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- P F B V i e w
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- for Microsoft Windows
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- Martin Hepperle
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- This is a Beta version of a font viewer.
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- It can display characters of Postscript Type 1 fonts which
- are stored in binary eexec format (this applies to most fonts
- which are available for Adobe Type Manager for Windows).
- It is not foolproof yet (I didn´t find a fool to test it)
- and may crash under certain instances.
- I also found that some PD fonts do not follow the rules
- of the Adobe white book for creating character paths (overlapping
- paths).
- PFBView has been written to take a look at the large number
- of Postscript fonts available at cica without having to
- install them into ATM.
- It can be used to print a map of all available characters
- which comes in handy when you have to enter special characters
- and symbols via ALT-0...
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- To try it out you first have to select a font by using the
- menuitem [File -> Open PFB...]. Then you can take a look
- at the other menu options.
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- Menu items:
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- [File]
- [Open PFB...] select a Postscript font file
- [Print Font] print what you see in the ´PFB View´ window
- [Select Printer...] install a printer for ´PFB View´
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- [Options]
- [Size...] specify the font height in millimeters
- [Display...] you can display either:
- - the ANSI (==Windows) caracterset
- - all the characters as they are stored in
- the font file
- - a string of your choice
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- [Colors...] select colors for:
- - character outline (each RGB component 0...255)
- - character interior (each RGB component 0...255)
- toggle fill interior switch
- select a pen attributes:
- - pen style
- - pen thickness (only for solid pen)
- [Info]
- [About PFB View...] do you really have to know ?
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- You can copy single characters to the clipboard (in metafile format) by
- clicking in the character bounding box.
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- Future: Maybe I will make PFBView into a DLL which offers functions
- like the Windows Text API (CreateFont, TextOut etc...)
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- Status: Beta copy, almost operational
- Author: Martin Hepperle
- Internet: martin@mecha2.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de
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