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- @HEADLINE = SoftCraft's Font Editor
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- @BYLINE = Publisher Information Service
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- @BYLINE = (312)-342-6919
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- @BYLINE = "When you're SERIOUS about your documents"
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- @FIRSTPAR = With our newfound ability to utilize numerous laser printer
- fonts in Desktop Publishing packages coupled with the power of the
- laser printer has come the need to alter these fonts to suit custom
- needs and requirements. A new breed of software has made its mark
- on the PC horizon - the Font Editor.
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- SoftCraft, Inc. of Madison, Wis has been offering the PC user high
- quality fonts and font utilities since before most of us ever hear
- the term "Desktop Publishing" and is well know amongst business and
- word processing users for its Fancy Font and Fancy Word add on packages
- for laser printers. Now they have done the same for the need to edit
- and custom design laser printer fonts. The result is the SoftCraft
- Font Editor.
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- The SoftCraft Font Editor will allow you to create your own fonts
- and also alter existing ones with ease. The versatile program also
- allows you to create logos and special symbols. Creating logos or
- letterheads, accented characters, special symbols, foreign lanauges
- characters or virtually any other characters is easily accomplished
- with this Font Editor since it uses your computer's graphics mode
- to provide you with a powerful yet easy-to-use mouse and menu driven
- tools for editing fonts. The SoftCraft Font Editor also provides the
- user with the ability to zoom in and out and display up to five different
- windows during font editing. The windows can have a different character
- or can also contain an alternate view of a character being edited. The
- Font Editor is also provided with a set of built in tools to edit
- existing characters or create new news. You may create entirely new
- fonts, or simply replace characters in an existing font.
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- @HEADLINE 1L = Compatibility
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- SoftCraft's Font Editor works with fonts in HP soft format, as well
- as SoftCraft font format for laser and dot matrix printers. The Editor
- also has the ability to convert between various font formats and can
- contain up to 256 characters. A character or logo can be up to 800
- pixels wide and 600 pixels long (2.6 by 2 inches on a standard laser
- printer). Font Editor can also be used to edut digitized images from
- scanners, as well as pictures created in .PCX format (PC Paintbrush/Publishers
- Paintbrush) as well as operating harmoniously with MicroSoft Word
- via Fancy Font and Fancy Word.
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- @HEADLINE 1L =
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- <B>Some of the Editing Tool<D>s:
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- @BULLET = Lines (multi segment of specified thickness)
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- @BULLET = Curves (smooth curves of specified thickness)
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- @BULLET = Circles
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- @BULLET = Elipses
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- @BULLET = Boxes and Rectangles
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- @BULLET = Fill (fill an enclosed area with ink - to make a rounded
- bullet draw a circle and then fill it)
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- @BULLET = Rotate Mirror objects around horizontal and vertical axis
- 90 ti 180 degrees
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- @BULLET = Enlarge to 800 by 600 pixels
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- @BULLET = Reduce Inverse of Enlarge
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- @BULLET = Slant Slant characters left or right for oblique effects
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- @BULLET = Copy/Move Copy or move a portion of a char or logo from
- one window to another. Useful for creating accented characters -
- ligatures or characters with common components
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- @BULLET = Invert Invert a char or image
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- @BULLET = Embolden
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- @BULLET = Font Editor Contents:
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- @BULLET = The System Contains:
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- @HEADLINE 1L = SCFE:SoftCraft Font Editor Program
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- Sample Font: Times 12 pt
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- CFONT: Font creation program. Thie will allow you to create new fonts
- using characters selected from the Hershey database. Characters can
- be scaled to any size up to the max size allowed by your printer.
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- Hershey Database: Over 1500 chars and symbols that can be scaled and
- combined into new fonts with Cfont. Styles include Roman, Sans Serif,
- Greek, Cyrillic, Math, Astrological, Music and more.
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- SCTOHP: A package that automatically converst SoftCraft fonts to HP
- soft font file format (portrait and landscape) which allows you to
- use SoftCraft fonts with any HP soft font format.
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- HPTOSC: Converts HP to SoftCraft format
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- Users Manual: A 100 page manual including a quick start section as
- well as an abundance of visual and written examples.
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- SoftCraft News: A subscription to SoftCraft's monthly newsletter.
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- Support: Free Phone Support
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- @LASTPAR = The SoftCraft Font Editor is quite easy to use and its
- versatilify is quite handy to have in your toolbox when you need those
- special laser printer fonts. As an add on for the Desktop Publisher
- this one is highly valuable for the LaserJet User.
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