Nice article (I've been using a similar setup for years already though), I just have a couple of remarks though. ;)

I don't quite agree on your choice of metrics, imo the only safe one is Global Boundingbox, as that is the only one that can guarantee that all glyphs fit inside, however by far all glyphs are used in any given charset, so it might be that you never encounter any glyphs that do not fit correctly with the metrics you chose, so ofcourse this is a trial-and-error game, but again, Global is the only safe one (albeit it can create some unnecessarily big boundingboxes on certain fonts).

..then, from the article:

"Change one parameter at a time in the installation window and see the results with a suitable font viewer (changes become effective after a reset)."

You don't have to reset, if you simply make sure that no program is currently using this font (ie, quit them), all you have to do is "FlushLib diskfont.library" from a Shell, and all unused fonts will be purged from the cache...


- CISC

@ CISC

First of all: thank you! A positive comment from a MorphOS Team member is a great honour for me. (I would like to thank also Henes, who commented my previous article on ANN six months ago.)

> I don't quite agree on your choice of metrics...

This font setting runs on my PegasosII since two years and on my Amiga4000/060/PPC since six years. And, yes, I never found alignment problems with any glyph and any font size (for Italian and English texts). With our multiethnic community, the use of accented capital letters or non-latin glyphs will almost certainly bring me the complaints of some users for bad font alignment. In such a case they already have the answer: there is no doubt that the global bounding box is the safest solution (however not the best looking, in my opinion).

> You don't have to reset...

Yes, actually I always use the internal font viewer of Directory Opus Magellan II and the shell command "Avail flush" to clean up the RAM. But in the context from which you extracted that sentence I did not want to write long explanations like "download this font viewer, unarchive, open a shell, type this, but first you must do that, then you will obtain..." and so on. Mentioning a font viewer and a reset without entering the details was the fastest solution for a hurried writer.

If I would mention all the details everywhere, my articles would be twice larger, and normal people will be bored.
If I skip a single detail, superadvanced people immediately highlight the problem.
Argh!

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A few comments for curious people:
1) The two ARexx utilities for AWeb run also on a classic Amiga (see the FAQ).
2) BigGun is interested in translating my ARexx plugin in C and inserting its functionality within AWeb code.
3) Two articles in the "Doctor's Office" are not available because of problems that Targhan is trying to solve.
4) An Italian translation of "Fonts & Browsers" is being prepared.
5) Next year I will open a personal website were all the Italian translations of my articles will be available, together with (new versions of) the articles missing on MorphZone.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to every MorphZone user! I hope you like my gift...

[ Edited by DoctorMorbius_FP On 2005/12/20 8:10 ]

Nice work. I've been wanting a nice guide on how to get this all working again. Its been ages since I did it on my Amiga. I think I will spend some time now and get it all up correctly on my Pegasos at last. I have it close now, but nothing near as well done as this.

Any chance of an installer script to get it all done quick and easy?

About the install script: did you check chapter 6, section "Automagic Webfont Configuration"?
There you'll find an ARexx script that will take care of the configuration of WebFonts on AWeb (you'll need to do by hand with V or IB). You still need to download the relevant WebFonts and decrunch them as indicated in chapter 2, and run FontManager like shown in chapter 4. Overall, it won't take you much more than 15 minutes for a basic configuration (you might want to tinker a bit with the fonts settings later, so that the result will suit your tastes better).

Kind regards,
Andrea