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The Menus
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File Menu
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Open
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Open a previously saved text file.
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Save
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Saves a text file
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Save As
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Saves a text file with a given name. Note: Background colours are not saved with text files.
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Export
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Exports the current type setting as an image in a variety of formats - BMP, JPEG, Photoshop, PICT, TIFF etc. There is no direct support for GIF format because of licensing issues.
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Page Setup...
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Set the page size and orientation for printing.
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Print...
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Prints the contents of the editing window.
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Quit/Exit
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Shuts down the program.
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Edit Menu |
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Undo
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Not implemented in this version.
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Cut
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Removes the text and puts it on the clipboard.
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Copy
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Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
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Copy Graphic
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Copies an image of the text to the clipboard depending on the guides setting. If the guides are hidden, the whole editing area is copied otherwise only the area within the left, right and bottom guides is copied.
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Paste
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Pastes text from the clipboard.
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Clear
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Banishes text to oblivion!
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Select All
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Selects the entire contents of the editing area.
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Tools Menu
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Utilitites Palette
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Opens the Utilities Palette.
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Guides
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Hide/Show Guides
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Makes the guides and ruler visible/invisible. Note: This setting affects the area of the graphic that is copied or exported. See Copy Graphic above.
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Reset Guides
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Puts the guides back to their 'home' positions.
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Auto Small
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Automatically selects a group of pattern characters 4 tiles wide by 2 tiles high to make a small background image. Used only in conjuction with pattern fonts.
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Auto Medium
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Selects a group of pattern characters 16 tiles wide by 4 tiles high to make a medium size background image. Used only in conjuction with pattern fonts.
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Auto Large
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Selects a group of pattern characters 32 tiles wide by 8 tiles high to make a large background image. Used only in conjuction with pattern fonts.
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Insert Pixel Spaces
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Inserts pixel spaces at the current cursor position - 1, 2 or 5 pixels so you can easily make up any character width with a few of these spaces.
Note: What it's actually doing is inserting space characters from the PixelSpaces font. This is a three pixel high font so that it can work with any other font but you have to be careful NOT to change the type size from 3 pixels or you will lose pixel accuracy. |
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Insert Sample Text
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User Phrase
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A phrase that you can define yourself. Selecting this option with the Alt key held down saves the current contents of the editing area as your default text. After that, you can choose 'User Phrase' to insert that same text.
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Quick Brown Fox
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A phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet.
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Full Character Set
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All characters in the selected font.
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Help Menu
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Online Help
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Takes you to the SimpleSetter page at www.minifonts.com for the latest information on this program.
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MiniFonts News
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Takes you to www.minifonts.com for the latest news about fonts.
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Note: The online help pages only work if you are logged-on to the Web!
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