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From: ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fonts in IFF format
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Date: 7 Jan 91 08:38:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jan7.074435.9852@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim) writes:
>How are fonts stored on the Amiga?
>
>Are there fonts in IFF format?  If so, could someone tell me about a
>ftp site with Amiga fonts?

No, but they should be.  Nothing, IMO, could be more inconvenient than
the current system.  IFF fonts, with chunks for different styles and
weights sounds much more useful, as long as an extraction and addition
utility was provided.

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