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COMPILE: SPITBOL COLLECT /NE /NS /NL /S=13 /B=20;
COLLECT makes it easy to select characters from different download
font and to write it to one character set file. You need not go through
all the hassle, described in the FONTED.DOC files, once you have mastered
this little utility.
Basically, it is very similyr in its operation to SELECT, but it works on
download printer font files (.BIN in our examples).
It reads a .SCR file, as SELECT does, but the structure of this file is
different from SELECT.SCR.
The following rules apply:
- The first line in the COLLECT.SCR file MUST give type information
on the font to be assembled. The format of this information is identical
to that in FONTED.CNF, so you can copy the line, describing the type of
font that you are creating.
- Empty lines or lines, starting with an asterisk are ignored
- Valid selection command lines consist of three fields (in sequence),
separated by an arbitrary number of blanks:
the decimal ASCII code of the character in the new file
path and file names of the file, where to take it from
the decimal ASCII value of the character, under which the character pattern
is stored in the file.
Supposed, you want to extract three characters from different files into a new
character set, called 'new.bin' (elite characters)
First, write a file (or copy it from a stock of such files) COLLECT.SCR.
Make sure, the first line of the file defines the type of the font correct-
ly (elite in our example). Your first line should then read:
EL=27 120 1 27 77=26=30
* Definition for ELite printing (12 characters per inch)
Now add the selection commands. In our example, they might read:
12 C:\TEXTS\GENERAL\FONTED\FONTS\GREEK.BIN 99
13 C:\TEXTS\GENERAL\FONTED\FONTS\SANSERIF.BIN 85
14 C:\TEXTS\GENERAL\FONTED\FONTS\UNCIAL.BIN 85
You need not format the line.
Now save your COLLECT.SCR script file, and run the program. Make sure, the program,
the script file and all font reside in the correct directories, and type
COLLECT new.bin
As a result, you should get a new font file that you should load into
FONTED, to see, if everything has worked correctly.
With COLLECT, you can keep batch files that assemble new fonts from smaller
peaces. This is especially useful, if you use the same characters in different
character sets. Instead of editing them all over, use a strategy that
resembles the MAKE process, familiar to C programmers.
Burkhard Meißner
Friedheim 86 Ringstraße 23
2390 Flensburg 8521 Spardorf
West-Germany West-Germany
tel.:
0049-461-30315 0049-9131-57651