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- The Font Thing
- Version 0.80 (beta 2)
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- Copyright (c) 1999 Sue Fisher. All Rights Reserved.
- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~scef/
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- Overview
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- The Font Thing is a freeware program for managing TrueType
- fonts in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
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- With The Font Thing you can:
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- * Browse installed and uninstalled fonts
- * Browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list
- * View sample text and individual characters in your
- choice of colours
- * Change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch
- between your own standard text samples
- * View detailed font information
- * Print font samples
- * Associate notes with fonts
- * Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once
- * Load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary
- use
- * Copy or delete any number of font files at once
- * Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts
- * Filter fonts according to their type
- * Group fonts into collections for easier management
- * Use multiple font windows simultaneously for easy
- font comparison and management.
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- Installation
-
- To install The Font Thing:
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- 1 If you haven't already done so, unzip the distribution
- file (tfti.zip) into a temporary folder of your
- choice.
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- 2 Run the Setup.exe program and follow the steps of the
- Install Wizard.
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- The Install Wizard copies the program and help files onto
- your computer, and sets up Start Menu links and uninstall
- information.
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- There is no need to uninstall a previous version of The
- Font Thing before installing a newer version.
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- To run The Font Thing:
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- * From the Start Menu, choose Programs, then The Font
- Thing (its program group), then The Font Thing (the
- program itself).
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- When you run The Font Thing for the first time, it
- creates two subfolders called "Notes" and "Collections"
- in the program installation folder.
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- Removal
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- To remove (uninstall) The Font Thing:
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- 1 From the Start Menu, choose Settings then Control
- Panel.
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- 2 Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
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- The Add/Remove Programs Properties window is
- displayed.
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- 3 Select The Font Thing from the list of programs.
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- 4 Choose the Add/Remove button, then follow the
- instructions on your screen.
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- Version History
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- Version 0.80 (beta 2) released 22 December 1999
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- New Features:
- * Choose your own colours for the font sample text,
- background and extra information (e.g. ASCII values
- and plain text characters).
- * Set up standard text samples and quickly switch
- between them using drop-down lists (you can still
- type your own ad-hoc text samples too, of course).
- * Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts.
- * Load (and unload) fonts for temporary use.
- * Set the size of the font used for font notes.
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- Modifications:
- * The main menu and context (right-click) menus have
- been changed back to standard behaviour, since the
- nifty menu components I was using caused problems
- with other windows (such as the Properties dialog
- and Help Contents page) coming up behind The Font
- Thing's main window. The most obvious result is
- that the main menu isn't dockable/floatable any
- more (although the tool bar and filter bar still
- are); the images next to the menu items also behave
- a bit differently. On the positive side, however,
- the program is quite a lot smaller! I'll reinstate
- the main menu docking/floating behaviour when a
- suitable version of the menu component is available.
- * Added the Add to Collection and Copy to Folder
- commands to the File menu (they were previously
- only available on the font list context menu).
- * Added a None function to the filter area, to make it
- faster to clear filters.
- * Clicking on a font sample in the Multiple view now
- selects that font in the adjacent font list (you can
- hold Ctrl down while you click to select multiple
- fonts in this manner).
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- Bug Fixes:
- * Fix occasional access violation errors when browsing
- folders with the Multiple page active.
- * Add further checks for Registry problems which could
- cause the previous version to fail on startup with
- an error message similar to the following:
- Error reading InstalledFontList.Mode:
- Invalid data type for 'SerialNumber'
- * When showing text labels on the tool bars, ensure
- the buttons are wide enough to fit the longest
- visible text label (e.g. in Large Fonts mode).
- * Correct the position of the character zoom popup
- relative to the active font window.
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- The help file was updated accordingly.
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- Further Information
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- If you have any suggestions, questions, comments, or even
- bug reports (!) you can contact the author at:
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- scef@ozemail.com.au
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- You can also check the following web page for the latest
- program information:
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- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
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