FontMagik version 1.0
FontMagik version 1.1

© Stephane Lepage, 1997-1998	 Distributed by NPS micro

All Rights Reserved

FontMagik is SHAREWARE. Please, refer to the help topic:

 Registration Info, Order Form, License and Disclaimer for necessary information.

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General description and Technical informations

Screen Elements

- Menu bar	- Preview screen (magical	- Angle selection box

- Top tool bar	  font & capture windows)	- Direction shadow box

- Left tool bar	- Shadow & highlight	- Alignment selection box

- Text-entry field and	  depth selection bar	- Status bar

  combo box buttons	- Font size box

Top Menu bar

- File menu	- More options menu	- Windows menu

Top Tool Bar

- Open new	- Reset all positions	- Help

- Capture / Copy	- Open capture window	- About FontMagik

  to clipboard	- Cascade windows	- FontMagik web site

- Save to disk	- Tile windows	- Minimize FontMagik

- Restore default options	- Arrange icons	- Exit FontMagik

- Erase content of	- Close all Font windows

  font window

Left Tool Bar

- choose font	- color background

- color font	- choose image

- color highlight 	- crop image by resizing capture window

- graduate from color	- resize image by resizing capture window

- color shadow	- copy last modifications in capture window to clipboard

Registration Info, Order Form, License and Disclaimer

How to contact NPS micro


About NPS micro

NPS micro is a registered corporation located in the Montreal area, province

of Quebec, Canada.

Our services:

Customed design Software development

Web site development (LilyS-WebDezin)

lily-wd@npsmicro.com

Scanning Service

http://www.npsmicro.com/scanserv/

scanserv@npsmicro.com

Our products:

LottoMaster, lottery software. Copyright NPS micro, 1996-1998

Free Shareware available for evaluation.

NPS micro is responsible for the development, distribution and license of LottoMaster

(previous and present versions)

http://www.npsmicro.com/lottomaster/

TranS-ForM, Mailto-forms converter. Copyright NPS micro, 1996-1998

Free Shareware available for evaluation.

NPS micro is responsible for the development, distribution and license of TranS-ForM

(previous and present versions)

http://www.npsmicro.com/trans-form/

TWINS, Universal list-maker and search tool. Copyright NPS micro, 1997-1998

Freeware

NPS micro is responsible for the development, distribution and license of TWINS

(previous  and present versions)

http://www.npsmicro.com/twins/

FontMagik, Font styling program. Copyright Stéphane Lepage, 1997-1998

Free Shareware available for evaluation

Distributed by NPS micro

http://www.npsmicro.com/fontmagik/

How to reach us:

E-mail address:	support@npsmicro.com

Postal address:	NPS micro

1748 Marie-Victorin

P.O. Box  99031

Longueuil (Quebec)

Canada  J4G 2S6

Internet homepage:	http://www.npsmicro.com/

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General description and Technical infos
General description and Technical Info

FontMagik is a 32 bits Font Styling appication for Windows 95TM or above.

You can use it to add an artistic touch to your web page, flier, presentation, slide

show, business card, newletters, letterhead, or any text document by creating

flashy styled text and logos.

Various effects make you plain text come alive!  Colors, styles, shadows,

highlights, depth, background image, angle, alignment,... are all ajustable.

FontMagik intuitive user interface makes it easy to use for business and

home user.

Have Fun with your Font! It's Magik!

Minimum Requirements:

Windows  95TM

486 processor

8 MB RAM

Video card capable of rendering more than 256 colors

System's video mode set to High-Color (16 bits)

SVGA monitor

Mouse

Recommended Requirements:

Windows  95TM

Pentium processor

16-32 MB RAM

Video card capable of rendering more than 256 colors

System's video mode set to High-Color (16 bits) or True-color (24 bits)

SVGA monitor

Mouse

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Screen elements

The FontMagik interface consists of the following elements:

Menu Bar	see Menu Bar  section.

Top ToolBar	see Top Tool Bar  section.

Left ToolBar	see Left Tool Bar  section.

Text-entry Field	This is where you type your text. The text-entry field

and combo box	is a combo box where you can store your text.

buttons

 Add text to combo box.

