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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DPaint II text font selection
Keywords: can't broken brain-dead; nonsense, you just need to know how
Message-ID: <5931@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 88 09:08:51 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <65773@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <2064@rayssdb.ray.com> jxc@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Jeffrey J. Clesius) writes:
>>Does anyone know of any way to get DPaint II to load in fonts from a new
>>font directory that is less trouble than having to exit and restart DPaint?
>
>First, make sure all your disks have a volume name "FONTS" and then while
>in DPaint switch display format (which also resets the loaded fonts menu).
>Put the disk with the fonts you want into any drive, and select Load Fonts
>fromt the DPaint menu.

Yuk.

You can make Dpaint ``forget'' about the current font directory by
going into the screen format menu selection, and clicking on the
"OK" requester (without actually changing any of the screen formay
parameters)

Chuck's solution to this problem, although it works, has a couple of drawbacks:

1) It requires you to label all your font disks ``FONTS''. There have
   been some claims made that the amiga gets confused with a jillion
   disks with the same name. I havn't tried this, I dont know.


2) it requires you to have all your font files in the root directory of
   your FONTS disk. The disadvantage to this is, Dpaint only allows
   about 20 fonts per directory. (actually it allows as many as you want,
   but it can only display about 20 without rendering part of the
   font menu offscreen, sometimes with *scintillating* (look it up)
   results). This defect that EA said when I was Beta testing Dpaint II:
    ``Yeah, we know it's there. It's a bug but it's not a show stopper''.

Grr. Scrolling font requestors please !


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard