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From: Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
Message-ID: <15780@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Mar 89 08:21:34 GMT
References: <10596@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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    You were asking about Loading other fonts with DPaint and getting rid
of jaggies with PostScript output .....
    1.  Loading fonts from other disks
              This is pretty straightforward if you know how to use CLI.
              If you have an UNprotected copy of DPaint, copy the ASSIGN
               command onto the commands (c:) directory.  Then either before
              or after loading DPaint, type
                    ASSIGN FONTS: Mydisk:myfontdirectory
              e.g.,
                    ASSIGN FONTS: Newfonts:font2
              You'll have to pull down the DPaint screen to type this in
              the CLI window.  If the Workbench doesn't show when you drag
              the DPaint screen down, select Workbench from the Prefs menu.
              If there's no CLI window, click the Preferences icon, select
              CLI ON, close Prefs, click on System icon, click on the CLI
              icon, then type in the ASSIGN command.
     2.  Jaggies in PostScript
              If you print bitmap fonts on a PostScript printer, they will
              be smoother than on most dot-matrix printers (especially if
              you select a smoothing algorithm) but they are *still* bitmap
              fonts which are defined with dots rather than vectors, curves,
              etc.   The vector, or 'structured' (who came up with that odd
              name, anyway, what makes them any more structured than dots?)
              fonts in the PostScript format are defined quite differently
              and loaded as PostScript 'dictionaries'.
                                             Hope this info helps,
                                             LadyHawke@cup.portal.com