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- FontMachine v3.0 - Demo archive - Copyright © ClassX Development Italy
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- ClassX Development Italy S.N.C.
- Via Francesca 463, I-56030 Montecalvoli (PI)
- Tel: +39 587 749206
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- E-Mail: classx@pisoft.it
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- Summary of changes and new features from FontMachine v2.xx:
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- The whole program has been vastly improved and extended in order to achieve
- better performances and gain compatibility to the new RTG graphic
- standards. FM3 is now perfectly compatible with CyberGFX and DraCO. The
- user interface had been refined and slighlty modified to make it easy to
- control the new features of the program. A new incredible FM3 feature is
- the possibility to import animated textures in the standard AnimBrush
- format and render animated texts as Anim5 or GIF-Anim animations.
- Additionally, Pattern and Plasma textures has been extended as multiple
- frame objects. An example: loading a Plasma or a Pattern in a 32 colours
- screen, creates a texture with an identical number of frames (32). Each
- frame represents a step in the cycling palette of the texture, so it's
- really simple to create "moving" plasmas or rotating patterns. With the
- help of an extended set of AREXX commands and specific AREXX scripts it is
- really fast and easy to make animated text. Users can now select their
- preferred AREXX script from an intuitive and helpful AREXX window. To make
- things even more easy, the AREXX interface of FontMachine now supports
- localization and on-line help. FM3 now support automatic texture centering
- for each gliph of the font and the font preview window now respects the
- font metric. We've made some changes and optimizations in the behaviour of
- FM3 (free space check before saving a font, ability to change the font
- name, safety checks, etc.) in order to get more flexibility from the
- program itself and to give users the maximum comfort.
- AREXX freaks can count on an extended set of commands and a new standard
- way to write localized AREXX scripts. With the new commands, FontMachine3
- can be easily transformed in the most powerful font processor.
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- The demo version is fully functional but has been limited for demonstration
- purposes only. The demo version is capable of saving fonts up to 25 pixels
- but it cannot save animated text. The drawer "AnimText" contains some
- samples of the capabilities of FontMachine in making animated texts.
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