Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!claris!ames!amdahl!kim From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fast Fonts won't change fonts as documented Summary: well, depending of the price of tea in China, and whether the moon is full ... Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 88 03:34:01 GMT References: <10523@s.ms.uky.edu> <2299@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 69 In article <2299@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes: > In article <10523@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: > > > >The FastFonts program is supposed to be able to change the default > >topaz 8 font with the font of your choice. I tried it with the "pearl" > >font, and when that didn't work I tried it with topaz. It consistently > >said "font not found". I tried every permutation of "topaz", "topaz 8", > >"topaz.font", changing directories to fonts, etc. > > I've just completed doing this. Here's how: > > 1. Copy Pearl directory and Pearl.font to your fonts directory. (I know, > you've already done this). > 2. Run FixFonts in the Utilities drawer. > 3. Run FED (never thought it was useful, right?) and resave Pearl as an > non-proportional font. I saved it as Fpearl. > 4. Run Fixfonts again. > 5. Type FF Fpearl.font. Bam! Something is very bogus with FF and alternate (non-topaz) font replacement. I tried the above procedure with "paula" (a slightly modified "pearl"), and sure enough, when I did a "FF paula.font" from the command-line, it worked. However ... when I put it into my startup-sequence, I'd get the "font not found" msg as Sean mentions above. On a hunch, I put the FF command at the top of the 1.3 "StartupII" script to see if anything would change. It did. It installed "paula" just fine (StartupII is "run execute" started, and "execute" has been "resident'ed"). But ... when I moved the FF command down further in the StartupII file, sure enough ... "font not found". Bahhhhh ...! So ... I've given up on FF, and am happily using BlitzFonts as I have been for a year-and-a-half, or so. Much less finicky program, and besides, it seems somewhat faster than FF (I was going to run a test to see which one really *is* faster, which is why I was fooling around with FF in the first place). BTW, the way I completely rid myself of (yuck) Topaz, is with the following sequence: . . setfont paula repfont >nil: paula.font . . blitzfonts8 >nil: paula . . Poof! "repfont" is a little gem that came across the net (I think) many moons ago. I don't recall now which, but it either zaps a couple of 5 char strings in low memory, or just goes sniffing thru memory replacing "topaz" with the 5 chars of your choice (but you'd better have a font with that name in fonts:). I imagine it'll break when 1.4 rolls around, but by then maybe there will be a reliable way to specify alternate default fonts. FF isn't it. /kim -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,uunet,oliveb,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25