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HIERO.SFT is an 18 point proportionally spaced Hieroglyphics soft font.
The batch file TESTFONT.BAT will print out a two page sample showing the
characters defined for each ASCII value. The ASCII values without characters
next to them are unassigned. Characters at ASCII value 160 and above are
intended for stacking hieroglyphs one on top of another. To illustrate, if this
note is printed after TESTFONT.BAT has loaded the HIERO.SFT font, the following
line will include stacked hieroglyphs:
(0U(s4T(1X ¬/ ¼: ¿ºp
(8U(s0p10h12v0s0b3T
HIERO.SFT was created by using FONTEDIT, which is a font editor for HP LaserJet
soft fonts. With FONTEDIT, you can change the bit map for any character in any
LaserJet bit-mapped font. For instance, you could make a mirror image of the
font so that all figures face rightward. Or you could print the hieroglyphs in
a column format by rotating each character and making the font landscape.
Naturally, FONTEDIT has many more features, such as:
- Smoothly change the point size of your bit-mapped fonts, just like you
can do with scalable Postscript outline fonts.
- Special effects: mirror image, drop shadow, make hollow, rotate, make
thinner, upside down, slant, tilt, resize ... and more!
- Sculpt individual pixels of a character, or regions of pixels such as
rectangular, circle, ellipse, parallelogram, or arbitrary polygon
regions.
- Import characters from other soft fonts, or from black & white .PCX or
.TIF. For instance, you could scan a company logo and make a character
in a soft font out of it. Or make a font out of your handwriting! (I've
made a font just this way from my handwriting)
FONTEDIT requires VGA/EGA/CGA/Herc, or AT&T video, and at least 256K RAM. A
mouse is optional.
FONTEDIT is available from me, the author, for the low price of $30. A free
shareware demo version is available by writing to me, or by downloading file
#28968 from the IBM PC files on GENIE. A version for the HP DeskJet is also
available. To purchase FONTEDIT, send check or money order to:
Alexander Walter
182 ILER Dr.
Middletown, NJ. 07748
(908) 949-0507
(908) 671-5080
(P.S. GENIE gurus: search for files from uploader address "waltera" in case
I've uploaded an upgraded version. Feedback welcome, too!)
Would you like a LaserJet or DeskJet font made out of your printing or
handwriting? If you send me printing/writing samples on white, unlined 8.5" x
11" paper plus $150, I will send you a font and a free copy of my FONTEDIT
program. Don't forget to include upper/lower case, numbers, and punctuation.