- Version: 3.1.3, Aug. 1999
- Entered-date: 2006-01-13
- Description: This software, mostly written in the late 1980's, enables you to draw (create) your own bit-mapped font for VT220+ and most Wyse terminals (or other terminals which can emulate them). It doesn't not work on Linux consoles. By doing some more C-programming, it could be extended to generate font for printers and X-terminals. You draw the characters as *'s (pixels) in a text file using any editor or word processor. Then this program scans these "drawings" and converts them to the soft-font code needed for downloading to terminals. You will likely need to do a small amount of "programming" in a terminal language to install your soft-font. Another program converts soft-font to a drawing with *'s. The extensive documentation includes the details of font languages (for terminals) and how to install soft-font on terminals.
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/terminal
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/terminal/BitFontEdit-3.1.3.tar.gz (80k)
- 1.5k/
- Keywords: font editor terminal Wyse VT200 BitFontEdit bit-mapped
- Author: dave@lafn.org (David S. Lawyer)
- Maintained-by: dave@lafn.org (David S. Lawyer)
- http:/www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/comp/cyril-term/
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/support/TermFonts/
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/support/TermFonts//are ((Fileshere)
- Platforms: You may create font on any platform. Such font can be installed on most real dumb terminals but not on most terminal emulators or PC monitors.
- Copying-policy: GPL-like
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