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	Available CJK bitmap font packages
		Bitmap fonts can be used with the X11 core font system as well as with Xft/fontconfig.
		But currently only fonts with iso8859-1 and iso10646-1 encoding can be used by Xft/fontconfig, i.e.
		The glyphs in these fonts are designed according to Japanese preferences.
	www.suse.de /~mfabian/suse-cjk/avaible-x11-bitmap-fonts.html (117 words)

	Bitmap Font Writer
		Bitmap Font Writer is a free program that let you draw text using a font where each character is drawn in a bitmap file.
		By arranging your font in ASCII order and put markers to define the width of each character you may load the image into Bitmap Font Writer which the combines the characters for you.
		Bitmap Font Writer was awarded with "The Most Popular" award by the editors at Softpile.
	www.stefan-pettersson.nu /site/bmpfont (186 words)

	Emigre Font Design Information: Lo-Res
		The number in each Lo-Res font name indicates the number of pixels in its body, or ppem ("pixels per em".) On a standard Macintosh display, this is equal to the point size; under Windows the point size will appear reduced by approximately 75% on a 96 dpi display.
		In contrast, a bitmap font is designed to be optimized for a specific resolution; that is, a specific number of pixels relative to it's body.
		Both are abbreviations: Bitmap = "map of bits" (A bit being the smallest element on the map or grid.) Pixel = "picture element" (A pixel being the smallest element in a picture that is constrained by a grid.) Bitmap typefaces are composed of pixels.
	www.emigre.com /EFfeature.php?di=101 (1399 words)

	Bitmap Font Edit by zac-interactive - Review and download
		The Bitmap Font Edit will allow you to easily generate bitmap font that you can use for games, tools and other software that would require the use of bitmap font instead of using true type.
		Almost all effects can be applied to individual character or the entire font at the same time.
		Burnett Fonts TT 1.31C - Rubicon Burnett Fonts v1.31c.
	www.freedownloadmanager.org /downloads/Bitmap_Font_Edit_20340_p (205 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About Fonts - Glossary
		On low-resolution bitmap devices (where ragged, ugly characters are the norm) which support more than two colors, it is possible to provide the appearance of higher resolution with anti-aliasing.
		In a bitmapped font, every character is represented as a pattern of dots in a bitmap.
		A softfont is a bitmapped or scalable description of a typeface or font.
	nwalsh.com /comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_18.htm (1216 words)

	r_harvey - Font Design
		The font is the problem, since Courier was designed to look like an IBM Selectric typewriter of the 1970s, with eighty characters per line and six lines per inch, not to look good on the screen.
		Bitmap fonts at the same point size as scalable fonts are larger and easier to read.
		Bitmap fonts are surprisingly inexpensive and quick to create, and as easy to use as the fonts that came with Windows.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/r_harvey/fonts.htm (3650 words)

	Bitmap Location Table
		If a bitmap is included in the font, it also tells where the data is located in the bitmap data table.
		As Newton fonts are bitmap only, it goes without saying that embedded bitmaps intended for use with the Newton OS must contain one bitmap glyphs for every glyphs in the font.
		Actual editing of the bitmap glyphs in a TrueType font and their associated metrics is possible with Sbit Editor.
	developer.apple.com /fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6bloc.html (1723 words)

	Code : Scaleable Text Using Bitmap Font Control :. GarageGames
		Instead of using torque's font system, the control loads the font from the bitmap you give it.
		The only way you are going to get rid of that is by choosing a different version of the font bitmap depending on what resolution you are drawing to (double the resolution, double the font size, increase the resolution by 50%, better hope your font has an even number of pixels).
		Then I change the font code to select a scaled version of the font (a different font size) so that in the end the font bitmap is drawn to the screen with no stretching.
	www.garagegames.com /index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=7701 (1302 words)

	::uberGeek::Code::Bitmap Font Tools()
		There are two parts, the Flash Bitmap Font Writer(a Java executable) and the Bitmap Font Engine(a Flash MX movie clip).
		Also, bitmap fonts allow you to use many colors in a font, instead of being limited to one.
		And so, considering how many bitmap fonts are still in use by games, how many are freely available, and how I haven't seen any bitmap font resources for flash, I thought it would be a good idea to create a couple bitmap font tools, not only for myself, but for the gaming and flash community.
	www.ubergeek.tv /article.php?pid=2 (479 words)

	Font formats overview, TTF font file format, truetype file format, raster font format, bitmap font format fon, ...
		In raster fonts, a glyph is a bitmap that Windows uses to draw a single character or symbol in the font.
		In vector fonts, a glyph is a collection of line endpoints that define the line segments Windows uses to draw a character or symbol in the font.
		Because the bitmaps for each glyph in a raster font are designed for a specific resolution of device, raster fonts are generally considered to be device dependent.
	www.styopkin.com /articles/font_formats_overview.html (726 words)

