Pointless - Brutal Deluxe Software

ONE l1li INTRODUCTIONWHAT HAPPENS WHEN You SELECT AFONTPointless operates transparently behind the scenes, so you'll continue to work withyour IIGS programs as you always have. You'll continue to choose afont from a pulldownmenu, and you'll still have an option of choosing a style such as bold or italic. AnyTrueType fonts you have installed using Pointless will appear in the Font menu alongwith your other standard bit-mapped fonts.The following steps and the flow diagram on the next page provide avisual summary ofwhat happens when you select a TrueType font with Pointless installed.First, a font and font size are selected.In most GS programs you select a font by choosing the font and size from the pulldownmenus. Many GS programs also provide an alternate method of choosing thefont, size and style from a single dialog window, as shown.f} Pointless checks if a bit-mapped font is available.With a font and size selected, Pointless will first check if a regular bit-mapped font file isavailable in the selected size. If a bit-mapped font is available in the chosen size, then itwill be used.Pointless loads the TrueType font file from disk.If a bit-mapped font file isn't available in the correct size, Pointless will load the fontoutline from the True1Ype font file. At this point, depending on the disk location youhave configured for the TrueType file, Pointless may ask you to insert the diskcontaining the font file, if it's not already in the disk drive or on your hard disk.Pointless will leave the font file in memory, so the next time it's used, Pointless won'tneed to load it from disk (if you have sufficient memory), making access faster.110