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- ========================== FontConvert 1.0 ===========================
- ======================================================================
- A printer font conversion program, written by Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel of
- MXM. Copyright, © 1990 by MXM. Shareware, all rights reserved. No
- guarantee of any kind is made that the program(s) described in this
- document are 100% reliable. You use this material on your own risk.
-
- ============================== Purpose ===============================
- ======================================================================
- I just got rid of my ol' faithful Epson 9-pin printer and soon
- discovered that my new printer supports user defined printer fonts.
- Since I didn't want to buy a whole lot of font cards I thought
- 'couldn't I upload my Amiga fonts to the printer?'.
- As it turns out, this little cutie handles this job for you.
- Select the font you want (any size), the styles you want it to
- receive, if it should be sent to the printer, to a disk file or both
- and if your printer accepts 256 custom characters or 128 and watch it
- fly!
-
- =============================== Usage ================================
- ======================================================================
- Make sure that you have req.library and diskfont.library (WB 1.3
- revision!) in LIBS:, serial.device or parallel.device (depends on your
- printer connection) and printer.device in DEVS:.
- Start the program (it is pure!) and watch the window open on your
- default screen (the gadget stuff is created dynamically and will
- probably look u-g-l-y with a nonstandard custom font under Kickstart
- 2.0 -sorry!).
- There are about seven gadgets displayed in the window:
-
- Make the font underlined....... Set the font style for the font to be
- converted.
-
- Make the font bold............. Guess what?
-
- Make the font italicized....... " "
-
- Convert 256 characters......... Select this button if your printer
- supports definition of 256 characters
- (well, 217 actually). Not all printer
- models will support this option. If
- your hardware doesn't support it it
- will probably spill all the secret
- codes it has been taught by the KGB
- (unless it is stopped).
-
- Capture to file................ Convert the font and send it to a disk
- file. Use this if you don't want to
- convert your fonts again and again.
- Just copy the captured file to PAR:
- or SER: (as always depends on your
- printer connection).
-
- Send font to printer........... This is the default, copy the font to
- the printer currently connected to the
- serial or parallel port (depends on
- the current preferences settings).
-
- Start conversion............... Turns on the printer and starts the
- font conversion (what did you
- expect?).
-
- The font scaling routine isn't the most powerful ever created. Some
- fonts will look crude, some will appear to come out in a very low
- resolution.
-
- For best results keep the following rules of thumb in mind:
-
- - Fonts which are an even number of lines high will look smoother than
- those which are an uneven number of lines high.
-
- - Fonts which have to be scaled down will look uglier than those which
- have to be magnified.
-
- - Fonts which are between 20 and 40 lines high will look best.
-
- ============================== Credits ===============================
- ======================================================================
- Credits go to Bruce Dawson and Colin Fox for req.library. Don't
- forget to register to vote!
-
- =============================== Author ===============================
- ======================================================================
- This program was written by Olaf Barthel of MXM. All files have been
- placed in the public domain. You may freely distribute this material,
- even a small copy fee is okay but everything which looks like
- commercial distribution is forbidden. Still you may use this material
- for software development without giving credit to the original author.
-
- The program and the accompanying files are distributed as Shareware.
- If you like 'FontConvert 1.0' and use it frequently, please send at
- least 10 US$ or DM 15,- to cover our media costs. If you enclose a
- self adressed (and stamped) envelope (note: Germany only, for all
- other countries enclose postage separately) you will receive new
- material and updates from MXM.
-
- Send new program revisions, comments, bug reports, donations,
- unmarried sisters, non-poisoned candy, home-grown palm trees,
- horoscopes, promising capital investments, etc. to:
-
- Olaf Barthel, MXM
- Brabeckstrasse 35
- D-3000 Hannover 71
-
- Federal Republic of Germany
-
- ============ Revision history (most recent change first) =============
- ======================================================================
- V1.0 Does it work? Really? Can't believe it!
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- Do only its possibilities make it an Amiga?
-
- WHERE IS THE MAGIC ???
-