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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts
Message-ID: <633@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 07:51:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.633
Posted: Thu Sep  3 07:51:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:48:02 EDT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: fonts, type face, new and startling?
Summary: Yes, yes, yes, I guess so.

In article <1106@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, sword@vu-vlsi.UUCP (David Talmage) writes:
> After playing with some publishing software, I'm becoming bored with the
> fonts that come stock with the Amiga.  Has anyone out there some PD fonts
> to share?

Yes. I don't have any, but there are some floating around. Well, I do
have a couple of 8-point fonts I replace the system font with.

> Better yet, does anyone know of some Amiga software for designing
> fonts?

Yes, it's called "FED" and it came with the 1.2 upgrade on the extras disk.

> Does anyone know if there's a standard (like IFF?) for exchanging fonts?

Fonts are usually handed around in arc files containing foo.font and a
bunch of files with anmes like "8" and "12". You create the directory
"fonts:foo", copy the numbered files into it, and copy the foo.font file
into fonts:.

> It would be really neat to have the little piggies and sheep fonts just like
> on the um, er, Mac. ;-)

Why?

PS: Peter the pedant strikes again: The Amiga "8 point" font is NOT an "8
point" font. It's an "8 pixel" font. The point size is a measure of characters
per inch and depends on such variables as the size of your monitor. On an
Amiga monitor the "8 point" font is about 8 or 9 point, and the "9 point"
font is about 6 to 7 point.
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