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- Short: Font manager, copy, delete, view fonts
- Uploader: d.mcminn@eee.rgu.ac.uk
- Author: d.mcminn@eee.rgu.ac.uk
- Type: text/font
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- Now up to version 2.02, build date 19/11/98.
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- * Shows (in font style) and deletes or copies selected fonts
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- * Can be used as a commodity, controlled by Exchange
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- * Tool type preferences
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- * Supports up to 1000 selectable fonts with 1000 sizes
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- * Support for Bitmap, CompuGraphic and Truetype fonts.
- See below.
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- * Font sensitive, resizable GUI. If the default screen font changes
- while Viewfonts 2 is loaded, hiding the GUI then re-opening it
- will use the new font.
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- * Remembers last window size / position between sessions
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- * VERY basic CLI interface
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- * Fixed some bugs (see history in guide)
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- NB: Font support: you can view all three types of font, but the font
- manager functions don't work on the Truetypes
- (which I'll fix later). Postscript fonts crash the
- program. Compugraphic fonts which have bitmaps WON'T
- have the bitmap and CG parts copied. These are all bugs
- and will be fixed later.
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- Truetype fonts are viewable thanks to the ttf.library (by Richard Griffith)
- see the ttflib.lha archive available on Aminet. Truetype fonts will be able
- to be managed (hopefully) in a later release, until now use the manager that
- comes in the ttflib.lha archive (also has preview).
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- Postscript fonts will be viewable in a future release, thanks to the type1.library
- by Amish S. Dave, and also managed (hopefully), see the type1_5.lha archive on
- Aminet. For Postscript fonts, use the manager / viewer that comes in the archive.
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- NB: In no way are these authors connected with Viewfonts and they should not be
- pestered with any queries about Viewfonts. They simply have written two very useful
- libraries which enhance, not only Viewfonts, but any Amiga program which uses
- the standard libraries for loading fonts.
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