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USE_FONT.TXT V 1.00 A.J.KAYE
Sittingbourne KENT
6th Mar 1994
INSTRUCTIONS for LOADING & USING FONTS in BUTTERFLY ARTIST
For BEST results FONTS need to be Specially converted & Optimised
see File CONV_FNT.TXT for details.
LOADING FONTS (KEY) = Main Keyboard Key, ie (Control) = CONTROL Key
CLICK ON ---- "TEXT" Box
PRESS -- -- - (Control)+(|\) to bring up FONT Menu
CLICK ON ---- "GEM Font laden" [GEM Font Load]
CLICK ON ---- Top "nicht belegt" Slot [Not Used]
FILE SELECTOR will come up
CLICK ON ---- Required .FNT File
Selected FONT will LOAD
[ for ADDITIONAL Fonts CLICK ON ---- "GEM Font laden"
again THEN the SECOND "nicht belegt" Slot, The File
Selector, & SELECT AGAIN as above. Repeat for FURTHER
Fonts. The .PRG will TELL you if it has insufficient
MEMORY to Load any more Fonts. [ see also SCRAMBLED
FONTS under PROBLEMS below ].
USING FONTS CLICK ON ---- "TEXT" Box
PRESS -- -- - (Control)+(|\) to bring up FONT Menu
CLICK ON ---- "Selektieren" [Select]
CLICK ON ---- Required FONT NAME from the Fonts you
have already Loaded as above. You can
ONLY USE ONE Font at a time.
The Selected Font will then be available
for use.
LOAD the Selected FONTs .IMG File on to a spare space
on your Drawing. This will SHOW you the appearance of
the Font and ALSO the OPTIMISED "h" Settings.
PRESS -- -- - (Control)+(+=) OR (Control)+(¯`) untill
the OPTIMISED "h" Value appeares at the
TOP LEFT of Screen.
You can NOW USE the selected FONT at its Optimised
Best.
UNLOADING FONTS CLICK ON ---- "TEXT" Box
PRESS -- -- - (Control)+(|\) to bring up FONT Menu
CLICK ON ---- "Entfernen" [ Un Load ]
CLICK ON ---- Name of Font you require to unload
The SLOT will now show "nicht belegt"
again. You can now use this slot for
loading another Font [ but see SCRAMBLED
FONTS in PROBLEMs section below ]
PROBLEMS All of the FONTS listed on the TWO Discs I have so far
converted [ see FONTLIST.001 & .002 ] have been TESTED
in BUTTERFLY on my system [ 16Mhz STE 4MB RAM ] and
WORK OK. The .IMG Files were produced from Butterfly
Artist it`s self.
I have found the following problems, with their
solutions.
TYPING IN It seems a though you can only GET on SCREEN those
Letters of a Font that you can TYPE in FROM the KEY-
BOARD. Even if other Letters EXIST in a FONT I have
NOT Yet found ANY way to ACCESS them. Some FULL Fonts
are included should you wish to experiment.
SCRAMBLED FONTS You may sometimes get Scrambled Fonts -- that is when
you PRESS a KEY you get a DIFFERENT Letter than the
one you were Expecting [or a Scrambled part of two
letters] This SEEMS to happen with SOME Fonts when you
HAVE MORE than ONE FONT Loaded.
The answer is to UNLOAD ALL your Fonts and THEN to
LOAD ONLY the ONE Font you want into the TOP Slot.
This SEEMS to fix the problem EVERY TIME on my System.
Loading with the LARGEST POINT Sizes in the TOP Slot
and the other Sizes in decending Point size untill the
SMALLEST POINT Size in the LOWEST Slot SEEMS to reduce
the occurance of the problem, PARTICULARLY when you
LOAD several DIFFERENT Point Sizes of the SAME Font.
? SIGN If you try TYPING in LOWER CASE letters when the Font
you have LOADED is CAPITALs ONLY you will get a "?" on
SCREEN. [providing the "?" EXISTS in the loaded Font]
I have not checked this out yet but this may also
apply to other Letters or Signs which DO NOT Exist in
the FONT.
