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- Demo Verions of Macromedia Fontographer« 4.1 for Windows
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- March 10, 1996
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- The Fontographer 4.1 Demo Version allows you to explore most of the
- functionality of Fontographer 4.1 with the following exceptions:
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- 1. Please note that you cannot "Save" or "Save As" in this version.
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- 2. You also cannot "Export" or "Generate Font Files".
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- 3. "Copy" does not copy to the clipboard, so you cannot copy
- anything out of this version into any other program.
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- We hope that you'll become a Fontographer 4.1 enthusiast and tell
- others of the quality performance and impressive capabilities of
- the best font creation package on the market. If you'd like to order
- Fontographer, call Macromedia sales at 800-288-4797.
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- Welcome to Macromedia Fontographer« 4.1 for Windows(TM)! If you run
- into a question and don't see the answer here,you can access our
- Web Site 24-hours a day to find a TechNotes addressing a
- technical problem. TECHNOTES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE 24-HOURS A DAY VIA
- OUR MACROFACTS FAXBACK SERVICE AT 800-449-3329, OR 415-863-4409. You
- will likely find that raoming out Web Site will gove you the most
- complete answer to your common questions
-
- Our Internet address is http://www.macromedia.com.
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- Minimum System requirements: Windows 3.1 with 32s v1.3; 6 MB
- RAM; 5 MB HD space.
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- If you notice that Fontographer's sounds preferences is greyed out,
- this is because you either don't have a sound board, or the board you
- have is not asychronous.
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- In characters with "counters" (like "o"), where the outside path should
- go clockwise and the other should be COUNTERclockwise, beware: if both
- paths go in the same direction, the character will be solid black,
- with no white center. To avoid unpleasant surprises like this, check
- your path directions -- or, use Fontographer's useful, time-saving
- function, "Correct path direction".
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- When autotracing a bitmap, particularly a signature, it is possible
- to overflow the buffer. If your trace has lines sticking out all
- over it, undo it, undo the paste, and go back and break the bitmap up
- into sections. Then paste the sections into individual character cells,
- and trace.
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- The Control key causes a demagnified move -- but it is also used for
- other key combinations. If you find, for example, that you want to
- temporarily switch to the arrow tool and drag-select an object, when
- you start moving the mouse it will go VERY slowly. As long as the
- Control key was depressed before you started dragging, you can let
- go of it and the arrow tool will still be selected -- which will
- move a lot faster!
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- Since certain characters (such as the curly quotes) don't exist in some
- Windows system fonts, when you type these characters into a field which
- uses that font (such as AutoKern/Advanced/Which characters), you will
- see only bars for your text. The characters will still get kerned,
- they just can't show up in the text field.
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- Your custom-named characters, and a few others which are not visually
- represented, will appear as a double asterisk (**) in the Font Window
- (when viewing by Character).
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- PRINTING WITH FONTOGRAPHER'S PRINT COMMAND
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- If you have difficulty printing via Fontographer's "Print" command,
- then you most likely have a print driver that isn't 100% Windows
- compatible, or you don't have the proper fonts installed. Below are
- some tips to help you print successfully.
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- - Install Arial: Fontographer depends on the font "Arial" for
- most of its printing. You should install this font from your
- Windows disks if it is not already installed.
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- - Always print a test page: When you install your print driver,
- you should print a test page if the installer prompts you to
- do so. This will test the basic operation of the print driver.
- If you're running Windows95, the test page should contain about
- half a page of information about your printer. If you only see
- a small graphic at the top of the page, or less than one-third
- of a page of information, then your driver probably isn't 100%
- Windows compatible.
-
- - Choose a different print driver: Changing print drivers will
- almost always solve your printing problems. In general, you
- should switch to a driver with a similar name, and probably a
- less complex name. For example, if you have trouble printing
- to an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630, then switch to the basic
- AppleLaserWriter driver. Consult your Windows user manual to
- learn more about changing print drivers.
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- - The "Apple LaserWriter" driver: This driver works well for most
- PostScript laser printers, including the Apple LaserWriter Pro
- series, the HP LaserJet 4M series, and many others.
-
- - Where to get new drivers: If you can't find a driver that works,
- then contact your printer manufacturer. You can probably find
- their phone number in the manual that came with your printer.
- Printer manufacturers frequently release new drivers that fix
- compatibility problems.
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- If you are using pressure sensitive tablets with Fontographer, then be
- sure you have the most recent versions of the software drivers. In
- testing, we used the Wacom Art-Z tablet, the only tablet with an
- available Windows95 driver that we could get our hands on during
- development.
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- We found that the Logitech PageScan (TM) Color Scanner would scan bitmaps
- directly into Fontographer's template layer. This may work quite well for
- you, or you may want to scan them into Paint/PaintBrush, clean up the
- scan, select the area you want to trace, and then use copy and paste
- to get the bitmap into Fontographer.
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- Special thanks to Peter Belew, Erik Breiter, Michael Charness, James S.
- Clark, Mayrev Eleasari, Martha Forsyth, Bob Hallissy, Kelvin Ishigo,
- Nicole Josan, Ted Keener, Jim Link, Don Lyckman, Thomas Milo,
- Duane Roberts, Shannon Sidbury, Simon Smith and Bill Troop.
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- IN CLOSING...
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- That's about it. Thank you for trying Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 for
- Windows. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed creating it!
-
- The Macromedia Fontographer Team
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