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CreateOutline
© 2000 by Stephan Rupprecht
All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
CreateOutline is copyrighted 2000 by Stephan Rupprecht.
All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial
donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is
left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage
caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the
program(s) it describes.
REQUIREMENTS
Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.0 and
68020+ cpu.
DESCRIPTION
CreateOutline is a small program that has been written to make
these OutlineFont-like patches obsolete (programs that draw
an outline around your icon texts by patching graphics.library).
It takes a font and creates a colorfont from it which can either
have an outline or a shadow. The new font will have slightly
different name and size than the source one (byron.font/12
-> byronC.font/14). Currently the program creates fonts that
use the screen pens #1 and #2 (black and white), future version
might allow you to specify different pens.
USAGE
The program can only be started from shell, the following
options are provided:
FONT/A,SIZE/N/A,SCALE/S,SHADOW/S,PREDOMINANT/S,PREVIEW/S
FONT/A: the source font.
SIZE/N/A: its size.
SCALE/S: if the font doesn't exist in the requested size,
then create it.
SHADOW/S: create a font with shadow instead of outline.
PREDOMINANT/S: lets you choose the textcolor in Font prefs.
PREVIEW/S: view a sample text in a window but don't save
the font.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
Not a bug of the program: When using p96 you need to enable
"Text+Field" in Font prefs to get the right colors on 15+ bit
screens (otherwise the text will be pink).
HISTORY
1.0 first public release.
1.1 added PREDOMINANT/S switch.
AUTHOR
Please send bug reports and ideas to:
Stephan Rupprecht
Apfeldweg 1
D44359 Dortmund
Germany
Send emails to
stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de
WWW
http://stephan.2xs.de