From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: HLP: Big Fonts (Allegro)
Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:59:34 +0100
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Paul Schmidt writes:
>How do you display fonts that are bigger than the 8x8 ROM set?

Look at examples/ex12.c. You want something along the lines of:

  DATAFILE *datafile = load_datafile("myfont.dat");
  textout(screen, datafile[BIG_FONT].dat, "Hello!", xpos, ypos, color);

If you don't like having to distribute the datafile along with your
program, use dat2s to convert it into code that can be linked directly
into your executable.

>If you want to see my program (I tried to use the font in example.dat in the
>\allegro\examples directory, but I couldn't get it to work right (I didn't
>like it too much either, but if I can get it to work, it'll do.) you can

There are lots of fonts in the LIBGRX distribution, which you can get
from the SimTel djgpp archives. Alternatively, on my web page there is a
program called TTF2PCX, that converts Windows TrueType fonts into PCX
files that can be read by Allegro.


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