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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ttf reference (original: chris: decoding pcx headers)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:39:26 +0100
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Neil Goldberg writes:
> Shawn Hagreaves (Allegro author) has *source*/binaries to his program
> that rasterizes TTFs into PCX files. Win32 version:
> http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ttf2pcx/ttf2pcx.zip
> 
> Or email him about how/where he got info on intrepeting TTFs.

I didn't. TTF2PCX is a Windows program, so it can use the GDI
functions to draw each character and then just look at what
pixels this produced.

There is free code for handling TTF format fonts, but it is very
large and complex. Do a websearch for Freetype or AllegTTF.


	Shawn Hargreaves.