General Information on "Fonts For You". Last Minute Notes: If you have any problems with our Fonts please give us a call or E mail us. We have a few solutions for problems associated with Truetype Fonts. Sending in your registration form allows us to give you free tech support. Without registering your CD, we do not know who you are or what type of computer you have. You can E-MAIL us your registration form or you can also Fax us your registration form. Send In the Registration form found on the CD-ROM in the Root "Register.txt" Thank you for Purchasing "Fonts for You". This CD-ROM Contains 6000 Fonts in Truetype, and Type 1 formats. The TrueType and Type 1 fonts match 1 for 1. If there is a Truetype Font on the CD-ROM, then there is a Type 1 font with the same name. This is for compatibility, for people that use Service Bureaus, or for people who use Type 1 on one computer and Truetype on another computer. All the fonts were fully tested using 4 major Windows Applications to ensure they print at large resolutions and that they do not crash your computer. If you have any problems with any of the fonts on our CD, we want to know. Our company wants to ensure that you, the customer, receive the highest quality fonts available. Organization of Fonts on the CD-ROM Instead of just throwing fonts together as a collection, we have spent months sorting and categorizing our fonts to make it easier for you to find just the font you need for a job. If you are looking for a script font, you no longer have to go through all the fonts to find a font you need. This also made it easier for us to make sure there is no duplicated on the CD-ROM. We have made from scratch many of the fonts found on this CD-ROM and have added some really wild new types of fonts that you will not find anywhere else. How many more "basic" fonts does a person need? How to make sense of the Filenames on the CD-ROM. We have designed a proprietary filing system to make font file names match with the font instead of trying to make up an 8 character filename. As an example lets take the script section. The fonts in the script section of the CD all start with "S" for script. the Number following the "S" is the Font number, and the letters following the number is the styles and variations. Say you need Script 2 Extended. The Filename would be "S2E". This also makes it very easy for people who would like to search for any variety of Script 2 or any other font on the CD-ROM using a "Whereis" type program. Say you want to find any font on the CD-ROM that is Script 2, you could do a search for "S2*.*" If there was any contour, spotted, hollow, or any other varieties of this font, it would show up. Going through each directory, you can figure out what every font style starts with. Sending in the registration form enables you to receive a full explanation of the filing system of our fonts. How to use the CD-ROM Menu. General Things to Know about the CD ROM Menu System Alt-M Gets you to the "Menu" Options. Alt-S Gets you the "Support" Options. F1 Help F2 What is a font F3 Registration form. F5 Browse Fonts F6 Select Fonts F7 Edit Tags F8 Copy Tags (Copy Fonts to Hard Drive) F9 Clear Tags Alt-X Exit Menu Alt-F3 Close Current Window i.e. Select Family, Select Font, etc. We have included an easy to use menu system to make the search and retrieval of fonts on our CD-ROM easier than ever before. You can search by file name as seen in our font book, scroll and browse through the directories of fonts, and edit or copy your fonts of choice to a secondary location. 1. At the Dos prompt of your CD-ROM Drive Type "Fontmenu" Example: Assuming your CD-ROM Drive is Drive E: E: FONTMENU Next you will see the following screen as seen in Figure 1. The "Menu" (Figure 2) options allow you to Browse, Select, Edit Tags, Copy your selected fonts, or clear the Tags you have made so far. The "Support" (Figure 3) options allow you to get Help for the menu, Print off the registration form, or find out What is a Font? Browsing the Fonts on the CD-ROM The fonts on this CD-ROM are categorized by style of print to make your search even easier. If you are looking for a script style of print, then you can go to the script section and choose fonts there instead of searching through all the fonts to look for the one you need. To make it easier for you and for Microsoft Windows to search a directory faster, no more than 100 fonts are in one directory. 1. The Hot Key for Browsing fonts on the CD-ROM is F5 or you can go to the "Menu" options as seen in Figure 2 and select Browse. 2. Once you select browse, you will get the "Select a Family" Dialog box as seen in Figure 4. Just scroll down and click or press the space bar on the family you wish to browse. 3. When you select a family that you wish to work with, you will get a list of fonts contained in the current directory as seen in Figure 5. 4. When you see a font you wish to tag or view, click or hit the space bar on the font you wish to access. This will bring up the "Work with Font" dialog box as seen in Figure 6. 5. From here you can choose to tag the Truetype Font, Tag the Type 1 font, choose both fonts (By adding both fonts to your tag list), view a screen capture of the font or cancel your current selection. 