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- SYSFON10.ZIP - Create your own Windows System Fonts
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- SYSFON 1.0 is a free utility which lets you create your own Windows system
- fonts from existing Windows screen fonts (Bitmap, TrueType, ATM etc.). The
- "System Font" is the bitmap font Windows uses for window titles and menus.
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- SYSFON is free software, with no strings attached. No warranties, of course!
- People who want to improve the code are invited to coordinate their efforts
- with the author.
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- Description:
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- Since font conversion is a one-time task, I haven't tried to produce an
- overly sophisticated user interface...
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- SYSFON's main window displays a sample window title and a sample menu bar
- the way they would appear if the currenty selected font were the system font.
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- The "Select Font" button displays a standard "Choose Font" dialog; you must
- already have installed the font you want to convert (using the Control Panel).
- Select name, style and point size of the font you plan to use as system font.
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- The "Save Font" button displays a standard "Save as" dialog. This allows
- you to save the selected font as a .FON file on disk. A popup window gives
- you the choice of updating system settings (the "fonts.fon=" directive in
- SYSTEM.INI) or leaving them intact.
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- (To revert to another system font, you must either recreate it with SYSFON
- or update SYSTEM.INI manually, e.g. "fonts.fon=vgasys.fon" or
- "fonts.fon=8514sys.fon" in the [boot] section.)
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- SYSFON requires Windows 3.1, or at least Windows 3.0 with COMMDLG.DLL.
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- Installation:
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- UnZIP SYSFON10.ZIP into a directory of your choice. If you're not interested
- in the source code, delete all files except SYSFON.EXE and SYSFON.TXT.
- Optionally, create a new program item (File New in Program Manager).
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- Known problems:
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- - TrueType and ATM fonts with overhangs or underhangs (i.e. negative A-
- and/or C-spacings) will have these truncated. This is especially unpleasant
- for italic fonts; regular fonts usually have only small over/underhangs
- on characters like 'j' or 'f'. There's no real solution for this problem;
- increasing character spacing would make the fonts look ugly.
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- - Some applications base the choice of their own fonts on the attributes
- of the system font. For example, WinQVT/Net will use an italic font for
- buttons and some texts if the system font is italic as well.
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- Copyright issues:
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- While SYSFON is free, Windows fonts are generally not! Windows fonts have
- a copyright note embedded in the .FO? files. Because SYSFON cannot easily
- retrieve these copyright strings, it places the following text into the
- generated .FON files: '(c) of orig. font "<face name>" applies'.
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- To make sure you're not violating copyright laws: Don't give away fonts
- generated with SYSFON! Rather, give away SYSFON together with instructions
- to recreate your favourite fonts.
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- Have fun,
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- Peter Karrer pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch / 100121,2215