README.TXT - 17/2/2000 ======================= This document contains information about installing and using the two TrueType font files "Key Normal" and "Key Extended" Version 2.1 History ------- The idea for the KEY font first came to me whilst I was writing a manual for a program to calculate the Thermodynamic properties of STEAM. Whilst writing the manual I got thoroughly fed up with reading lines like "Press to continue" and "Press + to run setup". The only solution was to create a font file which contained characters that looked like keyboard keys!!. Having produced the font for the keys I wanted in the manual, this them sat on my hard drive for about a year, until one day when I was tidying my hard drive, I decided to complete the font!!!. July 1995 - Added two new keys to KeyExtended. Different shape and sizes of "Backspace" and "Enter" Keys, this is to allow an alternative keyboard layout to be produced. March 1996 - Commercial version to be made available. Removed some of the keys in the Shareware version to encourage registration! July 1996 - Changed name of Commercial version to Professional version. February 2000 - Reinstated all keys to the shareware version. Why are there two font files? ----------------------------- The font was initially intended to fit in one file but For some obscure reason, I can't seem to be able to create a font above about 73K in size, well a font which does not crash the system with a message "Invalid TrueType font Detected" anyway!!. (Since when has Complex had the same meaning as Invalid??) The other reason for producing two files was to enable the selection of the characters to be "intuitive" and not using the extended character code. Hence the two font files, KEY-N.TTF and KEY-E.TTF were produced. Registered Version ------------------ The registered version of the font includes all the keys removed from the shareware version! The Registered version is UK specific, for other contries, see the Professional version section below. Professional Version -------------------- The professional versions are available in several languages, (Please e-mail me for an upto date list). This is to accomodate the different keyboard layouts and is available from myself The professional version includes additional keys with single characters on them e.g.a key with just an exclamation mark on it and a key with just a dollar. Also this version is more intuative to use, the fonts register themselves as a family of fonts allowing to produce the extended characters instead of changing font. Installation ------------ There are two ways you can install the font files, either to the windows system directory or to a separate directory. Windows System Directory ------------------------ To install the two font files to the windows system directory do the following:- 1) In program manager, open the CONTROL PANEL Program 2) Open the FONTS Section 3) Press ADD.. 4) Select the directory where the fonts are located e.g. A:\TRUETYPE 5) Press Select All. 6) Check the box "Copy Fonts to System directory" 7) Select OK 8) Close CONTROL PANEL. Alternative Directory --------------------- To install the two font files to an alternative directory do the following:- 1) Use FILE MANAGER to create the directory you want the font files to be in 2) Copy all the files from the distribution disk / directory to the font directory. 3) In PROGRAM MANAGER, open the CONTROL PANEL Program 4) Open the FONTS Section 5) Press ADD.. 6) Select the directory where the fonts are located e.g. C:\KEY-FONT 7) Press Select All. 8) UnCheck the box "Copy Fonts to System directory" 9) Select OK 10)Close CONTROL PANEL. The file KEYBOARD.??? has been saved in four file formats,and describes how to get the not-so-obvious keys! .DOC - Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0 .WW2 - Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 .WRI - Microsoft Write .RTF - Rich Text Format Using the Fonts --------------- The font height is twice the height of most of the keys, this is to accommodate the "Enter", "Numpad +" and "Numpad Enter" keys! If you have only a basic word processing package e.g. Windows Write, you will notice that when you only use the smaller keys, a large gap above the line containing the font. For this reason, the fonts work best with an advanced word processor such as Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0. This is because you can change the paragraph height to an exact value. Registration ------------ If you like the font and intend to use it, please register it, All it will cost you is £5.00 Stirling for the registered shareware version. See REGISTER.TXT for more information. Registered Users are entitled to six months unlimited eMail support and will automatically receive any major bug fixes during this period. Registration is available via the Internet, see our web site for details. http://www.Byte-Sized.com If you would like information about the professional versions then please send me an e-mail. Thank you for reading this far!! I hope the font will be as much use to you as it is to me, Please send me any comments or suggestions on this font or any other fonts you think may be useful. 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