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Review by  Matt DiFrancesco
Reviewed on 2005-05-24
“Font Editor” is a great on-calc tool to edit fonts for your calculator. I have had no problems at all with it, and while I have only adjusted a few characters, it is useful. Well worth the space, which is really not all that much.

Furthermore, I have had no compatibility issues with my 84+SE like an earlier comment suggested. It works just fine archived and run under Mirage. Download this if you have Omnicalc, and if you want to fix a few of those characters that just don't look right to you.


Review
Review by  Dylan Baker
Reviewed on 2005-05-20
“Omnicalc Font Editor” is probably the coolest media-compiling program on this site. It is extremely useful for people who don't have convenient access to a computer, or people like me who don't use Windows.

Interface/Ease of Use: 10/10 Controls are all very obvious.

Graphics: 5/10 The functional items, nothing more, nothing less. But then, the only graphic anyone would really want to add to this would be a splash screen.

Functionality: 8/10 The only program of its kind, it works very well. However, it apparently is not recognizable on an 84+ or 84+ SE; you still need an 83+ to run it.

Overall: 9.5/10 My only real complaint is the lack of cross-platform compatibility. (Don't get me wrong, the fonts produced with it still work on the 84+, but the program does not.)


Review
Review by  Ander D'nar
Reviewed on 2004-10-07
“OmniCalc Font Editor” is a very nice program. It has a nice interface, a load and save feature, and a nice preview of all the characters at once. Also, "compiling" isn't necessary. However, this means that the fonts can't be edited from “Omnicalc” itself. But then again, why do you really need to edit them off your calc? This program has almost everything you could want from a font editor!

Review
Review by  Benjamin Fortin
Reviewed on 2004-07-05
Note! This review was written for a previous version of this file!

This program is a blessing for those of us who do not have convenient access to a “Windows” box. I can now edit fonts on-calculator, and actually faster than I could on “Windows.” The controls are speedy, if a little obtuse (I had trouble figuring out how to quit. You have to go to the editing screen and then press [MODE]. I had thought you could do this from the menu). One of the downsides is that you can only save fonts as a new file; you can't overwrite an old name. It is a rather large program at 5769 bytes, but those bytes are definitely worth it.

When editing, there is a convenient "clear" key [WINDOW], that clears the letter to white, as well as two other font sizes that show how the font will look at normal size and at double size. The actual editing controls are very nicely obvious, with the arrow keys to navigate and [2nd] to change the current square's color.

I give this program a 9/10 overall.


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