Conference hydra::amiga_v1

re <<< Note 5265.0 by AIDEV::LANDINGHAM "For a good prime, call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1" >>>
>                                 -< ShowFont? >-

	A recent fish disk, somewhere after 500.... should be easy 
enough to locate if you have the aquarium program - if you lost that 
in the rebuild let me know and I'll look it up tonight.

	Reg

	The only two programs I know of that come close are PRFont (Fred Fish
	#305) and FontList (FF#549).  From your description it sounds like 
	PRFont is what you're looking for.  Below are the docs for each;


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                PrFont : Print a sample of each font in fonts:

                            by Joel Swank
                               1/15/89


   PrFonts uses the AvailFonts system service to find all the fonts in the
Amiga fonts: directory. It then draws one line of each on a custom hi-res
screen and uses DumpRastPort to print the screen on the printer. It then
clears the screen and repeats the above until all fonts have been printed.
You may click the close gadget and PrFont will exit at the end of the next
screen. PrFont may be run from the CLI or Workbench.

CLI usage:

>prfont -a -s -d#

   -a  Draw all characters of each font rather than just one line. This
       will result in a printout from 5 to 10 times a big as the default
       one line listing.

   -s  Display the fonts on the screen only, do not print. When using this
       option you must click the left mouse button after each screen is
       displayed to go to the next.

   -d# Set the print density. '#' must be a number between 1 and 7 
       inclusive. This number is passed to DumpRastPort and may or may 
       not have an affect on the printout depending on your printer
       driver.


Prfont may be run from a tool icon by naming it prfont.info and double
clicking it. Prfont accepts the following tooltypes in the icon's
tooltypes array. You can use the workbench info menu item to enter
any of these into the tooltypes array. Place each on a separate line.
They must be in upper case and the '=' is required.

   ALL=       same as -a above.

   SHOW=      same as -s above.

   DENSITY=#  same as -d# above.


You may use prfonts to see other font libraries beside the default
by reassigning the fonts: logical name to the othe library.

Example:

>assign fonts: df1:myotherfonts

When done using prfonts on this library reassign fonts: back to the
default:


>assign fonts: workbench:fonts


You may have to alter your printer preferences to get an acceptable
printout. I have been using black and white shade, threshhold 5,
aspect horizontal, and image negative. These appear on Graphic 1 page
of printer preferences.


Joel Swank
205 NW Meadow Drive.
Swamp, OR 97006

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                       This program is public domain                
                                                                    
        It may be used, copied and spread without any restriction,  
        as long as there is no payment demanded (except for disks   
        and postage etc.)! The .dok and .doc files must also be     
        copied along with the program.                              
                                                                    


                                 FontList

                               Documentation:

This  program  is  very  useful  for all, who have lots of fonts, and don't
allways know how all the fonts look like.

It  prints  a list of all fonts in the FONTS:  device on the printer, where
it  prints  the  name, all available sizes and some text written using this
font in its largest size.

So  if  you  look for a special font, just look into the list, and you will
easily find it.

The program uses the definitions of preferences (printer, density etc.).

Have fun! -Rob-

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Robert Brandner / Schillerstr. 3 / A-8280 F�rstenfeld / AUSTRIA / EUROPE
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Re: .-2

I didn't lose Aquarium.  I have disks 1-540 in my db, none of them showed a
"ShowFont" program.

Re: .-1

That certainly does sound like what I had...I'll check it out.

Thanks very much!

    re .3:
    "ShowFont" sounds familar to me too.  I think I still have it out on my
    hard disk somewhere.  I'll check tonite.  I don't remember where it
    came from, but I don't think it was a Fred Fish disk; I think I got
    it from the EOT upload area long ago.
    
    regards,
    dennis

I think I've seen the ShowFont program, too.

I wonder if the following program from Fred Fish 5 might be it:

text.demo	Sample program that asks AvailFonts() to make a list of
		the fonts that are available, then opens a window and
		then prints a description of the various attributes that
		can be applied to the fonts, in the font itself.
		Previous versions were released as "whichfont".
		Author: Rob Peck  12/1/85

    I upload SHOWFONT.LZH to EOT::AMIGA:[UPLOAD]
    
    Terry
    

    Re: .-1
    
    Thanks very much, I appreciate it.  This is definitely the same
    ShowFont program I had (same author, Arthur Johnson, Jr.) but it is a
    moderately old version (2.0).  I still have the doc file that came with
    the archive I had and it's labelled Version 4.1.  That doc states that
    a lot of bugs have been fixed/features added.
    
    I'd appreciate it if anyone else could check to see if they have a
    later version of this program.
    
    Again, thanks very much.

    I just checked, and I have version 3.3 of ShowFont dated 02/11/89.