From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro Fonts
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:39:07 +0000
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Steven Cook writes:
>Hi, I am writing some allegro code and don't like the default font, that
>is used.  Where can I find different fonts or information on how to create
>my own fonts.

The easiest approach is to use the grabber utility to insert fonts into
a datafile (look at examples/ex12 for a demo of how to do this). The
grabber can read GRX format .FNT files (there are a lot of these in the
GRX distribution), and from PCX images that have each character
surrounded by a box of color #255, which you can draw in a paint
program.

Alternatively, on my web page there is a win95 utility called ttf2pcx,
that converts TrueType fonts into PCX images which can be read by the
grabber.

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