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Article #7345Re: BGI fonts
From: Frank van der Hulst
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 08:53
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 08:53
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In article <6146@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> spee@jrdc.go.jp writes: >I found the fonts in the BGI Toolkit to be of disappointing quality. >Does anyone known any other sources of BGI fonts. Is it possible to >convert TeX fonts to BGI fonts? Have you come across a package put out by Borland including their font editor (I can't recall the package name right now). It includes several fonts, although I couldn't get the editor itself to work (the files created weren't readable by TC). It also includes information on the font file layout.. > >Is it possible to use user created bitmap fonts with Turbo C? Is it >possible to use other than the system font with the ZINC library? I dunno about bit-mappedv:,rDbut you can create your own stroked fonts. I've never heard of a ZINC library -- what is it? -- Take a walk on the wild side, and I don't mean the Milford Track.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cavebbs!frank From: frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.fonts Subject: Re: BGI fonts Keywords: BGI fonts, TeX fonts, Zinc Library Message-ID: <1991Feb08.085340.28651@cavebbs.gen.nz> Date: 8 Feb 91 08:53:40 GMT References: <6146@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ Lines: 23