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Printer's Apprentice 6.1 - "The easy way to look at your fonts!"
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Lose Your Mind Development
Post Office Box 302
Haverford, PA 19041-0302
email: 70564.2372@compuserve.com
Support: (610) 645-0749 (evenings, EST)
Orders: (217) 535-1000 (product #8255, VISA/MC)
Compuserve online registration: GO SWREG, product #5357
"Printer's Apprentice takes the lead over competing font
management tools such as Ares' Font Minder... Printer's
Apprentice should be at the top of your list."
-PC Magazine
October 24, 1995
"Virtually every user can benefit from Printer's Apprentice."
-PC/Computing
April 1993
"The best-designed Windows font viewer for all font formats..."
-PC Magazine
October 27, 1992
Thanks you for taking the time to look at Printer's Apprentice 6.1. This
file contains information about this package, what it does, and
what the system requirements are.
Instructions for quickly installing Printer's Apprentice 6.1 are also
included. The manual for Printer's Apprentice is contained in an online
help file (pa.hlp).
Q. What is Printer's Apprentice?
A. Printer's Apprentice is a font management utility for Windows
3.1 and Windows95. It helps you manage all your TrueType
and Adobe Type 1 fonts by printing font listings, character charts,
keyboard layouts, and font sample sheets.
Printer's Apprentice is a great addition to the font CD-ROMs found
in many software shops. The Printer's Apprentice Font Install Wizard
lets you look at TrueType fonts BEFORE you install them! You can
even print a catalog of fonts from a CD/floppy/hard drive without
installing or copying a single file!
The Printer's Apprentice User's Guide is a full featured, context
sensitive Windows help file. A printed User's Guide is available
upon registration.
Q. What are the system requirements?
A. Printer's Apprentice 6.1 will run on any PC running Windows 3.1,
Windows 3.11, or Windows 95. We recommend at least a 386 with
4 megs of memory. Printing functions will work on any printer,
but we recommend a laser printer for acceptable quality.
This software also requires a copy of VBRUN300.DLL. This DLL can
be found on many BBS systems. It can also be found on Compuserve
in the DTPFORUM, library 6, VBRUN3.ZIP.
Q. What about Windows95?
Printer's Apprentice does work with Windows95. All functions, including
font printing, previewing and installation work with the new operating
system. Version 6.1 of this software (what you have in your hands!) was
released to solve a few minor problems that 6.0 had with Windows95.
Version 6.0 did work under Windows95, but the font install and uninstall
functions did not work. This release fixes those problems.
We are currently working on an upgrade for Printer's Apprentice.
The package is tentativly titled "Printer's Apprentice 32." This
release will be a "Designed for Windows95" application. It is being
100% rewritten as a 32 bit program for maximum speed and power! PA 32
*will* require Windows95 or WindowsNT.
When you register your copy of 6.1, you will be placed on the mailing
list and will be notified when the new version is available. We expect
the software to be ready by the end of February.
Q. What's New with 6.0 & 6.1?
A. 6.0 adds Wizards for installing, uninstalling, and printing
TrueType fonts. There is also a resource Wizard that searches your
windows\system directory for unused font FOT files that take up
precious hard drive space. Printer's Apprentice can preview and
print uninstalled fonts (through the Wizards). This version is
also faster and takes up fewer system resources.
6.1 is a minor release meant to fix some incompatabilities
with Windows95. Printer's Apprentice 6.1 is smart enough to
determine which version of Windows you are running and make
appropriate changes to your WIN.INI or registry file when
fonts are installed or uninstalled.
Q. How do I quickly install Printer's Apprentice?
A. Unzip the distribution ZIP file to a new diskette or directory
and run SETUP.EXE. The installation program copies the files
files to your hard drive and creates a Program Manager icon
for Printer's Apprentice. By default, the Printer's Apprentice
icon will be placed in the Accessories group.
If you are running Windows95, setup will create a Start menu item
in the Accessories group.
Q. I purchased and earlier version of Printer's Apprentice. Will
my registration password still work?
A. The registration password you received with the diskette will
work with this and all future versions of Printer's Apprentice.
Q. How do I remove the program if I need more space on my machine?
A. There is a file named INSTALL.LOG located in the PA directory. This
lists out *every* file and Program Manager group added to your system.
You can use this file to track down the EXE, VBX, and DLL files
used by Printer's Apprentice.
Be aware, however, that other programs on your system may rely on
the support VBX and DLL files used by Printer's Apprentice. This
is especially true if you are an active user of many shareware
programs. For example, lots of commercial and shareware packages
use the THREED.VBX library. If you delete this from your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, you might get a <FILE NOT FOUND> error
when you try to run a program that uses this DLL.
