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- User Guide for FontPaint version 1.00
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-
- This software is © Software7 1995.
- It is distributed as freeware, we retain
- copyright but you may pass it around freely
- (But don't make any profit from doing so)
-
- Introduction
- ------------
- Paint is the most frequently used sprite editor.
- It is fine for most work, and excells at icon
- design and sprites for windows but seriously
- falls down when it comes to outline fonts.
- This utility was written to take a string of
- text and create a sprite, in a selected font
- at any size and any coulour.
-
- Using
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- To use Font Paint, double click on the !FontPaint
- icon in the directory display. After a few seconds
- the same icon should appear on the icon bar. A
- single click here opens the main control window.
- This is a scrolling pane within a border window.
-
- The main window
- ---------------
- The window contains various controls for setting the
- font name, font size, background and text colours
- (Specified as RBG values, between 0 and 255 alowing
- you to chose from 16.7 million colours).
- There is a sub section for controling the sprites,
- and of course an editable field for the display
- text.
-
- To create a sprite, first of all select the font you
- wish to use for the text. This is obtained via the
- standard RISC OS font menu. Next you should select
- the size for the text. A list of available sizes is
- given on a menu. You should now select the background
- colour and the text colour.
-
- If you wish to plot the text over another sprite, then
- select the Use Backdrop Sprite option and drag the icon
- for the sprite file onto the target icon.
-
- Once all the parameters are set click on the Make Sprite
- button on the shell pf the pane.
-
- The screen will be drawn, there is a slight pause before
- the desktop re-appears while the data is saved as sprites.
-
- When the desktop re-appears there will be a save box open.
- There are two radio icons in the save box, alowing you to
- chose wether you save the whole screen or just the text.
- Select the option you desire then drag the icon into a
- directory display to save. There is a writable field to put
- the filename in, if you specify a pathname in here and click
- on OK the sprite is saved to this file instead.
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- Sprites
- =======
- When using sprites, the background colour is plotted before the sprite.
- You will get some phycadelic effects if you use 256 colour sprites in
- 16 colour modes, and vice versa. To cure this just put the sprite
- through !ChangeFSI with the output options the same as the input
- options.
-
- When saving the text only, some of the sprite may be clipped as only
- the text width and height are read, not the sprite dimensions.
-
- All sprites are plotted at 0,0.
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- Contacting us
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- If you want to talk to us about anything (Life, the Acorn market, programming etc..),
- have any bug reports, comments, ideas for improvements or new software then
- please do not hesitate to contact us at:
-
- Software7
- 15 Stewarton Drive
- Cambuslang
- Glasgow
- Scotland
- G72 8DF
-
- If you write to us giving your name and address, then you will be sent any
- updates to the software that are produced. If you want, just say that you
- would like us to send you a copy of any future PD programs we make. If you
- do this, could you please enclose a few stamps to make this possible.
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