When you start Font Finder you will see a splash screen with the name and logo. Click 窶楼K窶 to continue without registering or click 窶漏egister窶 for information on registering. If you click 窶楼K窶, the Font Finder and Converter windows will appear:
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Everything should be self-explanatory. If you need help, turn on balloon help. (The upper right corner of the menu bar has a question-mark icon. Hold that down and select 窶牢how Balloons.窶)
**New Feature--clicking on the style buttons changes the appearance of the table of characters as well as the Sample text.
To add a character to Title Builder, simply double-click it. The Title Builder window will let you select, copy, paste, and clear. If you have copied a phrase from another program and need to insert a special character, click in the Title Builder window and paste. Put the cursor at the point in the text you want to insert the character. Once you are satisfied with your title, click the 窶呂opy窶 button and return to your program. The title is in the clipboard for pasting into your document.
Font Finder supports Drag and Drop to make it easier to work with Title Builder. Simply drop the text you want to edit into the Title Builder window and then drag it to either the desktop or your document.
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The Converter is divided into two parts. The top half automatically converts from one measurement to another. Enter a value in any of the four windows, press Tab or Return and the other three values automatically calculate. The bottom half is equally simple. Enter either a numerator or denominator in the fraction, Tab or Return, and the decimal value is automatically calculated.
**NOTE for web page developers: points and pixels are the same. Converter can help you design your web pages.
Special Characters
It is important to note that fonts differ in the display of special characters. Not all fonts will display the character 窶伉ｮ窶 when you press Opt r. Some special characters within a font will change with different point sizes. For example, in the Geneva font a capital, umlauted Y (ﾅｸ), ASCII code 217, keystrokes Opt u Shift Y, show assorted animals:
Points Character Shown
10, 20 ﾅｸ, ﾅｸ (an animal to some)
12, 24 ﾅｸ, ﾅｸ
14 ﾅｸ
18 ﾅｸ
all other sizes ﾅｸ
In addition, different dialects will change the special characters. Apple changes a computer窶冱 dialect by substituting different versions of standard fonts (like Geneva). To see the substitutions, switch to the installed dialect and scroll through Geneva. You will see the characters and how to type them. Make sure your special characters stay the same when you change sizes, fonts and dialects.
