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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: fonts
Keywords: fonts
Message-ID: <776@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 14:15:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.042316.5834@daimi.aau.dk>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jan22.042316.5834@daimi.aau.dk> pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
>I have a problem. I turn on overscan and interlace on my workbench, giving me
>lots of room for windows. Forget about the flicker. But the font topaz 8
>is no good for interlace. So, I want a higher font. Well, I put a 
>SetFont Topaz 11 in my startupsequence, and that works allright. But I want
>an even higher font, say 16 pixels high. And this font must be fixedwidth.
>   So, I load the trusty program Fed in, which came with my amiga supplied
>on the Extras disk. But all my efforts are in vain - when I begin to edit
>a font, and then save it, it is scrambled. If I load it again, or use it
>in DeluxePaint, or sets it with setfont, all I get is all mixed up graphics.
>Hardly any of the graphic elements in the font remains visible, and the
>width of the characters seems to be random.

In my experience I get very good results with Fed. But if you create
an additional size for an else existing font, then you should run
FixFonts from your System drawer before using it. This helped me in
some circumstances where some fonts wouldn't work at all. (I haven't
experienced garbage like you described.)

As far as I remember there are fonts on some Fish disk which are double
height, thought for use in interlace only. The advantage to a bigger
normal font is that these letters have the same width as in non-inter-
lace, but appropriate height for interlace.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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