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

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:48:53PM +1300, Morgan Jones wrote:
> >> 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.

No I can't open it nor can I find a converter. In what other formats
can TypeSmith save?

> >> > 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.

        Raimar

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