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- 28 New Amiga Fonts.
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- This is the NEW 2.0 Version, dated 07/19/86. The previously
- missing large fonts are now included (sorry for the delay),
- and several bugs have been corrected. Also I have added an
- automatic installation script for your convenience.
-
- This file is named NEWFONTS.DOC. It is file number 1 of 59.
- It describes and documents, 15 large (14x16 Pixels) and 13 small
- (7x8 Pixels) new fonts for the Amiga. These fonts are in the
- standard format dictated by the ROM Kernal Manual. As such,
- they are fully compatible with Deluxe Paint, Notepad and
- any other program which makes use of the Amiga font capabilities.
-
- The fonts were converted to the Amiga from other microcomputers
- that I have owned over the years. The original machines
- did not support proportional spacing, kerning, etc. as the
- Amiga does. Therefore ALL letters are the same width. What
- this means is that a narrow letter such as 'I' will take up
- just as many horizontal pixels as wide letters, such as
- 'M' or 'W'. In many cases this won't look too bad, but
- certain letter combinations may look a little funny. (For
- example, the word 'WIMP'.
-
- File number 2 (of 59) is named NEWFONTS.PIC. It is an IFF
- (DPaint or Slide Show format) picture that illustrates
- samples of all 28 new fonts. Look at this one first if
- you want to get your mouth watering!!!
-
- File number 3 (of 59) is an installation script. This
- will considerably ease the pain of getting the fonts onto a
- disk in a useable form. However, if you are a glutton for
- punishment I have described manual installation also.
-
- Files 4 thru 59 are the actual fonts themselves. Each font
- requires two files. They are named as follows:
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- FONTxxA
- FONTxxB
-
- where xx is a numeric index between 01 and 28. In a table
- below I have equated these index numbers with the font
- names as shown in NEWFONTS.PIC.
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- MANUAL INSTALLATION
- -------------------
-
- The 'A' file will need to be renamed to xxxxxxx.font
- in the fonts directory on your workbench diskette.
- Similarly, the 'B' file will have to be renamed to
- xxxxxxx/8 (or xxxxxxx/16) also in the fonts directory.
- In the latter case, xxxxxxx is the name of a directory
- you have created in the fonts directory of your workbench
- diskette. In both cases, xxxxxxx will be replaced by the
- actual name of the respective font. For example,
- outline.font & outline/8 (or outline/16). The numbers 8
- and 16 become the actual file name for the font file, 8
- being used for the small fonts and 16 being used for the
- large ones. To further clarify what may not be clear by
- now let me offer the following example:
-
- Using the first small font as an example, you must
- first UN-ARC the two font files, FONT01A and
- FONT01B. Then from CLI do the following commands.
-
- MAKEDIR DF0:LARGE ** Do only once **
- MAKEDIR DF0:SMALL ** Do only once **
- ** See Note Below **
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- MAKEDIR DF0:SMALL/BYTE
- RENAME(or COPY) FONT01A to DF0:SMALL/BYTE.FONT
- RENAME(or COPY) FONT01B to DF0:SMALL/BYTE/8
-
- Following is a list of the index numbers that I have used
- and the names of the fonts that go with them. Numbers 01
- thru 13 are the small fonts and numbers 14 thru 28 are the
- large fonts.
-
- INDEX # FONT NAME SIZE
- ------- --------- ----
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- 01 BYTE 8
- 02 COLOSSAL 8
- 03 COUNT 8
- 04 FLOW 8
- 05 GOTHIC 8
- 06 OUTLINE 8
- 07 PINOCCHIO 8
- 08 PUDGY 8
- 09 ROMAN 8
- 10 SHADOW 8
- 11 SKINNY 8
- 12 SLANT 8
- 13 STOP 8
- 14 APPLE 16
- 15 ASTRA 16
- 16 BOLDTYPE 16
- 17 BROADWAY 16
- 18 COUNTDOWN 16
- 19 CYBER 16
- 20 EXPANDED 16
- 21 FRANKFURTER 16
- 22 NINETY'S 16
- 23 OUTLINE 16
- 24 PINBALL 16
- 25 ROMAN 16
- 26 SCRIPT 16
- 27 SLOPE 16
- 28 TYPEWRITER 16
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- NOTE:
-
- I suggest that rather than keeping all 28 fonts in one
- directory(usually named FONTS) that you put all of
- the large ones in a directory called LARGE(or big)
- and the small ones in a directory called SMALL(or little).
- The reason for this is that not all programs will handle
- a pull-down menu item with 28 entries in it. I haven't
- tried Deluxe Paint, but that many entries causes Notepad
- to freak-out. Anyhow, if you do split them you will have
- to assign fonts to the proper directory before starting-up
- DPaint or whatever program will be using the fonts. You
- can do this from CLI with the following command:
-
- 1. ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:LARGE or...
- 2. ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:SMALL
-
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-
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- AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION
- ----------------------
-
- 1. Create a NEW Work Bench disk by making a copy of your
- ORIGINAL Amiga Work Bench disk.
-
- 2. Copy all of the files that begin with the letters 'FONT'
- onto the new WB disk that you created in step 1. Do NOT
- put them into any directory or sub-directory.
-
- 3. Also copy the installation script onto the same WB disk.
-
- 4. Boot your Amiga from the disk just created and get into
- the CLI. Be sure your directory is set to df0:
-
- 5. execute InstallFonts
-
- 6. Sit back and relax for a couple of minutes. When the
- installation script completes, there will be two
- additional font directories called 'large' and 'small'
- on your new WB disk. To use any of the new fonts from
- Dpaint, Note Pad, etc., simply assign the fonts device
- to the correct directory BEFORE starting the program.
-
- E.G. ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:large or.....
- ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:small
-
- You can return to the default (albeit somewhat less
- exciting fonts) at any time by re-assigning as follows:
-
- ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:fonts
-
-
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-
- Even though I did not convert these fonts with proportional
- spacing, kerning, etc., these features could still be added
- by an enterprising individual who was willing to spend the
- time. To do this though, he would need the assembler sources,
- an assembler and a knowledge of how Amiga fonts are built.
- The last two items are available from your local Amiga
- dealer and the ROM Kernal Manual, respectively. The first
- may be obtained by leaving a message to me on my home board.
-
-
- Bill Fischer
- Casa mi Amiga BBS
- Jacksonville, FL
- (904) 733-4515 (300 or 1200 baud)
-
-
- Several of the large fonts do not have lower case. In those
- cases the upper case letters are repeated for lower case keys.
- With one large font (script), the opposite is true; there are
- no capital letters, only lower case. And finally, there may
- occasionally be a couple of characters missing in about six
- of the large fonts. In most cases this will be the @ character
- and/or all the characters above hexadecimal 7A (lower case 'z').
- When one of these missing characters is typed from the keyboard,
- it will be replaced on the screen by a SPACE.
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