DOWNLOADING
Click on the text link below the sample graphic to begin download. When prompted by your browser save the .ZIP file to your hard drive in a location you will not forget such as C:\TEMP.

UNZIPPING
All download files are saved in .ZIP format meaning you will need to extract the contents before you can use them. WinZip may be used to open .ZIP files. Open the .ZIP file and extract the contents to a location you will not forget such as C:\TEMP. Please also extract and read any included documentation such as the readme.txt file.

FONT INSTALLATION
Once you have extracted the .TTF file you are now ready to install: In Windows 95/98/NT4 click START then SETTINGS then CONTROL PANEL. From the Control Panel double click FONTS. Select File then Install New Font... In the following dialog box locate the font files you have unzipped (such as C:\TEMP in the example above), select them and then click OK. Please note that often Windows will not recognize fonts (TTF files) if you merely unzip them or drag and drop them to the FONTS folder. It is better to do a proper install as above.

If the "Install New Font..." option does not appear as outlined in the above process. One solution to this has proved to be using a font management application to install new fonts. (see below)

FONT MANAGEMENT
There are loads of freeware and shareware applications available to help manage your fonts depending on your needs. Here are two we recommend:

FontLister
(freeware by Peter Theill)
FontLister helps you browse your fonts - either installed or not. You can also view detailed info and ASCII codes in a table. This will delete fonts and allow you to import sample text for viewing in the selected font. This will not install fonts.
FontLister Homepage

Printers Apprentice
(shareware by Lose Your Mind)
Printers Apprentice works with both TrueType and Adobe Type 1 (ATM) fonts; install and remove TrueType fonts; prints specimen pages. You can preview fonts from CD-ROMs, floppy disks and hard drive directories. If you have a CD-ROM filled with uninstalled TrueType fonts, you can print a listing of every font on the CD as well as a character chart for each font.
Printers Apprentice Homepage

CHARACTER VIEWING
A TTF file can contain more characters than letters on the keyboard. You can use the Character Map program that comes with Windows to view all the characters in a font file. It should have installed by default when you installed Windows; if not, you can add it with the Windows CD ROM. To run it in Windows 95/NT click on START then PROGRAMS then ACCESSORIES then CHARACTER MAP; in Windows 98 click on START then PROGRAMS then ACCESSORIES then SYSTEM TOOLS then CHARACTER MAP. Once it opens in the top left you can select a font file that is installed. Click on the pull down menu to select a font. Once you do that below in the grid of squares you will see the complete set of characters that the font contains, in other words the character map. If you then click on a character you will see it pop up and if you look at the bottom right corner you will see the corresponding keystroke.

For example, select the font "Arial". The grid should fill in completely. If you click on the upper case "A" (second row from the top second square in from the left) in the bottom right corner you should see "Keystroke: A". The bottom four rows of this grid contain the extended characters and foreign language characters. To type one of the extended characters (characters outside of the keyboard range) in a program such as Word or WordPerfect you need to press the ALT key then type the corresponding number on the keypad part of the keyboard and when you release the ALT key the character will appear. For example, if you wanted the copyright mark (©) you would Press ALT then type 0169 then release ALT and the copyright mark will appear. In the Character Map, if you click on the copyright mark (fifth row from the top tenth square from the left) in the lower right corner you will see "Keystroke: Alt+0169".

CHARACTER VIEWERS
Many people find the Character Map too small to read so you might wish to use a different program. There are several freeware and shareware applications available; here are two we recommend:

Extended Character Map
(freeware by Sony Arianto Kurniawan)
Extended Character Map is software to view typeface characters. This program acts like standard Windows Character Map except it can display sample characters larger and the characters can be resized.
Extended Character Map Homepage

Map of Chars
(freeware by Daniel Hoppe)
Features include: Select colour, size and style of font; copy a set of characters with fontstyle as RTF into a word processor; copy a set of characters with fontstyle as HTML with special character converting.
Map of Chars Homepage

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