- How
do I use it?
- The
user interface is so simple that a
child of six can do it. If you don't
have a child of six, use two threes.
Only the File menu is active, and
it has only three options:
- WARNING:
- You
now have absolute control over your
fonts, and you really don't have much
of a safety net. If you incorrectly
edit some fields which you don't completely
understand, the font may become unusable:
we have no way of bullet-proofing
all the possible combinations of changes.
In fact, there are a fair number of
fields that we don't really know the
purpose of, but since they exist,
we gave you access to them. So for
safety's sake, never overwrite your
original font when saving the new
files and be prepared to experiment
and spend a lot of time reading hard.
- What
we don't know about PC Font Access
sounds scary, doesn't it?
- If
I was able to write about all the
stuff in PC Font Access which I do
not understand and has not been tested,
I would go on for another 10,000 characters.
There are A LOT of fields to alter,
mangle, distort, misrepresent, and
in many other ways destroy such that
your font becomes unusable.
- ALWAYS
- work
on a copy of your font.
- NEVER
- delete
your original font by saving the changes
to the original file name.
- ALWAYS
- know
what you are doing when you change
a field.
- NEVER
- expect
your changes to work! Well... maybe
that's a little much. Just be aware
that this is ALL new stuff and few
if any third party applications have
addressed even some of these capabilities.
Some are going to be very useful...
in a future OS. All we can say is
that we have tested what little we
could at the time this utility was
created. The examples tried above
are useful and work correctly in the
intended applications. So, press on,
find new and possibly valuable settings,
and learn to enjoy living on the edge!
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