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From: Robert_Swan@scee.net (Robert Swan)
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Subject: Re: fonts
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:01:35 GMT
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:24:58 +0100, "jack" <298jh@tay.ac.uk> wrote:

>I have searched the news groups and web sight and found very little in
>regard to fonts. Could you please clarify a couple of things for me. I use
>fontload to load the standard font into the vram. Am I correct in believing
>that this is the 7segfont tim file on the boot disk. If it is how do I get
>at the other types that are present in the file.
>I have opened the tim and it contains italics and capital but I cannot
>access these.
>Are there some commands that would allow this.

dunno - you could change it on a frame by frame basis by moving the
tim around :) (same theory as in overwriting your own). It wouldnt
surprise me if there were more hidden codes in FntPrint like the one
to colour the text.

>Also I have written a sprite loading routine which I use for my own fonts
>and was wondering, would it be possible to replace the font tim with my own
>and use the fontprint funct to print my own fonts to the screen.
>The 7segfont tim seems to use a mix of 16*16 and 16*8 and 8*8 pixel sprites
>for the fonts, is this a special format and if so what are the
>specifications.

Off the top of my head - yes you can just place your tim over the old
one prviding it matches all the required info. Ie - characters are
same size - characters are in the same order - characters use same bit
depth (Is it only 1 bit?) - clut in the same place etc.

I could well be wrong about it being 1 bit

Rob

Disclaimer:
Anything I say has no direct relation 
to where I work (Sony), is not an official 
voice of where I work (Sony) and Sony 
doesn't even exist as far as I'm concerned.