab)

Sample (options related to the sample text on the Fonts-tab)

Other (options related to the general view of the program)

Selector GroupBox

You can view the list of fonts in two different modes.

The first mode, is just a list of all your fontnames, written in a standard MS Sans Serif font.

The second (default) mode, is also a list of all your fonts, but the fontnames are drawn using the font itself.

You can select which fontsize to use in the Selector. Click this combobox and select a default size or simply type in the size you want. The default size for the Selector is 14 and it will be used, if you type in a invalid number (e.g. a text string).

Sample GroupBox

In this box, you can select the size of the font used, when viewing a sample of a selected font. You can enter a size of your choice or select some of the standard sizes for truetype fonts, by clicking on the down-arrow in the combo-box. Default size is 24.

If you want to change the textcolor of the sample, click the colorbutton and select a color from the upcomming colorpalette. Default color is Black.

You can remove the horizontal scrollbar from the sample-window by unchecking the "Horizontal scrollbar"-checkbox. Default is set.

Other GroupBox

The settings in this box are related to the general view of FontSelector.

There's four checkboxes:

Show window on Top

   If you want to keep FontSelector on top of all open windows, check this box.

Minimize to tray

  Instead of minimizing the program to the taskbar a little icon will be shown in the traybar (near the clock). To open the window again, double-click the icon.

Show hints

   When placing your mouse-cursor above controls a little hint is shown in the statusbar (below in the window). If you don't want that, uncheck this box.

Show About tab

   The first couple of times, you're using FontSelector, you might want to check who's the author, where you can get new releases, etc. After some time, you might want to hide the About-tab and it's done by unchecking this box.


About
The About tab sheet

This is just information about the author (me :)

If you click on the homepage URL, you'll jump to the FontSelector homepage on the .net. Use this option, if you want to check for new versions.

If you want to email me a message, click on the email-address. I really appreciate if you write me a message - even though it's about bugs ;)

The last URL is for another product of mine: FontLister. It's an advanced FontManager. Check it out!

FontSelector homepage

  http://www.conquerware.dk/fs.htm

FontLister homepage

  http://www.conquerware.dk/fl.htm

Peter Theill's E-Mail

  peter@conquerware.dk


Introduction

I've tried to make this program as simple and fast as possible. If you just want to browse your fonts, use first tab. Second tab shows a little information about the selected font. If you want to change some of the program settings, click third-tab and finally, if you want to know where you can get the newest release or who to contact me, click fourth tab.

Another nice thing to know: You can always roll up your window by clicking the up arrow located in the top right corner of the window (near the standard Close [x]). To roll the window down again, simply click on it one more time. By using these rollup and rolldown buttons, FontSelector is able to take up a minimum of space on your desktop.

To get a more in-depth description of the tabs, read these:

The Fonts tab

The Information tab

The Options tab

The About tab

Notice: I've made another program called FontLister. FontLister is an advanced font manager for Windows 95/98. You can view uninstalled fonts (e.g. from a CD-ROM), install fonts to your standard Fonts Folder or just as a 'link', print several different sheets of your fonts, get detailed description of every font (e.g. width, height, type). FontLister only costs $5 and is available for download at: http://www.conquerware.dk/fl.htm. If you want more information, check it out. You're also able to download the old freeware version of FontLister (version 2.0) from this page.


What is FontSelector?

FontSelector is a simple freeware font viewer for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0. It gives you a fast and easy way to browse and print all your installed fonts.