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From: stelmack@sunrise.ec.usf.edu (Gregory Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Font file structure
Summary: A partial answer
Keywords: fonts structure
Message-ID: <34@sunrise.ec.usf.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 23:42:19 GMT
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Reply-To: stelmack@sunrise.UUCP (Gregory Stelmack (CS))
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In article <803@ki.UUCP> dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
>I've not seen a response to this request yet.  I also would like to know
>what the font file layout is as I'd like to design some of my own fonts.

Since no one responded to the earlier one, I'll throw in what small info
I have. "Amiga Graphics Inside & Out" by Abacus, p. 407 mentions that fonts
are stored in a packed array, as if each character were drawn next to each 
other in one long line, i.e. the resulting "bitmap" has a height equal to
the font height and a width equal to the sum of the widths of the individual
characters. Other than this, I have no info...

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