spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) (07/16/88)
Here is a question that occured to me at the developers conference, and I haven't found an answer after lots of playing and reading: How do I use the designed attributes of a font on the Amiga? i.e.: If I go into FED and load in Topaz 11 and then click on the "Make Bold" option it fattens up the characters, and then I am free to save that font. It will have the Designed attribute set for bold, and if I try to open Topaz 11 'bold' it will find this font and not try to SetSoftStyle() on it to make it bold as it already is. But when I saved the font to disk, didn't I overwrite the old version of the font? Is there no longer a Plain version of Topaz 11? If the plain version is saved, how is it kept, does the topaz/11 file become topaz/11b after I bold it? Would I get a topaz/11i and topaz/11u also? Ok, That is one area I am vauge on, if infact all versions of the font are saved to disk then comes the question, what happens when I save a font as talldot or widedot? Does it take a seperate file also? working example: If I am working with a program and I have opened a screen that is lowrez and interlaced and I want a widedot font, how do I find such a font? Obviously if I want a font that is 17 points, but I don't care what family, I can just do an AvailFonts() and read the list to see what font I can use. Do I do availfonts and then open each fontname and check if it matched my specification for designed widedot? That's alot of work, can't I just say "open *.font in WIDE"? Ok, so it is obvious that I have been thinking about fonts recently, if any of you know more about this jazz I would appreciate a response as I can't seem to figure the above questions. "He who dies with the most toys... is dead" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M