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- AMOS FontX Professional : The AMOS Font designer DEMO
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- Introduction
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- With the advent of AMOS FontX, creating fonts for your AMOS programs
- has never been so easy. Fully compatable with ALL Amigas and ALL
- versions of AMOS Professional, FontX really is THE essential
- AMOS utility. FontX is an enhanced version of the AMOS Professional
- Font8*8editor, with many more features, a smoother user interface, and
- directories full to the brim of ready-made fonts.
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- No matter how many fonts you may have amassed, there will always be a
- time when you need to create your own character sets, or edit existing
- fonts into something a little more personalised. There are several
- areas where Font-X Professional could be used to good advantage:-
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- Language Tutors/Foreign dictionaries - Foreign alphabets often contain
- symbols not used in standard
- Amiga fonts. You could easily
- create them with Font-X.
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- Easier Reading - The AMOS default font could be edited to customise
- AMOS even further!
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- Font-X Professional is also extremely fun to use.
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- Climb Aboard
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- LOAD
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- This loads a previously designed font into the program for editing.
- On the FontX disk you will find a directory containing a number of
- previously designed fonts. Don't be afraid to load them in and
- experiment.
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- You could even load in the Default Font from your AMOS Program disk.
- That way, when you reboot AMOS, the Editor will automatically use your
- font. Remember never to work from your original AMOS disk, always use
- a backup!
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- Upon loading your choice of font, the individual characters are
- displayed on the left-hand side of the screen. Any of these characters
- can be altered simply by selecting them with the left mouse button.
- When you have hilighted a character, click once on the CUT icon, and
- its enlarged image can be altered in the editing window at the
- right-hand side of the screen.
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- To edit the character, click on any of the enlarged squares in the
- editing window. Don't be afraid to experiment, as the original
- character will remain intact unless you place a new character over the
- old one by clicking once on the PASTE icon. So that you can see how
- your design will look when finished, there is a small window below the
- editing window which displays a real sized version of the character.
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- CUT/PASTE
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- Having loaded a font into the program, simply click on the character
- you wish to alter and the character should become hilighted. Then it
- is simply a case of clicking on the CUT icon, and the enlarged
- character should appear in the editing window. If not, then try again.
- PUT is the exact opposite to CUT. Having designed your character,
- click on whichever character you would like to be replaced and then
- click on PASTE. Your character should now form part of the character
- set.
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- CLEAR
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- The CLEAR icon above the character set clears the whole set from both
- the screen and the memory. The CLEAR icon below the editing window
- clears the editing window of any characters. It has no effect on the
- character set unless PASTE is chosen.
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- FILL
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- Fill simply fills the editing window with a character 8 pixels by 8
- pixels.
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- INVERT
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- This inverts all of the pixels on the currently selected character.
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- FLIP X
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- This icon mirrors a character on the X axis.
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- eg. < becomes >
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- FLIP Y
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- This icon mirrors a character on the Y axis.
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- eg. ! becomes ยก
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- ROTATE
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- Not in demo version.
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- OUTLINE
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- Not in demo version.
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- BORDER
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- Not in demo version.
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- SCROLL ARROWS
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- Clicking on the left/right/up/down arrows scrolls the character.
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- SAVE
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- Not in demo version.
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- HELP
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- Displays this help file.
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- QUIT
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- This quits the program and returns you to the AMOS/Pro Editor
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- Keyboard Shortcuts
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- O - Outline P - Paste
- R - Rotate C - Cut
- I - Invert L - Load
- F - Fill S - Save
- X - FlipX HELP - Loads HELP file
- Y - FlipY B - Border
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- Enjoy the software
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- Credits
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- Code/Graphics - Neil Wright
- Concept - Ronnie Simpson
- Testing - Malcolm Lavery/Mr Jon
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- Thanks to Brian Bell, Dan, Chrissy, Francois, Len & Anne and
- ALL you AMOSers out there [including you Aaron].
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- Neil Wright Octrober `93
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