THE KARA COLLECTION CD-ROM
It took 10 years of hard work to create the superb art which is contained
on this CD-ROM. The Kara Collection includes all packages previously
published by Kara Computer Graphics for the Amiga, plus many more, in an
exclusive and professional edition reorganized and enhanced by Cloanto.
This CD-ROM contains 80 ColorFonts (including effects like brick, glass,
chrome, chisel, etc.), 5 AnimFonts (handwriting, rotating characters,
static wipes, sparkles, etc.), hundreds of alternate color palettes,
Starfields (moving stars seen from different perspectives), Plaquegrounds
(backgrounds such as granite, marble, sand-stone, wood, etc.), and
software for special effects in pictures, animations, titling and
presentations. All items for solo or combined use.
The Kara Collection also includes two software packages developed by
Cloanto to manage bitmapped fonts: ColorType for color fonts and the
Personal Fonts Maker for black and white fonts. Both have been acclaimed
as the best in their respective fields.
To make AnimFonts really easy and enjoyable to use, we created an ARexx
program for Personal Paint, which renders any string of characters into
animated text. As Kara says, "So long to the laborious task of placing
individual letters... This is the way AnimFonts were meant to be!!!"
AMINET VERSION
For this free release the contents of The Kara Collection CD-ROM has
been split in seven archives, grouped by contents:
- The Kara Collection: Docs
- The Kara Collection: ColorFonts
- The Kara Collection: AnimFonts
- The Kara Collection: Plaquegrounds
- The Kara Collection: StarFields
- The Kara Collection: Pictures
- The Kara Collection: Surprise
The CD-ROM version includes additional 200+ MB of data which it would
not have been practical to include in this online distribution. The
missing parts consist of:
- Plaquegrounds in 24-bit and 256-color IFF formats (the online
version includes 24-bit JPEG and 16-color IFF versions)
- Duplicates of Plaquegrounds organized by style (in the online
version they are grouped by material only)
- ColorFonts format conversions for Broadcast Titler by InnoVision
Technology, and PowerTitler and X-Titler by ClassX
- Cloanto Personal Paint, ColorType and Personal Fonts Maker
software (all titles are available as separate, free downloads)
- Personal Paint tutorial and example animations. These are also
available separately.
The "Surprise" archive includes a special item which has never been
released before.
INSTALLATION
The original CD-ROM included a complex installation program to install
different combinations of components, and even upgrade Personal Paint if
necessary. For this online distribution the different sets of data have
been isolated into directories that can easily be copied with the mouse.
The latest version of Personal Paint has in the meantime become freely
available. The original documentation also included hyperlinks to
executable programs on the CD, which in turn would launch some slideshows
and tutorials stored on the CD. While some of these links will not work
in this version (because for example the tutorial animations have been
split from this distribution), the "KaraCD.guide" launcher simulates
some of the Assign and other commands which were used on the CD-ROM
version, and is able to create on the fly a configuration able to run
most batch files linked to in the documentation.
The only two packages that require extra care during installation are
ColorFonts and AnimFonts, since they need to be automatically
accessible from other programs.
ColorFonts can be installed in the system "FONTS:" path. If they are
used only with Personal Paint, they can be installed inside
"PPaint:fonts". The Font requester of Personal Paint includes a button
which makes it easy to switch from the system fonts directory to the
local one. The following is a sample Shell installation for Personal
Paint:
Copy TKC_ColorFonts/Fonts PPaint:fonts ALL CLONE
Copy TKC_ColorFonts/Palettes PPaint:Colors ALL CLONE
While AnimFonts can be used with a variety of programs, as is explained
in detail in the documentation, Personal Paint includes a dedicated
Rexx script (AnimText.pprx) which makes it very easy to create
animated texts using AnimFonts. The script needs the .data files which
are provided with each AnimFont. The following procedure can be used to
install all AnimFonts for use in Personal Paint:
Copy TKC_AnimFonts/AnimBrushes PPaint:AnimBrushes/AnimFonts ALL CLONE
Copy TKC_AnimFonts/Fonts PPaint:fonts ALL CLONE
Copy TKC_AnimFonts/Palettes PPaint:Colors ALL CLONE
LEGAL NOTES
The individual files stored in The Kara Collection and the program
screens are Copyright © 1987-2000 Cloanto Italia srl (Cloanto), unless
otherwise indicated in the files or in the documentation archive
("TKC_Docs.lha"). Parts are licensed from third parties. The compilation
is Copyright © 1995, 1996, 2000 Cloanto.
This software is hereby licensed to you, the end user, for private,
non-commercial and non-profit use only.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. BY USING THE ARCHIVE AND
ITS CONTENTS, YOU ACCEPT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO ITS QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE. NEITHER CLOANTO NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN THE
CREATION, PRODUCTION OR DELIVERY OF THE ARCHIVE AND ITS CONTENTS SHALL BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS
OF USE OR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED COSTS, EXPENSES OR DAMAGES, AND ANY DATA OR
INFORMATION WHICH MAY BE LOST OR RENDERED INACCURATE, EVEN IF CLOANTO IS
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Publication or distribution of any part of this archive without the
prior written license from Cloanto constitutes acceptance of a licensing
contract and fee to be determined by Cloanto, at a cost in no case lower
than USD 10000.00, payable to Cloanto immediately upon publication or
distribution.
FOR IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK
AND OTHER LEGAL NOTES PLEASE REFER TO THE DOCUMENTATION FILES IN THE
"TKC_Docs.lha" ARCHIVE.
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