Frequently asked questions

1. Who's the target user of Sharptype?
Sharptype is a filter plug-in for Photoshop, it mainly concerns on generating sharp font for small font size in Photoshop. You may find it useful if you are: UI designer, web designer or anyone who need to draw text in small font size. Sharptype can provide far more sharper type than the built-in Photoshop engine, which will improve your compositions' readability dramatically.

2. What's the pros, compared to Photoshop's built-in engine?
Sharptype uses a distinct method to render font, it does not use functional routines provided by operating system, however, it optimizes vector information to sharpen the vertical and horizontal lines. Sharptype searches additional directories for font, hence you do not need to install then into operating system, the font preview function resembles that in Microsoft Word, which make the font browsing and picking easier... Would you like to know more?

3. What is the advantage of built-in character map?
The traditional way requires open the system character map and do paste/insert operation. now you can just open the built-in char-map and do the insertion directly, hence makes the windings font easier to use.

4. How to install?
First download and install the program, set the correct plug-ins path, you can find the plug-ins path of your Photoshop or any compatible host (e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Plug-Ins) and copy it. You must choose the correct directory, or you cannot get Sharptype recognized by Photoshop and any compatible host.

5. How to launch the program?
Launch Photoshop and open an image file, you'll find the Sharptype in Filter menu. Currently only has support for RGB and Grey scale, so you have to convert to RGB or Grey scale for other color space.

1. Launch Photoshop

2. Open an image file

3. Find "Graphest-Sharptype" in Filter menu

4. Launch Sharptype

6. How to uninstall?
Find "Sharptype" shortcut in the Start Menu folder, then click "Uninstall Sharptype". Or you can open "Add/remove programs" in your control panel, then find Sharptype to complete the uninstall.

7. What is the restrictions of unreigstered version?
The only difference between registered version and unregistered version is the flexibility of font size selection. In unregistered version you can use only specified font size such as 10, 12, 18, 30, etc... For registered version, you can choose any size you want, such as 9, 11, 13, 14...

8. How to obtain the User ID of Sharptype?
Find the first button in the bottom of Sharptype screen and open the "Options" window, switch to "Register" option, then you will see a number, which is the User ID we've wanted. You will receive the license key soon after you register this software.