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- FONTED Overview
- ===============
-
- FONTED is a very flexible font editor for LQ printer download fonts.
-
- It is copyright
- Burkhard Meißner, Friedheim 86, D-2390 Flensburg, West-Germany
-
- FONTED Documentation
- ====================
-
- If you are an English-speaking user, please read the file FONTED.DOC to
- get informed about the features and commands of FONTED.
-
- Wenn Sie ein deutscher Benutzer sind, lesen Sie bitte FONTED.GER, um
- sich über Eigenschaften, Leistungen und Funktionsweise des Programms zu
- unterrichten. Als deutscher Benutzer sollten Sie die Datei FONTHELP.GER
- in FONTED.HLP umbenennen:
-
- REN FONTED.HLP FONTHELP.ANG
- REN FONTHELP.GER FONTED.HLP
-
- Die batch-Datei GERMAN.BAT vollführt dies automatisch.
-
- Sie haben dann einen deutschen HILFEtext innerhalb von FONTED zur
- Verfügung.
-
- Testing FONTED
- ==============
-
- To test the compliance of this software with the peculiarities of your
- particular computer hardware, switch on your 24 pin printhead printer,
- put this disk in drive a: and switch to the FONTTEST sub directory:
-
- CD A:\FONTTEST
-
- Call fonttest.bat by entering
-
- FONTTEST
-
- This batch process copies a few files to your printer - be patient:
- Copying long binary font files to the printer's memory may take some
- time. After all you should get a printout with mixed Greek and Latin
- characters, with a quotation from Aristotle.
-
- The batch file EXAMPLE.BAT contains example DOS commands for a FONTED
- call that reads one of the sample font files from the sub directory
- \fonts.
-
- CHARCONV Font converter
- =======================
-
- In addition to the font editor proper, you will find a utility program
- CHARCONV that converts a FONTED binary font file to an assembly language
- source program, which can be fed directly into an assembler to produce a
- self-loading .COM program from the font. Thus, you can distribute your
- fonts more freely. They also load slightly faster. The resulting font
- "programs" set the errorlevel automatically, if the printer was
- off-line: This helps building more powerful batch files. To use this
- program, you will need an assembler, linker and a program to convert an
- .EXE file to a .COM file (EXE2BIN).
-
-
- FONTCONV Font converter
- =======================
-
- There is also a conversion program that helps using FONTED to write
- screen fonts. Basically. it is a filter program that reads a FONTED
- font and writes a segment to file in assembly language format that can
- be included in an assembly language program to build a font loading
- routine for the screen memory or a graphics display routine. You can
- extract any size area from the font's characters, starting from the
- upper left corner; you can also choose larger areas in both directions
- (y/x). FONTCONV will eventually pad out missing rows or columns. To
- build screen fonts that correspond to your printer fonts, two new FONTED
- commands are especialy suited (ALT-S/ALT-X). Alternatively, you can
- write a font file directly to disk, if you don't want to use an
- assembler. Invoke FONTCONV with the /A parameter. To alter the default
- character size (y:16 x:8), use /y=n or /x=n (without spaces!). Padding
- and extraction are automatic, you can convert 24 pin printer characters
- to any size. x-sizes are padded to multiples of 8. See FONTED.DOC for
- details.
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