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- Printer's Apprentice Version History
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- New in Printer's Apprentice 6.1a (Mostly fixes for Windows95)
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- o Font file names are displayed correctly on the main window
- when running Windows95.
- o Uninstall Fonts now works with Windows95.
- o Main window displays icons using the
- new 95 Control Panel and Recycle Bin Icons.
- o Options now displays with correct light gray color.
- o Updated help file.
- o BUG FIX: "Print from CD" Font Catalog - If an Italic font
- followed a Bold Italic font in the listing, the Italic font
- was still printed with the bold attribute on. Thanks to
- Anthony J. Weimeler of Chicago, IL for pointing this out to me.
- o BUG FIX: "Print from CD" Font Catalog - If you closed this window
- using the control box in the corner, any FOT files created in your
- PA directory were not being deleted. Thanks to Claude D. Birkhead
- for this report.
- o The default behavior of the toolbox has been changed a bit. It used
- to open up if you selected a setting in the Options dialog. Now the
- toolbox has "persistant" behavior. If you shut down PA with the
- toolbox displayed, it will display the next time you run the
- software.
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- New in PA 6.0g 5/6/96
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- o Fixed the 'no resume' error... (what a nightmare...)
- o Changed the About box
- o Added more error checking code
- o Updated .vbx support files, direct from vendor BBS
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- New in PA 6.0f 4/20/95
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- o Added improved routines to stop "Invalid property
- value" errors when using the keyboard, character set
- or paragraph windows.
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- o Added new Characters menu. This menu jumps you to specific
- characters in the font.
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- New in PA 6.0e 4/19/95 (distributed only on America Online)
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- o The Remove Font Wizard can now delete an entire family of
- fonts. Before, you would have to invoke the Wizard four times
- to remove Arial Regular/Bold/Italic/BoldItalic. Now you
- can select which variations to remove from the Wizard dialog.
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- o Fixes problems with keyboard/character charts/paragraph windows
- not being redisplayed correctly when the main window is maximized.
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- New in PA 6.0c
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- o More error checking for 'illegal function call' situations
- in Install/Catalog wizard (hair pulling)
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- New in PA 6.0a / 6.0b
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- o Added improved error handling in the catalog printout from
- the Font Catalog Wizard (File, Print Fonts from CD-ROM)
- o Added the kilobyte size of the TTF file in the printed font
- catalog
- o Changed some of the instructional text on the Font Catalog Wizard.
- o Added improved error checking to the section of the Font Catalog
- o The windows used in Printer's Apprentice have been given a better
- 'memory.' They will now remember both the location and their size
- on the desktop each time you start and end Printer's Apprentice.
- This applies to the main, keyboard, paragraph, toolbox, and
- character chart windows.
- o The character and point size for the sample used in the main window
- are saved from session to session.
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- New in PA 6.0
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- o Uses *significantly* fewer system resources than previous versions.
- o Main window is resizable! (very, very popular request)
- o Program loading time is again, *significantly* faster!
- o Main window has been changed (again) to be easier to read
- o Character set and keyboard windows are now resizable
- o Font size on keyboard and character set windows can be changed
- o Paragraph window has been cleaned up a bit
- o Fonts can be viewed at any size up to 800 points
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- o Font Catalog Wizard - Prints *uninstalled* Truetype Fonts
- Easily create a catalog of TrueType fonts from CD-ROM
- Fonts do not have to be copied or installed on your PC
- Catalog displays line of type set in font, font name, and filename,
- one line for each font on the CD-ROM.
- Can generate catalog for selected fonts on the CD.
- Can also print character charts, keyboard layouts, and ANSI charts
- for uninstalled fonts!
- Great for those 2,200 shareware font CD's!
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- o TrueType Installation Wizard - Look at *uninstalled* Truetype Fonts!
- Preview fonts before installing them!
- You can look at every single character in an uninstalled font
- Fonts can be previewed from floppies, CD-ROM's, & hard drives
- Install multiple fonts at one time
- Displays lines that will be added to the WIN.INI file
- Displays FOT file to be added to the Windows system directory
- Can install fonts to directories other than windows\system
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- o Font Uninstall Wizard
- Easily removes TrueType fonts from your Windows PC
- Optionally deletes TTF and FOT resource files
- Removes [fonts] entry from WIN.INI file
- Can move or copy original TTF file to a directory or floppy disk
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- o TrueType Resource Wizard
- Tracks down and eliminates orphaned TrueType resource
- files (FOT) left behind by other font programs
- Automatically recommends FOT files that can be deleted
- Helps clean up the windows\system directory!
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- o Batch Printing
- Add All and Delete All buttons have been (finally) added!
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