Just place the following files onto your hard disk:
• FontChameleon™ Demo — the application file.
This is the same as the full version of FontChameleon, except that you can’t save descriptor files, and you can’t build TrueType and PostScript fonts.
• FontChameleon Demo Master — the master font outline file.
This file contains only a few of the fonts available in the full version of FontChameleon.
You can move these files anywhere you like on your disk, but they must both be in the same folder.
Double-click on the application file to start FontChameleon. An “About FontChameleon” window is displayed, followed soon by an “untitled” window.
The initial “untitled” window contains font “descriptors” for each font in the demo master file. These are your starting point for creating new fonts. You can delete or modify these descriptors as you wish — the master file itself is never changed.
If you close the untitled window, or if you delete some master file descriptors then want to get them back, choose New from the File menu and click Yes in the resulting dialog. This gives you a new untitled window containing all of the master font descriptors.
• To see a font displayed in the blender area at the right of the window, select it in the Font Descriptors list and click the Set Base Font button (or press Return, or double-click on the font in the list).
You can experiment with the various ways of changing fonts by dragging the sliders. There are actually a total of six sliders, but not all of them are displayed by default. To display additional sliders, check the unchecked slider entries on the Blend menu. (To set the defaults for all subsequent windows, choose Preferences on the Edit menu.)
Please keep in mind that you will get ugly results if you drag sliders to their extremes. In normal circumstances, you should keep the sliders fairly close to their center positions.
• The Weight (top) and Blend (bottom) sliders are special.
FontChameleon changes font weights by automatically blending between different fonts of the same family. For this reason, the range of possible weights varies by family. Families with only one member (such as Cooper Black) don’t permit weight adjustments at all.
You will see that the ends of the Weight slider are somewhat grayed. These are the weights that are not possible — you can’t drag the slider into these areas.
If you want to blend between two fonts, choose the base font (as described above), then choose the font you want to blend with by selecting it in the Font Descriptors list and clicking the Set Blend Font button. Now the Blend slider will become active, and you can drag it to get different amounts of blending.
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