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••• FONTOGRAPHER 4.0.2 README August 31, 1993 •••
Welcome to Fontographer 4! Since we went to press with the User’s
Guide, we have come up with a few special notes we’d like you to be
aware of. It is very helpful for you to read this document before any
questions with the program arise. If you don’t see the answer here or
in the User’s Guide, then please examine the “Technical ReadMe” before
calling for Technical Support.
••• GENERAL NOTES •••
—The Fontographer installation requires about 3100K of disk space. The
installation is very simple. Just double-click on the “Installer” file
on “Install Disk 1” and then follow the instructions. Installer
instructions are included in the package should you need more assistance.
The installer supports partial installation of the disk contents by
selecting the "Customize…" option.
—The first time you run Fontographer, it will display a Personalization
dialog. Look at the Key and Serial Number card in your box for the Key
Number which will allow you to use Fontographer. Take special notice of
the caps, zeroes (with a slash through them), and cap-O (looks just like
a zero without a slash through it).
—Fontographer 4.0 has balloon help for all menus, tool palettes, and
windows, but not for dialogs. Hopefully that will be all you need.
—If you want to find our technical support phone number, simply look in
the About Fontographer dialog (it’s 214-680-2093). Look in the same place
for your serial number which will be requested when you call Technical
Support.
—To open several files at once, drag them directly onto the application
icon in the Finder (System 7 only).
—If you liked the way Fontographer 3.5 handled Snap-to-point, use the
“Preferences” dialog to “Automatically align with all points.”
—Option-Select All will select everything in the Font Window—even slots
that are empty
—If you change encoding vectors in “Font Info,” you must use the
Advanced Mode of “Generate Font Files…” to actually output the font with
that encoding.
••• MEMORY USAGE IN FONTOGRAPHER 4 •••
—While Fontographer 4 will run on System 6 with 2.5 mb RAM, it runs
much better and faster with more RAM. When a font is opened, it is
retained completely in RAM. A font database can easily exceed 500K.
Therefore, do not expect memory management to work the same as it did
in previous versions. If you want to work on four fonts at once with several
Outline Windows open, the recommended 3,000K may be inadequate. To
increase your memory partition, simply close Fontographer, go to the Finder,
select the Fontographer icon, choose “Get Info” from the File menu, and
increase the suggested memory setting to 4,000K or more.
—To save memory, use the “Preferences…” dialog to reduce the number of
undos.
—To get the best performance in the Outline Window, turn off “Snap to
Points” in the View menu. Also, go to the Preferences dialog’s “Point
display” pop-up menu and turn off “Show points while dragging paths.”
—Font names vs. File names
When you save your database, you are offered a default file name. This
suggested name is taken from the “Font Info” dialog’s Family and Style
fields. Of course, you can enter any file name you like in the
“Save As” dialog. Having several different file names and font names can
become confusing, so be consistent and use careful planning in your
file naming conventions. TIP: The “Save As…” command can be used to
change the file name. Note that the name shown in the Font Window’s title
bar is unchanged; this is because the Font Window always shows the font’s
name, not the file’s name.
••• SCANNING AND TRACING •••
—HP ScanJet Plus Users
If you want to use your scanner to scan images that you will paste
into Fontographer 4, an upgrade to the ScanJet IIc software is
necessary. Here is the contact information: Customer Service:
800-233-5153. C1794-13900 is the part number for the new ScanJet
package. On CompuServe, Go HPper: Misc files dir; get DSiie1.sea and
DSiie2.sea
—Pasting Bitmaps
The User’s Guide describes the process of pasting a PICT with the
option key held down to get the image to scale between the baseline-
ascent. The current version of Fontographer 4 supports the
Option-Paste commands using the Edit menu, but not the Option-Command-v
command from the keyboard.
••• DISK CONTENTS NOT COPIED TO YOUR HARD DRIVE •••
—“Fontographer Sounds” are on Disk 2. This file is not installed with
the application, so you’ll need to copy it into the same folder as
Fontographer if you want to hear enjoyable (?) snap-to sounds while
editing outlines.
—“TypeTerminology.sea” is on Disk 2. It is a HyperCard stack of our
award-winning booklet about typographical terms (past and present). You
must have the HyperCard application or a run-time version to use this
stack. To move this stack to your hard drive, copy it first, then
double-click the icon to decompress the file.
••• CHANGES FROM 4.0 TO 4.0.2 •••
For those of you keeping score at home, here is the list of the more
notable changes made to Fontographer since the pristine 4.0 release.
—Quadras and System 7.1. Due to a problem in the system software,
occasionally Fontographer would produce unexpected results during
program operation (it would crash, in other words). 4.0.1 works around
this (by not calling that particular routine when running in System 7.1).
The Hardware System update Version 2 from Apple also fixes this
problem.
—WorldScript Font ID’s. We removed a bogus restriction that font ID's
for TrueType fonts had to be in the US range. You can now enter any ID
between 1024 and 15999 for TrueType fonts.
—The basepoint. Made snap to point and snap to grid work for the
basepoint.
—Low memory. Changed operation of the font window so that it will
display low memory rather than closing the window.
—Type 1 Reading/Writing. Fontographer now reads in some fonts which it
was previously unable to read. We now output the descent in our Type 1/
Type 3 fonts. This allows us to read TrueType fonts where the ascent plus
the descent do not equal the em then output them to Type 1/Type 3 and
then read them in without losing that information.
—Hinting. Fontographer now removes deleted hints from the clustered
hint values; limits on the number of hand edited hints allowed have
been removed; fixed a problem where hints would display in the gray
border area, causing them to be invisible; enabled transformation of
user added hints; and fixed a bug—oops, a “qualitative non-conformity
in execution”—having to do with the direction of some horizontal hints.
—Bitmap Window. Fixed a Bitmap Window bug introduced in version
4.0.1 which caused pixels to not appear on Quadras running System
7.1
Added max ascent/max descent line in bitmap window. These indicate
the ascent & descent for the bitmap character, independent of the
outlines ascent and descent, which are also shown.
••• IN CLOSING •••
That’s about it. Thank you for buying Fontographer 4.0.2. We hope you
enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed creating it!
The Altsys Font Products Team