FONTBOOK
                       
Those of us who work in a DTP environment know how important it is to 
have high quality specimen sheets of the various typefaces on the system.
This 'Typeface Book' or 'Specimen Book' can be shown to clients and designers, 
or used by the operators themselves to examine the quality and artistic merit
of various typefaces. 

In the past I have maintained such a book by printing the specimen sheets 
out of Pagemaker, changing the typeface for each page as I go. As a system 
grows, and the number of typefaces installed exceeds ,say, 300, this becomes 
a laborious business, and the results are not always high quality.

Some time ago, I began to look for a program that would do the job
automatically. I downloaded several shareware programs from Compuserve that
looked promising, but the results were disappointing - specimen sheets 
designed by programmers, not by DTP types. I could find nothing that 
produced sheets with a clean, professional look, the sort of thing that
you would be pleased to show your most difficult client. 

There were several good programs for the MAC, but nothing really great for 
the PC. So I wrote my own - here it is.

Fontbook allows the user to print out specimen sheets to a variety of 
different designs. Each has a different purpose in mind. More details
are in the help file.

Fontbook also allows the user to view the typeface on screen, in large
clear type - no more squinting at charmap - as well as up to 100 typefaces
against each other, and examine the bold, italic and bold/italic permutations
of a typeface. 

Once I began to use this program in the workplace, I found it indispensible.

Now the plug...

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Of course Fontbook is shareware, and I would like some return on my efforts.
The cost is $20.00 for business use, $10.00 for home use.
Please send to

Arron Davies
Post Office Box 82
West Ryde  NSW  2114
Australia.

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Also, its copywrite, so please only distribute with this file intact and
included.

Thanks.