The vFont Package - A font machinary for Amiga.

The vFont Package is a font rendering system that will extend the Amiga so
that it will be able to utilize vectorized outline fonts.

The package consist of a number of parts. The most important part is the
vFont library which is the machinary that builds the outline fonts from
several kinds generic font descriptions. The other parts are:

Curve Outline Painter (COP): 
    A full feature WYSIWYG font editor that will enable you to create
    your own outline fonts as well as any other font type that is
    supported by the use of xdf libraries, e.g. you can use it to edit
    plain bitmap font instead of using FED.

External Diskfont Format libraries (xdf_#?.library):
    It would be foolish to ignore the fact that there exist a vast
    amount of different types of font machinaries (Postscript, LaTeX,
    AGFA etc). The XDF-libraries are used to open the doors for these 
    fonts. These libraries understands a specific font format so that
    you can access fonts from other computers on your machine. (The idea
    of having external libraries so that you can extend your system by
    adding new libraries is also known in the modem world as XPR 
    libraries). There are currently five XDF-libraries, and more are
    being implemented.

FontContents Lint (CheckFonts):
    CheckFonts is a utility that allows you to scrutinize your
    FontContents files, i.e. the #?.font files that are found under
    Fonts:. It can be used to add FontContents files to your
    Workbench diskett and still have the actual font files on the
    Extras diskett. It can also be used to fix a bad FontContents file,
    without touching the others and to create new FontContents files
    for fonts that don't have one.

Demos (vmore, bmore, rotate, spiral):
    These are demo programs that demonstrats various aspects of the
    outline fonts.


A font generateed by vfont:
* is compatible with TextFont's, i.e.  you can render VFont with
  graphics.library functiona and you can render TextFont's with
  vfont.library functions. This makes it very easy to use the library
  as an application programmer, because it is very GfxBase-ish.
* can be rendered in any direction, e.g. diagonal.
* can have any size, i.e. it can be resized in width and height independently.
* can have characters rotated independetly of the redering path, e.g you can 
  render from left to right but have the characters rotated towards west.
* is fast to render. Normal speed when rendered in normal left-right fashion
  or 3K+ cps on a 68020 CPU in any direction/size.

Prerequisits:
* Any currently existing Amiga model, i.e. A1000,A500,A2000,A2500,A3000.
* Any currently existing OS, i.e. 1.2, 1.3, 2.0x.
* 512K bytes or 1024K bytes graphics memory if you want to use COP.