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AMP Font Viewer 2.55
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⌐ 1997-2000 Alberto Martinez Perez
E-mail: amp@ampsoft.freeservers.com
WWW: http://ampsoft.freeservers.com
Contents
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1. Description
2. Legal stuff
3. Installation
4. Usage tips
5. Known problems and limitations
6. Notes about TTF fonts
7. Credits
1. Description
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This program is an easy-to-use but powerful font viewer, designed to obtain a
quick view of all installed and not installed fonts in the system. Some of its
features are:
- View list of all installed fonts.
- View list of all uninstalled fonts in a directory.
- Option of organize the fonts in categories.
- Install one or a selection of the fonts in a directory.
- Print a custom list of installed fonts with an example of each font.
- Find font by name.
- Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font.
- Shows also Type 1 fonts if you have the Adobe Type Manager installed.
- Dual English/Spanish version.
See Changes.txt for changes history.
If you have any suggestion, you find a bug, etc., send me an e-mail.
2. Legal stuff
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This program is freeware, but only for private use (not commercial). For
commercial use or inclusion in distributions that you gets paid (CD's, ...)
contact with the author for authorization. You can redistribute it for free,
whenever you use the original package. It you don't have a original package,
you can find it at http://ampsoft.freeservers.com.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY. The author declines responsibility for any possible damage due to the
use of this program.
3. Installation
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Simply copy the program's files to the directory where you want to store
then, and make a shortcut to the executable file.
4. Usage tips
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- You can view text which have more that one font in the scratchpad area, e.g.
for compare three or four fonts. To get this, copy any text in the scratchpad
area, change to the other font that you want to view, and paste the text
AFTER the current text. You will see the text with the two fonts. If you
change the font now, only the text of the first font changes. You can
repeat this process many times to view more fonts at the same time.
- You can view text with have more that one color. To do this, apply the steps
of the previous tip.
- If you put a 0 in the number of columns in the View all mode, the scroll bar
becomes vertical instead of horizontal, but you can view 1 column only.
- When you print the list of fonts, the program uses the number of columns and
font size of the font List. Note that the portion of text viewed in the
screen can be different of the portion printed.
- Try to avoid the use of the View directory option (for not installed fonts)
in directories with more than 250-300 fonts. Font Viewer install temporarily
these fonts, and this could be a slow process. Also, you can exceed the
Windows font limit (See the next section for this).
5. Known problems and limitations
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- In some cases, when you install a font, it don't appear in the Windows
Fonts folder. To fix this, open the Fonts folder and then select in Font
Viewer File/Update Fonts folder. If you don't do this, the fonts not appear
in the Fonts folder until you restart Windows.
- In some fonts, Font Viewer shows (???) instead of the name of the file. This
is due to a error in the installation of the font in most of the cases, but
with a very few fonts the (???) can appear although there are properly
installed. For the same reason, these fonts are reported as not installed
when installing new fonts.
- In Windows NT, you must login as Administrator to allow Font Viewer runs
properly. It you login as a normal user, you can see the installed fonts,
but some features not work, such as install new fonts.
- Windows font limit. In Windows 9x, the number of fonts that you can install
is limited. This number is about 1000 fonts (if you have installed four
subtypes of a font, they count as four different fonts). Due to this, when
you use the View directory option, if the sum of installed and uninstalled
fonts exceed the limit you cannot see the last fonts properly, since the
program need to install these fonts temporarily.
6. Notes about TTF fonts
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- The "Default" font. In Windows 98 you can found that there is a font called
"Default", with no subtypes or file. The only thing I know is that is a
special font provided by Windows.
- Font subtypes. A font can have different files for different subtypes (bold,
italic, ...). This is made to get better quality. If the font have only one
file, Windows or the programs simulates the subtype. Due to that, you can
install four files and get only a new font, but with four subtypes (usually
regular, bold, italic and bold-italic).
- Different name for the same subtype. Sometimes, there is a font subtype that
looks identical that other subtype with different name. It is due to the
authors of the font have released different versions of the font with different
subtype name (e.g. Regular and Plain). If you are sure that the same subtypes
look exactly, you can delete one of then.
- Different file names for the same font. A font don't have a unique file name.
In other words, you can find the same font with different file names.
7. Credits
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⌐ 1997-2000 Alberto Martinez Perez
E-mail: amp@ampsoft.freeservers.com
Thanks to Antonio Torralba and Rafael Barranco-Droege for their corrections and
suggestions.
Thanks to Volker J. Hellborg and Paulo Neto for their support.