User`s manual

Section 6
sizes of that same fonL GEOS LQ swaps the chosen point size with another
at it's
own discretion. If you wish to insert a special character in a font, be
sure this character is present in all point sizes.
You must at least make sure
that
the character is present in the point size which the Print System will
use (36 if you're using 12 point in your documenL).
When modifying or creating
LQ fonts it is also important to match the
proportion between width and height in the different point sizes.
If, for
example, the letter
"N" in 12 point is 8 pixels wide, then the "N" in 36
point should
be 24 (8x3) pixels wide. This is not always the case with the
supplied
LQ fonts, and need not always be. It is, however, a rule which
should be followed
as closely as possible. Slight differences will tend to
balance each other out. "FontAdjust" and nFontDistance
n
are of help here.
GEOS LQ cannot handle point sizes requiring more than 14,500 bytes, and
no font editor we're aware of can handle sizes requiring more than 8 Kbytes.
In order to work with large point sizes, the use
of "FontZoom",
"FontCreate" and "FontSplice
n
is recommended. With
nFontZoom" larger
fonts can be separated into two halves. With "FontCreate
n
you can create
two empty fonts. The two halves of the large font are then placed into the
two n~w empty fonts. You can then use a font editor and work on them.
The
two halves are then placed back together using nFontSplice". The font
is then saved under the original
LQ font name and ID. Section 6, topics
"FontSplice
n
and nFontDistance
n
offer more information.
The larger point sizes
of the supplied LQ fonts are not saved in the usual
GEOS format. The difference lies in the spaces between letters, which are
normally saved in the
GEOS format. The LQ fonts do not contain these
spaces, bilt pack all the letters together. When they are used, GEOS
LQ'
places the spaces between letters itself.
If, when modifying or creating your own fonts, you wish to have these
fonts packed,
you must mark them with the appropriate values using the
help program called FontDistance. This program allows you to adjust the
space between the letters
of your fonL But even if you don't want to pack
your fonts
you should mark your font with FontDistance. Otherwise the
Print System
will handle the font like a standard GEOS fonL
About the Font Utilities
Some of the font utilities allow you to save a font to another point size
than it was loaded from. This is useful when worlring with mega-fonts and
should only
be used there.
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