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Fontmenu.com offers hundreds of original typefaces
and font families for Windows XP and more recent
organized by categories and names.See full
character map, download free fonts samples,
purchase online and get the fonts immediately.
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- Here are
some questions frequently asked about fonts, and the
answers we where able to come up at the time.
Please remember, however, especially if you are new to
computers, that
in no way Fontmenu.com can teach you the basic use of your
system.
Neither would you expect a car gadget manufacturer to help
you get a
driver's license. Please refer to your system supplier
manual, or if
necessary hot line, if you feel some of the concepts we
use are too
complicated.
- How do
I install OpenType, TrueType and ATM fonts with Mac OS X
?
- Double
click on the font file. TrueType have the extension TTF,
OpenType
PostScript is OTF (in the OTF folder). Double click on the
font, and
then click "Install". If you have several fonts to
install, launch the
Font Book application, then drag and drop the font files
into it.
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- How do
I install OpenType, TrueType and ATM fonts under Windows
?
- Open the
"Fonts" control panel, and click Files/ "Add". Then, look
for the font files where you copied or unpacked them.
Select them, and click OK. You may install several fonts
at the same time, simply by selecting them. You may also
simply copy the TrueType and OpenType fonts into it.
- Some
of the words you are using on this site are quite
unfamiliar to me.
Typography (the art of using type) is a real
craftsmanship, and it takes years to master. One of the
first challenge to anyone who really wants to venture in
the world of fonts, is to the font words. Please see our Glossary
for a quick course in font terminology.
- I want
a font made according to my specifications.
- Please contact
us for a quote.
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- How
can I obtain a printout of a font?
- Just use
the evaluation versions provided on the site, to print at
all sizes and as you see fit. If you like the result, the
full commercial version is just a few clicks away.
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- In
your Martian font, you placed a dot above the glipnol
character, and forgot to put an accent above the
weirdoo. It is unforgettable. I am furious and you are
just as stupid as a bunch of lunar dogs ! You should be
whipped, and give me my money back, too, plus maybe a
little extra, because I suffered incredible damage to my
much sophisticated sense of intellectual properness and
inherent graceful sensitivity.
- We are
sorry not to know Martian as well as such a refined
literate as your highness. Please do not blow your
disintegrator at us, poor ridiculous clumsy uneducated
filthy computer groomers. Please consider that ignorance
may not be such a crime, after all, and have mercy for the
less taught. If for any reason we committed a mistake in
transcribing your native language, be assured it is not
intentional. Please courteously provide us with the proper
information, and we will make sure appropriate updates are
made. All we know of, as humble and insignificant
artisans, is the fonts craftsmanship. It is not our fault,
then, if the subtleties of a foreign language do not
strike us like light over the saint's head. However, we
are bending our knees to the more educated. Thank you for
helping us improve. At present time, our fonts have
been thoroughly reviewed, so they satisfy our customers.
Some have helped perfect already very nice fonts. But we
appreciate any additional suggestion!
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- Why
are you asking money for your fonts ? They should be
free !
- There
is a strange curse around computer software, and
especially fonts,
these days. Nobody would ever consider getting a movie for
nothing, or
walking into a book store and demand a sample for free.
For typefaces,
however, the matter is quite different. So many people
consider
computer software piracy as no more than a light little
mistake, that
eventually, some may indeed start considering software
authors as
thieves, because they pretend to get a small reward for
their job. Some
luminaries are even toying with the very strange notion
that computer
software should only come free, and that any commercial
distribution,
including shareware, has some analogy to a rip-off. Open
source if
dandy when the tax payer has already footed the bill, and
it sounds
legiti;ate that research conducted with university grants
return to the
community. Fine and good, then, but why do they at the
same time insist
to get paid for their lectures, or to get royalties from
their books ?
Match Software is a small business based on shareware
distribution.
Anyone can browse at our productions in the same way a
reader could
read a book as many times and as completely as wished,
before actually
paying for it. Please do not pirate us. If you feel a font
is really of
use, please register. That small usage fee will help us
continue
creating new original, exclusive and fine fonts for you.
We sincerely
thank all users who have, through their registration,
helped pay the
rent, the phone, and the electricity which powers our
equipment while
creating all these fonts. Please continue to support the
shareware
concept. It is the only way out of the commercial
monopolies. Small
software companies defend your freedom to choose as much
small book
publishers do : without them, big companies would have
their way,
culturally and financially. Nobody would ever want that to
happen !
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Non-Windows
and old systems limited support
- In the
past, we have tried our best to support all systems and
platforms,
sometimes going out of our way to accomodate little used
platforms, or
systems that varied so often, it became impossible to
satisfy end users.
Rather than to continue playing cat and mouse with
esoteric software,
we have elected a very simple solution : all fonts
available here are
sold for Windows XP and newer Windows systems. They may
work under
other platforms with some efforts, but we do not guarantee
they will.
If you plan on using our fonts on your machine, please
take the time to
download one of the free evaluation packages and play with
it, so you
are satisfied it is suited to your system BEFORE you pay
for it.
- Now,
please keep a sense of humor, and consider that having
chosen a box
that is not like any other may require some composure.
