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There are two known bugs in CALLIGRAPHER font editor version 1.0 and
these manifest in fonts created with it in some circumstances.
The first bug is if a "NEW FONT" is created without using an exiting
font as the font template, then the fontname will be misaligned by one
byte. This will create a problem using Availfonts() in the operating
system failing to recognize the fontname and will load a new copy
everytime that font is called for by a program. In the worst case,
PROWRITE calls Availfonts() every half-second and continually loads
copies of the font until all 10 megs of ram is filled, causing an
out-of-memory crash.
THE CURE IS "FONTREPAIR"!!! FontRepair includes directions within
itself, so even without these instructions you can always know how to
use it if you have it. FontRepair works only from CLI. You use it by
typing FontRepair on a CLI line, followed by the fonts you want
repaired, in the following syntax:
1> FontRepair -DFn:fonts
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Where "n" = number of drive where the fonts
directory is located.
FontRepair is PUBLIC DOMAIN and should be distributed as widely as
possible!
The other bug known to Calligrapher publisher is: Conversion of fonts
from "Fixed Width" to "Proportional Width" is one way only and
permanent! A proportional width font will never act as a fixed width
font again! Fonts smaller than 32 point limit of FONTED on the 1.2
Extras disk can be loaded, toggle "fixed width" on, and save back to
disk.
Both bugs are fixed in Calligrapher 1.05, which has passed testing.
There are significant improvements added to the new Callig 1.05 disk,
like a "FontMover" program which displays, fixes, repairs, and moves
fonts from one disk to another. All the separate utilities have been
combined in one program, especially useful to users of Workbench only,
with one disk drive and 512K of memory.