Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!lachac From: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: New IFF and Desktop Video Message-ID: <13513@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 12:10:31 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.13513 Posted: Fri Jul 24 12:10:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 14:10:51 EDT Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) Distribution: world Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 Keywords: Aegis Video Titler Vector Fonts ANIM IFF While perusing over the new issue of Amazing Computing (damn good magazine) I came across some info that I found interesting, and left me with many questions. Most of these pertain to Aegis Video Titler program. 1) Aegis said they have registered a new animation IFF called ANIM. Is this an official IFF format now?? How about the color fonts IFF? 2) Most enthusiasticly, I read that Aegis will be using "new fonts" which the article says are vector fonts. (not exactly new, but for the Amiga...) Is CBM adopting vector fonts for future Amiga use? (A step in the right direction -- my opinion) Or will be receiving a mixture of both? Or is Aegis the only one?? 3) And what I think I found the most interesting, was the mention of some "new" IFF format that preserves the background, and saves the text as text, so altering/erasing text, does not effect the background. Is this a real IFF, or an Aegis-specific toy??? If this is truly a new IFF, it can have a profound effect on the desktop publishing and word-processing worlds of the Amiga. Anyone know the truth???? -- "Truth is false and logic lost..." - Neil Peart (who at the time didn't realize he was talking about RU) lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu <--------OR--------> {seismo|ames}!rutgers!topaz!lachac