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From: mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah)
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Subject: Re: .FNT file format?
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Date: 27 Feb 91 20:16:18 GMT
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>>Does someone know the file format of a .fnt file (ie, the file used by the
>>SDK font editor)? I would really appreciate if someone can provide this
>>information to me or point me to any source that might have this information.
>
>I asked the same question a couple months ago and received no response. Since
>that time, a fellow worker pointed out to me that the .fnt file format is in
>the MS Windows 2.0 SDK (p.639f to be exact). It's too long to reproduce here.
>I hope you can find a copy of it.  
>
>By the way, I have not yet tried to use this information. I'm assuming that
>the 3.0 format is the same (of course, you know that this assuming is a
>dangerous business.)

Because it boiled down to the choice of whether the SDK 2.11 manuals or I
can inhabitate my dorm room, I no longer have the SDK 2.11 docs (I do have
the diskettes though...). Anyway, I noticed that when you go to save a file
in Font Editor (from SDK 3.0), it asks whether you want to save as 2.0 format
or 3.0 format. Moreover, I had the atrm1111.fnt file from SDK 2.11, and 
Font Editor said that the file was in an unknown format. So, I assume that
2.0 .fnt files have a different format. 

Right now, I am trying to use norton's disk file viewer to piece together the
format of a .fnt file - and getting nowhere very quickly. So, does someone have
the answer? Please?

Thanks!

Milan
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