Tool for creating .fnt files?

[Jonathan Belson]

Hiya


Is there a tool for creating the .fnt files that syscons uses? They
appear to be uuencoded binary files but I can't find out any info on
the file format.

Cheers,


--Jon

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Post by Jonathan Belson
Hiya
Is there a tool for creating the .fnt files that syscons uses? They
appear to be uuencoded binary files but I can't find out any info on
the file format.

It's a raw bit-map font, this is from iso-8x14:

Hex Binary
18 00011000
3c 00111100
3c 00111100
3c 00111100
18 00011000
18 00011000
00 00000000
18 00011000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000

66 01100110
66 01100110
66 01100110
24 00100100
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000
00 00000000

[Dan Nelson]

Post by Jonathan Belson
Is there a tool for creating the .fnt files that syscons uses? They
appear to be uuencoded binary files but I can't find out any info on
the file format.

They're only uuencoded for easy storage in CVS. Vidcontrol can take
regular raw 8xN font bitmap files as well. I use an old DOS program
called Font Mania, and there are hundreds of VGA fonts available for
download at Simtel.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/vga/
http://www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/screen/