For those of us who have a zillion fonts and do page layout a lot, a specimen book is invaluable. After considering spending money on pre-designed layout programs, I decided that I would rather find one through AOL. After downloading four or five different templates, shareware programs, etc., I found that none of them were quite what I wanted in style or visual usefulness.
The samples enclosed are my combination of several of the better designed templates. Since many of you who use Pagemaker revile the Quark camp, and Many Quark devotees detest Pagemaker afficianados, I have provided the same template for each program. (Take that!)
To use these, you must be familiar with style sheets in either program. The Quark template has all it's style sheets based on the style called "8 point." To change the template's typestyle, you must go to "Style Sheets..." under the Edit menu and edit "8 point." In Character, change the typeface to whatever you need, and save your change. The entire layout will reflect the change in font.
In Pagemaker the styles are all based on the style "6 point." To change fonts you would follow a similar process, except, of course it's faster to command-click on the style "6 pt." from the floating Style window.
For display fonts and fonts without variations, you'll have to tweak the template. There is ample space in the alphabetical showing for heavy faces to reach the bottom of the page. For fonts that have no bold or italic equivalents, you should delete those line showings, as they will probably print only in the base font.
These templates, by the way, are designed so that you can print them 2-sided and bind them or hole punched and put in a 3-ring binder!
This is freeware, and may be copied and distributed without penalty.
