[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7127) [FS] Screen design

["Morgan Jones" <morgan.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >

>> I have TypeSmith but it can't load or save .FON files :-(
> 
>> It can save .abf files (Adobe/Postscript bitmap fonts) though.  Is
>> this format any use?
> 
> Could you convert an amiga bitmap font to this format and send it to
> me? I will try if the freetype library can read it.

Attached.  Incidentally the font (if you can view it) is one that I
made myself.  Let me know if you like it.  It's 12 pt bold and I have
a unbold version of it too.  I will shortly be trying it out in my
layouts. 

>> > Note that a font which we use should also contain at least latin1
>> > and also a lot of other characters.
>> 
>> All Amiga bitmap fonts use the ECMA-94 Latin1 International 8 bit
>> character set.  Support for other alphabets is done by using a
>> seperate font.
> 
> This is not so good.

There might be a way to access the extended character set as there is
for Truetype/Postscript fonts on the Amiga.  I'll look into it.

     -Morgan

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