This Timing font allows you to easily draw timing diagrams in Word, etc. Its home page is http://www.pcserviceselectronics.co.uk/fonts/
To install the Timing font, I simply copied the "timing.ttf" file to my "C:\Windows\Fonts" directory. If you have problems, see
"Install a new font on your computer" at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA010947421033.aspx?pid=CL100636481033.
Print out a copy of "Timing Font Crib Sheet.gif" (included in distribution zip file), to see the Timing font's keystrokes. The key mapping is well thought out.
To use the Timing font in Word (on a PC with the font installed), simply change the font to "Timing", and use the keys (shown the crib sheet) to draw the waveform. Like any font, you can change its size, bold it, color it, high-light it, etc. The Timing font's characters are fixed width.
To make sure that the Timing font is properly displayed on different computers without the Timing font installed (in Word or PowerPoint), embed the Timing font directly in the document. This will increase your document's file size by about 15K.
The timing font must be embedded for each document (ie, it is not a permanent setting in Word). When the recipient opens the document, the Timing font is NOT installed on the recipient's computer.
On PCs without the Timing font installed, a Word document containing the embedded Timing font will not show the "Timing" font as available in the Font drop-down box. However, it is possible to edit and create additional timing digrams by using the Format Painter to clone the Timing font from some existing Timing font. So in effect the Timing font is available.
Enjoy!!
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