keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) (08/23/90)
Greetings unto the net!
Well, the subject line about says it all... Just how easy would it be to
port fonts and BMPs from OS2 1.2 to Windows 3.0?
John Keating, III
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/* keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu * "We're off to outer space..." */ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) (08/23/90)
In article <368@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes: > Just how easy would it be to >port fonts and BMPs from OS2 1.2 to Windows 3.0? > The latest (September 11th) issue of PC Magazine has an article by Charles Petzold on exactly this. I think the answer is basically that Win 3 structure is an expansion of OS/2 1.2 so should be easy to convert. Alan Ballard | Internet: ballard@staff.ucs.ubc.ca University Computing Services | Bitnet: USERAB1@UBCMTSG University of British Columbia | Phone: 604-228-3074 Vancouver B.C. Canada V6R 1W5 | Fax: 604-228-5116
rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (08/24/90)
In article <368@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes: >Greetings unto the net! > Well, the subject line about says it all... Just how easy would it be to >port fonts and BMPs from OS2 1.2 to Windows 3.0? > John Keating, III >/* ...!uunet!mimsy!casemo!keating * */ >/* keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu * "We're off to outer space..." */ Petzold's last column in _PC Magazine_ (Sep 11,Vol 9 no 15 ) contained the first in a multi-part series on Bitmaps. It discusses OS/2 1.x, OS/2 2.0, Windows 2.x, and Windows 3.0. Future issues should have code to deal with these different types of bitmaps. I don't know much about OS/2's Font structure so I do not know the answer to that part of the question. Petzold has covered OS/2 fonts in some previous issues of _PC Magazine_. Hope this helps. -----Dale Rogerson-----
roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt) (08/24/90)
In article <368@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes: > Well, the subject line about says it all... Just how easy would it be to >port fonts and BMPs from OS2 1.2 to Windows 3.0? The Environments column of the current (11 Sep) issue of PC Magazine has a very complete description of the various bitmap formats, going all the way back to Windows 1.0. See pp. 403ff. You may decide the portability question yourself....
kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) (08/26/90)
Windows should be able to directly read OS2 1.2 images. Give it a try with Paintbrush. Paintbrush will only save Win3 format images though so be careful! I don't think you can use OS/2 1.2 fonts but could be mistaken... Ken Sykes Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.
gregh@microsoft.UUCP (Greg HITCHCOCK) (08/30/90)
In article <368@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes: >Greetings unto the net! > > Well, the subject line about says it all... Just how easy would it be to >port fonts and BMPs from OS2 1.2 to Windows 3.0? > Since no one else has addressed the fonts question, here is a quick answer. There are two types of fonts supported by OS/2 1.2; bitmap fonts and outline fonts. The outline fonts supported by OS/2 are very different than the stroke fonts supported by Windows. OS/2 outlines contain a set of graphics primitives which define a closed path. This path is then filled to display the current character. Windows stroke fonts contain stick figure lines which are not filled. Bitmap fonts are very similar between OS/2 1.2 and Windows, but not exactly the same. The Font Editor which is provided with the OS/2 SDK will convert Windows version 1 fonts to OS/2 fonts. This is an unfortunate way of converting fonts, as there are few Windows version 1 fonts floating around, but there are versions of the Windows font editor which can convert version 2 to version 1 fonts. Overall, the "raw" fonts that are supplied with Windows and OS/2 1.2 are not interchangable. Greg Hitchcock