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Article #36959GDOS font format and more fonts questions
From: Chris Jones
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 04:35
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 04:35
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Can someone describe the GDOS font file format (a C header file would probably be great)? Unless I'm missing it in the documentation available to me (MWC 2.0.1, Sozobon C, Abacus GEM and Internals, and ProGEM), my only references to this documentation say to look in "the VDI manual", which I assume is part of the Atari developer's kit. (If I'm missing it, a pointer to read chapter such-and-such would do.) Several random related points. What I'm trying to do is add characters to the font files shipped with Timeworks DTP. Since the characters I'm most interested in are Spanish alphabet characters, I don't think I'd have a problem contorting existing characters into the appropriate format given I knew what the format is. I'm correct, right, in believing these characters aren't available in the distributed fonts. Also, I've seen references in STart and other places praising G+Plus. Does anyone have a quick review of this? I understand it's faster than GDOS (does it have higher quality (i.e. fewer bugs and/or increased performance)?), though I don't find GDOS's speed to be real annoying (I don't use a lot of graphics in DTP, which I understand is a big part of the problem). Also, how much should I want to get Fontz, given that increasing my supply of fonts is a desire, but I won't steal them (I have access to Macintoshes, so if there are good PD fonts available for them, that's a plus).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ksr.UUCP!clj From: clj@ksr.UUCP (Chris Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: GDOS font format and more fonts questions Message-ID: <8903090435.AA21221@dudley-doright.ksr.com> Date: 9 Mar 89 04:35:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22