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- FontSee 2.4
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- by Alan D. Reeve
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- REEVEsoft
- P.O. Box 1884
- Clemson, SC 29633
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- The attached file (FNTSEE24.EXE) is our latest (12/04/92) revision
- of our FontSee font viewing utility. In May of 1991 we released the
- original version (called the Fontographer, but the name has changed
- due to a conflict with a Mac [and now PC] program named Fontographer) of
- FontSee which allowed viewing of all typefaces installed under Windows
- and printing of typefaces, character sets, and reference cards. In August '91
- some bugs were fixed and a second release was issued.
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- Version 2.0 was later released which added the following major
- features to make it the BEST font viewing utility available:
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- * You can now print or VIEW characters sets and reference cards
- on screen.
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- * You can now change the point size of fonts viewed/printed.
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- * ...and most importantly you can now select a target application
- and (via the mouse) type using a virtual (on-screen) keyboard.
- For example, if you load MS Word 2.0 and FontSee you can
- select MS Word 2.0 as the target application by choosing the Select
- Target Application and pointing to the MS Word edit window. Now, by
- clicking on the virtual keyboard FontSee will automatically type
- in MS Word 2.0 for you. This is especially useful when you need a
- special symbol such as the copyright symbol...just select your target
- app, load up FontSee, go to on-screen Reference card mode, and click
- on the character you need. Of course you have to coordinate things
- so that both FontSee and the target are working with the same typeface.
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- Notes: The virtual keyboard part of FontSee was developed as an
- Independent Study project at Northern Illinois University during the
- Fall '91 semester. The rest of the program has been developed
- independently. Developing FontSee from birth to finish has been a
- great challenge and learning experience for me. I have been writing
- commercial software since 1985 for the Atari 8-bit computers and am
- now moving to Windows development. This program is consequently
- being released into Shareware. If you like it please send $15.00
- to the above address and you will receive the next upgrade automatically
- along with the manual for this program. Feel free to distribute this
- program in any way you see fit providing that it and this text file
- remain unchanged. This includes adding it to public domain libraries...
- etc. Just be sure to send the registration fee if you use it.
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- Since then we've had four minor upgrades including version 2.3 which
- fixed a bug that caused FontSee to crash on systems with over 100
- fonts installed. This version (2.4) fixes a problem that caused some fonts
- to be displayed incorrectly (most notably symbol fonts), and also adds
- the display of the working font in Reference Card/Virtual Keyboard mode.
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- What's Next?
- If you like FontSee then check out our other Shareware applications:
- Freeze! (a true multitasking file compression utility for Windows), and
- TrashCan (a trash can for dragging File Manager files to).
- For information on these and other Windows applications being developed
- at REEVEsoft please send a S.A.S.E.
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- Thank You,
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- Alan Reeve,
- Owner
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- * If You Use This Program Please Support It *
- * by registering your copy *
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