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Please read the MOREFONT.TXT file included with this package.
POSTSCRIPT INSTALLATION
This new font includes matched .PFB and .PFM files. These two should
be all you will need to use the font in virtually all of your
Windowsapplications which can specify typefaces. An .AFM file is included,
but you probably will not need it for your installation. The rest
of this file includes:
-- How to install using Adobe Type Manager
-- How to install manually
-- Information about our rights and obligations
FONT INSTALLATION USING ATM
Run ATMCNTL.EXE (or click your appropriate icon) to add the new fonts.
Follow ATM instructions or check your manual. When finished, please
note that you'll have to exit Windows and return to enable access
to the new fonts.
If you use ATM, you may have to manually edit the entry in your WIN.INI
file so that your printer will download your new font whenever it's
called for. If you get Courier instead of the new font, then your
printer probably didn't download the file. To fix the problem, add
the font's .PFB file path and name to the WIN.INI softfont entry
line as in the following example:
softfont42=c:\your-pfm-path\mirisch.pfm,C:\YOUR-PFB-PATH\MIRISCH.PFB
The comma and all-caps section is what you'll have to add. (It's
not case-sensitive.) The first half of the entry should have already
been made by ATM. If your listing looks like this and you still get
Courier on your printer, then the problem is something else.
FONT INSTALLATION MANUALLY
This is the method I use because I like to know exactly what's being
done and that it WAS done.
Using the new font "Mirisch":
1. Locate the directory that has all of your existing .PFM files
and copy the new .PFM file to that directory. Locate your .PFB files
and copy the new .PFB there.
2. A note about editing ".INI" files: When manually changing any
Windows software xxx.INI file, you should first make a backup copy
of the file in case the one you create has some problem. I also suggest
that you name the backup something like xxx.BAC or xxx.ORG and keep
it in the same directory. Many programs have standardized on a backup
file extender of ".BAK" -- if you fall into the habit of using that
one in manual backups which you make, one of these days you may have
a needed backup over-written by some installation program or editor
that also uses ".BAK" for its extender. After you've made a backup
copy of the .INI file, load the working copy into your favorite editor
for the new changes.
3. In your Windows directory (probably), locate and edit ATM.INI
under [Fonts]:
Mirisch=c:\your-pfm-path\mirisch.pfm,c:\your-pfb-path\mirisch.pfb
The name used before the = sign is case-sensitive; the filenames
after the equal sign are not. Some fonts use upper and lower case
in their names. Naturally you need to substitute your own path to
the files where it indicates "your-...-path."
4. In your Windows directory, edit WIN.INI under [PostScript,LPT1]
and/or any other section that has a complete listing of your fonts
(for instance, if you have a second printer using the fonts). You
need to increment the softfonts number by 1 for each new font added,
per the following example:
If your listing reads:
softfonts=41
then change it to
softfonts=42
Then go down past the last current listing (i.e. softfont41=xxxx)
And add the following line
softfont42=c:\your-pfm-path\mirisch.pfm,c:\your-pfb-path\mirisch.pfb
Leave off the comma and .pfb portion if you don't want the font automatically
downloaded whenever it's called for. You will then have to manually
download that font or else it will print in the Courier font. (You
might do this if it's a font you use a lot; you set up a routine
to manually download it into your printer's "permanent" memory at
the start of a session; whenever that font is asked for, Windows
doesn't download it because the lack of a .pfb portion of the font
entry tells Windows that it's already in the printer.)
5. You must go from Windows to DOS and then back for changes to WIN.INI
and ATM.INI to take effect. If you don't, you won't see the new fonts
listed as being available from your applications.
6. Depending on the application used, you may have to "refresh" the
list of fonts available with the current printer selected. Sometimes
just re-selecting your printer will update a font list that was not
automatically updated. See your software's manual for individual
commands that may be necessary to refresh a font list.
YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
The only shareware fee or obligation you pay to use this font is
your having had to download the archived package with my font promotion
information files attached. For having downloaded and read the files,
you get to use this new font for free forever.
You have unlimited rights to use this font in any form your software
will use it ... except as another font file. You may not do anything
with the font file itself except install it, make backup copies,
and let your software use it to format and create characters. You
may not convert the font to another format and distribute it.
Copies of the complete archived file, as you received it, may be
posted on bulletin boards.
MY RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
This font is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without any express warranty including even the implied warranty
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
I retain ownership of the creation of this font and rights of distribution
of this font in any form.
Adding new fonts generally presents no bug or compatibility problems
that haven't already been solved when you first installed another
font. I know you don't expect an 800 number or 24-hour hotline, but
I'd be happy to respond to your messages, compliments or general
b.s. posted on CompuServe (72327,1702) or America OnLine (ThomasH53).
Or if you send a stamped self-addressed envelope, I'll do my best
to solve your problem or answer your questions.
Thomas E. Harvey
September 1, 1992
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The Font file names associated with this information file are:
MIRISCH M0001394.TTF