Q. How do I purchase this program?
A. We offer three easy payment options. Prices are listed below.
1. Phone - For quick orders over the phone with a credit card, please call
(217) 535-1000. You will speak with KeyData Specialists, a group
that handles credit orders for us. A charge from KeyData will appear
on your monthly credit statement from your bank. Order lines are open
8am - 5pm Central Standard Time.
2. Mail - Please enclose a check or your VISA/MC number and send to
Lose Your Mind Development, PO Box 302, Haverford, PA 19041-0302.
If you are paying via credit card, a charge from KeyData Specialists
will appear on your statement. Please make checks payble to
"Lose Your Mind Development" (believe me, the bank takes them with that
business name!). Please take the time to fill out the order form. The
order form can be printed from the PA.HLP file. You need to install
Printer's Apprentice first, access the PA.HLP file, and jump to the
topic "Order Form."
3. Online - Compuserve users can order online via the Shareware
Registration forum. GO SWREG to access the service. The charge will
appear on your bill with the rest of your Compuserve charges.
For foreign orders, please use a credit card, postal money order or a
bank check drawn on US dollars. Pricing is as follows.
Domestic United States:
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1 copy of Printer's Apprentice, with 30 page users guide $25
Canadian, Foreign orders, Europe, the world outside of the US
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1 copy of Printer's Apprentice $25
Please make checks payable to "Lose Your Mind Development"
Q. What is the upgrade policy?
A. When you register, I will send you a registration code, a diskette
and a license card. Upon release of major upgrades, I will notify
you with a post card. Upgrades run between $5-$10 to cover the cost
of mailing, diskettes, and duplication. The registration codeword
will always work for future versions of the product.
Q. Printer's Apprentice seems to install OK, but when I try to run it,
I get a "<filename>.VBX is out of date" error. What is the problem?
A. This is common for programs written in Visual Basic and Visual C++.
VBX files are like DLL's. They are files with common routines used by
many programs. "Out of Date" errors and other problems with VBX files
are often caused by two problems.
1. Version Control
Just like end-user software packages, VBX's are always being improved.
Setup programs are supposed to check versions before installing a
VBX/DLL file over one that is already on your computer. But this is
not always the case.
2. Duplicate Files
VBX files are supposed to be placed in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory by
setup programs, but not everyone does this. Many times you will have
duplicate copies of the same VBX in both your WINDOWS and your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
The installation program used by Printer's Apprentice makes every effort
to ensure the correct VBX files are placed in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory. However, if you already have an older copy of a VBX file in
your WINDOWS directory, the setup program may not be able to detect it.
So when PrinterÆs Apprentice loads, it may see the older VBX in your
WINDOWS directory instead of the newer one that shipped with PA and was
placed in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. (Got all that?) This is when you
get the "out of date" errors.
The situation is easy, but tedious to fix.
1. Search your hard drive for every copy of the VBX file that is
giving you errors.
2. If you have only one copy of that VBX file, then a recently installed
software package copied it's older version of the VBX over the newer
version that shipped with Printer's Apprentice.
a. Move the older VBX file to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory
b. Rerun the Printer's Apprentice installation program.
3. If you have multiple copies of the same VBX file (for example, one in
windows and one in windows\system), then you need to figure out which is
the most recent version and move it to the windows\system directory.
a. Use the Windows 3.11 File Manager to find out which copy has
the most recent version number. Select the file and press
ALT-ENTER to see the file's properties.
b. Move the most recent one to the windows\system directory.
c. Move the older version off your computer to a floppy disk.
- if you donÆt have the Windows 3.11 File Manager -
a. Move all the duplicate copies of the VBX file to floppies.
b. Rerun the Printer's Apprentice installation program.
Generally, you should only have one copy of each VBX file needed by your
software programs. The VBX files should all be in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory so installation programs don't stumble...
This problem does not just happen to Printer's Apprentice!
Lose Your Mind Development distributes a program called VersionViewer
for inspecting the version resources of executables, DLL's, VBX's,
and drivers. See the help file for more information on this wonderful
program!
Other Information
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Many software programs are written using third party programming tools.
Printer's Apprentice is no exception. The following libraries were used
to build PA.
File Version Company/Author
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cbk.vbx 2.00$ Desaware, Inc.
cmdialog.vbx 3.00 Microsoft
grid.vbx 3.00.0537 Microsoft
keystat.vbx 02.0.9000.1 Microsoft
ss3d2.vbx <not marked> Sheridan Software
ssformfx.vbx 1.0.0.3 Sheridan Software
ssidxtab.vbx 1.0.0.3 Sheridan Software
threed.vbx 3.0.0.0 Microsoft/Sheridan
tooltips.vbx 2.0.0.0 James F. Lamb
dwspydll.dll 2.00$ Desaware, Inc.
(c) copyright 1991-1995 by Bryan T. Kinkel