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FontShow Copyright 1991 - Harvey J. Kaye
FontShow - Font Viewing and Cataloging for Microsoft Windows
FontShow Version 3.0 Release notes
==============================================================================
Documentation is supplied in Word for Windows and Windows Write formats.
FONTSHOW.DOC - Word for Windows
FONTSHOW.WRI - Windows Write
Installation: Copy the FONTSHOW.EXE file to your harddrive, use the Program
Manager File/New Function to add the file to your program manager screen.
Copy the Fontshow.ini to the Windows main directory. If you do not locate it
there, fontshow will create one there.
Required files: VBRUN100.DLL and VBTOOLS.VBX. VBRUN100 is not included in this
package, it is the visual basic runtime module. VBTOOLS.VBX is the Visual
Basic Tools (VBTools) runtime module. Both these files should be placed in
the Windows directory, or another directory early in the DOS Path.
Place the files in the following locations:
Fontshow.EXE - in any directory
FontShow.INI - in the Windows directory
FontShow.TXS - in the Windows directory, can be altered
on the settings screen.
VBRUN100.DLL - in the Windows Directory or path (not supplied)
VBTOOLS.VBX - in the Windows Directory or path.
FontShow.DOC - in any directory (Word for Windows Doc file)
FontShow.WRI - in any directory (Windows Write Doc file)
FontShow.TXT - in any directory (this file)
FontShow also requires Microsoft Windows Verions 3.0 or later.
Known Problems: A font titled RSGriffonDingbats has been know to cause a
Unrecoverable Application Error (UAE) when printing a sample page. Initial
investigation point at Adobe Type Manager as the problem, but this has yet
to be confirmed.
FontShow is shareware, a registration fee of $15 is required if you continue
to use this program after an initial evaluation period (not to exceed 30 days)
If after 30 days you decide to continue using FontShow, please forward a
cheque or money order totalling $15 to:
Harvey J. Kaye
633 Bay Street, Suite 1701,
Toronto, Ontario,
CANADA, M5G 2G4
Please forward any comments, suggestions, problems etc. to the above address.
Thank-you for trying FontShow!!
===============================================================================
Version 3.0 Changes:
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1) A new sample style has been added (#5) that will print a variety of text
text sizes and styles.
2) The Text sample function has been implemented for all styles. If the
"Print Text Sample" option is selected on the settings screen, fontshow will
open and read the filename that is entered in the "Text Sample Filename" box.
Please see the supplied file "FONTSHOW.TXS". Included in this file are
instructions on how to alter the text that is displayed/printed from this
file. There is a primitive "word-processing" function included, allowing you
to alter the size, style, indentation, font, and letter spacing of the sample
text, as well as allowing you to customize the text that is printed.
3) The option to override the sample characters printed in the font catalog is
provided on the settings screen.
4) The font metrics screen has been updated to reflect the user selected text
colours, and the print overlay bug on that screen has been corrected.
5) The ANSI map function has been changed to use the selected font for printing
all output, rather than the title font. This speeds up printing dramatically.
This function is overridden for any font known as a dingbat or symbol font. On
the settings screen, there are 6 fields for "Dingbat" fonts. If the font
selected for the ANSI map matches any of the characters in any of the Dingbat
fields, that ANSI map will alternate from the title font to the selected font
in the output. An example:
1- If the selected font is Helvetica, the entire map will be printed in
Helvetica, because it does not contain Dingbat, Symbol, Carta etc.
anywhere in the fontname.
2- If the selected font is BillsDingbats, the map will be printed with
the title font for the ANSI codes and the sample character, and
will print the sample character in BillsDingbats. This is because the
fontname contains the characters string DINGBAT. (Got it?)
6) Several users have requested that the sample page and ANSI map functions be
added to the font catalog function. This has been implemented. From the font
catalog there are now 4 functions that will be performed on the selected fonts:
1) Print font inventory
2) Print font catalog
3) Print font samples
4) Print ANSI maps
In option 3 you have the option of printing ANSI maps as well for all the
selected fonts in one pass through the list. FontShow will estimate the time
required (based on a 386-20) and give you the option to cancel the operation.
