Phase 1/phase1.bin/Utilities/AdobeView/Instructions

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Please Note...

When Adobe Viewer is up an running, you will be presented
with a file requester. Basically Adobe Viewer needs to
access a data file called MI-AdobeLib.001. You can either
access it by clicking through the buttons/devices or you
can type the following into the dialog box near the bottom
of the requester...

"EMC_Phase1:Utilities/AdobeViewer" (without the quotes)

and then clicking on the MI-AdobeLib.001 file.

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About the Adobe Screen Font Catalog

The file "MI-AdobeLib.001" contains information as well as
a viewable graphic for all Adobe fonts, volumes 1-199.
This information can be viewed using the utility
"LibViewer", included in this archive.
The LibViewer will load the entire Library file (600K)
into memory, if available, or will create an index from
the Library and read in information one font at a time. It
will then allow you to preview samples of all the Abobe
fonts via a simple, scollable list system.

Although the Library and Viewer are intended as a
reference tool for those interested in purchasing Mirror
Image's Adobe Screen Font Collection (for use with our
font conversion/management package, MIfont), they can be
used simply as an Adobe Font Reference Guide for anyone
interested in Adobe fonts.

The Library and Viewer are © Copyright 1991, Mirror Image
Productions, but may be reproduced and distributed freely
as long as the Library, Viewer and this document are
included in the distribution. No fee is required (a small
donation to a struggling software house (namely us!) would
unlikely be refused, however!:)

All font depictions in the Library were created using
Adobe screen fonts converted from the Mac to the Amiga
with MIfont. The names of the fonts are their full, TRUE
PostScript names, derived from their original Mac files
via software (so there are no spelling mistakes!).
The "LibViewer" was conceived and written by Gary
Brusanowski under GFA Basic 3.1E.

How to use the LibViewer

The utility "LibViewer" essentially allows you to VERY
quickly take a look at any of the 971 Adobe screen fonts
currently available from Mirror Image.
The LibViewer wil load the entire library file (all 600+K
of it!) into memory if you have enough, or will read
individual font entries from the library while still on
disk if you don't (this is fast enough, but not as fast as
having it all in memory!). You should NOT try to load the
library from a floppy if you don't have to, as this will
likely take forever.

Most of the LibViewer is fairly self-explanatory, once you
get into it.
Please note that any information about disk space, point
sizes and the like refer to what you'll get when you
convert the screen fonts with MIfont. For instance, the
line "Total Disk Space: 32145" means that that is how much
disk space, in bytes, is occupied by the converted font's
bitmaps plus PPage metric file.

Along the left is the List Box. You can choose which font
to display by clicking on their names (you can hold down
the mouse button and scroll around if you wish). As well,
you can navigate the list by using the 6 buttons above and
below it (these buttons have keyboard equivalents; just
press the on-screen "Help" gadget for more information).

By the way, the reason the buttons "Top" and "Bottom" are
backwards to where you might expect to find them is: if
you go to the top of the list with the "Top" button, what
is the first thing you'll likely want to do next? Go DOWN
the list!, and the Pg Dwn and Scroll Down buttons are
right there. Make sense? I thought so.

The List Box can be sorted one of two ways: alphabetically
and by Disk # (the default is alphabetically). The button
marked "Sorted by..." will tell you which way the list is
currently sorted.
If you click that button, it will change to "Sorted by
Disk" and the list will re-sort itself, so that all fonts
are arranged as per how they are arranged in our screen
font library. As well in this mode, a scrolling brace down
the right side of this list shows you the disk
separations.
In alphabetic mode, you can jump to the first entry
starting with any alphabetic key you hit on the keyboard.
In both modes, you can jump to the next or last block in
the list with the plus or minus keys (a "block" in "Sorted
by Name" mode is any group of fonts starting with the same
letter; in "Sorted by Disk" mode, a "block" is defined as
any group of fonts belonging to the same disk in our
collection).
The list of buttons along the bottom operate in two
different ways. If in "Sorted by Name" mode, clicking a
button will take you to the first font starting with the
letter in the button (if the button is not reversed, there
are no fonts that start with that letter). If in "Sorted
by Disk" mode, clicking a button will will take you to the
first font of the Disk # shown in the box ("Disk 0" fonts
are supplied free with MIfont; the button marked "MI"
refers to the "core fonts" which are supplied free on the
actual MIfont program disk).

If you want to keep track of disks as you move through the
catalog in "Sorted by Disk" mode (for ordering disks from
us), just hit the "Mark/Unmark" button and the disk button
will reverse (hit it again to make it go back to normal).

That's about it.

If you have any questions, comments or would like to order
any of our software (including the Adobe Screen Font
Collection), call Mirror Image Productions at (416)
495-7469 during regular business hours or leave me some
email on CompuServe (Gary Brusanowski, 70304,2516).


Mirror Image Productions
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Scarborough, Ontario, CANADA
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