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@HEADLINE = SoftCraft's Font Editor
@BYLINE = Publisher Information Service
@BYLINE = (312)-342-6919
@BYLINE = "When you're SERIOUS about your documents"
@FIRSTPAR = With our newfound ability to utilize numerous laser printer
fonts in Desktop Publishing packages coupled with the power of the
laser printer has come the need to alter these fonts to suit custom
needs and requirements. A new breed of software has made its mark
on the PC horizon - the Font Editor.
SoftCraft, Inc. of Madison, Wis has been offering the PC user high
quality fonts and font utilities since before most of us ever hear
the term "Desktop Publishing" and is well know amongst business and
word processing users for its Fancy Font and Fancy Word add on packages
for laser printers. Now they have done the same for the need to edit
and custom design laser printer fonts. The result is the SoftCraft
Font Editor.
The SoftCraft Font Editor will allow you to create your own fonts
and also alter existing ones with ease. The versatile program also
allows you to create logos and special symbols. Creating logos or
letterheads, accented characters, special symbols, foreign lanauges
characters or virtually any other characters is easily accomplished
with this Font Editor since it uses your computer's graphics mode
to provide you with a powerful yet easy-to-use mouse and menu driven
tools for editing fonts. The SoftCraft Font Editor also provides the
user with the ability to zoom in and out and display up to five different
windows during font editing. The windows can have a different character
or can also contain an alternate view of a character being edited. The
Font Editor is also provided with a set of built in tools to edit
existing characters or create new news. You may create entirely new
fonts, or simply replace characters in an existing font.
@HEADLINE 1L = Compatibility
SoftCraft's Font Editor works with fonts in HP soft format, as well
as SoftCraft font format for laser and dot matrix printers. The Editor
also has the ability to convert between various font formats and can
contain up to 256 characters. A character or logo can be up to 800
pixels wide and 600 pixels long (2.6 by 2 inches on a standard laser
printer). Font Editor can also be used to edut digitized images from
scanners, as well as pictures created in .PCX format (PC Paintbrush/Publishers
Paintbrush) as well as operating harmoniously with MicroSoft Word
via Fancy Font and Fancy Word.
@HEADLINE 1L =
<B>Some of the Editing Tool<D>s:
@BULLET = Lines (multi segment of specified thickness)
@BULLET = Curves (smooth curves of specified thickness)
@BULLET = Circles
@BULLET = Elipses
@BULLET = Boxes and Rectangles
@BULLET = Fill (fill an enclosed area with ink - to make a rounded
bullet draw a circle and then fill it)
@BULLET = Rotate Mirror objects around horizontal and vertical axis
90 ti 180 degrees
@BULLET = Enlarge to 800 by 600 pixels
@BULLET = Reduce Inverse of Enlarge
@BULLET = Slant Slant characters left or right for oblique effects
@BULLET = Copy/Move Copy or move a portion of a char or logo from
one window to another. Useful for creating accented characters -
ligatures or characters with common components
@BULLET = Invert Invert a char or image
@BULLET = Embolden
@BULLET = Font Editor Contents:
@BULLET = The System Contains:
@HEADLINE 1L = SCFE:SoftCraft Font Editor Program
Sample Font: Times 12 pt
CFONT: Font creation program. Thie will allow you to create new fonts
using characters selected from the Hershey database. Characters can
be scaled to any size up to the max size allowed by your printer.
Hershey Database: Over 1500 chars and symbols that can be scaled and
combined into new fonts with Cfont. Styles include Roman, Sans Serif,
Greek, Cyrillic, Math, Astrological, Music and more.
SCTOHP: A package that automatically converst SoftCraft fonts to HP
soft font file format (portrait and landscape) which allows you to
use SoftCraft fonts with any HP soft font format.
HPTOSC: Converts HP to SoftCraft format
Users Manual: A 100 page manual including a quick start section as
well as an abundance of visual and written examples.
SoftCraft News: A subscription to SoftCraft's monthly newsletter.
Support: Free Phone Support
@LASTPAR = The SoftCraft Font Editor is quite easy to use and its
versatilify is quite handy to have in your toolbox when you need those
special laser printer fonts. As an add on for the Desktop Publisher
this one is highly valuable for the LaserJet User.