Short: Cloanto PFM and PDM Software Author: info@cloanto.it (Cloanto Italia srl) Uploader: info cloanto it (Cloanto Italia srl) Type: gfx/edit Architecture: m68k-amigaos Distribution: Only Cloanto, Aminet and Meeting Pearls CLOANTO PERSONAL FONTS MAKER Personal Fonts Maker is a powerful tool for designing and processing bitmapped fonts. Amiga fonts and fonts created with Personal Fonts Maker can be transferred to the printer memory and printed at maximum quality and speed. Personal Fonts Maker can output fonts in formats which can be read by other Amiga programs, by other computers and by a vast range of differing printers (even 48-pin and laser printers). The program can import graphics. It is possible, for example, to work on typographical fonts input from a scanning device. Complex and/or repetitive transformations on characters or entire fonts can be defined, recorded, stored and executed as macros. A special programming language can be used to define the format in which fonts are to be saved or sent to a printer. The Personal Fonts Maker package includes a multitude of original fonts and support tools like Printer Driver Modifier, which allows the user to personalize printer drivers. The manual is full of examples and introductory sections for novice users, and comes complete with technical information for Amiga experts. POST SCRIPTUM The evolution of monochrome bitmapped fonts slowed down several years ago, in favor of vector fonts. Most of the recent and new applications of bitmapped fonts are related to multicolored fonts. Similarly, while we created new and powerful tools to edit color fonts, at Cloanto we terminated the development of the original Personal Fonts Maker package. This means that the user interface is not, esthetically, up to the newest standards. The software, however, has no known bugs, and is fully compatible with all versions of the Amiga operating system. Because of the wealth of absolutely unique features provided by this software (it was even used by some printer manufacturers), we believe that it may still be very helpful in projects involving bitmapped fonts. CLOANTO PRINTER DRIVER MODIFIER Printer Driver Modifier is a utility to edit the text mode functions of Amiga printer drivers. The software gives the user full access to any driver's conversion tables for characters having a code greater than 127 as well as for control sequences. Printer Driver Modifier can be used to modify existing control sequences of the printer driver, or add new ones. Switches to national 7-bit character sets to print a character can be replaced with a single 8-bit character code. The same can be done with those characters in the set available on the printer which are represented by the driver as a series of partial character images and backspaces. If a character is not available on the printer, it can be downloaded with Personal Fonts Maker, and the printer driver can be updated with Printer Driver Modifier so that the new character is translated correctly. If a character cannot be downloaded because the printer being used does not accept the downloading of character having codes greater than 127, a new code (smaller than 128) can be assigned to the character, both in the downloaded font (with Personal Fonts Maker) and in the printer driver (with Printer Driver Modifier). AMINET VERSION This archive contains a complimentary edition of the English versions of Personal Fonts Maker and Printer Driver Modifier programs, for exclusive distribution through the Aminet and Meeting Pearls internet and CD-ROM collections. These are the full and latest commercial versions (not demonstration versions), as they were intended to appear on a possible new version of The Kara Collection. This software is hereby licensed to you, the end user, for private, non-commercial and non-profit use only. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. BY USING THE ARCHIVE AND ITS CONTENTS, YOU ACCEPT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO ITS QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE. NEITHER CLOANTO NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION OR DELIVERY OF THE ARCHIVE AND ITS CONTENTS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF USE OR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED COSTS, EXPENSES OR DAMAGES, AND ANY DATA OR INFORMATION WHICH MAY BE LOST OR RENDERED INACCURATE, EVEN IF CLOANTO IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Publication or distribution of any part of this archive without the prior written license from Cloanto constitutes acceptance of a licensing contract and fee to be determined by Cloanto, at a cost in no case lower than USD 5000.00, payable to Cloanto immediately upon publication or distribution. FOR IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND OTHER LEGAL NOTES PLEASE REFER TO THE DOCUMENTATION AND SOFTWARE IN THE ARCHIVE.