chris@gistdev.UUCP (Chris LaReau) (10/25/89)
We are looking for a good bitmapped font-handling library. We could write
it ourselves but would rather save some time and money. We want:
* Works under DOS
* Works under AT&T Unix V/386 2.0 would be nice, but I think
that's a fantasy.
* Fast, efficient support of variable width fonts of reasonably
arbitrary character size.
* Support for X (bdf/snf) font files would be a major plus.
(Source for a DOS X server would work nicely)
* Support for many EGA/VGA cards would also be a major plus.
* No royalties.
* Source code MUST be available. (80x86 assembly strongly preferred)
* Public domain or commercial stuff is fine.
The packages I have seen advertised include:
Essential Graphics South Mountain Software
Font-Tools Ithaca Street Software
GSS Graphics Development Toolkits Graphic Software Systems
HALO Media Cybernetics
MetaWINDOW/FontWINDOW Metagraphics Software Corp.
PCX Text Genus Microprogramming
Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with any of these products? Are there
other packages out there that might do what we want? Please reply by mail,
commercial responses welcome too. Will summarize to the net if sufficient
interest. Please direct any followup posts to comp.sys.ibm.pc.
Thanks much in advance. Good day.
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Chris LaReau, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165
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