(This file is meant to help users who do not have Windows. If you are currently using Windows, you will find the same information in a much more accessible way by opening README.HLP) The Text format employed for this document unfortunately does not allow images to be placed here, but you can browse all the fonts on our web site, or request printed information (see address and phone below). To order easily any of the products described in this documentation, see ORDERFRM.TXT, in the same archive. ================================== A GREAT CATALOG OF EXCLUSIVE FONTS ================================== Since 1987, Match Software has been creating great font products. Our collection offers original fonts, not found in other collections nor in regular commercial collections. Have a look at the following sample catalog for an insight at their diversity. Great FOREIGN FONTS too, if you need Russian, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Slovak, Armenian, Japanese. These fonts would cost hundreds of dollars in a regular store ! These fonts are ACCENTED, meaning they work great to write foreign languages such as FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, and others. They contain also the "graphic" and scientific symbols. Take to-day's opportunity to get FIFTY of these new original fonts for only $20 (instead of $39.95 regular), handling and postage included (US. only). Check out the many exclusive and original fonts you will receive for that low, low price. Many of these fonts are definitely not available elsewhere. In a boring DTP world which used to be ruled by Times and Helvetica, make an aesthetic statement. Get your point across with taste and originality. These types are compatible with typesetting as well, and are successfully used daily by the most prominent DTP specialists. Just hand them to your competent typesetter along with your desktop publishing documents, and you will get great films and printouts for your ads and all your graphic works. Here are these marvels. Check them out, and look for the Order Form document. For information, or if you are looking for a font or a language not described here, call us at (213) 656-4244 ===================================== EXCLUSIVE AND EXQUISITE NOVELTY FONTS ===================================== The 50 Fonts, Volume 1 ---------------------- This is a great classic. The 50 Fonts Pack #1 has been saluted by numerous magazines as a great deal, and many of it's fonts are still exclusive to-day. Furthermore, it contains many foreign language fonts, at a price never dreamed of before for these kind of types. Thousands of satisfied owners, private users or professionals, casually use The 50 Fonts pack , Volume 1, to enhance the originality and quality of their productions. All these fonts come in True-Type or Adobe format, ready to use on your system. A FONT TREASURE CHEST for the font-conscious computerist ! Many of the foreign fonts enclosed in the 50 Fonts Pack, Volume 1, are provided as a sample, and do not come with the special data entry tools required for regular data entry. However, they could be quite usual for occasional use, or business cards ! The 50 Fonts, Volume 2 ---------------------- Brand new creations, you will definitely not find elsewhere. Every one of these types has been patiently crafted to perfection, to make sure it fits perfectly into your documents. Each of them could cost hundreds from other software houses. Some of these fonts will make you the most original computerist around, enhance your presentations or reports, and make sure your work is properly rewarded. When others will dully use old desktop publishing, flash them real originality. THE KIDS' TREASURE ------------------ Apart from Halloween, we have created a wealth of other original, educational and fun fonts. DinosoType has been a constant success among youngsters of all ages, since it's release. Many book writers and journalists have been interested in DinosoType, because it is quite a new approach to getting pictures to the printer, and also to get kids interested into computer, through something maybe a little more intelligent than the usual "shoot'em-up", as nice as they where. We received many suggestions as where to go from that, and lots of support from our customers. Thank you to all. The Kid's treasure chest contains our best toys for children of all ages, which should help them discover better the fantastic world of computing. - DinosoType : real dinosaurs replace characters A-Z, 0-9 and a-z. Set your application program to very large letters, and what you type materialize as beautifully scary creatures, ready to jump on your printer for collages, coloring, mobile creations, and so on. These pictures are scientifically accurate, and could be used for natural science, although a few Barney's like friends are also present. - Mister Potato : this font is one of the most original treasures of the chest. You first enter the face you want on the screen, Mr. Cauliflower, Mr. Potato, Mr. Pumpkin, etc., and then add his eyes, arms, legs, hat, etc. A ton of fun for one or several children, who will have hours of fun creating new characters, and play with the printouts to create cardboard figures, mobiles, or masks. - Alphabetizer : A as Ant, B as Bear, C as Cat, the complete alphabet is represented here, together with it's signifying words, and amazingly cute drawings. Really attractive, and original text books can be generated with this amazing novelty, a grand classic revisited. Great too for letterheads, postcards, fairy books and lots of other marvelous projects - Norman Prince : although there is a wealth of "script" fonts around, none of them take into account the needs of young children, which is to have an accurate representation of each character, as well as a style closer to their calligraphic abilities. Here is a very nice script font, resembling very well an excellent pupil's work. You may love it for creating children's books, as well. - Nahkt hieroglyphs : the mysteries of ancient Egypt are many, and so fascinating for any age. One the most ancient civilizations has brought to us one of the most interesting ways of writing, through figurative symbols and icons. Write your name in hieroglyphs, as simply as you type it in. Tell stories as the ancient scribes did, during the Pharaoh's era. Enrich your history reports with exclusive notes in hieroglyphs. - Halloween : do you remember the "scary" letters often used for posters around the holidays ? Here they are, ready to jump into your computer. Skeletons, witches, and all sorts of scary things to write very scary letters ! Each of these fonts is a real marvel of educational fun for a kid. Hours of intelligent discoveries and mind exercise. Help in the development of his mental and graphic skills. ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================== FINE AND RARE FOREIGN FONTS =========================== THE ARMENIAN PACK ----------------- Enter easily Armenian and Roman in the same text, switching at a flip of a key. The Armenian Font Pack is provided with a special data entry software, which lets you enter in the most natural and easy way Armenian or Roman characters in the same document. The Armenian pack contains at present 6 different fonts : Machtots Ariane (resembling Helvetica) Machtots Ariane Hollow Machtots Ariane Narrow Machtots Bertha (resembling Futura) Machtots Book (resembling Times) Machtots Book Hollow THE BALTIC PACK --------------- Enter easily all the Baltic languages with this complete kit, including a wealth of fonts, and the appropriate data entry software, to enter easily the Baltic languages. Estonian Latvian Lithuanian. The Baltic Pack contains at present the following fonts : Baltique (resembling Helvetica-Geneva) Kerchief (resembling Futura Bold) Nosines (resembling Times) Pauckiuskas (Old-look) Willegha (Script) THE CYRILLIC PACK ----------------- If for any reason you must write in Russian, Serbic, Ukrainian or other Cyrillic language, you probably know already how difficult it is to find decent fonts for a reasonable price. Despair no more : here is a disk full of very nice Cyrillic fonts, patiently crafted to suit all of your needs. These fonts contain in the same set Roman and Cyrillic characters, meaning they automatically coordinate if you have to switch between languages. They come with all the necessary data entry tools for Windows or Mac, which will let you switch at a flip of a key between Russian and English (or any other Cyrillic language, such as Serbic or Ukrainian) We create new fonts on a regular basis, and they are added to theCyrillic Pack. At the present time, here are some highlights : - Shaddock Book : a very classical typeface, looking somewhat Garamond or Times. - Shaddock Book Hollow : Hollow characters, great for titles and artwork. - Shaddock Serif : modern characters, not far from Arial, Chicago, Helvetica, etc. - Bujardoff : Very exclusive, this font is based on ancient characters used by Michel's ancestors at the 1900 Paris World fair. They offer and unique and distinctive look, quite attractive and stylish. - Katarina : You will not find this elsewhere. A RUSSIAN HANDWRITING "SCRIPT" font. Complete with all the characters, punctuation, looking very nicely like the calligraphy of the most sophisticated Russian ladies. You will love it, and use it to enhance your documents. See example above. - Lunokhod : A very heavy typeface, great for headlines and posters. It remains readable even at large distances, making it perfect for glass windows and promotional purposes. EAST-EUROPEAN PACK ------------------ Enter easily all the Eastern languages with this complete kit, including a wealth of fonts, and a special data entry software, which lets you you get at a flip of a key all the necessary accented characters. Croatian Czech Hungarian Moldavian Polish Rumanian Slovak etc.... The pack contains 6 different fonts, resembling Times, Helvetica-Geneva, and Futura, plus some novelty fonts for titles and script. JAPANESE KANAS PACK ------------------- With these exclusive fonts comes a special data entry tool (Mac or Windows) that will let you switch in a snap between regular English Roman characters, and phonetic entry in Katakana or Hiragana, as easy as a i u e o, ka ki ku ke ko, ha hi fu he ho, etc. Type in Romanji, get automatically the Kanas. Great if you need to do business with Japan, or Japanese-speaking individuals. Two fonts : Hira & Katakana resembles Times, HiraKata HV resembles Helvetica (Arial). We are currently working on a yet more ambitious project : a combination of software fonts and programs which will give you access to Kanji, pretty much in the same way. This pack will be available at a very affordable price, like most of our programs and fonts, around summer-fall 96. Please contact us for more information. HEBREW PACK ----------- If you need to write in Hebrew or Yiddish, here is a simple solution. The Hebrew font pack is a sensible, easy and affordable package which offers in a simple yet powerful package a special multilingual program, and a set of Roman/Hebrew fonts. Simply install the fonts, run the program, and there ! You will be able to enter as easily Hebrew, from right-to-left and with the help of a special Hebrew keyboard layout, as you will be able to do in simple Roman characters for any current language. Mix easily Roman and Hebrew script, and re-use the entries in your favorite word processor or DTP program. Match Edit is a full-featured text editor, with all the necessities of a good data entry tool. Click in the Document Window, and you start entering text from left-to-right, in plain Roman characters. Mix at will Hebrew and Roman text in a flip of the mouse. The Data Entry Window is just as simple as 1,2,3. Click into this window, and easily start typing in Hebrew, right-to-left, with immediate access to the Hebrew keyboard, and without intricate combinations to get vowels. Match Edit is provided with the Mac or Windows Hebrew Pack MORE LANGUAGES -------------- Our creative process is never at rest. It means we are constantly creating new language fonts and software. Here are a few of the projects we are currently working on : Arabic Amharic (Ethiopian) Bengali Chinese (Pinyin and ideograms) Esperanto Greek (ancient and modern) Farsi Hieroglyphs (complete data entry system with over 2,000 glyphs) Kanji (Japanese & Korean ideograms) Korean Hangul syllables Sanskrit Tamil Thai Tibetan Urdu Vietnamese Please contact us if you are looking for any of these, or another language, so we can inform you as soon as they are available. 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As software is copyable by nature, we cannot accept any refund for any reason, as returning the disks, for instance, would be returning the packaging, and not the content itself, which will have necessarily been copied by the user on his system prior to use. However, we do acknowledge mistakes, and will replace on a one-to-one and title-to-title basis in case, for instance, a Windows pack was ordered instead of Macintosh. Defective diskette media will be replaced immediately without charge. We cannot guaranty bug fixing or otherwise aesthetic fixes in any given time, if any. However, we gladly accept any suggestions, and in general, will make sure to give upgrade to users who will have suggested valid or constructive modifications. Acknoledgement Match Software is intellectual property of Match Software, Inc. All other intellectual property, such as but not limited to, trademarks or brand names, mentionned in this document, belong to their respective holders. 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