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From: spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Font Attributes
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Date: 16 Jul 88 01:08:41 GMT
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Here is a question that occured to me at the developers conference, and I
haven't found an answer after lots of playing and reading:

  How do I use the designed attributes of a font on the Amiga?

 i.e.: 
  If I go into FED and load in Topaz 11 and then click on the "Make Bold"
  option it fattens up the characters, and then I am free to save that
  font.  It will have the Designed attribute set for bold, and if I
  try to open Topaz 11 'bold' it will find this font and not try to
  SetSoftStyle() on it to make it bold as it already is.  But when I saved
  the font to disk, didn't I overwrite the old version of the font?
  Is there no longer a Plain version of Topaz 11?

  If the plain version is saved, how is it kept, does the topaz/11 file 
  become topaz/11b after I bold it?  Would I get a topaz/11i and topaz/11u 
  also?

  Ok, That is one area I am vauge on, if infact all versions of the font
  are saved to disk then comes the question, what happens when I save 
  a font as talldot or widedot?  Does it take a seperate file also?

 working example:
  If I am working with a program and I have opened a screen that is
  lowrez and interlaced and I want a widedot font, how do I find such 
  a font?  Obviously if I want a font that is 17 points, but I don't care 
  what family, I can just do an AvailFonts() and read the list to see what 
  font I can use.  Do I do availfonts and then open each fontname and check 
  if it matched my specification for designed widedot?  That's alot of work,
  can't I just say "open *.font in WIDE"?  

Ok, so it is obvious that I have been thinking about fonts recently,
if any of you know more about this jazz I would appreciate a response
as I can't seem to figure the above questions.
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