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- Personal Fonts Maker 2
- Edited By DIT 12-11-95
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- The Personal Fonts Maker AGA Color Extensions (PFM 2) are a result of
- Personal Paint development applied to fonts.
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- With PFM 2, features like 256 colors, unlimited bitmap size and powerful
- painting tools are added to the basic functions like black and white font
- editing, macros, different character sets and printer download of the PFM
- program.
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- Font-oriented features of PFM 2, like the Spacing, Kerning, XSize and
- Reference Point gadgets are explained in depth in the Personal Fonts Maker
- documentation. If you would like to enjoy a more detailed explanation of
- the painting tools, please refer to the Personal Paint manual.
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- A few menu items and tools of PFM 2 are new, or differ slightly from what
- is explained in the Personal Fonts Maker and Personal Paint
- documentation:
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- The Color Average Resize option is located in Settings/Stretch/Color
- Average. This is very useful to create an anti-aliased font: just load an
- Amiga (vector) font, add intermediate shades of gray or color to the
- palette and then reduce the font (Settings/Font Format menu). The more
- colors you add, the better the result, and the smaller you can make the
- font with respect to the original.
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- Unlike PFM, in PFM 2 the Dynamic View option is activated from the
- Settings menu.
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- The box to the left of the Grid Color tool indicates whether the font has
- a remappable foreground color. Some applications can change this color to
- vary the font's appearance in a particular environment. To define the
- color, just click on the box and then pick a color from the palette. To
- disable this feature, click on the box and then click anywhere outside the
- palette.
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- The Reverse Direction and Flip Font items in the Attributes Menu are
- useful when working with right-to-left fonts. The first option only
- changes the spacing and kerning information, while the second one flips
- the character images.
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- Color fonts are supported from version 2 (or higher) of the Amiga
- operating system.
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- For more information:
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