From: Neil Goldberg <ngoldber AT mitre DOT org>
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Subject: Re: decoding pcx header
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:38:59 +0100
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Chris Holmes wrote:
> 
> YUBS wrote:
> >
> > hey there, I'm having some trouble decoding the pcx header. I hunted down
> > the format and everything, but I still can't seem to be able to read the
> > dimensions of the image from the header. If anybody knows anywhere I could
> > get some info on doing this I'd really appreciate it. Basically, I've tried
> > reading it as a text file and as a binary file, and I've tried reading
> > character by character and through formatted input (ie using fscanf) but I
> > can't seem to get it to work. Anyway, thanks for any help you can offer.
> 
> struct PCXheader
> {
>         char pcxID;
>         char version;
>         char rleEncoding;
>         char bitsPerPixel;
>         int x1,y1;
>         int x2,y2;
>         int hRes;
>         int vRes;
>         unsigned char palette[48];
>         char reserved;
>         char colorPlanes;
>         int bytesPerLine;
>         int paletteType;
>         char unused[58];
> };
> 
>   width = x2- x1 +1;
>   height = y2 - y1 +1;
> 
>   I can send you the rest of my source code if you need it.  Now if
> someone has a jpeg reader, that's impressive <grin>.
> 
>   I wonder if anyone out there knows the structure to windows font
> files... I've been looking for them for awhile now.

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.
shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk

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