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F O N T K A T v 1 . 0
-----------------------
User Reference Guide
FONTKAT automates the process of creating a
catalog of all your WordPerfect fonts.
Requires WordPerfect 6.0 (DOS version).
WordPerfect and WPCorp are registered trademarks of
WordPerfect Corporation.
All files associated with FONTKAT are
Copyright (c) 1994, Alex D. Ogden.
ALL Rights Reserved
Alex D. Ogden
Alex Ogden Software
601 North 18th Street
Blytheville, AR 72315
Orders:
Evening Voice Line 1-501-763-3404
Weekday Voice Line 1-502-763-8916
Fax 1-501-763-2445
CompuServe: 72603,1041
Internet: 72603.1041@CompuServe.Com
FONTKAT v1.0 Page 2 User Reference Guide
Table of Contents
=================
REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
FILES YOU SHOULD HAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
LIMITED USE LICENSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
WARRANTY INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
FONTKAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
WHAT DOES FONTKAT DO? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
QUICK START . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Current Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Text to Use in Sampling Each Font . . . . . . . . . . 9
Font Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mark Fonts to Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Creating the Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Printing Your Font Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Register FONTKAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
TROUBLE-SHOOTER'S GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Copyright (c) 1994 Alex D. Ogden All Rights Reserved
FONTKAT v1.0 Page 3 User Reference Guide
REGISTRATION
============
FONTKAT v1.0 is NOT public domain or "freeware". FONTKAT is
distributed as Shareware. You are permitted to copy this program
and share it unchanged with other WordPerfect users or upload it
to computer bulletin board systems. If you intend to use FONTKAT
beyond an initial trial period of 30 days, you must fill out the
registration form and send it in with the appropriate
registration fee(s). It is the moral and ethical thing to do.
Basic registration for FONTKAT is $20 US, and a variety of
payment methods are accepted including Visa and Mastercard.
Refer to REGISTER.DOC and PRODUCTS.DOC for full details.
Orders outside U.S. & Canada must add $2.50 for shipping.
Send registrations to:
Alex Ogden Software
601 North 18th. Street
Blytheville, AR 72315
You may phone in your credit card order at 1-501-763-8916
(daytime) or 1-501-763-3404 (evenings). You may also fax your
order to us at 1-501-763-2445.
Registered users receive the greatly enhanced registered version
of FONTKAT with registration reminders removed, 2 bonus macros,
free technical support, notification of upgrades, with discounts
for registered users, and a clean conscience, since you will have
paid for software you use.
The enhanced registered version of FONTKAT includes several
additional options for the text to be used in sampling each font
(including multinational character samples), additional options
for marking or unmarking the fonts to be cataloged, a
configuration file to speed things up, the ability to stop the
cataloging process and finish that catalog later, and the ability
to start printing your font catalog as soon as it has been
created. Two additional macro programs are also included.
KATPRINT simplifies the process of printing existing font
catalogs created with FONTKAT. FONTMAP creates a keyboard map to
your international/symbol/dingbat fonts simplifying the use of
such fonts.
Copyright (c) 1994 Alex D. Ogden All Rights Reserved
FONTKAT v1.0 Page 4 User Reference Guide
FILES YOU SHOULD HAVE
---------------------
The following files should be found on the distribution disk or
in the distribution archive for FONTKAT. The date and time stamp
on each file should be the same (8/22/94 and 12:26pm). If any of
these files is missing or has a different time and date stamp,
the package has been tampered with.
FONTKAT1.DOC . . . This file.
PRINTDOC.BAT . . . Batch file to print FONTKAT.DOC.
FONTKAT.WPM . . . Program to create catalogs of WordPerfect
fonts.
INSTALL.WPM . . . Installation macro.
PRODUCTS.DOC . . . Description of other programs from Alex Ogden
Software along with an order form for those
programs.
REGISTER.DOC . . . Order form for registering FONTKAT and other
programs from Alex Ogden Software.
VENDINFO.DIZ . . . File containing extensive information about WP
Booklet for use by bulletin board systems and
shareware distributors.
READ_ME.BAT . . . Batch file to view VENDINFO.DIZ.
FILE_ID.DIZ . . . Description of FONTKAT for BBS systems.
VENDOR.DOC . . . . Stub file pointing vendors to VENDINFO.DIZ.
DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE
-----------------------
Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software
before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue
using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs
differ on details -- some request registration while others
require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With
registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue
using the software to an updated program with printed manual.
Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software,
and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific
exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished
programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are
of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs
and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of
distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy
and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a
specific group. For example, some authors require written
permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their
Shareware.
Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You
Copyright (c) 1994 Alex D. Ogden All Rights Reserved
FONTKAT v1.0 Page 5 User Reference Guide
should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook,
whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes
fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy.
And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware
has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the
product, you don't pay for it.
LIMITED USE LICENSE
-------------------
FONTKAT is NOT a public domain program. It is copyrighted by
Alex Ogden Software. This software and accompanying
documentation are protected by United States copyright law and
also by international treaty provisions.
You are granted a limited license to use this software for
evaluation purposes for a period not to exceed thirty days. If
you continue using this software after the thirty-day evaluation
period, you MUST make a registration payment to Alex Ogden
Software.
You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile,
disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed
program except as provided in this agreement. Any such
unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic
termination of this license. All rights not expressly granted
here are reserved to Alex Ogden Software.
LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
----------------------------
Distribution of the FONTKAT system is permitted only under the
terms of the attacked VENDINFO data record, which is hereby
incorporated by reference. Any distribution satisfying all the
distribution requirements expressed in that data record is hereby
authorized.
Permission to distribute the FONTKAT system is not transferable,
assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor wishing to
distribute the package must independently satisfy the terms of
this limited distribution license.
U.S. Government Information: Use, duplication, or disclosure by
the U.S. Government of the computer software and documentation in
this package shall be subject to the restricted rights applicable
to commercial computer software as set forth in subdivision
(b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software
clause at 252.227-7013 (DFARS 52.227-7013). The
Contractor/manufacturer is Alex D. Ogden, 601 North 18th Street,
Blytheville, AR 72315.
Copyright (c) 1994 Alex D. Ogden All Rights Reserved
FONTKAT v1.0 Page 6 User Reference Guide
Alex D. Ogden may revoke any permissions granted here, by
notifying you in writing. All rights not expressly granted here
are reserved to Alex D. Ogden.
WARRANTY INFORMATION
--------------------
THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE PROVIDED FOR EVALUATION ONLY, ON AN
"AS IS" BASIS. ALEX D. OGDEN DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING
TO THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NEITHER ALEX D. OGDEN NOR ANYONE ELSE
WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF
THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
SUCH SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ALEX D. OGDEN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS. THE PERSON USING THE
SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
SOFTWARE.
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of
Arkansas and shall inure to the benefit of Alex D. Ogden and
any successors, administrators, heirs and assigns. Any action or
proceeding brought by either party against the other arising out
of or related to this agreement shall be brought only in a STATE
or FEDERAL COURT of competent jurisdiction located in Mississippi
County, Arkansas. The parties hereby consent to in personam
jurisdiction of said courts.
Copyright (c) 1994 Alex D. Ogden All Rights Reserved
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INSTALLATION
============
Installation of the files comprising the FONTKAT system is
accomplished by running the INSTALL macro provided. Start
WordPerfect 6.0/DOS as you normally do. From the editing screen
activate INSTALL by pressing Macro (Alt-F10), enter the full path
to INSTALL.WPM, and type INSTALL (for example,
"C:\DOWNLOAD\INSTALL"). The installation program will prompt you
to enter three pieces of information:
1) "Copy the files from:"
This is where the uninstalled files are located. The
default value is A:\. Edit the line as needed to reflect
the full path to the files (such as "D:\DOWNLOAD", for
instance).
2) "Copy macro files to:"
The default value is whatever your current personal macro
directory is set to. You should not need to edit this
line unless you have macros in more than one directory.
3) "Copy documentation to:"
This is where the documentation file, and other related
documents, will be copied to. The default value will be
your current document directory plus "FONTKAT\". Edit
the line if you would like these files copied elsewhere.
NOTE: INSTALL.WPM will NOT be copied to either of these
directories so be sure to keep a backup copy of the
original FONTKAT disk.
FONTKAT
=======
WHAT DOES FONTKAT DO?
