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- Editing bitmap fonts
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- Work done:
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- 1) When creating a bitmap font, an encoding file may be specified. This file will be used to
- choose which characters from the outline font get put where in the bitmap font. The encoding
- name is simply typed into the dialogue box, either as a full path name or a leaf name
- to be sought under Font:Encodings. (hence you can normally just type Latin1).
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- 2) When loading a bitmap font, the editor attempts to determine its encoding according to
- the same rule as the Font Manager, viz: determine the name of the immediate parent directory
- and look for an identically-named encoding file (in Font:Encodings.) Hence, when saving a bitmap
- font, you should put it in an appropriately-named subdirectory of the font directory. The metrics
- file will be sought in the main font directory as usual.
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- 3) When editing a bitmap character you can now alter its size. To implement this
- sanely, a feature was sacrificed: the size of the bitmap is no longer automatically
- updated if you change the corresponding outline character.
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- 4) A couple of old bugs have been noted, but not yet investigated.
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