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                  FONT WRANGLER 

                   Version 1.0f
            
                November 15, 1999
            For Windows 95/98/2000/NT 

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



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

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  TO REGISTER FONT WRANGLER 
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Font Wrangler is a shareware application. 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 bookware. To register Font Wrangler, 
you can purchase a copy of Steven William Rimmer's novel, 
Eye ot the Dawn, ISBN 1-886508-09-7, the new edition from 
Jam Ink Publishing, an AGES imprint. The book is priced at 
$9.99 plus shipping. Until December 31, 1999, there is a 
special price of $6.99 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 closing beg notice in Font Wrangler
itself, 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.doc file which is added to the program's folder 
during installation of the program. 



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  ABOUT THIS DOWNLOAD 
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This download contains 3 files: 

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

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

-- fontrang.exe -- the application install program which: 
                -- is version 1.0f for Windows 95/98/2000/NT; 
                -- is 1,286,144 bytes in length; and, 
                -- has a CRC value of 25 3C CE 9B. 

A CRC value can be used to check the integrity of a file you 
have downloaded. By assuring that the CRC check value shown 
here 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.



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  INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
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Font Wrangler is a user-frindly TrueType font manager for 
Windows 95/98/2000/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; and, 

all with effortless batch processing, lots of context-
sensitive help and a minimum number of polecat jugglers 
barging into your space and distracting you.



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  INSTALLATION OF FONT WRANGLER  
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Extract the file fontrang.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. After installation, the source file fontrang.exe 
can be deleted from the temporary folder.  



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





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