 Clear an item in combo box

 Clear all items in combo box

Preview Screen	The preview area contains the Magical Font Windows

(Magical Font Windows	where you see your font styling results. Slide button on

& Capture window)	right and bottom of the Font Windows may be used to

move your text within the screen. The text and image

could be scrolled individually (see: MoreOptions menu).

Several Font windows may be open at the same time.

The preview screen also contains the Capture Window.

Your text-image is copied to the capture window when

you click the [Capture&Copy] button, but only if the

capture window is open (see the Left Tool Bar section

for more info on the Capture Window Options).

Shadow & Highlight	A button bar or track bar to select the depth of your

depth Selection bar	shadow or highlight. Scale from 0 to 10.

Font Size Box	Click the up and down to quickly change font size.

Angle-Selection	Click the up and down arrows to change the angle of

Box	your text. "0" is horizontal.

Direction Shadow	To choose between 8 different directions for the text

Selection box	shadow,center position is: no shadow.

Direction Highlight 	To choose between 8 different directions for the text

Selection box	highlight, center position is: no highlight.

Alignment	To move your text within the Font window. Use the

Selection box	arrows to align your text: Right, Left or Center inside

the Magical Font window.

Status Bar	When your mouse pointer is over a Magical Font

Window, the status bar displays the options selected

for the shadow& highlight styles, and the style &

graduate face chosen. When your mouse pointer is

somewhere else, the status bar displays a description

of each element on the program interface.

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Top menus

File menu

Options	Save Options

Select this option to always save your last font styling setup.

The direction and depth of highlight & shadow and the styles

will be saved. When you open a new Magical Font Window or

if you exit and reopen FontMagik your last set up will be

pre-selected on the FontMagik interface.

Minimize to system tray

Select this option if you want to have the FontMagik icon in your

system tray when you minimize the program.

Depth Highlight Option

You can choose between a track bar or buttons for the Highlight

depth selection screen element.

Depth Shadow Option

You can choose between a track bar or buttons for the Shadow

depth selection screen element.

New	Open a new Magical Font Window

Copy	Copy the content of a MagicalFont Window into MS Clipboard

and into the Capture window if it's open.  Copying to Capture

window lets you crop or resize your label, if you wish to do so

before copying it again to MS Clipboard.

Save	Save the content of a Magical Font window in bitmap format

(.bmp).

Close	Close the active Magical Font window.

Close all	Close all Magical Font Windows, including the capture window.

Minimize	Click to minimize FontMagik.

Exit	Click to quit FontMagik.

More Options menu

Restore 	Select to restore the default font styling options

Default	(the ones selected the first time you opened FontMagik)

Options

Style 	You can choose from 4 different types of highlights

Highlight	Normal, Graduated, Extrude, Real.

Style	You can choose from 4 different types of shadows:

shadow	Normal, Graduated, Extrude, Real.

Style effect	You can choose from 5 different Style effects:

None, Raised, Flying, Shadow, Sunken.

Graduate	The color gradation of your font may be either:

face	None, Horizontal, or Vertical. When you choose horizontal or

vertical, you will have to choose a color for the text and a

second color with the "graduate from color" button.

Background	Background may be One color or a gradation between two

Color	colors (Graduated), select which option you prefer. If you select

to have a graduated color background, you must choose the top

and bottom color.

Background	This option let you choose any of your bitmap image (.bmp)

image	as a background. Interesting if you want to create a logo or a

flashy header, by adding an image or texture. You can write

your text on top or beside the image you selected.

Only ".bmp" format images may be use within FontMagik,

 	however you can always change the format of your finish label

if you copy & paste it to you favorite graphics editor.

3 Different display options are available for the bitmap image:

Single: Only one image will be displayed in the Font window

Mosaic: image is repeted to cover all the Font window

Strech: image is streched to cover all the Font window

You can remove the image from your Font window by clicking

Delete image.

Scroll Font 	You can choose wich element in the font window will move

or image	when  you use the Magical Font window's scroll bar. This option

makes it easier to position a text over or beside the bitmap graphic

you chose. If you select "font" only your text will be srolled related

to a fixed image. If you select "image" only the image (single

mode only) will move when you scroll the Magical Font window.