7) Titles and margins for printed and displayed output have been standardized
to allow for three-hold punching etc.
8) The show character on the font samples now prints in white inside a solid
black circle. This was done just for "style". This will be optional in future
releases. This does, however, give you an idea of a font's character alignment
and such, some fonts will print in slightly higher or lower positing in the
circle, which is scaled to the font's average height or width depending on
which is greater. One exception is the CARTA font. The height of the Carta font
is so large that it prints a circle over 4 inches in diameter. For this reason
the circle is scaled back to the actual character size for the Carta font only.
If this is required for any other unusual font, let me know.
9) Printing of the show character can be suppressed by setting its size on the
settings screen to 0
10) The print buttons have been altered to a 3D picture of a printer, and the
display buttons have been altered to a 3D picture of a screen.
11) Other minor visual changes. The startup screen now shows a stop sign, if you
want to stop, click on the stop sign. ALT-S still performs that function. The
color scheme has been standardized.
Version 2.1 Changes:
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1) A new control has been added to the main menu, "Settings" This will allow
the user to control the font and size for titles, and the character used on
the sample page as the "Show" character. I call the large "A" in the upper
right corner the "Show" character, for lack of a better name. If any of you
think of a better name, let me know! For best print performance, pick a font
that is resident in your printer for titles.
In addition, control is provided over which font sizes are printed on the
sample page. There is also a check box for "Text Sample" This is not yet
implemented. It will, in a future release, print a sample of text printed
with the selected font (a paragraph of text, including bold, italic, bolditalic
and underline.
The settings information is stored in file FONTSHOW.INI which must be located
in the Windows directory. You can update this file directly, however be careful
as there is little validation code implemented yet and you may cause FontShow
to crash!
2) Control is provided, also from the "Settings" screen, to adjust the screen
colors. This version does not allow you to save the colors, just to change them. I have, however, toned down the colours a bit.
(Stay tuned for the next version)
3) The sample page screen has been altered quite a bit, it now prints directly
to the window, rather than a text box. This displays a little quicker and also
will display more text when maximized, rather than having to re-display the
sample. In addition, there is a new button "Display". Font sample 1 is
selected as default, and in order to display the sample on screen, click on
"Display". Print continues to operate as before.
In addition, the frame that holds the controls "hides" when a screen display is
requested. To bring it back, just click anywhere on the Sample window. You
can re-hide it again if you want by clicking on the "Hide" Button. The title
size is now adjusted from the settings screen, and the text of the title can
be updated by clicking the "set title" button
4) Fontshow now requests printer fonts instead of screen fonts. Fontshow can
not display some printer resident fonts. If you request display of a resident
font you will receive a display error message. The font can still be printed
and inventoried, you just can't display it on screen. That is a Windows and/or
font manager restriction unfortunately. Future releases will allow user control
over which fonts to retrieve. With font managers such as ATM or Facelift, the
list is virtually identical.
5) A primitive print cancel function has been added to the font catalog.
When a print is started, a cancel checkbox is visible in the status window.
Click on that and Fontshow will not generate any more output. However any
output that has been sent to Windows must still be printed. I'm working on
this one, but the Windows API calls in this area are trickier than I first
thought. Bear with me on this one.
6) An other button has been added on the main window. "Display font metrics"
click this button and FontShow will pop up a window displaying the metrics of
the selected font. Infomation displayed includes, Average Width, Maximum Width,
Character height, Internal Leading and so on. Not all the fields are fully
implemented as documentation is sparse on that function, but it will improve
in future releases.
7) Other miscellaneous bug and glitch fixes and "visual" adjustments.
Bug Fixes:
Many users reported an error message when printing "Invalid Property Value"
was caused by my (incorrect) assumption that all users would have a font
"Helvetica". This has been corrected, should the error occur FontShow will
substitute the Windows font "Modern". However an even better solution is to
update the Settings window with the preferred font which is used for titles
and headers in all printed output.
History:
Version 1.0 Beta release
Version 2.0 First public release
Version 2.1 Second public release
Version 3.0 Current as of Sept 2, 1991