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Editing bitmap fonts
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Work done:
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1) When creating a bitmap font, an encoding file may be specified. This file will be used to
choose which characters from the outline font get put where in the bitmap font. The encoding
name is simply typed into the dialogue box, either as a full path name or a leaf name
to be sought under Font:Encodings. (hence you can normally just type Latin1).
2) When loading a bitmap font, the editor attempts to determine its encoding according to
the same rule as the Font Manager, viz: determine the name of the immediate parent directory
and look for an identically-named encoding file (in Font:Encodings.) Hence, when saving a bitmap
font, you should put it in an appropriately-named subdirectory of the font directory. The metrics
file will be sought in the main font directory as usual.
3) When editing a bitmap character you can now alter its size. To implement this
sanely, a feature was sacrificed: the size of the bitmap is no longer automatically
updated if you change the corresponding outline character.
4) A couple of old bugs have been noted, but not yet investigated.