CreateOutline © 2000 by Stephan Rupprecht All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER CreateOutline is copyrighted 2000 by Stephan Rupprecht. All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the program(s) it describes. REQUIREMENTS Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.0 and 68020+ cpu. DESCRIPTION CreateOutline is a small program that has been written to make these OutlineFont-like patches obsolete (programs that draw an outline around your icon texts by patching graphics.library). It takes a font and creates a colorfont from it which can either have an outline or a shadow. The new font will have a slightly different name and size than the source one (byron.font/12 -> byronC.font/14). Currently the program creates fonts that use the screen pens #1 and #2 (black and white), future version might allow you to specify different pens. USAGE The program can only be started from shell, the following options are provided: FONT/A,SIZE/N/A,SCALE/S,SHADOW/S,PREDOMINANT/S,PREVIEW/S FONT/A: the source font. SIZE/N/A: its size. SCALE/S: if the font doesn't exist in the requested size, then create it. SHADOW/S: create a font with shadow instead of outline. PREDOMINANT/S: lets you choose the textcolor in Font prefs. PREVIEW/S: view a sample text in a window but don't save the font. KNOWN PROBLEMS Not a bug of the program: When using p96 you need to enable "Text+Field" in Font prefs to get the right colors on 15+ bit screens (otherwise the text will be pink). HISTORY 1.0 first public release. 1.1 added PREDOMINANT/S switch. 1.2 removed extra spacing btw. characters . AUTHOR Please send bug reports and ideas to: Stephan Rupprecht Apfeldweg 1 D44359 Dortmund Germany Send emails to stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de WWW http://stephan.2xs.de