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- Softfont Utilities
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- Caution: These utilities are offered on a what you see is what you
- get basis, no warrantee of any kind. You are free to modify
- the sources or distribute them in any manner except for
- commerical purposes. I retain any right to use them for
- profit. Otherwise feel free. Bruce Kitchin [75046,1131]
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- These utilities prompt you for input and output file names. If you
- are not using an HP portable or 150, you may see a strange character
- or two as I sometimes have cleared the screen with HP Esc sequences.
- They should not effect the usefulness of the program.
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- MakeBold is a program which emboldens a softfont. It mimics what some
- printers do, ie., it shifts the character image right one bit and
- merges it with the original. Not an especially terrific approach but
- it has created some satisfactory characters for me. A properly formed
- bold character set would probably be tweeked a bit. I've used it to
- embolden HP's 10pt TmsRmn Italic softfont (the original softfonts, I'm
- just getting the revised ones and will probably need to try it again).
- Warning: it only works with portrait orientation. If you need it for
- landscape, use MakeLand (see below) to rotate the font to a portrait
- orientation, embolden it, and rotate it back. You need to use MakePrd
- (see below) to setup the width tables in PRD format.
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- MakeLand rotates the characters of a softfont 90 degrees. It makes a
- portrait font into a landscape one and vice-versa. Actually rather than
- say 90 degrees, I should say that it rotates it about a diagonal so that
- doing it twice should yield the original font. I gather that this is not
- the best way to make landscape and portrait fonts from one another but it
- has worked.
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- MakePrd is slightly misnamed. It actually makes the entries for a single
- font needed to make an MS Word PRD file. By merging the result (putting
- the parts in the appropriate places) with others or with the translated
- into text format of an existing PRD file and then translating into PRD
- format, you can have MS Word recognize a font you create (I've used it
- for embolden fonts and for some I created using SoftCraft's utilities).
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