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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-color fonts
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Date: 12 Jan 89 09:06:23 GMT
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In article <1959@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
|I just created a multi-color font.  I am posting this to comp.sys.amiga
|because it was done on the Amiga.  I am posting this to comp.sys.next 
|because I remember a previous discussion about multi-color fonts in this 
|group, and since the reason for the font is different than those discussed.
....
|In order to make the text look like it fit, I created a 4-color font which
|has shading consistent with the rest of our graphics.  (Yes, the Amiga does
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|not support multi-color fonts, I actually made 3 fonts and overlaid them,
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|each in a different color.)

You must be kidding.  Products that support multi-color fonts have been
available on the Amiga for over a year.  The specification was published
quite a while ago, even in magazines such as Amazing Computing (I recall
John Foust wrote that one).  The spec are "backward" compatible with the
original 1 color fonts, so that old programs will still be able to use one
plane of the colorfont.  "Read more about it", then speak.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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