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Printers Apprentice is a powerful font manager designed to help you browse, preview and print TrueType fonts. Whether you are a graphic artist, a publishing professional or a software enthusiast, if you have a lot of fonts, Printer's Apprentice will help you organize your collection.
The program aims to provide you with much more options for installing and managing fonts than the regular Windows font management tool.
Here are some key features of "Printer's Apprentice":
· Supports Windows XP "Visual Styles" and themes.
· Extensive online help system and "What's This?" help for all dialogs and screens.
· Professional setup gets you up and running quickly. When needed, the uninstaller removes the application and all DLL files.
· Installed DLL, OCX and other support files are fully disclosed and documen ted.
· Familiar Windows Explorer-style interface for quickly viewing installed fonts or browsing uninstalled font files on any media.
· "Preview without installation" function supports TrueType, Adobe Type 1 and OpenType* fonts.
· Many dialogs have been redesigned so fewer steps are required to complete common tasks.
· Toolbar provides fast and convenient access to frequently used features.
· Single character, character set, sample text and keyboard views are all integrated into the main interface via tab across the top.
· Character set display can be displayed using a grid in a 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, 8x8, 9x9 or 10x10 configuration.
· Keyboard display shows you where symbol and dingbat characters are on a standard PC keyboard.
· Easily examine copyright and other information embedded in TrueType font files.
· Use easy drag and drop operations to install, uninstall, copy and move TrueType, Adobe Type 1 and OpenType* font files.
· Any number of fonts can be installed or uninstalled at once.
· Uninstalled fonts can be previewed, printed and installed from any media (CDR, Zip drive, SuperDisc, floppy, etc).
· Uninstall Wizard removes fonts from Windows, deletes font-related Registry entries and can optionally move font files to another location for backup.
· Font Registry Viewer lets you view, save and print TrueType font related information from the Windows System Registry.
· Organize your TrueType, Adobe Type 1 and OpenType* collection any way you like by storing them into to groups.
· Font group list is integrated into the main Printer's Apprentice window for easy browsing.
· Font groups are managed and navigated using the standard Windows Explorer style tree interface.
· Easily install and remove entire font groups with a few mouse clicks.
· Fonts stored in groups can be viewed and printed just like installed fonts.
· All printed catalogs and sample sheets are available for font groups
· Easily print many sample sheets or catalogs for multiple fonts at once
· Customizable sample text, headers and footers
· Font catalogs print multiple fonts per page customized point size.
· Font file name, path location and KB size are optionally printed for each font.
· For printing many fonts in a listing, Printer's Apprentice has 10 different professionally designed catalogs. Layouts include Basic 1, Basic 2, Basic 3, Two Column 1, Two Column 2, Three Column, Four Column, Bar Divided, Three Up, Six Up
· For single font printing (one per page), Printer's Apprentice includes eight customizable font sample sheets including Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3, Sample 4, Font Info Sheet, Character Set, Keyboard Chart, ANSI Chart, 72 Point Set
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· NEW: Support for higher sceeen DPI settings. No more clipped text, etc. Includes high-resolution icons and other cosmetic changes.
· NEW: Redesigned splash screen. Redesigned progress dialogs for reading font folders.
· NEW: Redesigned shareware splash screen.
· NEW: Redesigned Options dialog.
· NEW: Font display in main window includes a new header with the font name,
· file name and file size. There is also a line of text indicating the specific
· installed/not installed status for the font.
· NEW: Added column to the lists on the Font Files and Font Groups tabs indicating the
& #183; installed status of the font. Installed fonts have a small Windows symbol in the column.
· NEW: Can change the size of the ASCII/Unicode values on the Character set chart.
· NEW: If you click in the text area on the Single Character or Sample Text tab,
· you can use the mouse wheel to change the font size.
· NEW: Support for non-US keyboard layouts in the Keyboard tab and printed
· font catalogs/sample sheets. The Printer's Appren...
Via: Printer's Apprentice 8.1.28.1
