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  AMI FONT WRANGLER 

  Version 2.0d
  For Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
            
  Oct. 10, 2002

  http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/fontrang.html 



  ALCHEMY MINDWORKS 
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  http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html 
  alchemy@mindworkshop.com 

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  TO REGISTER AMI FONT WRANGLER 
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AMI Font Wrangler is distributed as shareware, 
software you can --- "Try Before You Buy." ---
 
We invite you to evaluate Font Wrangler to see if it's 
suitable for your needs. If you like it, please register it.
If it turns out not to be to your liking, or if you don't 
feel it's worth registering, please delete it from your hard 
drive and accept our thanks for trying it out. 

Font Wrangler is also distributed as bookware. To register,
you can purchase a copy of Steven William Rimmer's novel, 
Eye ot the Dawn. The book is priced at $9.99 plus shipping. 
Currently, the Alchemy Mindworks Evaluation CD-ROM is shipped 
with book orders. 

If you decide not to obtain the book, the registration for 
Font Wrangler is $20. Add $5.00 for shipping and handling 
if you'd like the current version sent to you on CD-ROM.

For more information, please consult the Font Wrangler
documentation, or the ORDER.DOC file in the program's folder 
for information on the many options available to register, 
or order the program on CD-ROM, by phone, fax, mail or via 
our on-line secure server. 

The unregistered evaluation copy of the most recent release 
of Font Wrangler may be distributed freely in its unaltered 
state as long as the means of distribution are in keeping 
with Alchemy Mindworks' current policies for shareware 
distribution. The current policies are summarized in the 
SHAREWAR.HTM file which is added to the program's folder 
during installation of the program. 




ABOUT THIS DOWNLOAD 
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This download contains these files: 

-- readme.txt  -- which you obviously have found, 

-- file_id.diz  -- a general desription text file,  

-- amifon02.xml  -- a portable application desription file, and 

-- FontWrangler.exe -- the application install program.
 

A CRC value can be used to check the integrity of a file you 
have downloaded. By assuring that the CRC check value matches 
the CRC check value for the file in question, you will reduce 
the possibility of attempting to install a damaged archive to 
about one in 4,294,964,296 - odds even longer than those of 
winning most state-run lotteries. 

You must have the Alchemy Mindworks CRC software installed 
on your system to perform this check. Please visit the CRC 
page to download the CRC software if you do not currently 
have it. It's small, free and a valuable asset to make 
sure that your Alchemy Mindworks software has not been 
damaged in transit.




INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
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Font Wrangler is a user-frindly TrueType font manager for 
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT. 

Windows facility for supporting TrueType fonts isn't really 
matched by its facilities for managing them. While few 
Windows users will have trouble keeping track of the dozen 
or so typefaces that come with Windows, there are 
innumerable sources of much more interesting fonts. 

If you install several hundred fonts in Windows, you'll 
probably find that keeping track of them using nothing more 
than the font management tools in the Windows control panel 
will become taxing at best. Simply installing new fonts is 
analogous to juggling live polecats in a dark room after 
midnight. Remembering what all your installed fonts look 
like is worse still.

Font Wrangler is an application to help you gather up all 
the polecats in question, prevent them from becoming cranky 
and keep track of the ones with poor aerodynamic qualities. 
Specifically, Font Wrangler will:

-- Install and remove TrueType fonts with a visual, 
   intuitive user interface.

-- Browse downloaded fonts so you can decide which ones 
   you'd like to keep.

-- Weed your downloaded font collection to rename or 
   delete selected files.

-- Print a "contact sheet" of fonts so you'll have a 
   paper reference of your downloaded and installed fonts.

-- Change the font names of TrueType fonts to make them 
   more easily remembered and to resolve typeface name 
   conflicts.




INSTALLATION OF FONT WRANGLER  
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Extract the file FontWrangler.exe from this zipped file 
to a temporary folder such as c:\temp.

Please install Font Wrangler through the Run item of your Start 
menu. It is recommended that you close all applications before 
installing. Installing it through Explorer or Add/Remove Programs 
will usually fail very colourfully. 

The self-extracting Windows archive installs Font Wrangler. 
Follow the prompts that guide you through the install 
procedure. 




TO UNINSTALL FONT WRANGLER 
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Use Add or Remove Programs under the 
Start -- Settings -- Control Panel.




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