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From: alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: FF - FastFonts
Message-ID: <514@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 90 02:21:39 GMT
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In article <26239.AA26239@slaka.sirius.se> micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson) writes:
>Does anybody know what FF does. I know that it's supposed to
>speed up text displays. What I want to know is: What does it
>DO? Internally and so on.

I can't say what it does internally, but I will mention something about it
that a lot of people don't seem to know because it isn't stated in the
1.3 enhancer manual:

You can use FF to replace the default Topaz system font with any 8-bit
font of your choice.  I have a font called plain.font.  In my startup
sequence I say

FF plain.font

and both the Topaz 8 and Topaz 9e fonts get replaced (if I only had plain 8
defined then only Topaz 8 would be replaced).  ALL text that is normally
the system font will now use my font.

One other thing -- don't put a comment on the same line as FF, or it
won't work.

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