After all, it is
a privilege to use a computer that most laymen will never
be able to
buy, or understand. So live up to it. If you bought a Mac
as a
fashionable fortune living statement, please seek a
consultant to
install it for much less than what your butler costs, and
consider
redesigning the room to match it's color. If you bought a
Mac because
you already had an iPod, then imagine yourself trapped
into a Reality
TV show where you are the son of a has-been hard rock
star, consider hardware as a disposable commodity and
get a
bumped-up, supercharged Intel thingy. If being a Mac owner
is a major
part of your life and spiritual belief, we bow to your act
of faith and
pay tribute to an inspired soul. We still keep a shrine to
the Mac 128
alive here, and a lot of these fonts are born under an
Apple mouse
benevolent eye. This very text is typed on a Mac laptop,
but please do
not tell mom'. She still believes I use an Hermes
typewriter.
Macintosh OS X, Panther and Tiger, will in general
recognize
immediately TTF fonts as their own, and the most recent
versions gladly
accept OpenType. The rule of thumb is, as usual with an
Apple machine:
if it opens by double-click, then it is compatible. ZIP
compressed
files should be opened without any trouble for all our
evaluation
fonts. Double click on the TTF in it, and OS X should not
only show it
to you, but offer to install it. Like Bang & Olufsen
remarkable
hi-fi systems, Macintosh personal computers are no longer
the champions
of incompatibility, but of ease of use and cocooning
smooth splendor.
With now an Intel heart, relish them not for their
incongruities, but
for their elegance, in a world where PCs still often look
like cheap
washing machines. You got yourself the Rolls Royce of
personal
computing. Now, act accordingly, and be mercyfull as a
prince : please
do not blame the calligrapher.
While the white boxes of Macintosh may have an angel
color, Linux is the fruit of many, many alchemists
conconctions. You
knew it, did you not, before you installed that innocent
looking Open
Source disk into that poor Windows thing ? Now, with its
double boot,
it has become as strange as some old TV series and turned
into an Igor
reincarnate
from past tomorrows. It would not like little angels but
will probably relish the Halloween
dingbats or Silbooettes.
Well, Linux is to computing what a revamped classic car is
to a lot of
students : amazement, wonder, frustration, fashion
statement, definitly
not the kind of thing a bimbo could drive. You might as
well wear it
proudly. By the way, and this is a delectable detail, this
page is the
result of work with an Open-Source editor, born under
Linux, now
available identically to all platforms : Nvu.
Vive la différence !
- Linux is
a real delight for the connoisseur : it comes in more
flavors than
French wine or Indian spice. A true intellectual will
wander the narrow
corridors of a Library with a daring console, ready to
face any danger,
including snotty remarks in confidential forums and
devilish system
collapse. Gentleman coders will not be afraid to compulse
volumes of parchemin,
chasing the ever more elusive perfect fix to bugs as
inventive as
snorkeling snarks in the shadows of processes only known
by wondrous
wizards.
- Nostalgics
of Dos and authentic CP/M Rimpoches
will
find their promised land in cryptic sets of commands
entered at
sundown, red-eyed by the midnight oil. Owlish figures will
master
languages that to APL are what once was Arhameic to brand
new Romans.
Shadows of a long line of programmers still slip through
unknown
routines underneath ever more innocent looking user
interfaces. All
that to say that it is humanely impossible to tell you in
a nutshell
how to install fonts under 10 versions of dozens of
published
incarnations of Linux. If you enjoy Linux for its
complexity, and we do
believe it maybe more enlightening than becoming obese in
front of the
TV, go right ahead and RTFM (Read The French Manual) to
see what to do
with the files.
If you are forced by your IT manager to use Linux, then
drop the
install problem on him. After all, he is paid to solve the
consequences
of his choices, right ? Oh, no... I did not know... So,
who is handling
data management now ? Uh oh. I see. A new merger ? uh...
And the
strange guy with pimples there is supposed to replace the
whole team ?
Oh yeah, right, lets keep it to adjascent cubicles...
You may also find that an increasing number of new Linux
systems work
as nicely as Mac OS X by a simple double-click on the font
file. Well,
after all, a Mac is also a Unix box (it would be highly
improper to
look under the hood).
- You may
yet be still flying a venerable OS/2 system, or an equaly
sanctified
Windows 3.2 Intel 8088 biplan aeroplane over amazed kids.
Perhaps using
Mac OS with original versions of Suitcase like would a
violonist a
Stradivarius, for it has no modern equivalent. The author
of these
impertinent lines still remembers a pompous visit, circa
1972, to an
IBM data processing center, where gracious ladies spent
hours punching
cards to be fed by techno-priests into the Moloch behind a
glass wall.
Cherish these relics of the past as they will never come
back (nor will
the $1.00 corner street movie theatre ticket). Let us face
it : Pascal
may have assembled a clock, some of us may have built a
Radio-Shack
crystal radio, Apple may have created the first PC with a
screen back
in the seventies, but kids today are born different. With
two TVs, an
innumerable number of accessories for their game console,
they change
cell phone more often than we used to buy 45 round vynil
records. Soon,
they will have their blue tooth port implanted directly
into the brain
and wonder how and why previous generations ever
bothered to
memorize anything in their puny biological brain. That is,
if we have
enough energy to power cell phones anymore. Can you
picture yourself at
an exam without access to the net ?
- By the
time this will be published on the site, anyway, new
events in the ever
accelerating world of cyberspace will have rendered these
considerations as obsolete as a 5 years old cell phone.
So, have fun
and enjoy the ride. Good luck !
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- Acknowledgement
: Fontmenu.com, and "Match Software" are intellectual
property of Match Software. All other intellectual
properties, such as Trademark and Brand Names mentioned
in this document, belong to their respective holders.
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