rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (03/21/90)
Using the 8514 fonts supplied with Windows when running in the 1028x768 mode works well for programs which use the System font. However, when you run a program which using one of the other font sets then you are back to having small fonts. One of these programs is Windows Write. It tries to be WYSIWYG and display printer fonts. This was pointed out to me by Sylvain Gingras. My first reactions is has anyone made fonts for the 800x600 or the 1028x768 mode. According to the Windows documentation set 6 was designed for 640x480. Are there any other font design tools availiable other than the one included in the SDK? We need a public domain tool so all those non-developers can spend their free time designing fonts while us developers can get to work writing those killer apps. Would anyone spend the time making fonts and distributing them for free if someone wrote a free font generation tool? If so I might be inspired to do it. Of course the source will probably be in Modula-2! My second reaction was to say that Windows Write had System as one of the font choices, but it does not. However, I decided to type "System" into the dialog box asking for font name and it took it. I do not remember seeing this in the manual. Anyone know anymore about this? It works but is not very convenient. Word for Windows does not have this problem since it has a draft mode which uses the system font and it also uses up memory. Fonts in Windows leave a lot to be desired. -----Dale Rogerson----
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (03/21/90)
Dale Rogerson <rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> writes: > My first reactions is has anyone made fonts for > the 800x600 or the 1028x768 mode. According to the Windows > documentation set 6 was designed for 640x480. Note that this won't make the font look bad; only smaller. All the display modes above have the "correct" 4:3 aspect ratio. > Are there > any other font design tools availiable other than the one included > in the SDK? We need a public domain tool so all those non-developers > can spend their free time designing fonts while us developers can > get to work writing those killer apps. Would anyone spend the time > making fonts and distributing them for free if someone wrote a free > font generation tool? If so I might be inspired to do it. Of course > the source will probably be in Modula-2! Well, there are some utilities that will do it. FontGen from VS Software ($395) will do it, but you're paying for a full-blown font editor. Also, if you register your QFont ($80), you'll get a tool to generate Windows fonts. Both of these take a LaserJet .sfp font file and create a Windows screen font from it. I'd love to have such a tool in PD, but I Just haven't got the time to do it right now. The .sfp source is no problem; the Windows font specs I'm not very familiar with. And still, nobody has been able to tell me what algorithm Windows uses to determine what screen font to use for each printer font... [ \tom haapanen -- university of waterloo -- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ comp.binaries.os2 moderator -- submissions to os2bin@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i say what i say, but i say it for myself and myself only" -- me ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]