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The vFont Package - A font machinary for Amiga.
The vFont Package is a font rendering system that will extend the Amiga so
that it will be able to utilize vectorized outline fonts.
The package consist of a number of parts. The most important part is the
vFont library which is the machinary that builds the outline fonts from
several kinds generic font descriptions. The other parts are:
Curve Outline Painter (COP):
A full feature WYSIWYG font editor that will enable you to create
your own outline fonts as well as any other font type that is
supported by the use of xdf libraries, e.g. you can use it to edit
plain bitmap font instead of using FED.
External Diskfont Format libraries (xdf_#?.library):
It would be foolish to ignore the fact that there exist a vast
amount of different types of font machinaries (Postscript, LaTeX,
AGFA etc). The XDF-libraries are used to open the doors for these
fonts. These libraries understands a specific font format so that
you can access fonts from other computers on your machine. (The idea
of having external libraries so that you can extend your system by
adding new libraries is also known in the modem world as XPR
libraries). There are currently five XDF-libraries, and more are
being implemented.
FontContents Lint (CheckFonts):
CheckFonts is a utility that allows you to scrutinize your
FontContents files, i.e. the #?.font files that are found under
Fonts:. It can be used to add FontContents files to your
Workbench diskett and still have the actual font files on the
Extras diskett. It can also be used to fix a bad FontContents file,
without touching the others and to create new FontContents files
for fonts that don't have one.
Demos (vmore, bmore, rotate, spiral):
These are demo programs that demonstrats various aspects of the
outline fonts.
A font generateed by vfont:
* is compatible with TextFont's, i.e. you can render VFont with
graphics.library functiona and you can render TextFont's with
vfont.library functions. This makes it very easy to use the library
as an application programmer, because it is very GfxBase-ish.
* can be rendered in any direction, e.g. diagonal.
* can have any size, i.e. it can be resized in width and height independently.
* can have characters rotated independetly of the redering path, e.g you can
render from left to right but have the characters rotated towards west.
* is fast to render. Normal speed when rendered in normal left-right fashion
or 3K+ cps on a 68020 CPU in any direction/size.
Prerequisits:
* Any currently existing Amiga model, i.e. A1000,A500,A2000,A2500,A3000.
* Any currently existing OS, i.e. 1.2, 1.3, 2.0x.
* 512K bytes or 1024K bytes graphics memory if you want to use COP.