Kara colour Fonts and OS4

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Renoir

Posted on: 2007/1/15 18:06 #1

Just popping in

Is there a way to use fonts such as the Chislescript and
karagranite fonts with OS4? Right now OS4 will not see them
with any app. I used ot use them in paint programs like
personal paint, arteffect and tv paint now they do not even
show up in the font lists. But they are in the font drawer.

Renoir

Chris

Re: Kara colour Fonts and OS4

Posted on: 2007/1/15 18:56 #2

Amigans Defender

@Renoir

Did you try running FixFonts?

voxel

Re: Kara colour Fonts and OS4

Posted on: 2007/1/15 19:49 #3

Just popping in

Question is : is there colorfonts support in the new OS4 font system?

BTW, you can try the small utility that was shipped with
Deluxe Paint 3 (where the color fonts first appeared), forgot it's name

and see if it's working?

Amigalement,
Jean-Francois Bachelet, Amiga nuts since 1985

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Renoir

Re: Kara colour Fonts and OS4

Posted on: 2007/1/15 20:11 #4

Just popping in

@Chris

Fixfonts does not do the trick.

@voxel

I don't have dpaint 3 but I'll check my dp14 disk and see if it is there.
I'm not sure if colour fonts are supported the docs suggest that they are but ..? who knows if the docs are uptodate.

Renoir

TetiSoft

Re: Kara colour Fonts and OS4

Posted on: 2007/2/1 11:06 #5

Just popping in

@Renoir

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Is there a way to use fonts such as the Chislescript and
karagranite fonts with OS4?

Yes, OS4 is backwards compatible.

Quote:

Right now OS4 will not see them with any app.

I bet it sees them in NotePad as ISO-8859-1 fonts.

Quote:

I used ot use them in paint programs like
personal paint, arteffect and tv paint now they do not even
show up in the font lists. But they are in the font drawer.

When you have a font problem you could read Documentation/Fonts.doc
on the OS4Final CD. Quoting it:

Quote:

Any old bitmap font file without charset information is assumed to be
in ISO-8859-1, the AmigaOS default charset.

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But when you try to load a bitmap-only
font that does not exist in a variant for the requested (or system default)
charset, this will fail in most cases

Quote:

However, for backwards compatibility to old applications that were
distributed with their own fonts in ISO-8859-1 only, diskfont.library
does accept a request without charset specification of a bitmap font that
is not available in the current system default charset when the current
system default charset is not ISO-8859-1, it does load the ISO-8859-1
variant of the bitmap font in this case and does remap the font to the
current system default charset.

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To force the usage
of a specific charset with non-charset-aware applications, you can add
_MIME-NAME to the font name.

Or in shorter words, when you want to use an ISO-8859-1
bitmap font in an application which is not charset aware,
you can either switch the system default charset to ISO-8859-1,
or you can type in (not click at) the fontname in the font
requester to get the font remapped to the current system default
charset, or you can type fontname_ISO-8859-1 in the font requester
to load the font without remapping it.

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