Please Note... When Adobe Viewer is up an running, you will be presented with a file requester. Basically Adobe Viewer needs to access a data file called MI-AdobeLib.001. You can either access it by clicking through the buttons/devices or you can type the following into the dialog box near the bottom of the requester... "EMC_Phase1:Utilities/AdobeViewer" (without the quotes) and then clicking on the MI-AdobeLib.001 file. ---------------------------------------------------------- About the Adobe Screen Font Catalog The file "MI-AdobeLib.001" contains information as well as a viewable graphic for all Adobe fonts, volumes 1-199. This information can be viewed using the utility "LibViewer", included in this archive. The LibViewer will load the entire Library file (600K) into memory, if available, or will create an index from the Library and read in information one font at a time. It will then allow you to preview samples of all the Abobe fonts via a simple, scollable list system. Although the Library and Viewer are intended as a reference tool for those interested in purchasing Mirror Image's Adobe Screen Font Collection (for use with our font conversion/management package, MIfont), they can be used simply as an Adobe Font Reference Guide for anyone interested in Adobe fonts. The Library and Viewer are © Copyright 1991, Mirror Image Productions, but may be reproduced and distributed freely as long as the Library, Viewer and this document are included in the distribution. No fee is required (a small donation to a struggling software house (namely us!) would unlikely be refused, however!:) All font depictions in the Library were created using Adobe screen fonts converted from the Mac to the Amiga with MIfont. The names of the fonts are their full, TRUE PostScript names, derived from their original Mac files via software (so there are no spelling mistakes!). The "LibViewer" was conceived and written by Gary Brusanowski under GFA Basic 3.1E. How to use the LibViewer The utility "LibViewer" essentially allows you to VERY quickly take a look at any of the 971 Adobe screen fonts currently available from Mirror Image. The LibViewer wil load the entire library file (all 600+K of it!) into memory if you have enough, or will read individual font entries from the library while still on disk if you don't (this is fast enough, but not as fast as having it all in memory!). You should NOT try to load the library from a floppy if you don't have to, as this will likely take forever. Most of the LibViewer is fairly self-explanatory, once you get into it. Please note that any information about disk space, point sizes and the like refer to what you'll get when you convert the screen fonts with MIfont. For instance, the line "Total Disk Space: 32145" means that that is how much disk space, in bytes, is occupied by the converted font's bitmaps plus PPage metric file. Along the left is the List Box. You can choose which font to display by clicking on their names (you can hold down the mouse button and scroll around if you wish). As well, you can navigate the list by using the 6 buttons above and below it (these buttons have keyboard equivalents; just press the on-screen "Help" gadget for more information). By the way, the reason the buttons "Top" and "Bottom" are backwards to where you might expect to find them is: if you go to the top of the list with the "Top" button, what is the first thing you'll likely want to do next? Go DOWN the list!, and the Pg Dwn and Scroll Down buttons are right there. Make sense? I thought so. The List Box can be sorted one of two ways: alphabetically and by Disk # (the default is alphabetically). The button marked "Sorted by..." will tell you which way the list is currently sorted. If you click that button, it will change to "Sorted by Disk" and the list will re-sort itself, so that all fonts are arranged as per how they are arranged in our screen font library. As well in this mode, a scrolling brace down the right side of this list shows you the disk separations. In alphabetic mode, you can jump to the first entry starting with any alphabetic key you hit on the keyboard. In both modes, you can jump to the next or last block in the list with the plus or minus keys (a "block" in "Sorted by Name" mode is any group of fonts starting with the same letter; in "Sorted by Disk" mode, a "block" is defined as any group of fonts belonging to the same disk in our collection). The list of buttons along the bottom operate in two different ways. If in "Sorted by Name" mode, clicking a button will take you to the first font starting with the letter in the button (if the button is not reversed, there are no fonts that start with that letter). If in "Sorted by Disk" mode, clicking a button will will take you to the first font of the Disk # shown in the box ("Disk 0" fonts are supplied free with MIfont; the button marked "MI" refers to the "core fonts" which are supplied free on the actual MIfont program disk). If you want to keep track of disks as you move through the catalog in "Sorted by Disk" mode (for ordering disks from us), just hit the "Mark/Unmark" button and the disk button will reverse (hit it again to make it go back to normal). That's about it. If you have any questions, comments or would like to order any of our software (including the Adobe Screen Font Collection), call Mirror Image Productions at (416) 495-7469 during regular business hours or leave me some email on CompuServe (Gary Brusanowski, 70304,2516). Mirror Image Productions 30 Aurora Court, Suite 1209 Scarborough, Ontario, CANADA M1W 2M3 Voice - (416) 495-7469 Fax - (416) 492-4030