Re: printshop font format

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

On May 12, 2:14 pm, Jonno Downes <jonno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have some source code .. somewhere. I'll see what I find.