FNT2PRT - MANUAL ================ Before reading this ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, my english is quite poor not to say miserable. I think there are thousands of mistakes in this text. If somebody is willing to improve it (the text), please contact me. Thank you. Legal stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPORTANT! ---------- I don't in any case take warranty of this program. So if it should eat your dog, make your Amiga belching or cry "I'm a PC, I'm a PC!", it's your problem. The program was intensively tested and should work 100% stable. Copyright --------- The Copyright © stays at the autor. The autor agrees that the program may be copied freely and passed on. But the program must stay as is and with all files coming with this package (icons, manual) The program may become part of pd-series, especially of Fred Fish´s AmigaLibDisk. When including into other series or on cd-rom (exept for Fresh Fish/Frozen Fish/Goldfish) or on other media the autor must be contacted. Who acts contrary, will be prosecuted juridically. Requirements ~~~~~~~~~~~~ First of all you need an Amiga®-Computer :-) with at least Amiga-OS 2.0 (37.175). Besides to the libraries being in the ROM, the gadtools.library and the diskfont.library will be needed, which generally will be on your boot disk (Workbench2.0). Further a printer is necessary which can print text and graphics and is supported by the workbench. Fnt2Prt was tested with configurations as follow: A1200, HP DJ 510, OS2.0 A1200, HP DJ 510, OS3.0 A1200, Oki ML 390 (EpsonQ-compatible), OS3.0 A1200, EpsonX-compatible printer (9 pins), OS3.0 A500, EpsonX-compatibler printer, OS2.1 What is Fnt2Prt? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perhaps this happened to you, too: By the time you've been collecting many fonts and one day you loose the survey. Indeed you can load every font and try, but it costs lots of time (especially the Agfa-Compugraphicfonts®). Now Fnt2Prt will help! Using this program you can print all Amiga standard fonts and Intellifonts so you have them clearly and you easily can look them up. Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simply copy the program (and the manual(s) to the directory you want. How to use ~~~~~~~~~~ Best you learn by trying it out. The buttons are lettered clearly and logically. Who just wants to print all fonts only has to start the program and press the "print..." and the "print" button of the new window. What's important, is to have the correct Printer and PrinterGfx preferences. For everybody now who wants to know more accurate, an explanation follows. How to start the program ------------------------ As usual you can start the program from the workbench by double-clicking or from the shell/cli by entering the name. Fnt2Prt requires no parameters. The user interface ------------------ After pressing the close button the program quits. * fonts In the listview all the fonts according to the attributes will be shown. The fonts to be printed are marked with a dot (·). You can turn particular fonts on/off by simply selecting the according line. In the string gadget titled "pattern" you can enter a pattern wich (de)selectes fonts. The pattern works same as a DOS pattern. Examples: #?: All fonts will be selected ~#?: All fonts will be deselected A#?: All fonts beginning with a or A will be selected #?[A-E]#? All fonts containing a letter from the area between a and e will be selected (topaz) Only the topaz font will be selected Using "reread FONTS:" the FONTS: directory will be reread. * size The size of the fonts to be printed will be put in. When "same size" is selected, all fonts will be scaled to the size below; when "maximum size" is selected the fonts will be printed in the size which is next to the selected one. Examples: "maximum size" and 20 are selected. font present sizese printed size ---------------------------------------------------- topaz 8,9,11 11 Helvetica 9,11,13,15,18,24 18 BigFont 36,48 none * attributes The first cycle gadget determines if fixed fonts and/or proportional ones will be printed; the second gadget decides about Amiga fonts or Agfa-Intellifonts. * text The text entered here will be printed. By pressing the "Help" key the original text will be entered. * print... headline: With the cycle gadget you can decide, when the headline should be printed. "text:" says if a automatic headline or a self created one, entered in the string gadget, should be printed. page #: You can select when to print the page number. status line: If selected at the end of the printout a little statistik about the number of fonts and sizes will be printed. print The program starts printing. By pressing the key or by selecting the close button of the window you can stop printing. exit The program keeps the preferences and goes back cancel The program cancels and resets the preferences. Preferences ----------- It's important to have the right Printer and PrinterGfx preferences. The program depends on them. So if the printout should be defective the problem with high certainty lies at that. Printer: It's important to have the correct margins. PrinterGfx: With the density you ajust the size of the printed fonts. To help you I added the tool "PrinterInfo" in the goodies drawer, which shows you some values. epilog / the author's address ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This program was a lot of work and costed me much of my spare time. So if you like / dislike it, or only have read the manual until here, I please you to send me a postcard or a letter or a present or something to know it. Werner Freytag Neurieder Straße 8 82152 Martinsried Bavaria / Germany Thanx To ~~~~~~~~ Oliver Maegerlein for beta testing Holger Schemel for uploading Some girls: Ali, Anja, Anne, Barbara, Barbara, Bettina, Bini, Conni, Dani, Franzi, Heike, Iris, Julia, Julia, Luci, Mania, Marion, Michi, Steffi, Viola, Yvonne