[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: printshop font format



so I spent an hour or so poking around in some font files with a hex
dump and a routine that renders bytes as bitmaps. what I've found so
far is:

* all font files ared loaded into $5ff4

* bitmaps are stored with variable number of bytes (i.e. in the same
file, some chars have 1 byte per scanline, some have 2, some have 3)

* there seems to be a table at $6000 that is probably either widths or
heights.

* there is a table of pointers starting at $6086 (lo byte) and $60b1
(highy byte). Each seems to have  59 entries.

The fact there are 59 pointers surprised me - it may be slightly less
than that but I'm quite confident there's not 64 entries, which would
indicate the print shop character set is not (quite) the full A2 char
set.

I'll dig some more this weekend.