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FONTED Overview
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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
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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.