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There are 10 buttons generating actions visible to the user.
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This button generates a bitmap of the character specified in the
-dialog box. All parameters changed
earlier become effective at this time. The resulting bitmap is then
shown in the output window of xglyph
. Some information about
the generated bitmap and elapsed
time etc. is given in the message window. If an error occurred,
the old contents of the output window are kept and a message is given
to the user.
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This button generates a bitmap of the string specified in the
-dialog box. In addition to rastering
characters, kerning and ligature settings may now take influence on
the result of the operation (see
). If no error occurs,
the bitmap is shown in the output window and additional information is
shown in the message area. Otherwise, an appropriate error message is
given.
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Both of these buttons do exactly the same as their non-antialiased
counterparts. The only difference consists in the generation of an
antialiased bitmap. The result is not a bitmap in fact.
There are at least 8 bits per pixel and at most 32 bits per
pixel in the resulting glyph. This depends on the depth of the
X11-visual you use when starting xglyph. The result may consume
quite a bit of memory
if a TrueColor or DirectColor visual is
active.
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-
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These functions basically do the same as the counterparts lacking the ``X''
in the name. But internally the X11 rastering functions are called to
produce the output bitmap/pixmap. As a consequence the current foreground
color, background color and drawing mode are taken into account. For a more
complete discussion of the X11 rastering functions see
on
page
.
-
A character table of size is shown in the output
window. Each cell contains an antialiased representation of the character
indexed by the field number. The function T1_AASetCharX()
is
used for drawing these characters. Current foreground and background colors
are respected as well as are most other parameters accepted by the character
rastering functions. Only the angle specification
is ignored since I assume that it is not very useful to have an overview
over a font at any angle different from 0. Notice that the default size
(100) is probably too large to make the output window fit on the screen. No
care is taken about this. The recommended size for viewing a font's
character map is
between 20 and 30 points at 72 dpi resolution.
-
Shows an `about' message
telling you that you are using xglyph
and t1lib in the current
version.
-
This button does what it says and exits the program.
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2005-01-12