ARJAN MELS' FONT VIEWER

INTRODUCTION:

This program displays a lot of information about the fonts on your computer. The primary goal was to display the entire unicode character set and make it possible to copy these characters to the clipboard. It was intended as a crossing between the 'character map' accessory supplied with MS Windows and the 'insert symbol' dialog in MS Word 97/2000.

Although the program can be used for all kinds of fonts, it is especially strong in displaying information about Truetype fonts.

LICENSE:

The complete license agreement can be found in the 'license.txt' file.

In short the licence agreement means:
-The software is provided for personal usage only
-You must register your copy of the Software
-Arjan Mels gives you no warranties of any kind
-You may copy and distribute the Software freely
-You may not make profit by distributing this Software
-You may not modify the Software in any way

MANUAL:

Under development... 

REQUIREMENTS:

PC with Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 or 2000 installed

HISTORY:

version 1.0.0: Initial version
version 1.1.0: ?
version 1.2.0: ?
version 1.3.0: License info added
version 1.4.0: Encoding info added
version 1.5.0: Font Sample added
version 1.6.0: Font Style (Bold, Italic etc.) added
version 1.6.1: Label for licence and description changed into memo's
version 1.7.0: Extended character info (metrics, keyboard shortcut)
version 1.8.0: Added reading from not installed TTF file.
version 1.9.0: Character Set Tab added
version 1.9.1: Improved copying (RTF added)
version 1.9.2: Check for out of range dates implemented
version 1.9.3: Selection of tabsheet improved for moving trough font list (and fixed small bugs in page system)
version 1.10.0: Added URL clicking
version 1.10.1: Sorting of styles (regular,bold,italic & bold italic) added
version 1.11.0: Ability to read all strings from a font added
version 1.11.1: Extraneous 'delete' in CopyChar routine deleted
version 1.11.2: Charset defaults to system charset

FUTURE DIRECTIONS:

The following items will be implemented in some future release.

 - add printing
 - add kerning info
 - add general metrics info
 - add font matching info (panose etc.)
 - add help

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Arjan Mels
Rossinistraat 253
5049KD Tilburg
The Netherlands

E-mail: arjanm@stack.nl
WWW: http://www.stack.nl/~arjanm
