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- Please Note...
-
- When Adobe Viewer is up an running, you will be presented
- with a file requester. Basically Adobe Viewer needs to
- access a data file called MI-AdobeLib.001. You can either
- access it by clicking through the buttons/devices or you
- can type the following into the dialog box near the bottom
- of the requester...
-
- "EMC_Phase1:Utilities/AdobeViewer" (without the quotes)
-
- and then clicking on the MI-AdobeLib.001 file.
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- About the Adobe Screen Font Catalog
-
- The file "MI-AdobeLib.001" contains information as well as
- a viewable graphic for all Adobe fonts, volumes 1-199.
- This information can be viewed using the utility
- "LibViewer", included in this archive.
- The LibViewer will load the entire Library file (600K)
- into memory, if available, or will create an index from
- the Library and read in information one font at a time. It
- will then allow you to preview samples of all the Abobe
- fonts via a simple, scollable list system.
-
- Although the Library and Viewer are intended as a
- reference tool for those interested in purchasing Mirror
- Image's Adobe Screen Font Collection (for use with our
- font conversion/management package, MIfont), they can be
- used simply as an Adobe Font Reference Guide for anyone
- interested in Adobe fonts.
-
- The Library and Viewer are © Copyright 1991, Mirror Image
- Productions, but may be reproduced and distributed freely
- as long as the Library, Viewer and this document are
- included in the distribution. No fee is required (a small
- donation to a struggling software house (namely us!) would
- unlikely be refused, however!:)
-
- All font depictions in the Library were created using
- Adobe screen fonts converted from the Mac to the Amiga
- with MIfont. The names of the fonts are their full, TRUE
- PostScript names, derived from their original Mac files
- via software (so there are no spelling mistakes!).
- The "LibViewer" was conceived and written by Gary
- Brusanowski under GFA Basic 3.1E.
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- How to use the LibViewer
-
- The utility "LibViewer" essentially allows you to VERY
- quickly take a look at any of the 971 Adobe screen fonts
- currently available from Mirror Image.
- The LibViewer wil load the entire library file (all 600+K
- of it!) into memory if you have enough, or will read
- individual font entries from the library while still on
- disk if you don't (this is fast enough, but not as fast as
- having it all in memory!). You should NOT try to load the
- library from a floppy if you don't have to, as this will
- likely take forever.
-
- Most of the LibViewer is fairly self-explanatory, once you
- get into it.
- Please note that any information about disk space, point
- sizes and the like refer to what you'll get when you
- convert the screen fonts with MIfont. For instance, the
- line "Total Disk Space: 32145" means that that is how much
- disk space, in bytes, is occupied by the converted font's
- bitmaps plus PPage metric file.
-
- Along the left is the List Box. You can choose which font
- to display by clicking on their names (you can hold down
- the mouse button and scroll around if you wish). As well,
- you can navigate the list by using the 6 buttons above and
- below it (these buttons have keyboard equivalents; just
- press the on-screen "Help" gadget for more information).
-
- By the way, the reason the buttons "Top" and "Bottom" are
- backwards to where you might expect to find them is: if
- you go to the top of the list with the "Top" button, what
- is the first thing you'll likely want to do next? Go DOWN
- the list!, and the Pg Dwn and Scroll Down buttons are
- right there. Make sense? I thought so.
-
- The List Box can be sorted one of two ways: alphabetically
- and by Disk # (the default is alphabetically). The button
- marked "Sorted by..." will tell you which way the list is
- currently sorted.
- If you click that button, it will change to "Sorted by
- Disk" and the list will re-sort itself, so that all fonts
- are arranged as per how they are arranged in our screen
- font library. As well in this mode, a scrolling brace down
- the right side of this list shows you the disk
- separations.
- In alphabetic mode, you can jump to the first entry
- starting with any alphabetic key you hit on the keyboard.
- In both modes, you can jump to the next or last block in
- the list with the plus or minus keys (a "block" in "Sorted
- by Name" mode is any group of fonts starting with the same
- letter; in "Sorted by Disk" mode, a "block" is defined as
- any group of fonts belonging to the same disk in our
- collection).
- The list of buttons along the bottom operate in two
- different ways. If in "Sorted by Name" mode, clicking a
- button will take you to the first font starting with the
- letter in the button (if the button is not reversed, there
- are no fonts that start with that letter). If in "Sorted
- by Disk" mode, clicking a button will will take you to the
- first font of the Disk # shown in the box ("Disk 0" fonts
- are supplied free with MIfont; the button marked "MI"
- refers to the "core fonts" which are supplied free on the
- actual MIfont program disk).
-
- If you want to keep track of disks as you move through the
- catalog in "Sorted by Disk" mode (for ordering disks from
- us), just hit the "Mark/Unmark" button and the disk button
- will reverse (hit it again to make it go back to normal).
-
- That's about it.
-
- If you have any questions, comments or would like to order
- any of our software (including the Adobe Screen Font
- Collection), call Mirror Image Productions at (416)
- 495-7469 during regular business hours or leave me some
- email on CompuServe (Gary Brusanowski, 70304,2516).
-
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- Mirror Image Productions
- 30 Aurora Court, Suite 1209
- Scarborough, Ontario, CANADA
- M1W 2M3
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- Voice - (416) 495-7469
- Fax - (416) 492-4030
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