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Font Dump III

by Joe Buckley

This is a simple GEOS 64/GEOS 128, 40/80 column mode application which will allow you to generate sample sheets for all of your GEOS fonts.

Font Dump III will adjust itself to various printer drivers so that the printout will occupy the full width of the page, while printers with less than 80DPI capability (technically, it should function down to 41DPI, although 60DPI is as low as I've bothered to test) will not lose the image off the right hand edge of the paper.

On the printout you will find (1) the font name, point size and font ID# written in the BSW 9 font, (2) the same name, point size and font ID# information written with the sampled font, and (3) the entire font starting from ASCII 32 (space) to ASCII 126 (tilde).

When each font has been printed, the page will scroll up approximately two card rows. There is no form feed (FF) until you exit the application to the GEOS deskTop.

Keep this fact in mind, since there is no perforation skip with fanfold paper.

While there is no onscreen indication of this, you may abort the current font sample print by holding the mouse button down as it is being printed.

Font Dump III will scan all active drives for the default printer driver, so the printer driver need not be stored on the same disk that Font Dump III was executed from.

Three drive access is supported for REU-equipped systems.

From the main file requester, you may choose any one of the first 250 FONT files on the currently open disk.

You may select the proper file in several ways: Use the scrolling icons (when there are more than seven files) to move along the list of names. You may also use the CURSOR UP/DOWN keys to move the highlight bar up or down one name and the CURSOR LEFT/RIGHT keys to scroll the list of names up or down a page of seven names.

You may select a file by clicking the OPEN icon, by hitting the RETURN key, or by double-clicking the filename itself within the list window.

After selecting the font that you wish to print, you will be prompted to select the point size of that font to use. Click the mouse over the UP or DOWN arrows to scroll through the list of point sizes available. (Holding the button down continues the scroll in the same direction.) You may also use the CURSOR UP/DOWN keys to scroll through the available point sizes.

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Now comes the major change to the file:

You will be prompted to 'Select new font/point size?'. This option allows you to choose more than one font and/or point size to print in a single session. If you select YES (or merely hit the RETURN key), you will be able to go through the entire font selection process again. Selecting NO will start the actual printing process.

You may go through the font selection process up to 255 times (and good luck to anyone who does!).

If you change your mind and don't want to select a new font after selecting YES at this prompt, you will be stuck. Either start over again, or select a new font as a dummy ending.

You can only start the printing process by selecting NO from this third dialog box.

The only ways to reset the list for which fonts you want selected are (1) print the list of fonts already selected, (2) choose the DISK option from the main file requester, or (3) choose the DRIVE option from the main file requester.

Generally, the simplest method is to choose DISK and just leave the same disk in the active drive.

Note:

Font Dump III does not live well with the BSworks Paint Drivers. The results, if the Paint Drivers are tried, will be unpredictable.

Font Dump III will crash if tried with the GEOS 128 Paint Drivers. So don't say I didn't warn you.

Joe Buckley

464 Beale St.

W. Quincy, MA 02169-1307

5/23/90

71570,2600 (CompuServe; GEOS Section Leader, CBMPRG)