SeeFont is a short application written to take full advantage of TrueType in System 7.0. After spending 8 hours downloading System 7.0 and eagerly anticipating seeing Times at 500 pt I loaded it on my hard drive and started up Word 4.0. To my surprise I found that the 127 pt was the largest that Word 4.0 would go. I checked all of my drawing, painting, word processing files all of which gave me this ludicrous 127 pt barrier. So I set out with Think Pascal 3.0 TCL, and with a little help from the Dialog Class written by Thomas Engel, M.D. found in MacTutor Vol 7. No 6. I braved the world of 10,000 point plus!!! In addition, I found the string and type size displayed by Apple's font dialog box (arrived at by double-clicking on the font document) to be completely inadequate, especially for dingbat and icon fonts. Hence, 2 months later I have released SeeFont 1.0 into the public domain.
SeeFont is simple to use. Just use the Font menu to control the size, style, color (for Mac II's) and type. Use the Display menu to control what is displayed in the window pane. Currently you have the choice of a single character, a string, or the alphabetic uppercase/lowercase set. To display a different character on the screen in the character display mode just type the key combination on the keyboard. Clicking the mouse in the window pane advances the character by 1. Clicking the mouse in the window pane while holding the command key decreases the character by 1. The same actions hold true for the Aa display, however you are only limited to the alphabet. The string display is self explanatory (sorry, no balloon help). I have included a print options dialogue that allows one to center the text on the page. Using my Imagewriter II on landscape mode and no gaps between pages I have printed some wicked awesome (Boston slang) looking banners.
SeeFont 1.0 is a product of my own imagination. So please reward me accordingly. I ask no great fee, just $1 to $5, so that I can show my wife that there is someone just as crazy as me about 10,000 pt Times.
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