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                               F O N T S P E C   (version 3.2)
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PROGRAM:        FONTSPEC, a TrueType font viewer and type specimen printer.
                As a viewer, you can display your TrueType fonts in sizes
                from 8 to 98 points, using different effects and in various
                justification modes. In print mode you can produce quality
                formatted font specimen sheets in single or two column, or
                full sheets. You can select just about everything you can
                think of to customize your font specimens just the way you
                want them.

UPDATE:         PLEASE READ THE FILE: CHANGES.TXT FOR INFORMATION ON A
                MAJOR UPDATE TO THIS PRODUCT!

REQUIREMENTS:   WINDOWS 3.1 (or higher), printer.
                Lots of memory for both computer and printer (natch!)

MARKETING:      SHAREWARE (not freeware). Please feel free to distribute this
                program to everyone as long as no monies are collected, except
                for a small disk distribution fee if necessary.

                FontSpec: Copyright (c) 1993 UniTech Corporation
                                             2697 McKelvey Road
                                             Maryland Heights, MO 63043

                                             314 770-2770


SET-UP:         You should have the following 6 files:

                README  .TXT ................ This file
                CHANGES .TXT ................ Product's development notes
                FONTSPEC.EXE ................ Main program, copy it to a
                                              subdirectory of your choice
                FONTSPEC.DLL ................ Copy to Windows subdirectory
                SS3D2   .VBX ................ Copy to Windows subdirectory
                THREED  .VBX ................ Copy to Windows subdirectory

                Note: You should obtain VBRUN300.DLL which is not included
                      with this distribution, but is required for FontSpec
                      to run. This file is probably available from the same
                      source you received FontSpec from.

                      Also, your system should have the two fonts Arial and
                      Arial Bold installed. Both fonts are supplied with
                      Windows. FontSpec makes use of both these fonts.

                To run FontSpec just give its' full pathname to your program
                launcher, to your program manager, or just double-click it
                from the file manager.


LET'S GET STARTED
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Run FontSpec. You should know right off that FontSpec does nothing to your
system so don't be afraid to experiment -- NO system changes are ever made.

You should be looking at the Viewer form. Here you can select any typeface
from the drop-down list box (click on the down-arrow to see the list).
Select any font by clicking on it. You should immediately see a sample of the
font in the sample text window. Now click the check boxes in the Effects
frame to view your font in Italics, or bold, or underline, or all of these.
The three pushbuttons in the Effects frame justify the sample text either
flush left, centered, or flush right.

There are five command buttons in the lower left corner of the Viewer form:

      Sample Text........... Displays the words "Sample Type"
      Character Set......... Displays the font's alphabet, numerals, etc.
      Paragraph............. Displays a paragraph of text

      User Defined #1 & #2.. Both of these can be set up to display your
                             own customized text. More about that later.

The Font Size frame allows you to select any point size from 8 to 98 points.

Okay then, select a font (maybe Arial?), select center justify, select
12 point size, click on the Paragraph button bar. If necessary, you can
scroll the text up or down using the scrollbar just to the right of the
sample text window. You can view any of your installed fonts this way.

At the form's top right, you'll notice 5 buttons:

      Printer................... Switches to the Printer form
      Metrics................... Displays information about the current font
      Set-Up.................... Customize FontSpec
      Question (About) Button... Displays a begging screen
      Exit...................... Ends the program

Try the Question button first. Now you know why I call this a begging screen.
If, after trying FontSpec, you find it useful then feel free to help support
its' continued evolution by sending in your $25 bucks. Please don't think
the "other guy" will send it in -- he (or she) probably won't, so I'm
counting ON YOU!   Okay, enough about this, but please keep it in mind.

Click on the Metrics button. If you were displaying Arial you should see
all of the variations available, the size of the base font, type of font,
family name, etc.

Click on the Set-Up button. The Page Header and Page Footer options are
used on the printed type specimen sheets. If you'd like, go ahead and enter
whatever you want in these two options, or you can leave them alone.

The two User Defined Type Specimen frames correspond to the two User Defined
buttonbars. You can enter your own text or click on the Default Value
buttons to have FontSpec enter text for you, or you can leave them blank.
It's up to you. To save your changes, click on the OK button. To get out of
the Set-Up without saving your changes, press the ESC key.

If you've entered text into the User Defined boxes then you might want to
try them out now.

IMPORTANT: Whatever text is selected with the buttonbars (what you see in
           the sample text window) will be used as the type specimen for
           your printed sheets. So before switching to the Printer form
           be sure you've selected the sample text you want.

You can exit FontSpec by clicking on the Exit button at the top right of
the form.



PRINTER OPTION:
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Click on the Printer button. The Printer form displays two list boxes. The
list box on the left shows all available typefaces. You can either click
on the fonts you want to print or you can click on the Select All Fonts
buttonbar. If you click on individual fonts you will see their name added
to the Fonts-To-Print box, and a sample of the font will be displayed in
the Quick View frame. If you click on the Select All Fonts buttonbar then
all the fonts will be added to the Fonts-To-Print box.

You can remove individual fonts from the Fonts-To-Print box by clicking on the
font name, or you can remove all the fonts by clicking on the Clear All Fonts
buttonbar.

Note that as soon as even one font is selected a jumbo PRINT button appears.
You can print anytime this button is visible (but don't do it yet).

Just below the font list boxes are three option frames:

     Sheet Style:  Single Column prints selected font samples in one line.
                   Two Column (default) prints a page of 2-column samples.
                   Full Sheet prints character sets, paragraphs and samples.

     Print Styles: This frame will disappear if you select the Full Sheet
                   Style since the Full Sheet Style prints everything.
                   Select the various styles you want to print. If your
                   system does not have the selected styles available then
                   FontSpec will create the italic style for you but it
                   will ignore the bold and bold-italic styles if you do not
                   really have them because their spacing would not be the
                   same.

     Options:      You can choose to add the time on each printed page. The
                   date is added automatically. And you can choose to print
                   your type samples in all caps if you wish (some fonts
                   don't have lowercase letters).

Next, select the sample size from the Points frame. If you'