#Installing AROCK Fonts
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Hi,
I purchased the AROCK set of masterpiece fonts for Lightwave. I understand
that as bitmapped fonts they can also be used in DPAINTIV. I copied a font
drawer off the AROCK floppy to my FONTS: subdirectory and ran FIXFONTS (per
the manual), but DPAINTIV wouldn't recognize them. Any tips would be
appreciated. (I'm running WB2.0 on an A-2000.)
Thanks,
John
The Arock Masterpiece Lightwave fonts are not bitmaps. They are Lightwave
objects that are in 2d (planar). If you wish to use them for some other
purpose I guess you could render them and make brushes then convert the
brushes but that's a lot of trouble.
By the way, these fonts are 2d to save space. Simply extrude them as you
wish for 3d use.
Jim Roof
Thanks for the reply, Jim.
I've done what you're suggesting a couple of times, and you're right . . .
it's a chore. The only reason I thought of DPIV, was that it was mentioned
in an instructional video on LW3D I was watching. The video recommended
the purchase of the AROCK fonts for use in LW. As an aside, the narrator
said they could also be used in DPIV, loaded in as fonts (vice bringing
them in as a brush and stamping them).
Well, I had bought them before I saw the video anyway, so I can't get too
upset.
Appreciate the insight.
John