	The TrueType Font File
		Apple makes a distinction between a "TrueType font" (which refers to a particular font outline definition technology) and an "sfnt-housed font," which refers to any font which uses the same packaging format as a TrueType font: that is, it uses the same directory structure and the same table format and meaning for any tables present.
		The font directory, the first of the tables, is a guide to the contents of the font file.
		OFA allows different font scalers to wrap different font formats within the basic structure of a TrueType font; the scaler type in the offset subtable of the font's directory is used to indicate which scaler should be used with a particular font.
	developer.apple.com /textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6.html (1409 words)

	FastFont Bitmap Font Generator (FBM)
		The FastFont to Bitmap Font Generator (FBM.EXE) is provided for those developers that just want a quick way to generate HP PCL soft fonts for distribution with their applications.
		The FastFont Bitmap Font Generator (FBM) and Typeface Library comes with 7 typeface families that may be used to create user-defined download bitmap fonts in various HP LaserJet and DeskJet formats.
		Bitmap font editing is often necessary for lower resolution and/or small point size fonts to fine tune screen fonts.
	www.alltype.biz /profbm.php (481 words)

	Generate Font Dialog
		Apple allows bitmaps to be stored within a truetype file (sfnt) even if there is no outline font.
		X11 bitmap only sfnt (otb) -- this is the new X11 bitmap format with bitmaps embedded in an sfnt wrapper (an opentype or truetype font) but with no outline data.
		Postscript fonts are generated in whatever encoding the font is using (except if you take a two byte encoding and generate a Type1 font (rather than a Type0) then only the first few (256) glyphs will be encoded).
	fontforge.sourceforge.net /generate.html (2369 words)

	Macintosh Guide: CA Procedures: Installing/Removing Fonts
		Bitmapped characters on the screen were not printed as they were displayed, but the characters they represented were sent to the LaserWriter, which printed them out using PostScript fonts stored in it's ROMs.
		If a font was displayed in a size for which there was a bitmapped font, ATM used the font bitmap (because it assumed that the bitmap would look better than the outline).
		Bitmapped fonts (also referred to as "screen fonts") can exist as single files, or they can be grouped together into a suitcase.
	www.yale.edu /acsca/macguide/Procedures/Fonts.html (1106 words)

	Font Matcher - by InFeRnØ
		Font Matcher uses 200x200 pixels bitmaps in Windows format (.BMP), in any color depth from 1 to 8 bits (B/W to 256 Grayscale).
		The letter to be recognised MUST be fl (and I mean 100% fl, althought antialiased edges are fully supported), and background MUST be white (again, 100% white, since Font Matcher scans the white areas of the bitmap to find the bounding box for that particular letter).
		Font Matcher stresses Windows to the top by installing/desinstaling fonts at high rates.
	www.terra.es /personal/infern0 (802 words)

	Fontlab Typographic Tools - font editors and converters - FONmaker
		You can convert existing outline and bitmap fonts into Windows screen fonts, Windows font resources, HP Soft Fonts, and BDF font files with it.
		Font Converter - take Adobe Type 1 and TrueType fonts and convert them to bitmap (FON, FNT, BDF, SFL, or SFP) fonts at whatever size you want.
		Font Families - You can create as many different sizes and variations of a font as you want.
	www.fontlab.com /font-converter/fonmaker (249 words)

	Fixed Bitmap Font C++ Class Source Code for DirectX Game Library
		The bitmap should contain each character of the font in a vertical column, starting with the space character.
		The reason this font bitmap format exists is because there is a very easy way to create it.
		If a CK_FixedBitmapFont is created from a bitmap, the bitmap should not be deleted as long as the font is in use.
	www.chilkatsoft.com /ChilkatDx/ck_fixedBitmapFont.htm (387 words)

	AngelCode.com - game development and more...
		Thanks to other developers though, there are already a few tutorials available that shows how to load a bitmap font generated by BMFont and render text with it.
		Quick tutorial: Variable width bitmap fonts by Promit
		Font smoothing is now done without ClearType, so that artifacts are no longer generated in the output texture.
	www.angelcode.com /products/bmfont (744 words)

	Font utilities
		To fit outlines to the characters in a bitmap font, run Limn (see section 10.
		As you get closer to a finished font, you may want to prepare a CCC file (see section 11.4 CCC files) to tell BZRto how construct composite characters (pre-accented `A's, for example) to complete the font.
		Given the font in Metafont form, you can then either make the font at its true size for some device, or make an enlarged version to examine the characters closely.
	www.delorie.com /gnu/docs/fontutils/fontu_9.html (871 words)

