c162-aa@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Class Account) (12/21/89)
Please pardon me if this is a terribly novice sort of question, but is there any easy way to generate the code for a bitmapped font? Yes, I have the Blue Book and have been through Program 21 until I am quite Blue myself, but it just seems like a whole lot of hassle to generate the hex for an entire font. I'm not posting this without first having tried some things on my own. I have typed in all of the Adobe code, and have generated my characters from the bitmap editor in X11r3. After that, it was a matter of writing a piece of C that takes the .xbm format and filters it into the pattern needed for a bitmap definition in PostScript, but it is rather time consuming going through all of this for a font that is rather grainy even still. (I am planning on upping the number of bits per character when I get around to it.) What I would really like to know is what other methods of generating a bitmap font are there? Is there some piece of shareware off in netland that will make this so much easier I'll have a font that really looks like my handwriting (hand printing, really) in no time at all? Any reasonable suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sean Welch welch@freezer.it.udel.edu (posted from the account of a generous friend)