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| 1212.1 | one down, one to go | ROYALT::ORSHAW | Associate FTSG membership pending..... | Wed Jan 22 1992 14:21 | 18 |
| OK, I now have a video-key so I can video tape whatever is on my atari
monitor.
I'm looking for programs that would make good titles. I have neochrome
and degas. These are good for drawing but the text portion isn't so
hot.
Questions:
Are there other (PD) programs that will display text in various fonts??
I never intended to use my atari for word processing so I'm not up on
the available word processing software. Any suggestions would be
appreciated. I'm looking for large text in various fonts.
Are there other (PD) graphic drawing programs I should look at?? How
about some (PD) animation software??
Thanks for any help,
Jim
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| 1212.2 | One way | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Wed Jan 22 1992 16:10 | 22 |
| A combination of MONSTER, which comes with Quick ST, and PageStream
might make a reasonable combination. It depends on if PageStream will
run in low resolution.
MONSTER, when runnin in low res, will make a virtual display that is
640x480, and your screen will be a 320x200 window into that. You do
this so that PageStream's menu bar and window borders can be made to
disappear.
You then tell PageStream to create a page, and put your titles in it in
one of the hundered or so PD fonts for PageStream. PageStream will also
let you set the foreground and background colors in arbitrary ways, and
you can add simple line drawings and such. PageStream can't do outlined
characters, but you may be able to fake that by using some tricks with
the DUPLICATE primitive.
With Monster, you also get to scroll the titles a little.
The problem with this solution is that the street price on PageStream is
about $200. The older versions are cheaper but don't have the wide
selection of fonts.
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| 1212.3 | Freeware or Shareware?? | ROYALT::ORSHAW | Associate FTSG membership pending..... | Thu Jan 23 1992 13:52 | 4 |
| Thats a good solution but I think I'd like to stick with the Public
Domain stuff for now. Any other suggestions??
Jim
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| 1212.4 | Howabout you writing one? | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Fri Jan 24 1992 18:37 | 24 |
| I have the Hershey fonts and *some* code for rendering them. If you'd
like to start with that and make your own, it wouldn't be too difficult
to make a rolling marquee of credits in any of the various Hershey
fonts. (Actually rolling the screen would be a challenge. You would
have to use multi-frame animation techniques. It would be fun, but
non-trivial.)
The Hershey fonts include ordinary looking Serif and Sans-Serif, plus
two nice scripts, and three gothic faces. Also, there are many foreign,
cartographic, musical, and oriental characters.
I have a simple DECwindows program that will show you the glyphs.
Fetch from PRNSYS::
DUA3:[LOMICKAJ.VTP.HERSHEY]DECW_HERSHEY.C
DUA3:[LOMICKAJ.VTP.HERSHEY]DECW_HERSHEY.EXE
DUA3:[LOMICKAJ.VTP.HERSHEY]HERSHEY.DAT
DUA3:[LOMICKAJ.VTP.HERSHEY]HERSHEYA.DAT
DUA3:[LOMICKAJ.VTP.HERSHEY]HERSHEYO.DAT
Run DECW_HERSHEY.EXE and it will read the font from HERSHEY.DAT and
display it's contents on the screen. HERSHEYA.DAT is the same as
HERSHEY.DAT, HERSHEYO.DAT is Japanese. I also have all of the Japanese
Kanji as NeoDESK icons.
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