From: Jose Manuel Lopez-Cepero <sigma AT ctv DOT es>
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Subject: Re: HLP: Big Fonts (Allegro)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:23:25 +0200
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Hello Paul,

Paul Schmidt wrote:

> How do you display fonts that are bigger than the 8x8 ROM set?
> I want to add the title of my program to the top of the screen in a font
> bigger than the 8x8 ROM set (mode 13h) using Allegro.  How do I do this?
> 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

I haven't tested your program (lack o' time :-)) but it is not really
difficult. You should load the font (from a datafile), suppose the
datafile is k and the font id is THE_FONT, you should come out with
something like:

outtext (screen, k[THE_FONT].dat, x, y, "Whatever");

Note I can't expect it to be right, I can't remember the exact syntax
(:-), but this is the way the font parameter has to be passed.

Where to get fonts from? Have a look at TTF2PCX, a W95/3.1 program which
renders TTF fonts to a format you can import with the grabber. It is on
Shawn's page.

Bye
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