---------------------
One of the new features introduced by WordPerfect in version 6.0
for DOS is the ability to handle scalable fonts without relying
upon an external third party program. For the first time many of
us were able to produce documents with class since we no longer
had to rely upon the handful of fonts built into our printers.
Acquiring additional fonts from various outlets, in a short time
the number of fonts I had available was getting into the
hundreds. Soon I was asking myself, "Which font should I use
in this situation? Is this the font which looked good on screen
but terrible when printed? What does this font REALLY look
like?"
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FONTKAT is designed to create a custom catalog of your fonts.
With the printed catalog showing samples of all your fonts you
will be able to quickly and easily choose the font which is just
right for the job at hand.
QUICK START
-----------
In the next section I will explain in detail all options found on
the various menus. Assuming you can figure those things out for
yourself, here is a quick run down of what is necessary to
produce a catalog of all your fonts.
From the Main Menu of FONTKAT select the text and point size you
want to use in producing the font samples. Select "Mark Fonts to
Catalog" and mark those fonts you want included in this catalog
and select OK. Now from the Main Menu select "Create Catalog".
FONTKAT will prompt you to enter a filename to use in saving the
finished catalog. Once you've entered the filename, FONTKAT will
go into action creating the font catalog.
When done FONTKAT will give you a brief report of the font
catalog just created. After giving you instructions on how to
print your font catalog, FONTKAT will leave you with the first
file comprising the catalog displayed on screen.
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS
---------------------
Using FONTKAT should be relatively easy and self-explanatory.
However, I will proceed to explain as thoroughly as possible the
workings of the program to avoid any problems. In addition to
these notes don't forget that there is help available from within
FONTKAT.
Activate FONTKAT as you would any WordPerfect macro. From the
main editing screen press Macro (Alt-F10) and enter "FONTKAT".
First, FONTKAT goes through an initialization process which will
take a few seconds. FONTKAT will need to capture the names of
all your fonts so you can select which ones you want to catalog.
Once the initialization process has completed the Main Menu will
appear. It is divided into three sections:
Current Printer
---------------
The currently active printer is listed along with the total
number of fonts you have marked to be cataloged and the total
number of fonts available for this printer. This section is
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for information purposes only.
Text to Use in Sampling Each Font
---------------------------------
There are two ways provided to sample each font. Options 1
and 2 are mutually exclusive meaning when you select one of
these options the other will automatically become unselected.
1) You can have the font name itself to be the text to use
in illustrating the font. This is the default and what
many will be satisfied with.
Example:
Dutch 801 Roman (Speedo)
2) You can have a short phrase followed by the font name
illustrating the font. In this shareware version of
FONTKAT the setting for the short text is "This is a
sample of ". In the registered version of FONTKAT if you
select this option you will then have the ability to
customize the text FONTKAT will use if desired.
Example:
This is a sample of Dutch 801 Roman (Speedo)
Additional text options are available to registered users
including using the alphabet or one of more than 30 phrases
provided or even entering your own custom phrase for the font
samples. Among the phrases available is also the choice of a
sample of the multinational character set.
Font Options
------------
This section presents various options dealing with the fonts
themselves. The default size for the font samples is 12
point. If you would like the samples to be of some other
size, change this setting as needed.
"Mark Fonts to Catalog" presents you with a list of your
fonts on screen. You mark the fonts you want to catalog by
selecting the letter associated with the font, by pressing
the TAB key to highlight the desired font and then pressing
the SPACE bar, or by selecting one of the marking or
unmarking commands on the left side of the screen. These
include marking all the fonts at one time or marking only the
current page of fonts. The registered version of FONTKAT has
additional options for marking and unmarking fonts including
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marking or unmarking by type (TT, Type 1, Speedo) or by text
pattern. Once you have marked the fonts you want to catalog
click on OK.
Creating the Catalog
--------------------
Once you have marked the fonts to include in the catalog, the
"Create Catalog" option will become available at the bottom of
the screen on the Main Menu. When you select it FONTKAT will
prompt you for a filename to use in saving your font catalog.
Due to limitations imposed by WordPerfect itself and to insure
that everything stays under control, FONTKAT will save small
groups of your fonts to separate files. The actual number of
fonts in the individual files will vary due to the type of font
samples being created and because FONTKAT will end one file and
begin the next at the end of the last full page of font samples.
