[comp.sys.amiga] Memory for fonts.

dale@amiga.UUCP (Dale Luck) (05/09/87)

a long time ago, Randy Spencer said something about fonts:
>Many menus have the option
>of bold in "bold", and the like for underline and italic.  But if you display
>every font the system can put in your document you have to *load* every font
>into ram, even more important, into Chip ram.  It would be better to leave 
>fonts on disk unless really needed.

Fonts can be in any kind of memory. The two standard system fonts are
kept in rom for instance. They are picked out piece by piece by
the processor.  They do not need to be in CHIP memory.

Duck