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cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
>
> thank you for incorporating Magic point to BL3.21.
> It is really a nice toy to play with.

I'm using it right now to prepare a presentation to my 
city council next week.

> I tried MagicPoint with some recent samples from the mgp 
> website and within my old BL1 install (with X ver. 3.3.2). 
> Everything worked fine except the %area tag. 

I don't know that tag.  It must be from a later version of
magicpoint.

> I wonder whether it is necessary, you probably have omitted 
> it in order to strip down the binary?

BL3 has version 1.07a of mgp (which is significantly smaller 
than the current version).  I did try compiling the current 
version for libc5 but it failed.

BTW, BL3 includes just one scaleable font for magicpoint to use:
-bitstream-charter-bold-r (c0632bt_.pfb).  It works fine but the 
letters are a little jagged.  For my own presentations, I use a 
more solid font:  -b&h-LuxiSans-bold-r (l048016t.pfa).  Let me
know if you would like me to put it in the BL3 add-ons.

I put the charter font in BL3 instead of the LuxiSans because 
the charter font file is less than half the size of the LuxiSans.

Cheers,
Steven