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- FONTBOOK
-
- Those of us who work in a DTP environment know how important it is to
- have high quality specimen sheets of the various typefaces on the system.
- This 'Typeface Book' or 'Specimen Book' can be shown to clients and designers,
- or used by the operators themselves to examine the quality and artistic merit
- of various typefaces.
-
- In the past I have maintained such a book by printing the specimen sheets
- out of Pagemaker, changing the typeface for each page as I go. As a system
- grows, and the number of typefaces installed exceeds ,say, 300, this becomes
- a laborious business, and the results are not always high quality.
-
- Some time ago, I began to look for a program that would do the job
- automatically. I downloaded several shareware programs from Compuserve that
- looked promising, but the results were disappointing - specimen sheets
- designed by programmers, not by DTP types. I could find nothing that
- produced sheets with a clean, professional look, the sort of thing that
- you would be pleased to show your most difficult client.
-
- There were several good programs for the MAC, but nothing really great for
- the PC. So I wrote my own - here it is.
-
- Fontbook allows the user to print out specimen sheets to a variety of
- different designs. Each has a different purpose in mind. More details
- are in the help file.
-
- Fontbook also allows the user to view the typeface on screen, in large
- clear type - no more squinting at charmap - as well as up to 100 typefaces
- against each other, and examine the bold, italic and bold/italic permutations
- of a typeface.
-
- Once I began to use this program in the workplace, I found it indispensible.
-
- Now the plug...
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- Of course Fontbook is shareware, and I would like some return on my efforts.
- The cost is $20.00 for business use, $10.00 for home use.
- Please send to
-
- Arron Davies
- Post Office Box 82
- West Ryde NSW 2114
- Australia.
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- Also, its copywrite, so please only distribute with this file intact and
- included.
-
- Thanks.
-