Windows menu

Cascade	Select this option to have all your Font windows inside the

preview screen arrange in a cascade way.

Tile	Select this option to have all your Font windows inside the

preview screen arrange in a tiled way.

Arrange	Select this options to have your icons from Font windows

Icons	arrange in the bottom of the preview screen.

Minimize	Minimize all the Font windows inside the preview screen.

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Tool Bar (buttons bar)
Top Tool Bar

 	New	Open a new Magical Font window.

 	Capture&Copy 	Copy the content of a Font Window into MS Clipboard

to Clipboard 	and into the to Capture window if it's open. Copying to

Capture window lets you crop or resize your label, if you

wish to do so, before copying it again to MS Clipboard

or save it. You also have to copy your text to the

Capture window if you want to save it.

 	Save to disk	Save the content of the Capture window in bitmap

format (.bmp).

 	Restore Default	Select to restore the default font styling options

Options	(the ones selected the first time you opened FontMagik).

 	Erase content	Erase the text in the active Magical Font window and

of Font window	text entry box.

 	Reset all 	Move back your text to original position in the Font

Positions	window: corner top-left.

 	Open Capture	Open the Capture window where you can copy the

window	content of a Magical Font Window.

 	Cascade 	Select this option to have all your Font windows inside

windows 	the preview screen arrange in a cascade way.

 	Tile windows	Select this option to have all your Font windows inside

the preview screen arrange in a tiled way.

 	Arrange Icons	Select this options to have your icons from Font

windows arrange in the bottom of the preview screen.

 	Close all	Close all Font Windows, including the capture window.

 	Help	Click to get access to help menu.

 	About 	Click to open the About window.

FontMagik

 	FontMagik	Click to access FontMagik Internet site.

Web site                http://www.npsmicro.com/fontmagik/

 	Minimize	Click to minimize FontMagik.

FontMagik

 	Exit FontMagik	Click to quit FontMagik.

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Left Tool Bar

 	Choose font 	Choose a Font for your text.

 	Color Font	Select a color for your text. You can make custom

color with the "Define custom colors" button. If the

"graduate face" option is set to horizontal or vertical

you must also choose a second color with the

"graduate from color" button.

 	Color Highlight	Choose the color for the highlight.

 	Graduate from	Click this button when you need to choose the

color	second color for a "graduate face" set to horizontal

or vertical.

 	Color Shadow	Choose the color for the shadow.

 	Color	Choose a color for the background. For a graduate

Background	2-color background, click the graduated background

color in the more options menu.

 	Choose image	Click to choose a bitmap image to put as a background

or to be put beside your text. Go to the MoreOptions

menu if you want to stretch or tile your image.

 	Crop capture	When this option is selected, you can crop the capture

window	window around you text, by resizing the capture window.

Position your mouse pointer on the bottom-right corner

of the capture window and drag it until the window is the

size you want. This will not affect the size of you text.

 	Resize capture	when this option is selected, you can resize the capture

window	window and the text inside it, by resizing the capture

window. Position your mouse pointer on the bottom-right

corner of the capture window and drag it until the window

is the size you want.

 	Copy modifica-	Select this option to copy the last modification you

tions in capture	made to the capture window (crop, resize). Your new

window to	image is automatically copy to MS Clipboard.

MS Clipboard

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Registration Info, Order Form, License and Disclaimer

Registration Information

FontMagik is NOT freeware, it is distributed as a shareware for evaluation.

With the shareware version 1.1 user can only run the program 10 times  and

enter a maximum of 7 characters inside the text-entry box.

Registered version of the software does not have this limitation.

Registration fee is : $25.00 USD or $35.00 CND for Canadian residents

When you register your copy of FontMagik, you will receive by e-mail a

registration code which the program will use to recognize you as a registered

user and prevent all shareware notices to be displayed and unlock all the

program limitations.

Payment information

We accept:

Credit card (we can only accept Visa for now)

Personnal and cashier checks (drawn on a U.S. or Canadian bank)

Postal money orders (in Canada only)

International money orders and bank drafts

Checks or money orders should be made payable to NPS micro and must be in U.S. or Canadian dollars.

