Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!utoddl From: utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Screen fonts/Printer fonts Keywords: Fonts screen printer bitmap OpenFont() beautiful output Message-ID: <6668@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 15 Mar 89 20:32:33 GMT Distribution: na Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 33 Hello again, net. I've been thinking about fonts (now that I have a good printer:-) and I would like to hear some comments on this idea-thingy I've got. Would it be possible to have font descriptions (metafont perhaps?) someplace, and have a call similar to OpenFont(), but which takes the bits/inch in x and y and the desired size of the font as parameters and produces an Amiga bitmap font? A program could request screen resolution copies of fonts for the screen, then request corresponding fonts in the printer's resolution for printing. This should work much better than trying to scale bitmap fonts. Metafont would be nice (that's what it was designed for), but may be overkill. Whatever form it ends up in, some sort of font editor would have to be provided. (Information on metafont is widely available and that system provides all the flexibility you could want.) The new font files could even be precompiled (maybe) so the system wouldn't have to worry about syntax errors, etc, in the font descriptions. This seems too obvious not to have been done before. Am I overlooking something? Has anybody done this? Should this be part of the OS someday? If it isn't it suffers from the same problem ARexx has -- not everybody has it. (I AM NOT COMPLAINING about it not being there now! The Amiga is a darn good system and I only want to help make it better.) Would software makers use this if it were available? If some kind soul were to do this, is there any way C-A would consider adopting/adapting it for a future release of the OS? Or is this capability already planned for a future release? -- Todd M. Lewis #include