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#105611 - 17/07/2002 14:00 Change fonts?
NasalGoat member Registered: 23/08/1999 Posts: 129 Loc: Toronto, ON, Canada	One thing that has always bugged me about the empeg are the crummy fonts. I have a series of different sized fonts made specifically for the type of display in the empeg (from pinball machines, which use the same display only much larger!) that would look much better. How much of a pain in the ass would changing the fonts be?
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#105612 - 17/07/2002 14:05 Re: Change fonts? [Re: NasalGoat]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	There is a font conversion utility floating around the BBS. It can be done. Do a search. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#105613 - 19/07/2002 16:47 Re: Change fonts? [Re: tfabris]
foxtrot_xray addict Registered: 03/03/2002 Posts: 687 Loc: Atlanta, Georgia	..And it is pretty sweet! Dunno why anyone hasn't posets fonts yet. Me. _________________________ Mike 'Fox' Morrey 128BPM@124MPH. Love it! 2002 BRG Mini Cooper
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#105614 - 19/07/2002 17:26 Re: Change fonts? [Re: foxtrot_xray]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Dunno why anyone hasn't posets fonts yet. Have you ever tried designing a font from scratch. It can be quite a lot of work even if you're only doing 5x7 or something. The big player font is much larger than that. Perhaps the fonts are already good enough for most people. If I remember correctly the guy who wrote the editor mainly did it because he/she wanted a Greek character set. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#105615 - 19/07/2002 21:51 Re: Change fonts? [Re: Shonky]
justinlarsen old hand Registered: 31/12/2001 Posts: 1109 Loc: Petaluma, CA	ive been working on a new font, more of a techno look, shoudl be done in a week or 2, its alot of work doing it from scratch _________________________ ---- Justin Larsen
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#105616 - 20/07/2002 09:13 Re: Change fonts? [Re: Shonky]
foxtrot_xray addict Registered: 03/03/2002 Posts: 687 Loc: Atlanta, Georgia	In reply to: Have you ever tried designing a font from scratch. It can be quite a lot of work even if you're only doing 5x7 or something. The big player font is much larger than that. [/quote oH, yeah. I didn't mean that there should be, like a whole slew of fonts avaialbe yet - it's just been a real quiet release (not like the Logo Editor, or such..) Very little comments about it. I did a quick redisgn of the small and mid font for myself, made the "O" and "0"'s easier to distinguish, mostly. :> Me. _________________________ Mike 'Fox' Morrey 128BPM@124MPH. Love it! 2002 BRG Mini Cooper
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#105617 - 22/07/2002 03:38 Re: Change fonts? [Re: tfabris]
peter carpal tunnel Registered: 13/07/2000 Posts: 4180 Loc: Cambridge, England	There is a font conversion utility floating around the BBS. It can be done. Do a search. Incidentally, as I (and anyone who saw my car-player at Amersfoort) discovered by accident, most of the player software still copes if you replace the fonts with other sizes... Peter
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