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FontMachine v3.0 - Demo archive - Copyright © ClassX Development Italy
All rights reserved by:
ClassX Development Italy S.N.C.
Via Francesca 463, I-56030 Montecalvoli (PI)
Tel: +39 587 749206
Fax: +39 587 749206
E-Mail: classx@pisoft.it
Feel free to contact us for any further information.
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Summary of changes and new features from FontMachine v2.xx:
The whole program has been vastly improved and extended in order to achieve
better performances and gain compatibility to the new RTG graphic
standards. FM3 is now perfectly compatible with CyberGFX and DraCO. The
user interface had been refined and slighlty modified to make it easy to
control the new features of the program. A new incredible FM3 feature is
the possibility to import animated textures in the standard AnimBrush
format and render animated texts as Anim5 or GIF-Anim animations.
Additionally, Pattern and Plasma textures has been extended as multiple
frame objects. An example: loading a Plasma or a Pattern in a 32 colours
screen, creates a texture with an identical number of frames (32). Each
frame represents a step in the cycling palette of the texture, so it's
really simple to create "moving" plasmas or rotating patterns. With the
help of an extended set of AREXX commands and specific AREXX scripts it is
really fast and easy to make animated text. Users can now select their
preferred AREXX script from an intuitive and helpful AREXX window. To make
things even more easy, the AREXX interface of FontMachine now supports
localization and on-line help. FM3 now support automatic texture centering
for each gliph of the font and the font preview window now respects the
font metric. We've made some changes and optimizations in the behaviour of
FM3 (free space check before saving a font, ability to change the font
name, safety checks, etc.) in order to get more flexibility from the
program itself and to give users the maximum comfort.
AREXX freaks can count on an extended set of commands and a new standard
way to write localized AREXX scripts. With the new commands, FontMachine3
can be easily transformed in the most powerful font processor.
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The demo version is fully functional but has been limited for demonstration
purposes only. The demo version is capable of saving fonts up to 25 pixels
but it cannot save animated text. The drawer "AnimText" contains some
samples of the capabilities of FontMachine in making animated texts.
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