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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 a slightly
- different name and size than the source one (byron.font/12
- -> byronC.font/14). By default the program creates fonts that
- use the screen pens #1 and #2 (black and white).
-
-
- USAGE
- The program can only be started from shell, the following
- options are provided:
-
- FONT/A,TO/K,SIZE/N/A,SCALE/S,SHADOW/S,PREDOMINANT/N/K,
- TP=TEXTPEN/N/K,OP=OUTLINEPEN=SP=SHADOWPEN/N/K,PREVIEW/S
-
- FONT/A: the source font.
-
- TO/K: the name of the font to create (you can omit the .font
- suffix). If you don't use this option, the font will be named
- like the source one but with a 'C' in front of the suffix (ie.
- xenC.font).
-
- SIZE/N/A: its size.
-
- SCALE/S: creates the font when it doesn't exist at the requested
- size.
-
- SHADOW/S: create a font with shadow instead of outline.
-
- TEXTPEN/N/K: the pen that should be used for the font face. By
- default pen #2 will be used (white). CreateOutline is only
- able to create fonts with a maximum depth of 3 planes, so the
- maximum pen number is 7!
-
- SHADOWPEN=OUTLINEPEN/N/K: the pen that should be used for the
- outline/shadow cast. By default pen #1 will be used (black).
- CreateOutline is only able to create fonts with a maximum depth
- of 3 planes, so the maximum pen number is 7!
-
- PREDOMINANT/N/K: The pen number that should be made "changeable"
- via Font prefs. This must either be the TEXTPEN or the SHADOW/
- OUTLINEPEN. If you don't give this option, no pen will be
- changeable.
-
- 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.
- 1.2 removed extra spacing btw. characters <Antonio Remedios>.
- 1.3 corrected doc (PREDOMINANT isn't a /S switch). added TO/K
- option <Ed Vishoot>.
- 1.4 added options to change the pen number of the font face and
- the outline cast <Ed Vishoot>, the offset into the colortable
- wasn't correctly calculated, programs that directly support
- colorfonts (PPaint, ...) weren't able to load the right
- colormap (magicwb colors). this was never a problem for the
- wb as it doesn't really support colorfonts :)
-
-
- 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