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- Font List 1.0
- - helps you to manage your fonts -
-
- What it is:
-
- Font List is a handy little tool that helps you manage your fonts. As the name
- suggests, it displays a list of all fonts that are installed in your system. By
- clicking an item on the list you get a sample text in the chosen typeface. You can
- also print sample pages of all your fonts to make your own typebook.
-
- I suggest that you place Font List or an Alias of it into the Apple-Menu for an easy
- access.
-
- How it works:
-
- After starting, Font List reads the names of all your installed fonts. This list
- appears on the left side. Simply click on any name to see how this font looks like –
- quite handy if you’re looking for a specific typeface and don‘t want to open all your
- font suitcases.
-
- By double-clicking any list item you’ll add it to the list of fonts to be printed (on
- the right). Alternatively, you can also click on the ‘plus’ button. Add all the fonts
- that you want to print, then click on the printer symbol in the bottom (or press
- ‘Command-P’) to start printing. As you might have guessed, the ‘minus’ button removes
- the acually activated font name from the print list.
-
- You can even edit the sample text. Just click in the text field and enter whatever
- characters you want to have displayed.
-
- (Let me take this opportunity to remind all American type designers that a font
- should not only contain the plain characters but also the glyphs. Fonts without
- “ä”, “é” or similars are practically useless in Europe!)
-
- If you want, you can even change the sample text that will be printed. Press
- “Command-L” (or choose “Layout” from the “Window” menu). I am quite content with
- the sample texts, but if you are not…
-
- Credits for the sample texts go to Ovid and Horace. Both are long dead and
- would probably wish to be dead (if they were alive) if they knew that their poems
- are nowadays favorite blind texts for sample printings.
-
- Known Bugs:
-
- No serious bugs are known, that means, no bugs that crash your machine or destroy
- data or so… However, you use this program on your own risk and I can not be made
- reliable for anything unexpected it does.
-
- There has been a report about crashes if the sample texts (you know, the Ovid and
- Horace) are too long and you are using an older printer driver. I couldn‘t reproduce
- this here, but it gives you reason to stay at the classics or at least save your wors
- before you try modern lyrics :-)
-
- Due to the architecture of the program, tools like Günther Blaschek‘s “PopChar” don‘t
- work within it, which is a pitty, since this is that is a really great tool. I hope,
- I can change this in one of the next versions.
-
- If you find bugs, have suggestions or just want to say hello, please send me an email
- (even if you won’t pay the shareware fee).
-
- What it costs:
-
- Font List is not a free program. Sorry. But if you use this program, you will quickly
- find it worth it’s price; It is just:
-
- US $ 10,–
-
- or its equivalent in your currency. Please pay through Kagi. I have enclosed the
- payment application, so you‘ll find it quite easy
-
- How to contact me:
-
- You can pay through KAGI Shareware, either via their web site at
- “http://www.kagi.com/ ” or using the registration programm which comes with this
- package.
-
- If you live in Europe, you can also send the money directly to me. If you send cash,
- put it into a folded carbon paper so the postman won’t get greedy, you know (No,
- really: Finnish postmen are the most honest in the world)
-
- Sascha René Leib
- Lampitie 38 A 1
- FIN-33100 Tampere
- – Suomi / Finland –
-
- mail to: sascha.leib@uta.fi or sascha@kagi.com
-
- On my homepage at http://www.uta.fi/~sl59606/ you can always get the latest
- information on my software – and on myself, of course.
-
- Legal Stuff:
-
- {$incl ”std/legal.h“}
-
- Thank you:
-
- I want to thank my girl friend for patience when it was geting late again, my beta
- testers for their comments and suggestions, my company, Tietovalta Oy
- (“http://www.tietovalta.com/”) for letting me use their ressources – and last but not
- least all who payed or will pay the shareware fee…
-
- please support shareware!
-