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- Product: Font Off
-
- Description:
-
- The Font Off program helps you maintain your Windows TrueType
- fonts. If you are like a lot of people you have accumulated
- several hundred true type fonts. "I never know when I am going
- to need them". They are taking up a lot of valuable hard drive
- space and slowing down Windows. You may be using one of the
- common font manager programs to remove the font from Windows (so
- Windows is not so slow). Although these programs remove the font
- from Windows they leave the font's file(s) in the hard drive -
- still taking up space but not being useful.
-
- Font Off works differently. In addition to removing the font
- from Windows, Font Off removes the font from your Windows System
- directory and stores it in another directory. Since this
- directory can be on any DOS drive media, you can move the fonts
- to another hard drive (or network drive), floppies or other
- removable media. When you need the font you simply reverse the
- process and reinstall it to Windows.
-
- Font Off will not install new fonts to windows, it only maintains
- your existing fonts. You must therefore use the font installer
- that often comes with new fonts, or use the Windows font manager
- to install new fonts. Once the font is installed in Windows you
- can use Font Off to move it off line until it is needed.
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- Font Off Evaluation
- You are granted a 15 day evaluation period to try Font Off. If
- you use it after this evaluation period you must register it.
- Please see the on-line help system for details about the license
- agreement and the registration process.
- Additional Information
- * If a program was running while you were installing fonts,
- the program may not know about the new fonts. Exit the
- program and restart it.
- * If a program was running while you were removing fonts,
- the program may not know you have removed a font. If you
- try to use the fonts unpredictable results may occur.
- * In addition to the newly loaded fonts being immediately
- available to Windows, the WIN.INI file is automatically
- updated by Font Off. The next time you start windows you
- will also have access to the new fonts.
- *
- The True Type font must have a matching .FOT file in order
- for Font Off to work properly. Some font managers do not
- properly maintain the FOT file (Font Off does). If you
- receive errors when removing a font it is probably because
- the FOT file is not present. Use Font Off to restore the
- font to Windows and then use the Windows Font Manager to
- reinstall the font again. You can then safely remove it
- with Font Off.
- * Font Off does checks for available disk space when
- removing or installing fonts. If you run out of space
- Font Off will notify you and stop moving fonts.
- * Font Off will not copy a font file (FOT or TTF) if the
- same file already exist in the target directory. This
- saves time as the system will not bother copying over an
- existing off line font if you are removing a font you have
- previously saved. If you need to update an existing
- font's file you should install the new font using Windows
- Font Manager, delete the FOT and TTF files from the off
- line storage directory, and remove the font using Font
- Off.
- * We recommend that you back up the Windows system and off
- line font storage directories regularly.
- * The Font Off program uses the Windows INI file conventions
- for storing information about off line files (and when
- updating WIN.INI). These INI files are limited to 64K.
- You therefore have a limit on the number of fonts you can
- store in the same off line storage location (or have
- installed in Windows at any one time). This limit is
- based only on the INI information which must be
- maintained, not the size of the font files themselves.
- * The Font Off program will only store fonts in a
- subdirectory. You can not store fonts to an off line root
- directory.
- * The format of the [Fonts] section on WIN.INI is important.
- Some font managers will store the full path to the font
- file (when it is never needed as Windows always finds
- fonts in it's system directory.) Font Off will not
- process fonts which have this path information. Save
- space in WIN.INI and FONTOFF.INI by removing this path
- information. A sample [Fonts] section on WIN.INI might
- look like this:
- [Fonts]
- V5 Lucida Sans 10,12,14,18,24=V5SP.FON
- V6 Lucida Sans 10,12,14,18,24=V6SP.FON
- Arial (TrueType)=ARIAL.FOT
- Arial Bold (TrueType)=ARIALBD.FOT
- Arial Bold Italic (TrueType)=ARIALBI.FOT
- Arial Italic (TrueType)=ARIALI.FOT
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- Notice that no drive or directory information is incuded after the equal
- sign.
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- CompuServe ID 73337,2472
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- Mail Address:
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- Pride Software Works!
- Department 45
- 6 Sedley Ct.
- Greensboro, NC 27455
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