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- From: ig06@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Goetz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Thanks for Help ! and some new ?'s
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:15:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Keywords: VIDC, FontManager
-
- Hello every body !
-
- I want to thank
-
- Ralph Barrett
- Graham Allan
- John Tytgat ( it IS c.s.a.t - the only substitute for my favorite
- alt.pictures.erotica killed by our News-boss )
-
- for replaying to my 'Help !'-request
-
- 200 DM+pp for a new VIDC did cure the problem but if the situation is
- as Ralph Barrett wrote in his e-mail:
-
- - The A305/310 ... suffer from this problem. It is due to the lack of any
- - protection circuitry on the video interface. Later machines have additional
- - components ... to protect the VIDC.
-
- then I'll need another 200 in a week when my brother visits us with
- his 3 year old monitor-cable-unplugger ...
-
- Or does anybody know if such protection circuitry exists for the A310
- and if so who is selling it, how much does it cost and can you install it
- yourself ?
-
- Here's another ?
-
- I have problems when rendering text using anti-aliased fonts - now that I
- have 4 Mb, a new VIDC, AtomWide's Enhancer and a colour monitor !
-
- If FontManager 1.15 is installed !Draw and !DrawPlus have no troubles with
- Acorns 'standard' fonts (Corpus,Porthouse,Trinity - I am RO2)
-
- When FontManager 2.44 is loaded and I try one of those outline fonts from
- Newcastle then:
-
- - !Draw doesn't display anything
- - !DrawPlus displays text only when I'm typing and the line disappears (with
- a beep) after a RETURN. Now I select it and switch to the system font -
- it appears again
-
- !Vector demo suddenly got problems too: it displays text areas allright but
- single lines are invisible and on every redraw request an 'SWI not found'
- error box pops up (no number, no name, no nothing)
-
- Only !NewChars and !KeyBoard are working lovely, displaying any of Acorn's,
- Newcasle's or TeX's fonts
-
- I'm really puzzled (and frustrated)
-
- Does the FontManager 2.44 rely on some 'hardware configuration' ?
- Is this a FM problem at all ?
- I thought the broken VIDC could be the reason but now that I've exchanged it...
-
- Can anybody help ? (that's the last one ;-)
-
- Bye
- Franz
-
-