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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: KickFont2, Screenx, Ushar
Message-ID: <10986@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Nov 88 14:43:34 GMT
References: <59514CJC105@PSUVM> <75495@sun.uucp>
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In article <75495@sun.uucp> cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:

> In article <59514CJC105@PSUVM> CJC105@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
> >Kickfont2:
> >  Does anybody know who wrote the KickFont2 program for the amiga?  I would
> >  like to find if there will be an update for 1.3.  I HATE TOPAZ!!!!  Yuk!
> >  If not could someone tell me where Kickstart 1.3 stores the fonts?  Kickfont
> >  replaces the orginal topaz font on the Kickstart disk with a new font.
> >  (A VERY nice font I might add!)
> 
> Assuming that the font is in a regular Amiga font file, then the program
> "FF" supplied with 1.3 will replace the topaz font with it if you choose.
> The command "FF -0 myfont.font" will replace the Topaz 8 and 9 pixel fonts
> with 8 and 9 pixel versions from the myfont font. If you have problems with
> this you should be aware that some fonts don't have all the bits set correctly
> in their structures. The easiest way to correct this is to use the FixFont
> program first, an then use the font editor (FED) to read in the font and
> then _save_ it out again. That should make it into a completely legal font.
> 
> --Chuck McManis

Ugh!  I had almost forgotton how ugly Topaz was!  Anyway...

A look at the doc file that accompanied the KickFont2 archive uncovered the
following:

# KickFont - v2.0 - Greg Browne - FOR ALL THE A-1000 OWNERS who hate TOPAZ.
...docs deleted
#                  GREG BROWNE     [CIS 72250,106]
#                   Alamo FastKODE (505) 437-2280 (3/12/24/96-24 hr)
#                   New Horizons   (505) 437-9117 (3/12/24-7pm/7am)

Now, TYPE OPT Hing the executable shows that buried in the middle is the
text 'nutopaz.font' followed by what looks like the font itself.  I'll bet
that with a little fiddling the .font could be coaxed out, massaged per
Chuck's info, and loaded via FF.


Rick Plavnicky
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