If a  check is returned by the bank as unredeemable, the subscriber will be deemed to be in default, and will be liable for a "returned check" charge of $25 USD.

How to order

You can register your copy of FontMagik by filling out this  ORDER-FORM

and send it with your payment (or credit card info) to:

NPS micro

1748 Marie Victorin

P.O. Box 99031

Longueuil (Que),Canada

J4G 2S6

If you wish to register ONLINE by credit card, please go to our Secure online order form at: https://www.digiweb.com/~nps/fontmagik/s-order.htm

Your registration code will be sent to you by e-mail 5-10 days after reception of a personal check, and,  for a money order or credit card payment, usually within 24 hours after reception of you order, unless exceptional circumstances prevent us from doing so.

Any questions about the status of the reception of your access code, registration

options, product details, technical  support, volume discounts, site licenses, etc.,

must be directed  to: NPS micro at:  support@npsmicro.com

License and Disclaimer

LICENSE AGREEMENT

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using this

software. If you do not agree with the conditions and rules stated in this text,

please dispose of all contents of the FontMagik package now in your possession.

SHAREWARE VERSION

You are hereby licensed to use the Shareware Version for evaluation.

Shareware version 1.1 can be run a maximum of ten (10) times and the number

of characters of text that you can type in the text-entry field is limited to seven

(7).  If you want to remove those limitations you must purchase a full  license.

Shareware copies may be distributed by individual users for trial and leisure

utilization. Make as many copies of the Shareware version of this software and

documentation as you wish; give exact copies of the original Shareware version

to anyone; and distribute the Shareware version of the software and

documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means.  There is no charge for

any of the above.

You are specifically prohibited from charging, or requesting donations, for any

such copies, however made; and from distributing the software and / or

documentation with other products (commercial or otherwise) without prior

written permission.

Limitations on disassembly, decompilation and reverse engineering

No component part of LottoMaster may be distributed individually, disassembled,

copied, reverse engineered, or altered in any form. This include all the elements

in the FontMagik package, menus and dialogs, in both REGISTERED and

SHAREWARE versions of the software.

EVALUATION AND REGISTRATION

This is not free software. Registration fee is required to acquire a user license

which gives a full access to the software by removing all limitations and all

shareware notices.

One registered copy of FontMagik may either be used by:

- a single person who uses the software personally on one or more computers

or

- installed on a single workstation used nonsimultaneously by multiple people

but not both.

You may access the registered version of FontMagik through a network, provided

that you have obtained individual license for the software covering all workstations

that will access the software through the network.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS"

WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,

THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES

The user must assume the entire risk of using the program. In no evant

NPS micro shall be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of the use

or inability to use the software.

ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER NPS MICRO WILL BE LIMITED

EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF

PURCHASE PRICE.

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ORDER-FORM for   FontMagik v1.0
ORDER-FORM  	FontMagik v1.1

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Fill out, print, and send this form with your check, money order or credit card info to:

NPS micro

1748 Marie Victorin

P.O. box 99031

Longueuil (Que), Canada

J4G 2S6

Date:	_________________________________

Last name:	_________________________________

First name: 	_________________________________

Company:	_________________________________

Address:     	_________________________________

City:	_________________________________

State / Province: 	_________________________________

Country:	_________________________________

Zip / postal code: 	_________________________________

E-mail address:	_________________________________

Important: Please make sure that it is the correct address in order to receive quickly your registration code.

Registration fee:  $25.00 US Dollars per licensed copy (or $35.00 Can. Dollars)

Method of payment

__  Payment enclosed (Check, money order or bank draft are payable to NPS micro)

__  *Credit card  (we can only accept Visa for now)

Visa card number:  ________________________________  Expires:  ________

Name on the card:  ________________________________

Signature: _______________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

Checks and money orders must be in Canadian or US funds only and drawn on a Canadian or US bank.

* For Credit card orders in US dollars: the amount charge to your Visa may be slightly different than $25.00 (plus or minus a few cents), depending on exchange rate fluctuation between the order date and the date you will receive your Visa bill.

Thank you for registering your copy of FontMagik !

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