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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Font-altering program?
Keywords: font,ibm
Message-ID: <13968@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 21 Sep 90 16:10:55 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.043424.12529@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Sep20.155403.24887@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Sep20.155403.24887@midway.uchicago.edu> cjdb@ellis.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
>In article <1990Sep10.043424.12529@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>>[...]
>>	2) Is there a program I can get somewhere that will allow me to alter
>>the video fonts?  i.e. to actually change what a given character will look
>>like.
>
>Buy a Hercules Graphics Card Plus (Incolor version also available).
>Under $200. Then you can redraw the fonts any way you like with the
>font editor provided.
>

Or if you already have an EGA or VGA monitor you could try FONTEDIT produced
by Ziff Comunications Inc., PC Magizine, and Micheal Mefford.  It lets you
modify the Text fonts and generates a small com file to load the new fonts
for you.  Very nice program (though I haven't found a lot of use for it :-)

It should be available on simtel or I picked it up from c.b.i.p (I can't 
remember which).  The only problem with it is that I don't think it will
support CGA or Hercules cards (but does anybody still have a CGA monitor
besides me?)


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