Subject: RE: Get Rom Fonts (fwd)
From: Kimmo Veijalainen <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 18:20:21 EETDST

> >different fonts: topaz 8 & 9.If i use instructions like these:
> >   Get Rom Fonts
> >   Set Font 1 (or 2)
> >Can i be sure to obtain the same font (topaz 8 or 9) and every amiga?
> >If not, how can i do this?
> 
> Pretty easy to do.  I'm not sure about it changing for fonts 1 and 2, but the 
> disc ones will, and once you have loaded the disc ones into memory, they appear 
> as rom fonts (well, they do on my 500P).  So, just get a routine that searches 
> through the information strings to find a font by name + point size.  This is 
> what I do, it works very well.  (can't remember the details, but it's all in the 
> manual, and is very easy to do.)

But getting disc fonts is _slow_. The "LDos" extension lets you load directly from
disc the font you want. "Get disc fonts" when your fonts:-directory has a couple of
hundred fonts is a pain.