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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fonts
Message-ID: <581@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 15 Mar 90 01:05:19 GMT
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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G'day,

I've recently tried out the FED trick to build FIXEDWIDTH fonts for use with
FF from my WorkBench/everywhere_else. I happened to do it before I read this
topic thread and so I stumbled some times where I would not have had I seen/
read these suggestions earlier. My primary suggestion is that for anyone who
has not tried this yet (and wants to) that you should start with a good font
such as PEARL.FONT (is this a public domain font? I hope so, its nice!). The
results I obtained with some normal W.B fonts such as ruby.font & the Extras
disk Helvetica.font from Adobe were poor although FF accepted them. This was
due to the need as I discovered to change the XSIZE &(HSIZE? YSIZE) settings
for these fonts as well as setting the FIXEDWIDTH option. FF expects an 8 pt
wide font and so...

That procedure unfortunately degrades the font characters because some pixels
get chopped off and if you don't repair that (I didn't) then your g's and q's
look the same. Moreover/worse_in_my_opinion the (Helvetica) characters looked
anaemic (like hard to read). {NB: I have set the vertical/horizn. height/size
settings for my A1081 (PAL) monitor so that my W.B area is smaller than usual
so this exacerbates the problem.}

I am using PEARL.FONT currently and I quite like the clean look. Does any one
know of other good FIXEDWIDTH fonts available PD/Shareware/commercial?


yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.

My greatest problem with FF was the grey matter b/w my two ears... It took me
ages to figure that the font name FF wanted was pearl.font and not pearl ( so
do FF pearl.font ) :-)  Oh yeah, btw, I find that FF >NIL: xxxx.font will not
have any visible effect. I have to do a FF xxxx.font. Is that documented some
place?