	Guru's Lair: Precision Bitmap Font Repository
		at very low font sizes or for use with lower resolution bitmaps.
		Fonts are presented as PostScript arrays that can be used with
		Meanwhile, you can sponsor any number of complete bitmap fonts.
	www.tinaja.com /bmfont01.asp (308 words)

	Outline and bitmap fonts compared
		In principle, given adequate resolution, the screen preview quality of documents set in bitmap fonts, and set in outline fonts, should be comparable, since the outline fonts have to be rasterized dynamically anyway for use on a printer or a display screen.
		The outline fonts are Bigelow and Holmes LucidaBright, LucidaBright-Demi, LucidaBright-Italic, LucidaBright-Oblique, LucidaNewMath-AltItalic, LucidaNewMath-Arrows, LucidaNewMath-Symbol, LucidaSans, LucidaSans-Demi, and LucidaSans-Typewriter from YandY.
		Otherwise, the font is assumed to be printer-resident (or else, to be supplied later by the printer driver, although that practice is uncommon on UNIX systems, and also, makes the PostScript file useless elsewhere).
	www.math.utah.edu /~beebe/fonts/outline-vs-bitmap-fonts.html (1299 words)

	Fonts & Things - TOOLS - Font Creation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fontographer's fast rendering lets you design, edit, and manipulate fonts in a variety of editing windows and generate fonts for use on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.
		Font Creator puts font creation within the grasp of the average PC user, typographers and graphic designers.
		Supported bitmap font formats are at present Windows FON and FNT, and LaserJet SFP and SFL soft fonts.
	www.fontsnthings.com /tools/creation.shtml (820 words)

	OpenGL Features Articles and Tips
		Bitmap fonts are ideally suited for scale and rotation-independent labeling of items within a scene.
		Since bitmap fonts are by nature pre-rasterized, they render very quickly, making them a good choice where speed is important.
		Thus you will experience the usual problem of bitmaps disappearing when the raster pos is outside the view volume (even though the rest of the bitmap is inside the view volume).
	www.opengl.org /resources/features/fontsurvey (1045 words)

	Fonts - Bitmap Font Manager for PSP
		Fonts is an unimaginatively-named bitmap font manager for the PlayStation portable.
		Font metrics describe the dimensions of individual characters and the font as a whole.
		There are several terms used to describe a font metrics, but Fonts is designed to be easy to use, so you only need to understand a couple of the terms.
	captaindan.org /sw/psplibrary/docs/fonts.html (508 words)

	Definition of Bitmap font (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A bitmap font is one that stores each glyph as an array of pixels (that is, a bitmap).
		Bitmap fonts look best at their native pixel size.
		A "trace" program can follow the outline of a high-resolution bitmap font and create an initial outline that a font designer uses to create an outline font useful in systems such as PostScript or TrueType.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Bitmap_font (223 words)

	Font Formats for the Macintosh : MyFonts
		Fonts for the Macintosh are almost universally available in PostScript Type 1 format and commonly available in TrueType format.
		A PostScript Type 1 font uses a font suitcase and also requires one or more corresponding printer outlines, which are in the same folder as the font suitcase.
		A TrueType font is easier to install, because it will work without needing ATM on all versions of Mac OS and there is only one file to worry about (each PostScript font has two).
	www.myfonts.com /support/help_formats_mac.html (604 words)

	Bitmap Font
		DynaLab supplies a whole range of bitmap sizes starting as small as 8x8 to 16x16 which are typical for use with small LCD display and other larger sizes for monitor screen.
		Bitmap font samples are make available here for download for quality evaluation or testing with your system.
		A bitmap font viewer is also provided for your convenience to scrutinize the quality on a DOS prompt.
	www.dynalab.com.hk /eng/products/bitmapfont.html (205 words)

	Font Stuff from codeman38
		Seriously, though, this is one of the variations of that ubiquitous screen font used in numerous console and arcade games of the '80s (and still used, to a lesser extent, even today).
		The characters in the font are actually derived from screen captures of various Namco games' character sets found at this web site in Japan; specifically, I used the character sets from "Gaplus" and, to a lesser extent, "Legend of the Valkyrie".
		Yes, this is the font used in the console mode of myriad old computers; indeed, it can be found buried within the ROMs of video cards even today, but so few programs call upon it anymore (and with good reason, considering the much higher resolutions available!) that it's been more or less forgotten...
	www.zone38.net /font (925 words)

	XNA Diaries : Creating Bitmap Fonts using bmfontgen
		A bitmap font consists of one or more images plus an XML descriptor file which identifies the location of each glyph in the bitmap images along with additional font metric data.
		These bitmap fonts can be useful in game development where one cannot assume that the game platform provides a font renderer.
		Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are somewhat more challenging to generate because of the large number of glyphs present in those fonts.
	blogs.msdn.com /garykac/articles/732007.aspx (3581 words)

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