[comp.sys.amiga.programmer] colorfonts

rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) (01/12/91)

Does does anyone out there know have/ know of any code that supports multi color fonts (ie a font that has 8 or 16 colors at once, something like what was used
in moria)?  Also is there any kind of font editor or a conversion from iff?
(I'de hate to have to put in fonts in HEXCODE...).  Thanks in advance.
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djung@economics.adelaide.edu.au (01/15/91)

In article <wbXewam00VIFMjZkUH@andrew.cmu.edu>, rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes:> 
> Does does anyone out there know have/ know of any code that supports multi color fonts (ie a font that has 8 or 16 colors at once, something like what was used
> in moria)?  Also is there any kind of font editor or a conversion from iff?
> (I'de hate to have to put in fonts in HEXCODE...).  Thanks in advance.
> //     Rick Golembiewski  rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu  \\

I don't know much about this - but my DPAINT II disk has a program on it
called 'colorfonts' or something similar.  When you click on it it does
something so that when you next use DPAINT and bring up a font requester
some color fonts show up.  I'm not sure how many colours though.

			-David Jung.

University of Adelaide, South Australia.   djung@eco.ua.oz.au

rcaslis@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Russell P. Caslis) (05/05/91)

The code for multi-color fonts is hard-coded into 2.0.  You might be able
to get some of the code for it if you sweet-talked the people at InterActive
Softworks ( I used to work for them ).

As far as a font editor, I assume you mean a colorfont editor.  Look into
Calligrapher, also from InterActive.  There was another one out there ( the
name escapes me right now ), but I think the Calligrapher is far better.

See ya in the funny papers...
   rcaslis@ics.uci.edu