# FontWriter User's Guide

# About this document

- Fonts built with the 3DO FontWriter are anti-aliased against the background to improve their appearance on an NTSC screen. You can save these fonts to use on the 3DO Station.

- FontWriter offers potentially significant space savings because it lets you create a font that is a subset of a given font, with only the characters needed for your title.

- FontWriter gives you many options for changing the style of standard fonts. In addition to applying the usual boldface, shadowed, and outline effects, and so on, FontWriter offers many choices for customization, including the Character Edit window drawing tools.

# Audience

This book is for artists and font designers who prepare fonts for a 3DO title.

# How this document is organized

- 3DO FontWriter Quick Start summarizes the 3DO FontWriter font-building process.
- 3DO FontWriter Reference discusses each menu and window in detail.

# Related documentation

Functions to display fonts are now part of the Lib3DO library. A Beta version of the library and online documentation for it are included on the Toolkit 1.5 CD-ROM. A final version will be on the Portfolio 1.5 CD.

# Typographical conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

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    Item                |Example
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    code example        |int32 OpenGraphicsFolio( void )
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    procedure name      |CreateScreenGroup()
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    new term or emphasis|That added weight is called a
                        |cornerweight.
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    file or folder name |The remote folder, the demo.scr
                        |file.
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