1%++,-./RELEASE NOTES -- FontMonger for Windows 1.0.7 Copyright (c) 1991-92 Ares Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. ____________________________________________________________ Welcome to FontMonger! We think you'll find FontMonger to be the best typeface conversion and modification tool around. Before you begin to use FontMonger, please read the following last-minute information. ____________________________________________________________ ADDITIONS TO USER GUIDE The following FontMonger capabilities have been added since the User Guide was printed: 1. Choosing "Keyboard Layout" or "Character Chart" from the Options menu when there are no keyboard windows open sets the *default* keyboard window view. The default view is used for all new font documents (i.e. untitled keyboard windows). 2. "Build AFM Files" and "Build INF Files" on the Options menu allow you to decide whether to generate AFM (Adobe Font Metric) and INF (font information) files when building PostScript fonts. Normally, these files are not needed except for special applications. The default is *not* to build either AFM or INF files. 3. When an Alter Character window is open, the Window menu indicates the display scale of the character display. You can change the display scale by choosing a scale from the menu, as well as by using the magnifier tool described in the user guide. 4. The Set Font Information dialog shows the number of kerning pairs that FontMonger found for a font. When opening a PostScript Type 1 font file, FontMonger looks for a PFM or AFM file, with the same base name, containing the font's kerning pairs. You can examine the number of kerning pairs shown in the Set Font Information dialog to verify that FontMonger found the font's PFM or AFM file. Note that the PFM or AFM file must be in the same directory as the base font file, or in a subdirectory of the base font file's directory. TRUETYPE FONT FAMILIES Due to a quirk in the way the Windows 3.1 Control Panel installs fonts, TrueType font families consisting of more than the basic four font styles (regular, bold, italic and bold-italic) may not function correctly. We strongly recommend that you avoid installing families of more than four font styles, until a workaround for the Windows 3.1 problem can be found. If you need to use a family that has more than four font styles, you should split it into several families of up to four font styles each. ____________________________________________________________ MACINTOSH FONTS - The User Guide says that FontMonger creates System 7 TrueType files when you convert fonts to Macintosh TrueType format. FontMonger actually creates suitcase files containing the TrueType fonts. - When you convert fonts to Macintosh PostScript format, FontMonger creates two files with extension MRF. The first file (which has the name you specified) is the downloadable PostScript file. The second file (which has the name with a "$" appended) is the suitcase file. The downloadable font file must be renamed to the correct font file name after it is transferred to the Macintosh. If you use the FontMonger File Exchange translator module with Apple File Exchange, the file will be renamed auto- matically for you as part of the translation. - For more information about using the FontMonger File Exchange translator with Apple File Exchange, please see the "Read Me" file on the File Translator disk included in your FontMonger package. Note that the File Translator disk is in Macintosh 800K format, and so cannot be read directly on your PC without special hardware. ____________________________________________________________ CORELDRAW (WFN) FONTS A few of the WFN fonts that are supplied with CorelDRAW version 2.01 or earlier (such as "Nautical Flags" and "Space") do not contain valid font names. If you wish to convert these fonts to other formats, you should open them with FontMonger and give them suitable names. See the section "Setting Font Information" in Chapter 6 of the User Guide. ____________________________________________________________ dded since the User Guide was printed: 1. Choosing "Keyboard Layout" or "Character Chart" from the Ow7