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* F O N T V I E W P R O G R A M *
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* <c> 1992 by SKWare One & S. K. Webb *
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The FONTVIEW.PRG is a GDOS font viewer program, and it's
public domain. It will run in all STe resoltions (maybe more),
but looks best in monochrome. It has two .RSC files, one for
color monitors (FNTVIEWC.RSC) and one for monochrome monitors
(FNTVIEWM.RSC). It reports all data from the GDOS font header
and features the GDOS Typewriter described below. IT DOES NOT
REQUIRE THE GDOS PROGRAM to show GDOS fonts on-screen!
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* GDOS Typewriter *
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The GDOS typewriter is just what its name implies. It
allows the GDOS font to be tested in actual-use conditions in any
combination of thirty sizes and all text styles (bold, italic,
lightened, outlined, or underlined).
The text styles can be combined as you wish, but you will
discover than GEM does not like some combinations of text
effects, whereupon it wraps the character around the character
cell in a useless manner. This does not result from a too-small
text effect buffer, as 40,000 bytes are provided for GEM to
fiddle in.
The screen can be cleared and the text cursor homed by
the <Clr> key. Characters can be erased by the <Backspace> key
delete. When there is not room enough for an additional line of
text, the last line on the screen is deleted and the cursor
re-positioned at the beginning of that line.
A summary of the GDOS Typewriter commands is printed in a
ledger line at the bottom of the window.
The GDOS Typewriter MUST BE EXITED with a right mouse
click. You then have the option of changing the attributes of
the presently loaded font and re-viewing, loading a new font,
or exiting the program.
Enjoy!