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Softfont Utilities
Caution: These utilities are offered on a what you see is what you
get basis, no warrantee of any kind. You are free to modify
the sources or distribute them in any manner except for
commerical purposes. I retain any right to use them for
profit. Otherwise feel free. Bruce Kitchin [75046,1131]
These utilities prompt you for input and output file names. If you
are not using an HP portable or 150, you may see a strange character
or two as I sometimes have cleared the screen with HP Esc sequences.
They should not effect the usefulness of the program.
MakeBold is a program which emboldens a softfont. It mimics what some
printers do, ie., it shifts the character image right one bit and
merges it with the original. Not an especially terrific approach but
it has created some satisfactory characters for me. A properly formed
bold character set would probably be tweeked a bit. I've used it to
embolden HP's 10pt TmsRmn Italic softfont (the original softfonts, I'm
just getting the revised ones and will probably need to try it again).
Warning: it only works with portrait orientation. If you need it for
landscape, use MakeLand (see below) to rotate the font to a portrait
orientation, embolden it, and rotate it back. You need to use MakePrd
(see below) to setup the width tables in PRD format.
MakeLand rotates the characters of a softfont 90 degrees. It makes a
portrait font into a landscape one and vice-versa. Actually rather than
say 90 degrees, I should say that it rotates it about a diagonal so that
doing it twice should yield the original font. I gather that this is not
the best way to make landscape and portrait fonts from one another but it
has worked.
MakePrd is slightly misnamed. It actually makes the entries for a single
font needed to make an MS Word PRD file. By merging the result (putting
the parts in the appropriate places) with others or with the translated
into text format of an existing PRD file and then translating into PRD
format, you can have MS Word recognize a font you create (I've used it
for embolden fonts and for some I created using SoftCraft's utilities).