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BitFontEdit a SOFT-FONT EDITOR (BITMAP) FOR DUMB TERMINALS

David Lawyer

v. 3.1d, July 1997


This software helps you draw (create) your own bit-mapped font for VT220+ and Wyse terminals (or other terminals which can emulate them). In the future it may be extended to generate font for printers. You draw the characters as *'s in a text file using any editor or word processor. Then this program scans these drawings and converts them to the soft-font code needed for downloading to terminals or printers. You will likely need to do a small amount of "programming" in a printer/terminal language to load your soft-font. Another program converts soft-font to a drawing with *'s.

1. INTRODUCTION

2. TERMINALS, MONITORS, & FONT

3. GETTING & UTILIZING SOFT-FONT

4. DRAWING THE CHARACTERS in a PATTERN FILE

5. THE pat2sf PROGRAM

6. CREATE A PATTERN FILE FROM SOFT-FONT: sf2pat


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