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- FontMachine demo, not for commercial use.
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- All rights reserved by:
- ClassX Development Italy
- Via Francesca 463, I-56030 Montecalvoli (PI)
- Tel: +39 587 749206
- Fax: +39 587 749206
- E-Mail: classx@pisoft.it
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- Feel free to contact us for any further information.
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- FontMachine Features:
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- FontMachine is a program in order to create characters for Desk Top Video or
- other applications which need special characters.
- It is based on an easy to use and intuitive interface. The generation of fonts
- upto 256 colours in the AMIGA ColourFont format is done by using the numerous
- graphical operators, which can be applied directly to the font in the desired
- size.
- The base font can be AmigaFont, Agfa CompuGraphic Font or ColourFont, without
- limits regarding the size (they will be rescaled automatically). There are
- many graphicals operators available and can be applied all at the same time
- without any limits.
- It is possible to add borders of any type, reliefs, shadow and you can even
- add anti-aliasing, which enhances the quality of the fonts. In addition to
- this you can use up to two images (datatypes are supported), for creating the
- border and the front of the font.
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- FontMachine can create textures like sky, ocean, flames, stormes, gold, satin
- designed to be personalized and totally automatically. The colours of the
- textures are recalculated automatically (Floyd-Steinberg and Random are also
- available) in order to adapt their palettes to font. The user keeps control
- of all actions by looking at the preview window.
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- Once you have defined a style, you can save it and add it to any other font.
- FontMachine will recalcutate and generate the new font automatically.
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- Limitations of the demo version:
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- . there is no installer script;
- . you cannot save font larger than 25 pixels;
- . there are no additional textures;
- . there are no additional fonts;
- . there is no manual nor packaging;
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- What's new with FontMachine2:
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- .New: the Emboss operator; just try it.
- .New: the palette Optimiser; fast and useful.
- .New: full ARexx interface.
- .New: user interface is better and more suited for interlaced screens.
- .New: automatic attributes remap on palette changes.
- .New: Random Mapping mode.
- .New: palette customisation; build your own colour spreads.
- .New: ready-to-use pattern presets.
- .New: automatic ColorFonts remap.
- .New: ColorFonts' palette optimisation.
- .New: ability to save a subset of the font.
- .New: close gadgets on font and texture windows.
- .New: lots of enhancements in the GUI code.
- .Fix: automatic font redraw now works with AmigaOS2.xx.
- .Speed: font redraw is about 5 times faster than v1.xx.
- .Antialiasing: faster and more, more accurate.
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- And lots more...
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- Using the demo:
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- * First: start the "Assign_Demo" script (painless, no writes on your HD
- and no permanent changes at all).
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- * Testing FontMachine from its user interface:
- FontMachine is really simple and powerful.
- We suggest you to load one of the ready-made projects, clicking the
- "Load" button in the "Project" box.
- Feel free to play with the various settings, resize the textures,
- change the palette, load new textures, change the font and so on.
- If the default screen mode (Pal:HiresLace) is annoying, you can
- change it clicking the "Prefs" button in the "Project" box.
- Enjoy FontMachine.
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- * A better way: use ARexx !
- Just start the "ShowProjects.rexx" script in the Rexx drawer.
- This script automatically loads and shows the demo projects from the
- appropriate drawer.
- When you've finished you can start the interactive tutorial ARexx scripts
- called "TUT_FontGroviera.rexx" and "TUT_FontOro.rexx".
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- * Last: start the "UnAssign_Demo" script and you can remove the demo disk.
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