6. Once you are done with the current directory you can either Press ALT-F3 to close the window and go back to the "Select a Family" menu or click the mouse on the little square box on the upper left hand corner of the Dialog box. At any time you can call up the scroll bar to transfer or copy fonts by Clicking on the "Menu" option at the top of the screen as seen in figure 2 or hit ALT-M. Selecting Fonts by File Name The Hot Key for this menu option is F6 The method of organizing fonts on our CD-ROM is done by file name and category instead of alphabetical or numerical. Designing a system like this enables us to make a large number of fonts in 1 particular category and have everything together instead of trying to make up an 8 character name that makes no sense or gives you no idea of what the font really is. Once you realize how the system is designed, you will be able to find any font you wish. This menu option is more helpful for the people that have the book for our CD-ROM or have printed off a listing of all the fonts found on our CD-ROM. 1.To Get to the Select Option of the menu, you must go to the "Menu" options as seen in Figure 2. Use the mouse or the keyboard and choose the "Select" option from the menu. 2.Next you will be presented a screen as seen in Figure 7. 3. From here all you need to do is type in the file name you wish to search for and press ok. If the filename is on the drive, the menu will automatically bring up the "Work with Font" dialog box to let you choose or view the font. 4. Once you are done selecting fonts from this menu just Select "Cancel". This will not untag the fonts, it is just used once you are done selecting fonts. Edit Tags This is used for last minute changes to your font list before you transfer the fonts to your hard drive. The Hot key for this menu option is F7. You can get to this menu by going to the "Menu" options of the menu. Once you click on the Edit Tags option you will be presented a dialog box as seen in Figure 8. From Here you can browse through all the fonts you have tagged. You can View a screen capture of the font, Remove the font from the list , or go to the next font in the list. Once you are done with editing the list click on "Done". Copying Tagged Fonts To copy the fonts you have tagged so far, you must go to the "Copy Tags" option of the Menu as seen in Figure 2. You will be presented with a default directory that the program wishes to copy the fonts. If you wish to use a different directory, then type it in. If the directory does not exist, the program will prompt you if you would like to make the directory. NOTE: You must still go to the Windows Control Panel and Install the fonts after you transfer them. The menu does not install the fonts for you. Clear Tags This options Hot key is F9. This option is used to clear all the fonts you have taged so far. The menu does not clear the fonts after you transfer them. This is good if you need to add one more font to your list and wish to recopy them to your drive. You can get to this option by going to the "Menu" Options (Alt-M) or by clicking with the mouse on the "Menu Options. See Figure 2. How To Install Fonts in Microsoft Windows V3.1 Note: to get the full effects of these instructions, you can use your WRITE program to print the "FIGS.WRI" file off containing a copy of the screen captures and figures used in these instructions. 1. The First Step to install TrueType Fonts is to double click on the Control Panel Icon. 2. After double clicking on the control panel icon, You will see all the options offered in the control panel. See Figure 10. 3. Next you must double click on the "Fonts" Icon. Please See Figure 10 to see what the "Fonts" icon looks like. 4. When you double click on the "Fonts" icon, you will see the "Fonts dialog box" as seen in Figure 11. This menu shows you all your currently installed Truetype fonts on your system. From here you can Delete, Add, or change TrueType options. 5. At this point please double click on the "ADD" button as seen in Figure 11. This allows you to add fonts to your current list of fonts available to Windows. If you do not ADD fonts to Windows, you will not be able to use the fonts you have chosen. 6. Next you must use the scroll bars to change to the DRIVE and DIRECTORY in which the fonts you wish to add are located (See Figure 12). If you kept the default options from our menu, you can just change to the "C:\WINDOWS\FCFONTS" directory. 7. Once you change to the drive and directory in which the fonts you wish to add are located, you will see the "List of Available Fonts" come up on the screen. From here you can either choose a few fonts to install or you can choose "Select All" which will install all the fonts located in the current directory. 8. Notes for people who do not want the fonts to be installed in the "WINDOWS\SYSTEM" directory. You do not have to have your fonts in your windows directory for the fonts to work. You can actually keep the fonts on the CD-ROM if you wish to save on hard drive space. All you need to do is make sure that the "Copy fonts to Windows Directory" option as seen in Figure 12 is not checked and the fonts will stay where they are currently located. This is a nice feature for those people who like breaking up groups of fonts so you don't have 400 fonts installed at one time.