This is an utility I wrote some time ago, just after I bought a
CyberVision64 graphics board. I was annoyed by the fact that the
font text was almost unreadable with some background images. So
I quickly wrote this util that draws an thin outline around the
icon texts. The outline can be of any colour and width. I prefer
a black outline, 1 pixel wide, and with white text.

I have included a screen shot from my Workbench showing how it will
look like once you got it installed.

Requirements:
	AmigaOS 3.0 or higher.
	68020 or better.

Installation:
	Copy OulineFont to c:, or add a path to the OutlineFont
	directory.

	Start Prefs/Font

	Choose "Select Workbench Icon text..."

	Select the font and field colour you want.
	The field colour will be used for the outline.

	Select mode "Text+Field".

	Select OK; and save the font settings.

	Add "run >nil: OutlineFont <text> <field> <width>" to
	your startup-sequence, before LoadWB.

	"<text>" is the palette number of the text colour you
	choosed in Prefs/Font.

	"<field>" is the fiels colour.

	"<width>" is the outline width.

	Example: "run >nil: OutlineFont 2 1 1"
	This will use colour 2 for the text and 1 for the outline.
	The outline width will be 1 pixel. If you are using the
	standard Workbench or MagicWB palette this will give you
	a white font text with a black border.


This is just a quick "hack", and could be done much better. Please feel
free to improve it, or write a completely new OutlineFont util.

I have included the crappy, badly coded source. It's based on some example
code in some RKM or NDU, I think. It's been over a year since I touched
it.

I don't have the time, nor the motivation to spend any more time on this...

Anyway, I hope it works on your system as good as it does on mine. :)

It's been tested on the following systems:
	A4000, CyberStorm060, 32 MB FastRAM, CyberVision64 in 8/16/24-bit.
	A4000/030, 16MB FastRam, AGA in 1-8 bit modes.

The screen shot is from my Workbench running in 800x600 24-bit.

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[generic]                 1119    2180  51.3% -lh5- cad2 Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/OutlineFont.readme
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[generic]                  734    1233  59.5% -lh5- 5411 Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/Source.info
[generic]                  699    1397  50.0% -lh5- 581b Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/Source/Build.info
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[generic]                  804    1394  57.7% -lh5- b3ee Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/Source/Edit.info
[generic]                  710    1398  50.8% -lh5- 0f63 Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/Source/Find.info
[generic]                 3411   10640  32.1% -lh5- 705f Aug  9  1995 OutlineFont/Source/OutlineFont.c
[generic]                  559    3501  16.0% -lh5- 9102 Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/Source/OutlineFont.c.info
[generic]                  156     242  64.5% -lh5- 37d0 Aug  8  1995 OutlineFont/Source/OutlineFont_stubs.asm
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[generic]                  110     124  88.7% -lh5- 9fcf Aug  8  1995 OutlineFont/Source/OutlineFont_stubs.o
[generic]                   86      86 100.0% -lh0- 36c1 Aug  8  1995 OutlineFont/Source/SCOPTIONS
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[generic]               116140  116140 100.0% -lh0- b73a Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/WBShot.jpeg
[generic]                 2963    3863  76.7% -lh5- 05f2 Oct 13  1996 OutlineFont/WBShot.jpeg.info
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