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From: "Rogerio Mazakina" <dway AT designer DOT mailbr DOT com DOT br>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro question
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:47:41 -0300
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

If you dont worry about resolution you can use the 320x200
or you can use your own bitmap font.
or you can do as Manni wrote, use a datafile than
use the the default font name to load your 'big' font.

hope this help you.

Rogerio
http://dway.cjb.net
GPR - Game Programming Resources
Obs. My first game (demo) was releaded.
a simple slot game to beginers.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Almeida J." <almeidaj AT mail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Allegro question


> On 11 Jul 2001 19:47:03 GMT, Manni Heumann <manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
>
> >Don't know, whether you can enlarge the default font. The method
> >that I am using frequently may sound a little complicated, but
> >isn't:
> >Get TTF2PCX and use it to convert a Windows TTF to a pcx. Then
> >use the grabber and create a data file with a font. Grab pcx
> >into the font. From your programs, load the data file and the
> >new font.
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Manni
> >
> I've also wondered about this...
> Altough you presented a clean solution, other solutions presented in help
or doc
> files also store the font in a datafile.
> However, there must be, I think it was the post idea, an also clean
solution to
> store the user created font in a header file or creat it at runtime.
> Unfortunatly, I (also) don't know who that is done....
>