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Have you been using Printer’s Apprentice for a while? Tired the splash screen delay and water marks on your printed font catalogs? Sounds like you need to get your Printer’s Apprentice license key!

Through the end of September, you can get a Printer’s Apprentice license key for $11.99 – that is a savings of over 50%!

Use the links below to place your order today.

Purchase Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for $11.99 (use your credit card)

Purchase Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for $11.99 (use your PayPal account)

Got questions? Shoot us an email at helpdesk@loseyourmind.com.

Printer’s Apprentice 8.1.20, our innovative font manager for Windows 7, Vista & XP, has been released and published on the Lose Your Mind Development web site.

Printer’s Apprentice is always available as a free download directly from our web site. If you like the software, we urge you to purchase a license.

Download Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for Windows 7, Vista & XP

This upgrade includes the following changes:

• NEW: The Font Files tab now remembers the last folder you were browsing and selects this folder the next time you restart Printer’s Apprentice.
• NEW: Speed improvements in the routines used to read uninstalled TTF/OTF/PFM files in the Font Files tab.
• NEW: When the product loads, it now queries our web server for the latest pricing and promotions.
• NEW: Various cosmetic changes to the shareware splash screen and panels used throughout the software.

Printer’s Apprentice 8.1.19, our innovative font manager for Windows 7, Vista & XP, has been released and published on the Lose Your Mind Development web site.

Printer’s Apprentice is always available as a free download directly from our web site. If you like the software, we urge you to purchase a license.

We have a special offer available during the month of June. Use the link below and you can get Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for $11.99. This is a 50% discount off the regular price.

Download Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for Windows 7, Vista & XP

Purchase Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for Windows 7, Vista & XP – 50% discount

• This upgrade includes the following changes:
• NEW: Added Upper/Lower/Mixed Case toggle to Sample Text tab.
• FIX: Fixed up code to ensure default Font Groups folder is created. This was not working in some cases on Windows 7.
• FIX: Font Groups folder now defaults to My Documents rather than Application Data.
• FIX: Added additional intelligence to whether or not the progress dialog is displayed
  when reading files on the Font Files tab. When "Read sub folders" was checked, the progress dialog would always display. It now only displays if there are sub folders or     the total number of fonts in the folder is over the threshold.
• FIX: Added error checking code for "ArgumentOutofRangeException" errors when when reading files in the Font Files tab.

Printer’s Apprentice 8.1.18.1, a font manager for Windows 7, Vista & XP, has been released and published on the Lose Your Mind Development web site.

Printer’s Apprentice is always available for you to try directly from our web site. And if you like the software, we hope that you will purchase a license.

We have a special offer available during the month of March. Use the link below and you can get Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for $14.99. This is a 40% discount off the regular price.

Download Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for Windows 7, Vista & XP

Purchase Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for Windows 7, Vista & XP – 40% discount

This upgrade includes the following changes:

• Installer version 8.1.18.1
• FIX: Updated several pages in the help file. Options section, etc.
• FIX: If the the tabTextSampleText key in the prnapp.exe.config file got corrupted or included too much data, Printer’s Apprentice would crash with an overflow error. This has been fixed.
• FIX: Added status bar help prompts for a few menu items that were missing.
• FIX: In certain cases, OpenType files with hyphenated names would not show up in the Install font list. This has been fixed.

Mark your calendar! On Sunday, January 30, 2011 we will be offering Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 for US$11.95. That is 52% off our regular price!

To take advantage of this exciting offer, visit this page http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/printers-apprentice-81 on Sunday, January 30, 2011. Place your order using our partner, Bits Du Jour, and you will receive a license code for Printer’s Apprentice.

It is very easy to take advantage of this offer. The Printer’s Apprentice page at Bits Du Jour links directly to our standard, secure order form. There are no popups or full screen ads. And the license code you receive is for the latest, full version of Printer’s Apprentice 8.1.

This offer is good for one day only. So mark your calendar and bookmark the Printer’s Apprentice page at Bits Du Jour now!

Here is a look at upcoming features for Printer’s Apprentice 8.1.  This version has lots of fixes for improved support with Windows 7. All screenshots below were taken using the release version of Windows 7 Home Professional.

Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 is slated for a mid-December 2009 release. If you are interested in participating in our beta program, please send an email to helpdesk@loseyourmind.com.

• Printer’s Apprentice 8.1 works great with Windows 7. There are many minor cosmetic enhancements in the application for better integration with both Windows 7 and Vista. For example, the toolbar will use Windows 7 icons and listboxes support hover highlight effects.
• Printer’s Apprentice now queries the system to determine the correct font used for drawing dialog boxes. This font is then used to render the various screens in Printer’s Apprentice. In most cases this is Segoe UI.

  

• New Menus & Colors tab on the Options dialog. On this screen you can change menu, toolbar & icon styles.  You can also change the color of the accent bars used across the top of  the main screen.

  

• Font Files and Font Groups tabs use a new tree control. This should eliminate the "object not set" errors that could pop up with the old control.  The new control is FolderView.Net, provided by LogicNP Software.

  

• The old control, exptreelib.dll & exptreelib.pdb, will be replaced with the new  logicnp.folderview.dll when you run the Printer’s Apprentice setup program.
• Added a "Make New Folder" button to the Copy / Move Font to Folder dialog box.
• Added a "Make New Group" button to the Copy / Move Font to Font Group dialog box.
• Fixed a bug with installing Type 1 fonts. If the registry key 
  SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Type 1 Installer\Type 1 Fonts did not exist, then the install would fail.
• Fixed a bug in the OpenType font reading routines. Some fonts were being ignored if they had invalid strings in the OTF NAME table.
• When installing multiple fonts, and one or more of them is already installed, a dialog box would popup showing you the number to be installed and the number already installed. This now uses a message box with Yes/No buttons instead of just OK.