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Compiler's Note:
The Amiga fonts drawers on this CD have been set up as to be
ready-to-run. Icons are available to point the FONTS: assignment
to each batch of fonts, for use with DPaint, Scala, &tc. The
most effective way to use the supplied fonts is to:
<1> Start your paint or titling package.
With DPaint 3, you must first run the program ColorText to
use ColourFonts properly - this is supplied on the DPaint
bootdisk. DPaint 4 doesn't need this, though.
Currently, Scala cannot read off the FONTS: directory
on-the-fly once it has started - you have to use one of the
font select scripts before starting Scala. This is why the
Scala font is present in all font drawers - Scala requires
access to it at all times. Once you're happy with a font,
copy it into your sys:fonts drawer for normal use. Scala users
can ignore the following instructions.
<2> Obtain a fonts requester for font selection and previewing.
<3> Bring the Workbench screen to the front, open the CD icon and
click on one of the font select scripts, for example: BtoC in
the drawer AAColourFonts. Generally, the drawers are set out
alphabetically to make font access less unwieldly with graphics
packages.
Standard Amiga hotkeys to flip the screens to front and back
are Amiga-M and Amiga-N - a SINGLE mouseclick on the screen
then activates the frontmost screen. Watch for the mouse
pointer changing style between programs to avoid erranous
mouseclicks.
<4> Reselect the FONTS: directory with the requester, and the
required batch of fonts should be availble.
<5> If you need to revert back to the system fonts <in your system
disk or hard drive>, you can click on a 'Restore' script which
quickly resets the FONTS: assignment. This is easy to do if you
leave the DTV drawers open and just flick between the WorkBench
and your graphics application.
Be warned that some of the font datafiles are VERY large, and require
a lot of CHIP <graphics> memory. AGA machines will have 2 megabytes
of CHIP RAM as standard, but ECS machines will vary between systems.
Use 'Avail' at a Shell prompt to see what you've got. Using a cut-down
WorkBench <or not loading Workbench on bootup> can ease memory
problems on smaller machines.
There seems to be a problem with DPaint and large numbers of fonts.
DPaint 3 and 4 both seem to have trouble with large font directories,
sometimes causing complete machine crashes, sometimes just not
picking up all the fonts on the scan of FONTS: - the CD has been
optimised to lower the chances of this happening. Increase the stack
size of DPaint by editing its icon <refer to your system manuals for
information on this>.
You can also flip through the examples of each font with Mostra or
Viewtek to find a particular typeface, then copy that font drawer
to your system disk - if you don't copy the entire font directory,
<some fonts are VERY large> just use the program FixFonts <in the
System drawer on your Workbench disk> to clean up the font data.
THP. Citrus '94.