These individual catalog segment files will be given the filename
you enter with the file extension of ".Sxx", where xx is the
number of the "S"egment file. If you used the default FONTKAT
filename then there may be FONTKAT.S01, FONTKAT.S02, FONTKAT.S03
and so on. These files are saved in your default document
directory.
During the cataloging process FONTKAT will change the Display
Mode of WordPerfect to Text, if it isn't already set to Text.
Tests have shown a remarkable increase in speed if in Text mode,
so FONTKAT changes to Text Mode automatically. When done the
original Display Mode will be restored.
A box will be display on screen during the cataloging process
showing the progress being made. The font currently being
cataloged is listed along with a bar at the bottom showing the
percent completed. Also shown, and updated after each font, is
the elapsed time thus far along with the average time per font
that the cataloging process is taking. Scalable fonts of type
Speedo, TT or Type 1 will take less time to catalog than will
native printer fonts.
During the cataloging process you can press the ESC key and halt
the process. You will be given the option of completely
canceling the current catalog or resuming the current run. The
registered version of FONTKAT also provides you with the option
of stopping the current catalog and saving information in a
configuration file so the catalog can be finished later.
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Printing Your Font Catalog
--------------------------
When done FONTKAT will give you a brief report of the font
catalog just created. Once you press the ENTER key FONTKAT will
display a brief message telling you how to print your font
catalog.
Once you have everything ready to print your font catalog, you
may either select "Document on Disk", from the Print/Fax menu,
and enter the filename for the font catalog, or if there is more
than one file making up the font catalog you can mark the files
to be printed in the File Manager. To do so press F5 followed by
ENTER. Cursor down to the files comprising your font catalog and
mark them by pressing the SPACE bar. Once the files have been
marked, select "Print..." and answer YES to the prompt. Your
font catalog should then begin to print.
The registered version of FONTKAT includes a facility to print
your catalog for you. Also included is a special program,
KATPRINT, which handles printing existing font catalogs created
with FONTKAT.
Register FONTKAT
----------------
Once you have decided to register FONTKAT simply select "Register
FONTKAT" from the Main Menu and you can fill out the registration
form online. When done the registration form will be ready for
you to print out and mail or fax. Refer to the file REGISTER.DOC
for full information pertaining to registration.
TROUBLE-SHOOTER'S GUIDE
=======================
1) FONTKAT is well into creating a large catalog using text
option 3 or 4 when my computer simply locks up, or a QEMM
exception 13 error occurs, for no apparent reason. What's wrong
and what can I do?
First, the QEMM exception 13 error is QEMM's assessment that an
illegal memory call has occurred, and it is generally instead of
a lockup with EMM386/HIMEM. It allows you to choose to either
terminate the software or reboot, although sometimes you don't
have a choice, and must reboot.
So far, we suspect either a bug in WordPerfect 6.0b or a conflict
with a TSR or driver program. Updates or workarounds will be
available free to registered users once more is known about the
problem.
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If this problem should arise, try cataloging small groups of
fonts at a time, of no more than 80% of the count when the crash
occurred.
2) Occassionally part of a font sample ends up printing in
another font. What's going on??
The problem is not with FONTKAT but apparently a character
mapping problem in your printer driver. I would suggest you
report the driver bug to WordPerfect at their regular help lines.
They will advise you on obtaining an updated printer driver.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
================
Alex Ogden is a full time minister of the gospel. He has
preached in 10 states and has made 2 preaching trips to Jamaica.
He currently works with the Main & 13th Streets Church of Christ
in Blytheville, Arkansas.
He purchased his first computer in 1987 (an AMSTRAD PCW-8256).
He taught himself how to write programs on the computer which
would be useful to him in his work. In 1990 he acquired his
first IBM compatible computer (an XT!). He currently uses a
25MHZ 486 based computer with a Panasonic KX-P1624 printer (wide
carriage dot matrix).
Through study of macros others have written for WordPerfect DOS
and study of the WordPerfect manual itself, he taught himself how
to write macro programs for WordPerfect. His first contribution
to the shareware world, the WP Booklet System, is in wide use
among WordPerfect 5.1 DOS users.
Copyright (c) 1994 Alex D. Ogden All Rights Reserved