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Getting to this point is easier then it might sound; the typeface set is comprised of variations on thirty styles, many of which are similar. However, unless you are looking for a specific, unusual appearance, the combination of serifs, sansserifs, scripts, and ornates should suffice. y!a L yjddPROFILE 2y U 1  1 B!A( Add>|( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA,  :=  SoftType $199 ZSoft Corporation 450 Franklin Road, Suite 100 Marietta, GA 30067 (404)4280008BXA few notes: The installation process is a bit confusing, owing to references to several concepts that are covered a bit further along in the manual, but by accepting the default values provided by SoftType, you'll position yourself to be able to take ah  $%%!%$advantage of whatever screen and printer values you've customized your copy of Windows to ah  !%recognize. Also, be aware that while the space calculations provided by SoftType to fit your ah  !%creation requests are very accurate, the time estimates are not. The estimates are right on the !%head for printer fonts, but don't seem to take screen fonts into accord. Further, the process !%of building the fonts is very disk and processor intensive, so if you switch away to use other !%!%applications while SoftType does its work, the times you are shown become completely ah  !%!%meaningless. !%!%XPerhaps the kicker is this: Due to the nature of Windows' graphics scaling operations, creating ah  !%!%a single font will usually yield usable sets in several sizes. For example, we made eight point !%!%sets in several typefaces, and were rewarded with screen fonts in eight, nine, ten, twelve, !%!%fourteen, eighteen, and twentyfour point increments, and although only the specified eight !%!%point printer font is listed on menus, perfectly acceptable display (but not printed) results can !%!%be gotten printing in the other sizes. So, if you remove SoftType from your hard disk after ah  !%using it to build a library of fonts (leaving the actual font files, whose names show up in !%WIN.INI file), you'll add tremendous functionality to all your Windows applications, while ah  !%sacrificing next to nothing in terms of system resources. For example, three of the examples !%of multiuseful eight point fonts take up under 250K of space. SoftType is fast, useful, and ah  Y%%inexpensive. If you create any printed output or use Windows for computerbased presentations, you want it. ah  E Our Call ă XWe've reviewed twentysix Windows programs here applications, addons, tools, development environments, and hypertext. ah  Five of them were good enough to earn check ratings. While "the IYMSR seal of approval" on products in our monthly focus ah  article is usually based on a comparison of the products in the review, this month, the designation means something different. These five JetForm, PowerPoint, Q&E, FormBase and SuperPrint are simply what we consider to be examples of excellent ah  work. Two are full fledged applications programs, one is a combination tool/application that helps make working with nonWindows resources easier by taking advantage of the environment, another an application that runs under Windows almost by ah  accident, and the last is a tool designed specifically to overcome shortcomings in Windows. ah  XWhile the list is by no means complete (we've skipped word processors, desktop publishing, and communications programs, for example), it seems pretty much representative of what's out there. There are applications that were designed specifically for use under Windows, but there are also plenty of ports of products originally designed for other environments, and tools, tools, ah  tools. XWe don't like to editorialize too much you're smart enough to draw your own conclusions so here it is: Windows is pretty, ah  it shortens the learning curve and makes computing feel more natural for many people, and wherever we ultimately end up, you can bet that Windows will influence things tremendously. Still, that fact that there are so many tools for improving its ah  shortcomings can't be ignored; Windows is great, but unless you do a lot of DTP or graphics work, adopting it now may be a ah  little premature. Remember also that unless you've got a serious hardware setup, it's slow on a good day, and seems almost to be hibernating on a bad one. However , as the price of hardware plummets and more people upgrade their systems, this problem will go away. If we repeat this type of issue in two or three years, the speed issue will have gone away. XDo you want Windows? Yes, you do. It'll give you a head start on the future, allow you access to that occasional breakthrough ah  product (PowerPoint is great right now, and FormBase is the precursor of the paperless office), and heck, it may give you a ah  chance to look smart from time to time. Is it time to abandon the C:\> prompt? Not yet, but stay tuned; GUIs are here to stay, and you'll be seeing more and more reasons to adopt one fulltime in the months ahead. @  _7 [ PA SOME NEW STUFF ...  }V [ PAd у Uz    V.I.R.U.S. Protection Vital Information Resources Under Siege ă  Author: Pamela Kane Published by: Bantam Books $39.95ă 5 0!I%! %!5ԌLNIt isn't very often that IYMSR departs from the path of ah  "reviewing software, and nothing but software". There are two ways of looking at our deviation from that policy for V.I.R.U.S.; either this book is must reading for everyone who ah  uses software, or including the DR. PANDA UTILITIES