i'm gonna go back and buy it eventually, i like to wait for a while so as to . ? . build up . . . . uh? . ! . some enthusiasm for the start of the new season!

jt

p.s. hey, cine', have you checked out aa's forums? the load times for their pages are abominable with my G-4 on a freakin' dsl line! the only image that was worth the wait was seeing ghallager giving cake a pounding! *it's too bad he was using the sledge-o-matic for it tho . . . *

back again, almost forgot: *oink!*

p.p.s. when was the last time amybody saw the phrase: "male chauvinist pig" in print?

jt2

if anybody needs to know why we shouldn't have graphics, check that forum out.

btw, i still think our own font of emoticons and sig graphics is a much better approach, a set of recommended fonts (standard ones) for use with the forum would also be excellent, that way we can be sure our posts will look the way we intend. i hereby volunteer to assemble the 68kMLA secret decoder dingbat font. it should give insiders graphic capabilities and come up as default font character substitutions in the browsers of outsiders. simple (postscript filled path outlines, NO strokes or fills maybe limit each graphic to about 32 simple objects and a simpler 16 object alternate for a trial run) graphics from freehand, illustrator, or corel draw will past/import right into fontographer, e-mail some samples to me and we can experiment.

what do you say, ~coxy? might be worth a shot. it'll put us on the map as innovators if it works and hasn't been tried yet (anybody got info?) maybe this part of my post should be in the web site forum, but that's been a wasteland, i'll edit/move it if requested, or do it yourself if you want to/can. this'll be just like the old days when fontographer was the only illustration program available!

Well, for years there has been bad blood between MAF and MMF (MacAddict Forums and MacMonkey Forums). Full-scale Forum-Wars have even erupted! Within the last year or so, things have been fairly decent, and many folks even mingle between the two. Meanwhile, both sites have been plagued by unexpected outages, which in a way sort of formed an empathy between them. So, AppleAddict was a grass roots attempt to create a new Forum site that was free from the restirctions of MAF (which the Monkies often criticise) and yet isn't quite as "balls-to-the-wall" as MMF (which MAF-folks often criticise).

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if anybody needs to know why we shouldn't have graphics, check that forum out.

btw, i still think our own font of emoticons and sig graphics is a much better approach...

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by using that old trick, you can embed graphics into a post with no overhead except the processing/transfer/decoding/display from installed system font of the standard command parameters already in use on the forum for the formatting of one additional ascii character.

i just think it's worth a shot, i'm not convinced you would notice any performance hit on a mac plus, it's a case of wringing everything out of what you're already set up to do, way before the rest of the crowd catches on. been there, done that, wore out a coupla' of freakin' t-shirts already!*

*not braggin', it's the truth in two documented instances

*. . . well maybe just a little . . . war stories are ok, tho, right? *

jt2

btw: thanks for the "skinny" on the forum upheavals. *shakes head, ho freakin' hum, i just don't get it . . . yawns* people are funny . . . . . at best!

no fuss, no muss, very little overhead, anybody could define "c" in the dingbat font in a posting, but honor system/peer pressure should keep everybody in line.

i hope this is clear enough, i have trouble with explanations sometimes *duh!*

jt2

p.s. is the point lost on you that we can't manage to stay on topic in a thread we started ourselves, even when the freakin' subject of discussion is T&A? *this is just too much! ROTFLMAO*

i'm still not sure we're talking about the same thing though, maybe a bitmapped screen font is doable and may have some advantages, but i think that a scalable postscript dingbat font makes more sense, but that's all i am really familiar with. can you give me a link to a spec. for "bitmap avatars" so i can learn a little about them, please.

a trial run of some military symbols and custom emoticons would make a good test font, but a few sig "avatars" should included also.

jt

p.s. how about them skinny bab . . . . err . . rookies?

i guess nobody else follows sports.

*or can understand my inept use of .txt*

jt: technosaur

and thanks for the translation and tutorial.

but first, spec a dingbat font that everybody should already have or can download the same version from a link (i can't do hotline, newbie b me!) and we can start testing right away!

jt

p.s. when i suggested this before, was the description indecipherable?

Edited by - alcoa on 26 Feb 2002 15:47:03

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