Font Directory - Documentation

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Either grab one of the zipped bundles:

Documentation Bundles

• installation guide (1.3Mb zipped pdf)
• installation guide & user documentation (5.9Mb zipped pdf)
  
  

Or browse the pdf guides separately:

Information Sheets

• font control features (169Kb pdf)
• font viewer features (548Kb pdf)
• font professional features (278Kb pdf)

These documents give a quick introduction to the facilities to be found within the Font Directory suite of applications,

Installation Guide

• installation guide (2.0Mb pdf)
• upgrading from fd2 (232Kb pdf)

PLEASE NOTE: The start of the "download edition" installation differs slightly different from the instructions given above (start by dragging your activation key onto the installation window rather than typing in your registration details). After this initial step, you can follow the guide verbatim.

User Documentation

• contents (1.9Mb pdf)
• font directory (1.2Mb pdf)
• font viewer - part 1 (915Kb pdf)
• font viewer - part 2 (516Kb pdf)
• font sets (2.1Mb pdf)
• reference (370Kb pdf)

This is a complete on-line version of the printed documentation.

Network Documentation

• networking font directory (172Kb pdf)
• local preferences (134Kb pdf)

This documentation is only relevant if you have purchased the network version of Font Directory.

Developer Documentation

• supporting font directory (15Kb pdf)

This documentation explains how application developers can support Font Directory and develop dedicated document scanners for their own file formats.