childs@cadnetix.UUCP.UUCP (06/16/87)
A week or so ago I posted several questions, and received several responses. All responses stated that product announcements are ok. This isn't really a product announcement, but here goes: I currently have a font editor that allows what I consider to be superior capabilities. Such as auto-bolding, auto-italic, inverse, block operations, or-ing, (and-ing ???), fill, and a few other type of operations. It displays as much of the current font (one being edited) as possible. (Scroll to see rest of font.) Characters can be drawn from scratch, or from existing characters from the current font (and maybe soon other fonts). This allows the user to make the space character look like a blank wood block. To make the rest of the font, start with the block and add the character to go inside. The or-ing feature allows the user to easily add some graphics, from a temporary buffer, to each character in a font. (It could be made into a global operation I guess.) The ability to scale would probably also be nice. I AM planning to add some more features. Of course it allows any size of font (limited to the display), and handles both proportional and non-proportional fonts. It does auto refresh allowing for sizing the window, (it does the best job it can). It also has a typing area to see what the font looks like in use. I am planning to allow some sort of changable font structure that allow fonts to be saved in user defined structures on disk. In other words, I, for example, want to save fonts in Toshiba P321 Printer form, so they can be down-loaded to my printer. I currently have to convert it by hand. (by C) My questions are: Would anyone pay US money for this? Would it be useful as a sprite/bob editor? Making this into a product would take about one month, and I know absolutly nothing about marketing. ------------------ About my Supra Drive: According to Supraman, :-), the memory board that goes inside the hard disk controller is not yet available, and wont be ready for shipping for some time. The disk seems to work fine, and I don't think I've had any problems with it. (Read: havn't tracked down any crashes to the hard disk, but I have had a few lock ups that I don't remember having before. I am doing new and better things, so the problem might be my fault.) I still don't understand the *Boot Disk isn't validated* message I often, if not always, get. ------------------ Anyone notice that while playing Marble Madness, if you die on level five while using your mouse as game port controller, your mouse gets hosed when you start over on level one. childs@cadnetix.UUCP David Childs
foy@aero.UUCP (06/19/87)
In article <670@cadnetix.UUCP> childs@cadnetix.UUCP (David Childs) writes: ........ > >My questions are: > Would anyone pay US money for this? I would. How much? I don't know. Richard Foy