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In article <4jf3s7$pk5@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca>,
mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden) wrote:

> Is there a program out there for the Amiga (preferably PD/Shareware) that 
> uses scalable fonts for making video title screens?  I'd like a program 
> that uses PostScript fonts, or maybe those Compugraphic fonts (BTW, can 
> someone tell me a bit about that Compugraphic format?  I'm not familiar 
> with it...).
Compugraphic is the vector-based, scalable format that is supported from
2.0 onwards, the characters can be (on the appropiate program) of any
point size, opposite from the previously used Bitmap fonts, which come in
fixed sizes (i.e. 10, 14, 18 pts.) and become jagged and hideously looking
if you scale them up... On Workbench 2.0 & 3.x you can use both bitmap &
compugraphic fonts... Postscript fonts are mainly used on PCs and Macs,
they can also be scaled/rotated/distorted with no ill effects, on the
Amiga only a few progs can use them (some DTP progs, Imagine, Lightwave,
Montage...)

> I had VideoTitler (commercial version from years ago) and I didn't like 
> it.  Now I'm looking for a simple program that will let me easily use 
> scalable fonts for centering titles, adding/changing colours and special 
> effects, etc.

Aahh... Aegis Videotitler... (brief pause for wiping nostalgia-induced
tear...). Well, don't know much about shareware ones, but the ones I use
are ScalaMM (great support for Compugraphic fonts, you can add
outline/shadow/3D depth/underline/antialias and scale them to any size)
and Montage (which uses a special font format :^( though there is
supposedly a 'Postscript Module' that allows to use that kind of fonts,
I've got no luck trying to obtain this module...). I use Scala daily for
video titling and interactive presentations and it's simple to use but
extremely powerful, it allows text scrolls, crawls, anim playback, wipes
and transitions between IFFs, etc....  Montage is a lot more convoluted to
use, also allows type effects and even stretching letters in
non-proportion scale... I use it only when I need truly smooth,
hi-quality, big text screens since its antialiasing (the smoothing of
edges so it doesn't looks so jagged) is far superior than Scala's...
Montage also supports some slideshow effects but it is RAM hungry and not
very intuitive...

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Victor Vargas G.  €Amiga 3D animation & video graphics/Mac DTP€