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- ║ T T F 2 F S C 2.0ß ║
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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ A Shareware Windows True Type Font converter to Series-3 and Series-3a │
- │ FSC font file │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- (c) Copyright 1994 - Marco Aicardi
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- ╓───────────╖
- ───────────────────────────────╢ SHAREWARE ╟──────────────────────────────────
- ╙───────────╜
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- TTF2FSC is Shareware. If you find this program valuable and useful, please
- register it by sending £5.00 (or $10.00) to:
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- Marco Aicardi,
- Via G. Acerbi 6/3
- 16148 - GENOVA (Italy).
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- ┌──────────────────────────────┤ ATTENTION ├─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ It is absolutely forbidden to unregistered users to distribute FON/FSC │
- │ files created by using TTF2FSC. │
- │ │
- └──────────────────────────────┤ ATTENTION ├─────────────────────────────────┘
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- Registered users will receive a code for registering the program with the
- following features:
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- * Conversion over 16 points up to 72 points;
- * No nag-screen delays;
- * No auto-exit routine after one conversion.
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- You use this program at your own risk: the Author will not be liable of
- any damage caused by use or misuse of this program.
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- The only "bug" I found is the inhability to swicth to another task while
- conversion is being made, since output whill be blank. If someone knows
- some way to "intercept" a task-switch in VB, please let me know!
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- If you find any bug, please report me. I will fix them (I hope!).
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- E-MAIL (valid only to Mar 1995): gaslini@vaxgea.ge.infn.it
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- ╓──────────────╖
- ─────────────────────────────╢ DISTRIBUTION ╟─────────────────────────────────
- ╙──────────────╜
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- The TTF2FSC program and auxiliary files are copyrighted, but you are
- hereby granted permission to make and distribute copies for personal,
- non-commercial use. Use them yourself, give copies to friends and
- co-workers, or distribute them for a cost-based fee as part of a user's
- group or bulletin board service. If you wish to distribute these programs
- in connection with any other product, or for use in commercial
- applications, please contact me for a license agreement. All of the files
- that make up this product must be distribute together, in an UNMODIFIED
- form.
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- The files you should have in the archive are:
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- TTF2FSC.EXE The executable program file
- TTF2FSC.TXT This documentation
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- ╓────────────╖
- ──────────────────────────────╢ USER GUIDE ╟──────────────────────────────────
- ╙────────────╜
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- TTF2FSC is very simple to use. First of all copy these files in a clean
- directory (e.g. C:\FSC). Then, if you are good enough, start your Windows
- and create a Program Manager Icon for TTF2FSC. If you are not, just type
- TTF2FSC and press your enter key; Windows will be loaded and FFT2FSC will
- automatically start.
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- In order TTF2FSC to start, remember you will need to have a file named
- VBRUN300.DLL in your Windows directory; it is the run-time library you can
- easily find on InterNet, or on a shareware CD-ROM or in every PSION
- software library, because other Windows software (PSION or not) needs it.
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- To create a Series-3(a) font file you only need to select a font file from
- the font list you will see. Then, choose the right size (it can not exeed
- 72 points in the registered version, 16 in the shareware version). Now you
- can look at the big font example box to have an idea of the true size of
- your font. By default, TTF2FSC converts all character set (0-255); you can
- override this default by clicking on the "Choose output characters"
- button. A big window will be displayed, and you can activate or deactivate
- the 6 preset buttons or click on every one of the character set button to
- add or delete the characters you need/don't need from the conversion
- table. The preset buttons are self-explaining: uppercase, lowercase,
- numbers, punctuation, unprintable (range 0-31) and remaining (the
- characters not contained in the other 5 buttons). This is an easy way to
- quick select the characters you want to be converted.
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- Choose "Start font conversion" button, select your output file (output
- will go in the directory containing TTF2FSC.EXE only) and, after a
- "little" brainstorming, TTF2FSC will create your FSC file.
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- Unregistered users will be quitted from TTF2FSC after one conversion.
- Registered users can convert as many fonts as they want in one session.
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- ┌─────────┐
- │ATTENTION│
- ┌───────────────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ YOU CAN NOT SWITCH TO ANOTHER WINDOWS TASK WHILE FONT CONVERSION IS BEING │
- │ MADE, OR THE OUTPUT FILE WILL CONTAIN ONLY BLANK PIXELS. │
- │ │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- When you have your new .FSC file, run WSFCOMP.EXE (the font compiler from
- PSION - you can find it on src.doc.ic.ac.uk /packages/psion or on CIX or
- on every BBs with PSION files), giving it on the command line the file you
- have just created (e.g. WSFCOMP ARIAL_18.FSC); if you have enough memory,
- it will create a new file .FON (e.g. ARIAL_18.FON). Copy it on your PSION
- and use it with your own programs.
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- Have fun, but do no forget to register!
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- ╓─────────╖
- ───────────────────────────────╢ HISTYRY ╟────────────────────────────────────
- ╙─────────╜
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- 13-10-94 v.1.0 - First public release
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- 24-10-94 v.2.0 - Due to bugs reported by Steve Ridd, had to rewrite *all*
- the source code (I lost the original in a bad computer
- crash!)
- * Char Set Table
- * 16 color VGA and different Windows color schemes fix
- * Improved char dimensions check that make output correct
- * Output file name selector
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- ╓────────────╖
- ──────────────────────────────╢ TRADEMARKS ╟──────────────────────────────────
- ╙────────────╜
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- Windows and True Type Fonts are trademarks of Microsoft. Series-3 and
- Series-3a are trademark of PSION.
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- ╓────────────╖
- ──────────────────────────────╢ LAST WORDS ╟──────────────────────────────────
- ╙────────────╜
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- Thanks must go to Steve Ridd, for being the first user of my v.1.0
- TTF2FSC, and for reporting a "big bug" in the program.
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