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In article <1992Apr15.230239.23854@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
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>Does this have the same problem that all GDOS type program have, you
>nead 2 lots a fonts, one for the screen and one for the printer,
>plus you can't load fonts on the fly, only at run time...!!!
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No, Wordflair II has FSM/GDOS which means Font Scaling Module Graphic Device
Operating System.   This means that all the fonts are represented as 
vector objects instead of original bitmaps as in original GDOS and many
IBM fonts (for MS-Word, for example).   Here, any font can be scaled to
any size and there is no need to have separate screen and printer fonts
because there are drivers to scale and output the fonts to a variety of
devices.   
	In addition, like you mentioned it is possible to load fonts on
the fly, just depending on your memory.  FSM comes with an accessory which
lets you create new fonts, add existing fonts to the 'active' list, etc etc
without having to modify the assign.sys file as in GDOS and/or reboot or
anything.  It's all done very easily from within your GEM program as a
desk accessory.

	BTW anyone who is interested, there is a review of FSM/GDOS in the
March/April 1991 Atari Explorer, and Wordflair II in the September 1991
issue.

Happy word processing!

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Ben Gilbert
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