£ SIGN You WILL have problems getting the "£" Sign typed in
in BUTTERFLY. -- If you type (Shift)+(£3) to get the
"£" you will get a STRING OF TEXT. This seems to be
either due to the UK v GERMAN Keyboard Layout or the
use of a redundant [for Germans] Key for the Programme
Text option.
The EASY solution for UK users would be to use
FONTKIT.PRG to SWAP the "£" and "$" Signs in a
Font and then type (Shift)+($4) to get the "£" Sign.
PASTE/STYLE You can CHANGE the PASTE Mode of the Loaded & Selected
Font, as well as its STYLE using the KEYBOARD in a
similar way to the PASTE for LASSO and KOPIEREN [Copy]
The DETAILS of the options are given below, Please
*** NOTE **** however that there are SOME KEY PRESSES
that do NOT FOLLOW the SAME Pattern as the Rest.
(Control)+(!1) Paste SOLID
(Control)+("2) Paste TRANSPARENT
(Control)+(£3) Paste Transparent BUT ANY BLACK under Font TURNS
WHITE.[for BLACK Font]
(Control)+($4) Paste INVERTED *ON* Shows WHITE Font on BLACK RECT-
ANGLE.[for BLACK Font]
Paste INVERTED *OFF* PRESS (Control)+(£3)
***NOTE*** ON THE FOLLOWING KEYs the FIRST PRESS turns Effect ON
the SECOND PRESS turns Effect OFF &
Returns to PREVIOUS
LOOK of Font.
***ALSO NOTE**** USE WITH CAUTION --- You can USE MORE Than ONE KEY Effect
on a Font [ eg GREY,BOLD,ITALIC] BUT
there is NO "UNDO" If you go TOO MAD
you may have TROUBLE getting BACK to
the ORIGINAL Loaded Font. You will
NEED to Press the KEYS in REVERSE
ORDER to GET There!!!!
(Control)+(%5) Paste SOLID WHITE Will ONLY Show on a BLACK or
Patterned Background [for BLACK
Font]
(Control)+(^6) Paste BOLD Increase WEIGHT of Font by
ADDING Pixels to Width & Height
to give a BOLD Version of Font
(Control)+(&7) Paste GREY Gives a GREY Effect similar to
FONTKITs Lighten.
(Control)+(*8) Paste SLOPE Will produce an ITALIC Version
of Font
(Control)+((9) Paste UNDERLINE Puts an UNDERLINE under Letters
[ You NEED an Underline in the
LOADED Font for this to WORK ]
(Control)+()0) Paste OUTLINE Will produce a SINGLE Pixel
THICK Outline of Font [for BLACK
Font ]
**** PASTE TIP ***** For LONG lines of TEXT WIDER than ONE SCREEN -
When PASTING a STRING of TEXT you have Typed in
NOTE the "y" value TOP LEFT of SCREEN for the
FIRST [left hand] section of TEXT you Paste.
When you come to the SECOND section of text if
you match the "y" Value it will LINE UP Ok with
the PREVIOUS section - you will ONLY have to
Judge the Horizontal SPACING by Eye when you
PASTE it.
OTHER ITEMS from FONT MENU
HEADER This item seems to be INACTIVE
ABBRUCH [Abort] This WORKS OK but seems unneccessary as it
DUPLICATES the NORMAL Butterfly method of a
RIGHT Mouse Button CLICK to EXIT a process,-
which also WORKS OK here.
PROGRAMM I have NOT yet managed to get this process sorted out
MENU [^P] enough to RUN reliably. Nor have I managed to get .FPR
Files to do ANYTHING! Lastly I cannot GET any TEXT
Files loaded. I DO NOT think this is POSSIBLE! I think
that the best you can do is a STRING of about 17 Char-
ecters using the PROGRAMM MENU. With a Large POINT size
Font EVEN 17 Characters is TOO Many as ANYTHING which
goes OFF the EDGE of the Screen is NOT PASTED!!