ShowFont 2.0 - by Arthur Johnson Jr.
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                          Last update date - 09/07/88
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     This program allows you to quickly and painlessly view all 256
characters in a typical font.  I wrote it because using FontEd or (choke!)
NotePad to see what a font looks like can be slow, tedious, monotonous, etc.

     To use this program, simply type "ShowFont [font_name] [font_size]".
Both the font_name (Topaz, Ruby, etc.) and font_size (8, 12, etc.) are
purely optional.  If you do not specify a size, ShowFont will check all your
available fonts and then show you what sizes of the font you wanted exist.
If you also omitted the size, you can select what font to see simply by
using the font requester.  More on this below.  By the way, if someone makes
an icon for this program, it might just run from WorkBench.  Since I never
use WorkBench, I haven't bothered testing this.

     Yes, I've actually added "on-the-fly" font selection!  (This is for
all those ShowFont 1.0 users).  A font selector will pop up when
appropriate (like when you want to select a font to view).  Just click on
all the gadgets (they are pretty standard) until the font and size you want
are highlighted.  Notice you may also click directly on a font/size and
that font/size will immediately be highlighted.  Then, click the OK gadget.
If you don't want to change the font you had been viewing (if any), click
the CANCEL gadget.

     * NOTE * ShowFont looks in the FONTS: directory for all its fonts.

     For all of us font collectors who have entirely too many fonts for
many popular programs to handle, and have split their font directories into
many smaller font dirs for convenience, you can still see any font you may
have by pushing the ShowFont window into the background, and ASSIGN-ing
FONTS: to whatever dir has the font you want to see in it.  Then, using the
menu option "Read FONTS:", ShowFont will show (I'll have to find some other
synonyms for "show" and "display" soon) the updated font list.

     While I'm at it, the menu options "About" and "Quit" are pretty self-
explanatory.  The "Font Selection" option will bring up the font
requester.  Notice all these menu features ("features" replaces the already-
abused "option") have short key-equivalents (Amiga-Q for "Quit") because I
believe in such things.

     If the font is found, ShowFont will display "font_name-font_size" in
the upper left-hand corner of the screen next to the CLOSE gadget.  To see
the rest of the font (if all 256 characters cannot fit on the screen at
once), use the three gadgets on the right-hand side of the screen.  Again,
their function closely resembles their appearance.  Fiddle around for about
three seconds and you will be quite familiar and comfortable with scrolling
around a font.

     To exit the program, click on the CLOSE gadget or select the menu
"Quit" option or press Right-Amiga-Q.  I like three ways to end a program!

     Another note for ShowFont 1.0 users - I have stripped out all the
blank "empty" spaces in the font when I display it (actually, PrintIText
did), so you shouldn't have to scroll around aimlessly looking for the first
defined character.

     I'll apologize now for this rather random and odd documentation file,
but I'm usually dazed and confused after my program successfully runs
without any apparent bugs.

     That's it!  Any comments/questions/suggestions/flames/improvements/
etc., can be directed to the following address:

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                       * Arthur Johnson Jr.        *
                       * 225 Montego Bay Court     *
                       * Merritt Island, FL  32953 *
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                       *          - or -           *
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                       *      (407) 277-0548       *
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     One of these days I'll memorize exactly how my GEnie account name is
spelled so you could also reach me from that, but not today.

     If you happen to find a problem with the program (some fonts insist on
over-writing my gadgets although I explicity say not to), please send me
some sort of message describing EXACTLY what caused the problem and I'll try
to fix it in the next release.  I plan to re-write ShowFont entirely in
assembly language for 3.0, but that will have to wait for a while until
college permits.

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     I guess I should add that this program and source are PUBLIC DOMAIN in
all ways.  Feel free to do whatever you like with the program, although give
me some credit somewhere... 8) (sideways frog grin)
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